Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1858 — Our President. [ARTICLE]

Our President.

He entered the- White H >use, says the Albany Evening Journal, with a promise of freedom to Kansas on his lips, air! a scheme for enslaving it in his pock“t. He declared war against circulating n ,te-—and in six weeks was issuing them himself? Before the ink was dry with which he pledged “Economy”—he had drained the Treasury ! of its last dollar. Before the printers were i done stereotyping his inflexible determination never to borrow—he was in Wall street soliciting a loan! .. J He congratulated the country on ’he fin d end of slavery agitation—-and he has be. n ■ agitating it ever since. He ordered Paulding to stop the Fillibuster—ajpl then recalled him for doing it. Walker o’ Nicaragua he pronounced an outlaw—and tendered him ■ the hospitalities of the white house. Walker ot K nsas he turnised with written in- ; struct! >ns and turned him out for obeying them. In 1857, he took off the heads of all i Postmasters who could not “hurrah for popular sovereignty.” In 1858, he tak'3 <if the heads of all who repeat the cry of 1857. He withheld troops from Utah, where he proclaimed there was war—in order to keep ■ them in Kansas, where he insisted aj). was i peace. He sells Forts at the WcsP tor a tithe of their cost in order to buy sites et ! the East at ten times their value—his sub- ■ ordinates in both cases, pocketing the dis- . ference. He is continually asking for new j steam frigates—but he will not use those he ' has, either on the coast of Africa or in the Gulf of Mexico. He sends out a steam?-, ostensibly to catch the Styx—but with pri-j vate orders in the Captain’s desk, to do noth- ■ ing of the sort. Claiming to be the most frugal of Presidents—he has spent more than any of his predecessors. Assuming to be above party prejudices, he makes partisanship the basis even of his invitations to di n n er. Cost of a Message to London, Ttie ; Boston Traveler ot Friday says- '■ Two business messages fronr-New Y irk i rr bants to 'heir correspondents in '' land, passed through the American Telegraph office. Traveler Buildings, from N *w York, en route lor London, yesterday at SP. M. One of them, containing fi ty-seven words, paid through, fifty-seven dollars, and the other, twentyseven words, for which twenty-seven dollars I were paid.” I