Vermont Watchman And State Journal

"Old Buck."—The Democratic party of this State, with that excellent taste for which they are notorious, carried, in a procession in Concord, in the autumn of 1856, the head and horns of an animal which they labelled "Old Buck" meaning thereby that they were about choosing a President who would deal with his foes as the animal is wont, the head and horns of which were then, with such delicate taste, displayed upon a pole.

Well: their "Old Buck" has been in the Presidency going on two years, and has driven his head and horns into those who elected him in an altogether more loose and ferocious manner than they bargained for, or than was dreamed of in their philosophy. They, without doubt, in 1856 took this "Old Buck" to be a very friendly, cozy, matronly member of his species, of whom it would be very easy to obtain all that was wanted: he ruminating all day in the White House, chewing the cud of contentment: leaving the Young Bucks of the party to cut up their didoes at pleasure.

But, according to all accounts, it is very far from this. Old Buck not only will not do what the Young Bucks desire, but is bent on doing just what will most displease them, if so be he can ascertain their wishes.

We are inclined to believe, from what leaks out of the Democratic camp, that they never had an incumbent of whom they were so utterly weary as this "Old Buck," alias James Buchanan: typified by the head and horns of which mention was made above, carried in the procession here with such delicate taste, in 1856. He has butted and kicked his party, on all favorable occasions, from the inauguration to this day; and always working by contraries, has, unawares, rendered the Republican party some service. One of his most amiable attributes seems to be the propensity to do just that to which his political friends are most averse: and now when they desire to accomplish an object, they go to "Old Buck" and ply him with cross-purposes, and thus sometimes accomplish their designs.

It is hoped this "Old Buck" will butt, kick, and toss his owners on his horns for the coming two years as much as in the past; and if that punishment is not adequate to drive out of them the wretched propensity of heralding in their Presidential candidates by vulgar terms, nothing will prevent them from repeating such folly, not to say indecency.—N. H. Statesman.