The Nevada Democrat. [volume] (Nevada, Calif.) 1854-1863, 1860-04-18
A PoIlticaI ParaIIeI


A writer in the Sacramento Standard, Of Mon
day, draws very just and accurate parallel
between the administration Of the elder Adams
and that Of bis political disciple, James bn-
cbanan. How the article happened to and It's
way into the Standard, paper that has hereto
fore taken particular pains to glorify the pres
ent administration, lie more than we can ina
CINE. The editor must certainly have been abb
sent, or else 9 sudden change has come over
bis political dreams. The following paragraphs
will give some idea Of the spirit Of the article
In vain may we look for points wherein the Adj
ministration of Mr. Buchanan fails in its resem-
blance to that Of the elder Adams. We challenge
the citation Of single instance-Of the present Ex-
ectiye neglecting TO administer to the dscord and
contention Of the times. Curative salves, healing
draughts and balms in his political philosophy have
no existence. Cauterizati0n and cutting with him
are the only appointed by nature, history or
art 10 cure the wounds Of the body polite; and,
withal there are but few unwilling to concede that,
as a private gentleman, Mr.. Buchanan is honest and
kind. 1t is only when clothed with the power OF the
Presidential Office his mind made awry with its
cares and inflated with its hollow pomp and the OBJ
sequious devotion Of the parasites cngng thereto,
that he is the imperious, supercihous, obstinate,
bold, bad man, and, as such, responsible for the
miserable feeling of distrust which one section OF
the country has learned to regard the other. The
necessarily confined limits of this paper forbids the
mention OF the particular acts Of the present Execu
tive they are patent to the times The cause Of the
wonderful course of this Democratic President has
no current solution. Insisting upon strict party dis
cfplfne, treating nenIbers of his own party who dis
sent from his views with concentrated contempt.
Upon the tariff question, and the right of the judi
ciary to control the executive and legislative depart
ments Of the Government he stabs his States rights
friends TO the heart. Upon the slavery question: he
kicks over the platform upon which he was elected,
and wounds to the very quick the soul of the great
north.
AS 'spa6ulunp" to the great west he promises that
feature of his administration shall be the iron con-
nectiOn with the Pacific, yet neglects the perform
ance thereof Socially, he is unsocial with his po-
litcal opponents, but is pre-emnently social with
the most assiduous OF his courers whose advice has
been as fatal to the prosperity of the country was
that Of Ala to the protestant dOmnons of the King
of Spain.
Internationally, at heart he is a Federalist, in
the most 0di0us of that term; that he has
rupted the Democratic party, made it the apostate
of doctrines directly opposed to the republican theO
ries Of Jefferson and Jackson, is undeniabe. That,
of the great lights which every individual mind nat
uray associates with political greatness, James Blu
chanan has, to tho exclusion Of all dead or living
statesmen selected John Adams and his executive
acts as type most worthy of imitation, his execu-
tive acts and Federal antecedents testify. 1t was
the elder Adams who devised Congressional muz-
gle for the press. Mr.. Buchanan has found that
molds for IDEAS muzzlcs for the mouth and shackles
for all rebels against such IDEAS comport with the
principles of the Democratic party, are necessary
for the proper administration of the Government Of
our Republic. Well it is that their names Pfesi-
dents are convertible TERMS and in political scales
are exactly equal to each other.
The excessive abuse Of the power confded to Mr..
Adams, for the government Of America, and not for
its misma nagement, destroyed the Federal party,
and consigned the of its great chief to shades.
whose branches have concealed the good qualities Of
the man, but have never kept open to the sunlight
of observation, the harsh unkind and objectionable
acts of the President.
The fates, never more unpropitious to a man,
have made Mr.. Buchanan cOpyist of the vices OF
the administration Of Adams. Both have warmed
Republican party into life and power. One, sixty
years ago, witnessed the destruction of his party;
the other soon will.