New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-24
THE KINGS JESTER.

In ancient times aud IN the Old countries, uon-
srcbs kept in their courts Jester, commonly called
the L" Kings Fool" His duty was to make sport
for his royal master to play of witticisms for his
amusement and to insinuate batteries Of bis per-
son aud realm By in,eutipg unique and grotesque
fables about men and things, with the recital OF
which be whiled away the tedious hours oil msJesty
Tie Fool was a privileged character about the
palace, and sometimes tookthe liberty of cracking
Joke at the Kings expense, as well as that OF
drinking his wine and eating his yenlson In
these degenerate days, and in this free coun-
try, where liberty to make fool Of ones self
through the columns of newspaper, is right
guaranteed by the Constitution, Democratic rulers
keep an Organ instead Of jester
We seldom read The Constitution. We mean
the newspaper Of that name, published at Wash
neton, which fills the place Of the Fool IN our re-
publican Court We abstain from its columns
chiefly because We do not wish TO be at the pains
of fishing up from the wishy-wasby food OF full
some Hsttery it daily pOurs over the head oil Mr.
Buchanan the few morsels Of fact and iense which
it contains Nevertheless, We can fancy how re-
fresting these ablutors must be to an old gentle
man who is scourged and scariied from morn till
eve by the universal press of the country incud-
ing majority of that of his own party. Though
recognizing 10 the full extent the privileges of the
lester of the Cert of Washington. We are sur
prised at its temerty in cracking such tough Jokes
as the following over the venerable head Of the
President. Says the Organ:
"No Administration ever assumed the reins OF
government with larger number of serious difficulties
to surmcurt than that Of President buchanan. 1t
found Kar torn by civil war, and niamed by con
troyersy which threatened collision between the Two
sections of the Union. Firmly and promptly was
the question met and firmly and promptly was settled
Kansas is quiet aid Is tree a. any portion o
the Unop and the angry Slave question IN that IerI
tory has cessed to exist never TO be renewed. All
these difficulties have been met and overcome by MT.
Buchsnan without buster nidity, and the result
has been that the public mind named and excited al
first has now so settled down that there Is less potca
agitation in the country than az any time since the
foundation of the Government!
To give Mr.. Buchanan credit for settling the
Kansas imbrogio promptly, when it ragged with
undated ftrvor during the first twenty months Of
his Administration defeating his favorite measures
in Congress, breaking down the Democracy in all
the North, seriously dividing it in the South, and
returning to the next House majority Of members
hostile to his entire domestic and foreign policy; to
attribute to him the quiet now prevailing in Kansas,
ard the free Constitution she is soon to enjoy as a
State him WHO drove Walker and Stanton from
Office because they would not force upon her q
Slave Constitution, exaspe rating her people to the
verge of civil war; to assert that he has slenced
the slavery agitation, and that there is less discus
sion on that subject now than at any former period
in our history, When the South is more radically
divided on that question than ever before, and the
North is getting ready for grapple with the Negro
Propaganda that will excite the public mind deeper
and wider than on any previous occasion; this is
rather more serious jesting than we should suppose
even Mr. Buchanan would enjoy. Does he allow
bis organ to indulge in practical jokes ike these