Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-21
The Republicans and The President.


motives to action, new rewards for service,
and new inducements to exertion. The
rule Of this action is not what is right, but
what will appeal most successfully to the
passions of the multitudes. 1t uses the
language of virtue, while directing the nc.
tions of vice All its prejudices are those
of sin, prompted by an Unsuitable thirst for
power. The simple path of duty, the he
roic self-denial of virtue, are insupporta-
bic to the leaders, to whom nothing short
of the spoils of the Government Ito which
they are traitors) could be satisfying
When Satan stroye to tempt our blessed
Savior he offered to give him all the king.
doms of the earth if he would fall down
and worship himl The continued agency
of this same adversary of mankind, and
the pre-eminent strength ofthe temptations
to achieve power, is the appeal the Re-
publican party now makes to the social
passions Of the people to take the Govern.
ment into its polluted hands But the
Republicans, aware that as an iuatrumon mt
exceedingly cflicaeious, moroiiey is not to
be despised, they give it an appropriate
place in efiecting the object OF their self
ambition. But it is perfectly understood
that their sentiments Of ofmorality are never,
on any occasion, to restrain their conduc.
or afix any limitation to their own vices
when once their end is secured. The I'M.
wary and unforeseeing are taken captive,
however, by the perpetual appeals made to
the nobler feelings of the heart, for it
combines the energy and sclf,hness of
matured, far-seeing sin, and the generosi-
ty of deluded, inexperienced virtue. The
Republican party in its wild gallop for
power is now doing the loathsome work
which is emincntly characteristic of their
entire system.
The investigations by committees of in
quiry into the conduct of officials of the
Government are nothing more than reg
uIar Beginnings at throwing dirt. 1t is not
only disgraccful and disrcputablc to the
nation, but it is an cncroachment upon the
lndeteasible right Of private citizens, and
ought to be universally cxccrated trough
out the land. If Mr.. Buchanan, as Presi-
dent Of the United States, has done any
| ono thine, ,,or, tLon ,,n.l.. 4. ....I -.
to the respect and admiration of the coun-
try, it has BEEN by the decided, bold ana
able rebuke with which he protested a.
gainst this Republican outrage. So far
as the President is personally concerned it
would be his desire to snvite the most
rigid scrutiny into every act in connection
with his administration. But it became
him as the Chief Magistrate of the country
to exercise his constitutional power in
meeting ab ia'tio 50 fragrant a usurpatiou
on the part of the Republican party in tie
Lower House Of Congress. We boldly
assert, what VIC believe to be true, that
there is not a man on earth who can con-
scientiously swear before his Maker that
Mr.. Buchanan ever approached him by
any oilcr of bribery or corruption Mr..
Adrain will never swear that the Presi
dent approached him improperly in regard
to the Lecompton Constitution. He cans
not Nor can any other Anti Lccompton
man. That Constitution was measure of
the Administration. He had the most
unquestioned right to do precisely as he
did, clearly and constitutionally, without
a single compromise of his dignity, of the
Office, or the man. The President is now
in advancing years. His life has been one
OF exceeding prudence and propricty, and
while ever firm and sclf-reliant, he has
always preserved Il dignitied and admire
BILE rcticence. 1t was these qualities
emincntly characteristic in connection with
his distinguished talents and experienced
statesmahship, which, step by step, advan-
ccd him in public station, until at last he
was found OF all men the most desirable to
guide the fortunes OF the Democratic par.
ty. 1t was not so much becaus, it was
Mr.. Buchanan per sc, but because of the
singular qualities which he possessed, and
by which the people are Away attracted
in great emergencies. Mr. Buchanan
then, having by an incorruptiblo integrity
attained to the first Office in the nation, it
is impossible on National grounds to sup.
pose that when more than three score
years have bleached his venerable locks
he could compromise the dignity of that
station by forgetting what was due to
himself. (" He is" said distinguished
individual (whose meaDs Of knowing the
President have been long and constant ),
" the most scrupulously honest man | ever