The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-08-22
CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY, AUGUST %, 1916.


dePartmenl-aTa doing incaleulable injury to
the adminisnatioh. This much il ia due to
caudor to sag We have supported M Polk
with zeal Twelve months before the Baltic
more Convention we wrote an article,the fret
that appeared in the United States, suggesting
his name for the Presidency, From the mo-
meut Of his nomination, we devoted our pen,
gratuitOusly until the close Of the canvass, to
hissuppcrt. We have defended his administra-
ton thus far, with what zeal the columns Of
this paper will show. We have a right, there
fore, to speak and to speak candidly. It is our,
duty to him and to tle party to do So, tits
not to be disguised that the measures Of the
War Department and its p~alpable mismanage-
ment are, every day, creating new and seEious
difficulties 70. the friends Of the administers
ton. We paltated These as much az possible
Our 'ngennttg has been tasked to find excuse far
the e~quirocal and contradictory letters Of The Sec
retary. We hare, By erery possible distortion d
Syntar and prOsOdy, sought 70 reconcile them nth
common sense and wiM each other. ne haze
sacrificed conSstency and reason in endeavoine %
defend him as a part Of he naturalization. But
this last act puts him beyond de pale Of defence.
Il is foolishj III is mOnstrousi it is humiliating.
No friend Of the Administration in Louisiana
can defend him, without injuring the cause.
No democrat should conceal the fact, that he
Is every day bringing odium upon the Govern
ments In Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississip-
pi, the course Of the Wal Department. has done
more to injure the democratic party and EN-.
barrass. the friends of the administration, than
all other causes combined. They can resist
the assaults Of the wings, but are p~aralyzed BY
the blowsfrom an arm Of the Government.
We have no strength TO throw away, no ca,
Pital to exhaust with spsndthrift prodigality.-
The great reforms Contemplated BY the admin
l%stratiOn necessarily come in collision will
sectional interests, and produce divisions
! Where are the powerful majOrities in both bran
> Chez Of Congress, with-which the present ses
sion communicative Land Graduation Bill
t passed by one or two votes and now hung Vi
in the SenateS the Independent Treasury STAY
ed of; the new Revenue bill in doubt, instead
Of being carried by reclamation; the Yves
disaiected by the terms Of the Oregon treaty
Pennsylvania threatening to change her time
honored political relations; and now the seed
Of disaffoction and neutrality scattered broad
cast in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.-
Many of these responsibilities and vicissitude
r are unavoidable, and must necessarily be incur
red by the President and the stern discharge 0
official duty.
But the injuries to the party that accrue from
the mismanagement Of the War Department
are within his controls and his power to pre-
vent, The man who whispers in his ear tina
these are idle apprehensions, is a fatterer.-
The journal which ASSURES him that all is rich
in this section of the Union, speaks as only
hypocrite will speak. There is wide spreat
dissatisfaction here with the War Department
and its entire management dissatisfaction
that should be known to the President, AM
promptly known. The impression is that MI
Marcy is incompetent for the place he occupies
and that Gen. Scott, who is no friend Of ti,
administration, has substantially the control o
the Department.