The Nevada journal., 1859-07-15


political history there exists no more
humiliating spectacle than that present
cd by the parties of to-day. Since the
great Webster died, the American mind
has drifted from its moorings and gone
awreck. There is no guiding star IN
the firmament-no bow of promise in the
stormy clouds. Without anchor, compass
orpilot we drift at the mercy of conten-
ding winds and waves.
Forgetting the wise, conservative and
national principles on which the fathers
of the Constitution administered the gov
ernment, OF apostatizing to the true. faith
they rrofessed and practised, we have
wandered after false gods-the idols a
debauched Democracy has set up, until
the Plutonian darkness about us gives
ominous warning to seek for the pure
sunlight of truth in which our fathers
never stumbled.
Instead of sound, tangible principles,
and comprehensive policy such as
the earlier Presidents laid down on as
suming the reins of government, and re-
| ligiously adhered to to the end, later ad :.
ministratinns regard platforms as spring
boards in an amphitheatre on which
clowns ambitious of applause are to
vault and cut fantastic tricks at will
The more ridiculous the somersault the
greater the applause expected.
Since the death of the nations great,
good and guiding intellects has left the
affairs of State to the hands of political
runts, like Douglas, who is ever patheti-
cally squealiug little in the rear of the
public udder; or such unprincipled men
as Buchanan whose whole life has been
blaspnemy upon American politics,
new doctrines have arisen, crude, to all,
unfathomable to some, and alarming to
any who have taken pains to study and
comprehend their tendencies. The
Kansas N Nebraska Bill-Squatter Sow
ereignty-what are they IN essence {!
Dissolvents of the Union. Demireps
surreptitiously introduced to taint the
chastity of the American sisterh ood.
Heresies forced into the holy church
where every patriot worships at the
altar of his country. The abortive
half-maturcd and worse conceived eff
orts of demagogues, charlatans, fever
ish agitators and political knaves who
fiji the seats-not the places-of states
men dead
What has become of the once majestic
presence of national virtue which per-
vaded the public counse's and imbued
the servants of tue people ? Fled,-
can it be forever l-from the temple of
power and justice while the strumpet
Democracy stands in the door amid the
thick coming darkness and beckons the
simple and vicious in.
Look at the party in power and its
principles. It'll has squandered over a
{ hundred millions a year of the public
money. 1t affirms the infalibilitv of the
Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case
and proclaims its contempt for all law,
whether pronounced by the Court OF
not, by winking at the slave trade in
the Gulf. 1t announces as its cardinal
doctrine the right of perverse people
to unbridled license, under the guise OF
popular sovereignty. without restrain
ing power in Congress. 1t breaches
protective duties in the North and free
trade IN the South. 1t dupes the pyo
gressive States to its support oy promis
es of internal improvements and retain.
its hold of the stationary States by fal
styling its promises. 1t hat;ers and as
! sures the Pacific that its great object ii
D the construction of railroad uniting the
J, oceans, and mocks us with rainbow
D stage route through sands and deserts
and one thousand miles of useless, ex
|, pensive and laborious travel. 1t erin
S pies the direct stage line across the con
tinent and compels Us to view its foil,
and insincerity over the Southern route
o Its leadirg men do not scruplc at al
times TO desert the professed principle
Ii 81 the party. to hoodwink the people, o
n to corrupt the fountains Ct public mo
l. rality or justice Office is bought an,
e sold, patriots have been slpplanted b,
race of political traders. ard the re
:. public is put up by mercenary Pretorial
Guards to the highest bidder.
"Is there no balm in Gilead! a! Is ther,
: no physician there q
6 The editor of the Grass Valley Ma
tional says there is tribe in Africa VIII