Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-06-15
A Change in the Government Delnan-
ded by the People.

ment is necessary to 10th the reputation and
prosperity of the country, is truth but half
told. An almost universal and irrepressible
indignation is felt At no time since the
adoption Of the Federal Constitution, has
President sunk so low in the public estima-
ton as has James Buchanan, the present
democratic incumbent. Not even the party
which elected him, to which he now belongs,
has one word to utter IN his defence not be-
cause the party is not satisfied with his SER
vices, but rather, and solely, because it well
knows that deep infamy of very necessity in
variably attaches to its faithful servants,
which must prove fatal bar to the SURFACES
of an insulted and indignant people. OF the
hundreds of its partizan presses, and the null
titudes of its boisterous orators, not one can
be found who eitEer cares or thinks to devote
a syllable to the defence of this democratic
administration.
Never before did a President so ruthlessly
violate his most solemn pledges so Grimm
ally trampie upon sacred rights; send the
standing army into the Territories to crush
| out the spirit of freemen at the point of the
| bayonet; perpetrate the most unscrupulous
and daring frauds encourage its emissaries
to subvert and overturn the ballot box; ex-
pend millions of the peoples money and
prostitute the immense patronage of govern
ment to defeat the popular will at elections,
as this democratic Executive has done.
Emboldened by past successes and conf
dent of the sympathy of his party, this high
Priest of modern Democracy not only perpe-
trates these unparalleled cutrages, bat also
has the efrontery to deny the right of the
Peoples Representatives to examine into and
pass upon his acts The democratic rule of
the country = the length of which has often
been the pride and boast of the party has
become so exceedingly corrupt, that the for
NAL partition and division Of the whole pub
lie treasures would seem to be scarcely diff
| ferent from their former acts, or to add an
other element, or any single degree of tur-
| pitude, to the character of their leaders
With such corruption fostering at its head,
it is not surprizing that many of its subordi-
nate officials follow in the crooked footsteps
of their illustrious Chief Scarcely week
passes in which the public does not meet
some new development of official fraud, pecu-
lation, or embezzement; some double price,
or quadruple price, given to some villain for
rascality performed in the effort of the par
fU IN do L.
IN Kansas, or raise money to corrupt and vi
tiate the elective franchise in Pennsylvania
or New England! In proof of these alarm
ing facts, we need only to point to the late
defalcation in the N. Y. Post Office, to the
amount of near two hundred thousand dol
lars part of which had long been known
to the President, but the accommodating
old gentleman kept the swindler in Office be-
cause he contributed largely of the money he
stole from the people, to swell the democratic
corruption fund !
We might extend this sad, yet truthful pic
ture Of democracy, almost indefinitely, but
have said enough totally aside from the slave
question-which our opponents claim is our
only argument-to show how just is the
prevalent indignation of the people against
the government, ard that it cannot but be
spontaneous and nearly universal No vir-
tuous people under similar circumstances
could but be indignant, or refrain from de-
handing change, in thunder tones which
the guilty recusants and their equally Grim
inal supporters must regard, whether they like
it or not. The pent up fires of virtuous in
dignaton are swelling the mind and heart of
this great nation, certainly to break down
all the barriers that can be raised by vii
lains and demagogues who have fattened and
grown impudeEt upon the peoples money
We forewarn our opponents that they may
sooner and more reasonably expect to chain
the thunder bolts of heaven, than to evade
the just Indignation of the American people,
who are becoming fully sensible of the gross
and oft repeated outrages of the admins
tration and the democratic party. The Re
publican, or peoples party, does not trust in
any one man, but in the integrity and Justice
of the people, which cannot fail to wipe out
such stupendous wrongs. The friends of
Freedom may rely upon the last degree of
virtue and patriotism in the country, as sure
ly to be on our side, as soon as misled men
rid themselves of the devices by which they
have been duped, and become disabused of
false relations and unjust prejudices. The
sins of the democratic party have afforded an
opportunity to illustrate the truth, When the
wicked bear rule the People mourn The
approaching election will Illustrate another
TRUTH namely, "Blessed are they that mourn,
for they shall be comforted."