•feription to buy men by bestowing office
Sjpen them and to oorrupt men by holding
•kit inducements to corruption. It has dis
missed honesty from tbe custody of the pub
lic funds, and invested convicted knavery
With the treasurer's key. It has stooped to
It-ts from which Bomba would turn with dis
gu*t, and which would be considered revolt
ling in a despotism. It has sought directly,
by the application of federal money, to co
erce tbe people in the choice uf pellicular
individuals as representatives, and then la
MeMed with crocodilian anguish over the
dangers which peril our liberties by tbo em
ployment of money to control elections*'*
The articleclosesas follows:
"Weknow that Mr. Buchanan Is advanced
io vears we know that he has held office
This prontiDciumento of Douglaa aocounts I
for the bitterness manifested u wards him by
like National Democrats at Waahingtoo and
akiewhera.
If such are tbe opioioM entertained of
Mr. Buchanan by tbose who aided in bis
•lection, and still claim to belong to the
Hue party, surely we who opposed bis elec
tion oanoot be blamed for our unceasing op
position to his administration.
BlssSiai oifice*HslS«N«
W« bate heard a great deal of "bleeding
M.ansas," and it seems that the Douglas pa
pers are anxious to change the theme. Ilenoe
We have, for some months past, daily appeals
to the sympathies of tbe people in behalf of
Are usually headed in martyr or murderous
sympathetic excitement kept up hyjthese fre-
quetit "bleeding" announcements of tbe offi
cial deaths of sii-bit postmasters in Illinois.
