The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-03-02
RUCH ANAN.

On Monday next, the fourth of March
celebrated be the day y His Exeelency
James Buchanan will vacate the position he
has SO long held against the peace and dig
nifty of the United States. and contrary to
the will of the American people. In all
possible 'respects-we say it with ali posi-
bic disrespect-His ,ExceIIency has been a
failure. He owed his success in the canvass
of 1856 solely to the specious promises he
and his party held out to the Republican
sentiment of the North, thus depriving the
Republican party of portion of the support
which naturally and justly belonged to it.
But he had no sooner obtained possession
of the'seat which had been the object of his
lifelong ambition, than he ignored utterly
the Free-Soil sentiment both within and
without the ranks of his party, and surren-
dered without discretion to the Slave Power.
From that earliest period of the exhibition
of weakness to the present time, j. B. and
his Administration have uninterrupledly
failed. Our foreign policy has been vascil-
lating and suspected, and consequently de-
void of any due degree of influence. The
financial policy Of the Administration has
been success only in the sense that the
national treasury has been more than de-
pleted. Its domestic policy in some in
stances and the wanto of it in others, have
produced their legitimate effects in an alien
ated people, and in treason emboldened TO
an open avowal by at least tacit encour-
agement. Distinguished alone for blunders
and infamy-Prodigal alike in treachery 10
it's friends and in injustice to the people
whose money it has squandered-hberal in
the exhibition of weakness and in the facility
with which it has always answered call
for a misunderstanding only of justice and
honesty, Mr.. Buchanan's Administration
arose in fraud and deceit. and has sunk in
dishonor and contempt. Such be its truth
full epitaph
But it may be plead, in behalf of the un-
lamented party whose obituary we take
pleasure in writing. that at least in the latter
days it did some good service for the pres
ervation Of the Union. and that the people
should let the OLD Public Functionary de.
partsin peace. I'VE cannot agree to the
charitable suggestion. Mr.. Buchanan's
Administration. so long as he had one. was
the hotbed of conspirators; and he could
not.have been ignorant OF tie fact. Yet he
retained the traitors as long as he could
and has done the least he could since thai
time to oppose them FnE Ihe haaets they
deserved. he has given them tears; instead
of Jacksonian proclamations. he has emittet
apologize messages and at no time has n
suffered his spine to stiffen to greater de
gree of firmness than that of ordinary paste
board. Whatever has been well done, Messrs
Scott and Holt have done in spite of him
Whatever could be badly done. he has besr
swift of foot and strong of hand to do.
mol Let Us not do him the injustice. II
his last days. to attribute to him the inconsis
fancy of just and manly act In the nam
of Kansas. long trodden under foot but q
last released from the bonds under whicl
her gray haired and faithless oppressor he'll
her, and on behalf of the American people
of whom at last we are a recognized part
We consign. without sigh. the ashes an
the dust of James Buchanan to the ashe
and the dust of irremediable infamy.