The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-04-03

bloody fields of Kansas, the perishing Industry
Of Pennsy ylvania, the arguments OF the good, the
thunder tones Of the ballot box, produced no
more impression upon YOU than upon the walk
of the building in which YOU sat, cold and heart
less as those walls themselves
Not content with doing wrong yourself, you
insisted that all others VIII sc Interests You
exercised the slightest control, should likewise
do wrong. Hesitation or refusal on their part 10
yield TO your commands, was punished with in
slant exclusion from place, or remorseless social
| estracism. No one vas too high to be reached
| by the shafts of your anger 10 Gne too low To
be ground under the heel of your prescription.
You raked the official kennels for victims
Whether an honest man objected your conduct
who held position under you in foreign land, or
in your own State, or near the Presidential man
sion, he was recalled or removed without az op
portunity OF defense. And in proportion as you
prosecuted the good, YOU compensated the bad
| Thus, your own example becomes grand premi-
un. 10 all who were ready TO accept place at the
/ loss of character.
When the money Of the people was used to
debauch the people; when The Chief Magis;ra;e
consented to degrade himself for the purpose q
| gratifying his revenge-the reckless men around
/ your person accepted your conduct .
license TO them. Bent alike upon plgndering the
treasury and breaking up the Union, they ofgau-
! lied a system of peculaiion aid fraud uuequalicc
I IN any civilized government, and, with your ard,
enlisted in the wo.k Of destroying TIE DeWul .,f-
[ c party. You pretend at this day that you were
/ ignorant OF their practices in the first, but you
/ cannOl deny that YOU stimulated and encouraged
/ them in the second. The disruption Of the Dem
ocratc party at Charleston and Baltimore was
! plotted IN the White House. aud when it was
/ accomplished, although admonished that il must
! lead 10 the dsiucatiOn of the Union Itself, vUu
/ rt fused TO throw Yourself into the breach ana 10
/ accept the regular nomination of the party
Once mere you employed the patronage OF your
administration in order to crafty your worst pas
sioEs. You never forgave Stephen 4. Douglas
bec-usc he Indignantly refused to indorse your
/ detection in 1851 /; and when yOu cortrasted tire
| popular verdict which gratefully approved his
curse witn the popular expression which con
! demUed your own, you resolved that ae should
/ be defeated even at the hazard OF the annihila
/ ton Ui the Uujon. You saw the Democratic
/ party stIuggliG under the double burden Of bee
| ns bed responsible for the enor nifty of your
Administration and OF being identified with the
Cause of disuHiOn. Again you were aimonished
/ that perseverance in these proceedings must
/ lead to the III ST dreful consequences, and again
you refused 10 listen TO the voice OF reason. H.
! deed, through your organs aud your friends, yon
circulated the doctrine that il was far better that
/ The general opponents OF the Democracy should
triumph, than that the 7, gular candidate of the
p,rty should be- elected and when this portion
OF your programme was fulfilled whcn by means
OF your patronage, and with the aid OF your mer
cenarieS, YOU assisted To elect Mr.. Lincoln to the
Presidency, you gave currency and credit TO that
! fatal theoiy which has hurried our free inStitu
! lions to the very precipice OF disunon. Prepa
ratioLs for armed resistance to the laws a con
! sequence of Mr.. Lncoln's election were mad,
under our own eyes. participated in by your own
Cabinet Ministers, advocated by your own news
paper exponent, and so far approved by those
VINO held position under YOU in the different
States North and South, as at least TO assume the
air of a viruous revolution In that hour, when
for moment, you seemed to comprehend the
magnitude OF your crimes, did you step forward
TO execute your high trust, anticipating the ma
chinations to the Southern conspirators, by
crushing secession in the bud, and by making All
example OF every man who held commission ut
your hands who dare to approve their proceed
ings? Alas no. In your last annual mes-ag-
TO Congress, whilst arguing against the right ~
"A State to withdraw from the Union, you offered
immunity to the enemies of the Union ny dcclar-
| ing that you had no authority To punish them
Your Cabinet exploded in the midst OF your OWE
complications and your country distresses, and
| then disclosed picture of crime moral and
/ political, such IS no nation has ever been called
| upon to witness. Compelled 10 summon 10 your
! side other counsellors animated by different sen
! timents, and resolved, so far as they could, t.
rescue the Union, yOu embarrassed their action
| by your tnidity, vacillatiOn and we .kness. At
this moment, while you are preparing to assist
IN the Inauguration OF your successor, II Is doubt
ful whether you have lett him even the fragment
los, a1 nil
might congratulate themselves upon the entire
| fulflment of their predictions, if they were not
called upon to mourn over the decay and down
| fall of the Union itself
1t NAV be said, these are harsh words to ad-
| dress to an old man. Your countrymen have
been told that as you approach the close OF your
official term you manifest some regre. at tie past;
and within short time it has been given out
! that the weight of years and cares has fcartully
oppressed your spirits; but, Mr.. Buchanan, the
very last acts of your Administration have shown
that still in their ashes live the wouted fires OF
your malignity and revenge. Many of your re-
cent appointments have shocked the COUNTRY
| Even now, the pame of one OF the chief agents
in all those proceedings which have contributed
10 rush the Republic upon the verge of ruin is
pending before the United States Senate for d
high Judicial position, and others who have been
equally prominent in the prescriptions and reach
cries OF the four years gore by, have been hon
ored by the most distinguished marks OF youi
confidence IL will, therefore, bc seen that you
return to private life, just as you are approach
ing the Psalmists age, without feeling a single
emotion OF remOrse for the wrongs yOl have IN
tlicted upon patient and suffering people. dc
not envy YOU your reflections in the winter o.
your years. but like that Frenchman, when call
ed upon to vote whether he would doom the
tyrant of his country TO the death be SO richly
nerited, conclude this episilc in his own words
" 4 coR,miseraie The poor, and tFe peedg aHC
the oppressed, but I hare no pity for The op
pressor Of rag country J. ". +.
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