White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30
The President that Rewards Murder.

In the book of Proverbs, wherein il
collected more wisdom about the details
of life than in any other book of its size,
it it written
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and
bringeth the wheel over them.
AS Mr.. Buchanan is not a wise king,
but very foolish President, it was to
have been expected that he would treat
the wicked very differently from the man,
ner described in the proverb we have quo.
ted and glance at his appointees con.
firms the supposition.
AS has been shown conclusively by the
Covode Committee Investigations, Mr..
Buchanan's confidential agents have been
men base enough to seek to accomplish
their ends by bribery and falsehood. Not
that only. But Mr.. Buchanan has appoin
men to offices Of honor and trust whose sole
claim was the extent of their wicked zeal
in partisan service. Disunion is crime.
But the lately appointed Minister to
France was branded, when before the
Senate for confirmation, as DisunioniSt,
and with this seal Upon him was sent
abroad by the friends of Mr.. Buchanan
to represent our country at a foreign
court.
Mr.. Buchanan has appointed to and
retained in office men of known immor-
atty and baseness of life. Disunionism
may be said to be, after all, more a po-
litical offense than a moral. But licen-
tiousness, proaigacy and dishonesty have
never prevented any applicant for office
from getting the favor he sought of Mr..
Buchanan, provided only he had done
enough "for the party"
Those who saw the funeral procession
in this city that accompanied the body
Of the murdered Lukas to its resting
place, will not soon forget the intensity
of the motto upon the banner which the
mourners bore: "To ROBBERY HAVE
THEY NOW ADDED MURDER"
As we read the subjoined list of Muir
derers, whom Buchanan has rewarded,
that motto which then seemed an exag-
geration, becomes the record Of fact in
political history, and the mark by which
Buchanan's Administration will be
known. Here is the list. We copy it
from the indianapolis Journal:
S. w. CLARK murdered Thomas Bar
bour during the Kansas war, BY shooting
him in the back. He was made q Pur-
ser in the Navy.
James Gardiner, an abettor Of Clark's
IN that murder. was made Postmaster at
Lawrence.
Frederick Emery, who murdered Phil.
lips at Leayenworth, and headed the band
which murdered poor German laborer
in that town, and murdered and scalped
Hopps, was made receiver of the land Of
fee at Ogden.
]. S. Murphy, who murdered Hops.
and scalped him, was made agent OF the
Pattaw otamie Indians.
Rush Gilmore. vino tried to assassinste
Kagi, was made Judge Of the United
States Court in Kansas.
Lastly, and very recently, Calhoun Ben
ham, who was the second Of Judge Terry
In the duel with Broderick, and aided
both in the planning and execution Of
that deliberate and abominsble murder,
has been made District Attorney of Cal
fornia. He is as guilty of the blood Of
Broderick as the infamous scoundrel who
shot him, and Just before the duel. he in
suited his victim by feeling him all over
in the most offensive way to ascertain
IL he had on armor to defend himself
from the bullet that the party had
nodded to kill him. The rules Of the
"code" require the seconds to examine
the principals to see that no armor is used,
but the duty is a mere form, never sxecu-
ted otherwise than by mere touch Of the
hand upon the breast. Benham made it
a deliberate insult by searching as If he
suspected Broderiek really had srmor on,
With the purpose to discompose BY enrA-
oiug him to make doubly sure Of muir
der already certain. ,
The chief "claim" that these men had
mon the President lay in the fact that
that they had not scrupled to commit