The Kanzas news., 1859-06-11
I wish I would stop here. If this were


all of the accusation, we might forget the
past in the exercises of profuse charity,
but unfortunately we are not allowed to do
SO. a usurpation has been accomplished,
which saps the foundation of political strue-
ture. Mr.. Buchanan has demanded an ab-
sorPtion of the powers of Congress in those
of the Executive. To carry out his Lreach-
cry to US, he has assailed the Representa-
tives of the people. He has bribed the We
nal, rewarded the aspiring, alarmed the tim
id, and deceived the honest. By such means
was the Lecompton Constitution carried in
to provisional law, In contemptuous dis
regard of the known will of the people up
on whom it was imposed, and in direct con-
trayention of the letter and spirit of the or
ganic act itself. The reason which promted
the commission of the outrage is too mani
| fest to be doubted. It was to purchase fiat
terry of the South; 10 force Slavery upon
the soIl of the North; and to strengthen aud
organize one section of the Union, at the
expense and hazard of the other. Then,
compliance with Executive behests was the
tests of Democracy, and to disregard them
was apostaey.
More recently, however, when the recon-
mendations of the President were thought
to favor the manufacturing and agricultural
States-when the propriety of new tariff
law was suggested-and when the so-called
| Democratic members of the Senate and
House of representatives., and even Cabin
ct officers, raised the voice of denunciatory
opposition, it was all right. and rebellion
became loyalty. And yet, Penhsylvanians
see nothing wrong in this; nay, they com
mend it. Chains never claDked upon the
limbs of beings more servile and debas-
ed. We might, perhaps, be able to open
their eyes to the truth, and loosen their
tongues to utter it, by continuing them in
Office under new Administration, govern
ed by more benign policy. If parties
with such plastic notions shall be able to
grasp the control of our Government, then
must the strong empire of the North be
dwarfed to barrenness, and eighteen millions
of white slaves here, be added to the four
millions of black slaves yonder. That is
indeed strange illustration of the advan-
tages of free government, which proclaims
necessity for crushing out the inherent
power of people by fashioring their insti-
tutions for them, requiring it to be sane
toned, and yet allows and encourages de-
nial of law by which alone bankrupt
Treasury can be replenished, and honest
debts paid. : =
The indefensible and destructive man,
agement of the Post Office Department re-
quires especially to be noticed. Within
very short period, for the mere purpose of
eLriching contractors, bestowing largesses
upon sterile and uninhabited districts of the
South, and acquiring power, the expendi-
lures have been almost doubled-run up to
the enormous sum of twenty millions of
dollars-and the mail system made BY
word and a reproach. With new, extended,
and expensive routes, without correspond
ing returns, sunk in fathomless debt, ave,
paralyzed by burdens, its chief Justify cries
for help, and piteously begs the sinews of
prolonged malfeasance. But, upon whom
does he call Upon those to whom the
appeal is always made, when money, votes,
soldiers, or other effective help, is required
upon the laboring thrifty-the mudsills
of the Eastern, Northern, Middle and, ,Wes-
tern States. 1t is consoling to know we are
good enough to pay, if not to receive. We
are at least able, if not respectable. If we
have not chiyalry, We have fields and farms,
and factories. Let US then, without whim-
pering, t'split the difference The s'F. F.
VS." or tbel"F. F. T.'s," shall take all the
posts of patronage, and we will pay their
debts. The plan proposed, by which we
shall do this is very simple one. We
have only to pay FIVE cents, instead of three,
in each letter we; write, abolish the present
.'franking privilege, and consequently cut
off the distribution of all seeds and agricultu-
raj and mechanical and political information
from our people, and the thing is in great
measure accomplished. And why not do
this To be sure, aCe more than pay pOio;
for all our postal service, and these docu-
ments are hig:ly priced by US; but do we
know that ''the domestic institutions is too
poor to pay, and too ignorant to read. We
seem to be prone eterpslly to forget that we
were made for hewers of wood and drawers
of water. If we would remember this fact, l
think we could cordially unite with those
who met here on the 18th uIt., and Join
them in peans and praise to the new Amer
lean Monarchy. r-,a "a r,
= To blind our sight to its
short comings. to cover up its disgraeeful
defeats. and to reconstruct its sinking for
tunes, the Administration nov proposes, by
virtue of . transfer of the war-making pow
er to itself, to visit chastisement upon fee
bic States for imaginary wrongs. aud by the
acquisition of Cuba to extend the area of
Freedom gluttonized on Slavery A man
self-made, and then self-destroyed-a Lear
IN rags and not in robes-having lost the
sceptre by the weakness of folly, clutches
the flying air, and seeks to mount again to
power and influence. Vanity of yanities
there is no restitution for fallen greatness.
a western editor once apologized to his
readers somewhat after this fashion: We