The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-11
The Treason OF Buchanan.

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All over the country, and all over the
world, the name of JAMES BUCHANAN is
becoming Synonymous with Treason. Even
the rebels of the South, as the. President
falters, from time to time, in carrying out
their traitorous schemes do not hesitate to
proclaim the evidence of his treason, by
taunting him with in6delity to the compacts
into which he had entered with the enemies
of the government. That JAMES BUCHANAN
is traitor is not mere charge, needing
substantiation but it is fact, true as it
is infamous, and as such known and appre-
ciated OF all men. elIut iH
1t is fact, that JAMES BUCHANAN has
retained in his councils Cabinet Ministers
who were the open and avowed enemies
of the government, and that his official acts
have been directed by such Ministers.
1t is fact, that the President has per.
mitted these Ministers to bankrupt the
federal treasury, and to commit and permit
peculations which have had no parallel in
the history of civilized nations, and which
have brought Republican institutions into
shame and contempt.
1t is fact, that the President has per-
mitted his Secretary of War to despoil
Northern armories of the implements of
war, and to transfer them to Southern de.
positories, where they were not needed for
the general defence or welfare. -
1t is fact, that the President, when the
government arms were thus transferred to
repositories located among people who
proclaimed treason against the Union as the
highest patriotism to their State, not only
neglected, but persistently refused, to pro-
tect such arms from rebellious assault and
plunder and that be has thus given laid
and comfort" to the enemies of the govern
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1t is fact. that the President has per-
mitted his Secretary of War,-when trans.
fers of arms could not be made, in the ordi.
nary routine, in numbers to accomplish the
purposes of treason,-to procure the fraud.
ulent condemnation of such arms belonging
to Northern armories, and their subsequent
fraudulent appraisement and sale to South
ern States, whose people were plotting the
overthrow of the government. o"
1t is fact, that, upon the demand of the
Executive of traitorous State, the Presi-
dent granted leave of absence to high Of
ficer of the army, for the known and
avowed purpose of permitting such officer
to visit European factories on behalf of such
State, and as its agent to procure arms for
reasonable use against the authority and
existence of the government. o -.
1t is fact, that when the President had
thus created opportunities for treason, he
sought to demonstrate, in his official com-
munication to the country, how such treason
could be best and most effectively accom-
plished; and how the government, whose
constitution, laws, and affairs, be was sworn
faithfully to administer, was powerless either
to control the crime or to check it.
And it is fact, most marvellous and
damning of all, that, when the country
had been brought to the verge of anarchy
and ruin, through the influences of the trea.
son which the President, more than all
other men, initiated, and has nurtured and
sustained, he invoked the people to seek the
propitiatory grace Of God, not to save them
from the further infections Of his rule, but
to pardon them for their owp sins, which,
he alleged, had brought ruin upon the land;
thus seeking to transfer, in the very face OF
the Almighty, his own treason to the shoul-
ders of innocent millions, and fitly consum>
mating in hypocrisy, what was begun in
crime. al9l l3s .f ss7 PQ8 81 oH
JAMES BUCHANAN has made the name OF
BENEDICT ARNOLD respectable. For, now,
near century, ARNOLD has occupied the
bad eminence of the highest niche in the
temple Of infamy. But, when we reflect
upon the wrongs that ARNOLD really suffer-
ed, and upon the fact that, misguided as be
was, and criminal, he could not yet have
known the measure Of the wrong he was in.
flicting upon bis country and upon the
cause Of civil liberty I; and then, when we
take into account the honors which have
been showered upon BUCHANAN, the mag.
ni6cent progress which the country has
made in wealth, and population, and power
and all development, until the theory Of
mans capacity for seltgovernment had