New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-31
READING FOR WARM WEATHER.
GEORGE M. SANDERS TO PRESIDENT BU-
CHAEAE.

L
SIR: The popular mind incnee to the sentiment thai
national .efrespect should shield the position Of Pres
dent from any exposure of the denqueneies OF the m
cumbent. The Constitution declares o'neLwse "nd'
vance to the constitutional Emit. You have, besides
Voluntarily entered the lists OF partisan discusson, III
yitiDg all the consequences of me position g..
Your cumulative infdely to the country, Wnlch mas
brought us TO our present dsneyratng cohatlon was
Swallowed forth in the beginning OF your admnstra-
ton bv base ngratitude to individuals. Step by step
friend after friend sacrificed. The TACT OF pre-
vous obligation chilled you great service naos
one odous' A President should have no anmositles
You are governed only by your hates, aiiectoh you
have none But two classes have any hold upon YOU
| those who had opposed and reved and cowed you
and the supple parasites who lawn upon you For the
course which settled on to-day is changed Dy your
| yacilating mind tomorrow, and on the morrow the
zig gag programme changed again. You even endeay
to pursue two opposite e9nTses at once
sructiops to the Surveyor General and other officials
| in Karsas. Witness your late declaration There
FORE every Democrat is at perfect liberty to vote as
he thinks proper and your secret circular orderng
the dismissal of every Office holder in favor OF Doug
las Witness your contradictory declarations IN regar
to the rights Of naturazed citizens abroad Contra
dction upon cont! ADDICTION!
Washington is poisoned by the upas Of your influence
Such is your perncous course, that the White blouse
is made uncomfortable for visitors, by the obtruSon OF
vicious politics into your parors Ii should 3e tne pa
trotc pride of every Administration, to make Wash
ippton the center Of intellectual brilliancy But IN
stead of communDg with the best minds OF the country
and informing yourself freshly from its different Sec
tions Won make the Of the Presidential man.
| sion labyrntbs of espionage where the Chief Magis-
trate sits greedy receiving petty reports OF detection
| among his ensiaved Office -holders The wsest and
most bonored of the country avoid Washington as
| a moral pest-house. "
The Nero.Ike perfdy to individuals which charac-
terized your administration from the beginning, now
marks its close by the betrayal of the great and gener
party that has fesered you oy ITS nltnerI2 i%pTeg
anostacy down 10 your last hours OF reasonable In
gratitude and disunion in the Presidential chair. Never
| did man owe much TO a party-neyer was party
| go wsntonly betrayed. False alike to persons and
party you have not thought Of either but for the shall
| lowest instincts of self.
II ia ayorte thought and expression with you that
| the Federal Officers your personal property How
| often have the monocratic words 'my Secretaries
nv office holders grated upon the indignant ears of
American citizens assembled in the presence-camber
| at the White House Even the European despotic
formula qualities itself by the less arrogant use OF tne
pIurol Instead of intoxicating the ennobng idea that
their first duty is to their country and to democratic
principle yoir rule holds officials to degrading sub
seryiency; there is not man OF your appoinm ent
from Cabinet Mimi ter to tidewaer who does not live
in state of daily irritation and protest, under your
| grinding rule. Offices men, patronage and public
| Money are all cassed your property. There is
scarcely contract made under the Government IN IN
of the peope but for some follower, as instanced III
your divisions and subdivisions of the profits on the
Post Office blank printing. The thought never struck
you that it was your duty TO save ,ne excess e;s% over
among your favorites Your small politics keep you
always in some imaginary administration Crisis and
constantly on the look out for vacant positions TOR the
reward OF your parsans OF me mo9eh.' no'ias .,
consequence are thus not appreciated by you and are
often thrown away overlooked, while inferior posi-
| lions ale sweled into places Of Importance. Witness
your recent varied attempts to get rid OF the Paraguay
| Commission, in pursuance OF your tactics TO lover
superior men by Offering them inferior positions. The
anlesis is seen in the drsgg OF the sacred ermine
of the Supreme Bench into the dust OF party arena TO
reward your Jefreys for bis infamous DECISIONS ana
sneakip9 deseI ton President OF the National Con-
| vention.
RIGHT to look forward to the position You occupy but
following the dictates OF selfish amolon, you nave
Systematically endeavored to weaken every dlstln-
ouished man of the party who aspred to be your sue
cessor Repeating your WORKOUT expedient OF pomp-
ous'y retiring from the contest you favored no one,
but clupg 10 the idea that you might prolong your
reign another four years BY eveliOg the chances OF
others. The extraordinary zeal which you manifested
in your advocacy of the Lec9mpton Constitution was
| the formidable rvalship of Robert J. Walker The
| triumphant success Of Gov Walkers brave eloquence
ard skillfu craftsmanship in Kansas, excited the low
passions of your nature. 1t then that every appi-
ance of fraud and force was erected into machine OF
| corruption. For the past twelve months you have
nervously watched the Presidential field, driving back
any asprant who appeared to be adyanengtoo rapidly.
instead of LAYING aside selfish views, and patriocal
y coming TO the of the Democracy at the recent
| Convention you formed al Executive and Congress
SIGNAL cabal TO force upon the people dlcatora non-
nation and platform Of unreasonable and Impractical
| BILE issues powerful compact minority OF Northern
delegates Federal retaners hagranty disappearing
their constituencies and in many CAGES voting against
direct instructions failed however, to shake the true
representatives of the people, who would perhaps have,
| indeed been justified in boiling nomination accom-
pshed by means nefarous. Yet not In the darkest
hours of the fierce battles at Charleston aud Baltimore
the only fields in which the Federal Executive ana
| Congressional cabal had particle of power-dd the
representatives Of the people for one moment contem-
| plate abandoning the Convention That such man,
| and the clique around him, should seduce any large
portion of delegates into the mad act OF secession gives
only the greater value to elastic institutions, which
70 rapidly return the unfaithfu magistrate TO the COM
narrative haImessness Of private life The halluc'na
ticn under which you and your coadlutors had been
| laboripp however, that National Conventions could
be controlled by Executive and Senatorial stratagem
was dspelled by the triumph OF the people at Balti
/ more.
| The Cincinnati Platform was good enough for you,
with James Buchanan that upright undertaking states
man. upon it. but the brave and true Douglas because
| he was not your nouthpiece and shadow, needed a
more stringent rule. You were very earnest during
your own canvass in declarations OF the necessity OF
your election upon the Cincinnati Platform to save the
| Country You thought the election of Fremont over
yourself and that declaration OF principe was sum
| cent cause for the dissolution OF the umon Now,
with provisions strengthened you as President are
aiding Lincoln with all your oiled machinery; 1t will
be ifcut however, for you to convince the nation
that the institutions Of the country would be any SAFER
under Lincoln than they would have been under the
le,s fanatica Fremont. Instead OF heavily taxing your
holders initiate Breckenridge tickets North, II
would be brave and generous, comparatively the result
being the same toorder them to go direct for Lincoln
| Your bands reeking with Democratic gore, you thus
essay TO deliver over the betrayed South into the ills
of Republican intervention. Yonr Administration VIII
be marked in history as the fomenter of anarchy and
| civil war There is nothing 80 base that you would
not do prooDg your power; madness seems to pos