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september Goth. CALEB Lror, ofLyonsdale
WASHINGTON, SEPT. 10, 1886
The Administration Reviewed.
They are held together by the cohesive power Of the
public punder"-CALHouN
Protectio frahit srbjectione ct subiectio protec.
!ionem, that is, protection induces allegiance, and
allegiance ensures protection. The imperfect
manner in which the Administration has carried
out this principle Of protection, the secret of the
want of allegiance of the party. We speak not
of the protection of high tariff for that has been
faithfully repudiated but the protection of the
"naked and hungry" the church, whose cry for
bread, like that of pack Of wolves around an In
dian lodge for meat, can only be silenced by an
occasional marrow-bons, cast at random among
the group. These arc the fellows who have
created all the mischief and that have kept up all
this disturbances. The whole secret of the difficult
ty is to be found in the disparity between the
loaves and fishes, and the hungry multitude
The miraculous power Of multiplication exer-
cised by the Son Of Man, would alone be compe-
tent to the distribution of moIsel all around
As il is, Col. Polk has no such power, and after
dividing the spoils on hand to the best OF his abl-
ty, he can only cry, "pcccavi," hands oil, for the
To q fair understanding, it is necessary to 90
back for a moment TO the Baltimore Convention.
The result OF that council was not q permanent
consolidation OF the essQues, but temporary armis-
tee, an informal suspension of the quarrel, ex-
torted from the necessities OF the case. AS soon
as the victory was achieved, the important ques-
ton arose. which eftho factions should control the
administration The Van Buren, interest which
had ruled the longest, which had sacrificed the
West, and which had offered up both Van Buren,
and Wright as burnt sacrifices upon the altar OF
democracy, with some just show of pretensions,
claimed the honor as their right by presumption,
nH firm anil fhaIp inf hal
and their services. But the demand for the reins
was most promptly rejected. Blair and Rives
were turned adril, in the face Of all hazards and
against the almost sepulchral remonstrances of
Old Hickory-an anti-Van Buren, man, or old
bunker, was taken from York State and placed in
the Cabinet, superseding the candidate recon-
mended by Messrs. Van Buren, and Wright. 1t
became necessary not only to convince the Van
Buren, Wright Benton clique that the adminisira-
ton was under no particu ar obligations to them
over the rest of the party, but that il was their
office to follow and not to lead the executive gov
ernment-thOugh it were of their own appoint
ing The same of the "young democracy"
tribe which rose upon the ruins of the Mddis0nian,
and the dynasty of John Tyler and John Jones,
tribe now extinct as the ancient mastodon. Itwas
scotched by the election of Father Richie as
printer to both houses-and was finally killed (the
Daily Tines in single blow on the nape OF the
neck, by the ivory mallet Of the United States
Senate.
The Calhoun faction were treated with even
more apparent cruelty than either of the prece-
ding MIR. Calhoun with his hands full of the Ore
gon question, the settlement of which he would
have preferred to hold over all other consldera-
tons, was turned adrift without apology. South
Carolina Wa mortified and rebelled, as usual, and
continued hghting the administration down to the
last winter; and even after the passage of the
tariff, took it as the best that could be had of the
Inefficient existing Executive authorities. Tue
Western division, particularly the Buckeyes, had
an equally grave complaint with the rest of the
malcontents. They had no member of the Cabi
net-no foreign minister, and only one respectable
office under the Administration. North, South,
East and West, there was one universal COM
plant against the State of Tennessee. Sh. had
done nothing, and had got every thing. The Van
Burenites were defrauded-the Calhoun men
men of the West most grossly
deceived, and the young democracy murdered in
cold blood, and without remorse, and without a
funeral consigned to Hades.
At the beginning of the late session, we find
that gathered up here and there, and headed by
that arch tactician, the memorable the Secretary
of the Treasury, the party of the Administration,
independent OF all cliq,es, was enabled to cree
the obedience Of the most refractory, with the
tender of rewards on the one hand, or threats of
accommodation on the other Selling the Ore
gon recommendations, the men of the West deter
mined to bear off the palm in blind obedience
to the Executive oracle. The New York Deega-
ton, however, were hard to surpass in this chap
tor of servile serviiy. There was still drop of
sweetness in the bitter draught in the prospect of
retaliation against the annexation of Texas, and
against the South. But even here the South were
triumphant, and Cass. Allen, Dickinson, and COM
pany, too late discovered that they had been play
ing game of o-peep with John Q quincy Adams,
backed by the first chapter Of Genesis, and the
Soos wss
bors; they passed it TO his Excellency-the late
acknowledged head of the party. The tariff was
pending while the rivers and harbors remained in
doubtful possession of the President. All right,
says Father Richie, and the tariff was passed,
and Rathbun knocking under at dis
cretion. The tariff being secured, the rivers and
harbors thrown overheard, followed by the
now Indignantly split of'-they are henceforth
pledged to the prostration Of the powers that be,
especially Secretary Walker.
The President next asks for two millions to buy
up the government of Paroles, and bride him to
put an end TO the existing war with Mexico. The
House pass the measure (the North and West)
with an abolition proviso, in their bitterness
against the success of the South, and the appa-
rent perfidy of the administration. Honest John
Davis, in the Senate, talks the whole scheme to
death, by talking out the last invaluable half
hour OF the session.
And TINS we find, that party, which was uni
ted at the outset OF the most momentous session Of
the government, and which after having passed
the whole schedule of the measures of the Bal
timore Convention, and the principal bill, the
tanf, with an unequvocal majority against It, is
luton, saving that the South, the most openly re-
bellious division of all, and the weakest, have
gained every thing-the Oregon, the tariff, and
the vetoes; while the North and West, with an
overwhelming force, all-sacrifcing, and all-obs-
dent, have been stripped to their skins, in the
toes, the tariff, and the Oregon. Never was there
such curious and anomalous condition of affairs
presented in the history Of politics, since the days
of the French Directory.
With the triumph Of the whole chain of the
Baltimore resolutions, which the party had united
in supporting one man, we find The admins
ration elected upon them, recommending them,
and approving them, in the very hour OF success
abandoned in every quarter:-
l. By the north and west because Of the ruse upon
the Oregon question, and the veto OF the rivers and
harbors
By Pennsylvan because of the repeal of the act
OF AZ, in the face of the Kane letter.
BY the South, because the administration is suspect
cd OF design to overthrow Mr.. Calhoun.
Or in the following order -
BY Allen, Cas- Co., because they were eyre
giousy deceived on the question of "a 40