The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-17
From the Burlington (Io,ca) Hatrk- Eye.
The Adminis ,ration

The Wings possess in Mr.. FILLMORE and
his Cabinet an administration of which they
may well be proud Party subserviency, how
ever it may cavl and spend itself in the small
work of pickering and detraction, cannot deny
TO it eminent ability, honesty, and industry in
the discharge of all its duties to the people and
the country. Occasionally, it is true, we hear
in one quarter complaint that certain persons
at the East and South have not been permitted
to violate all their obligations as good citizens
in the wild scheme of Cuban independence and
annexation; and in another that the Admnistra-
ton has not restrained certain wild and rowing
Indian tribes on the Mexican frontier from their
Neutrality-suspicious. into Mexican territory. These
things only show, however, the desperate shifts
to which party men are driven in their efforts
TO find something whereon to ground their com
plants against Mr.. FILLMORE and his Admins
tration. ''Slavery agitators," too, both at the
North and at the South, have for wholly opposite and
contradictory reasons, found great fault with the
Administration for its course upon the Compromise
measures. These complaints, like plus and minus
quantities in algebra, serve to cancel each other.
The Opposition are wofully at a loss for some
thing to condemn. The blind and Infatuated
rage with which it assaulted General Taylor has
long since spent itself. Mr.. Fillmore has enjoyed
comparative quiet. Opposition leaders and opposi-
ton editors find their occupation gone Their dole
full objurgations fall upon unwilling ears. Those
terrible watchwords of party with which they were
accustomed at their will to indignant De-
mocracy to vigilance and action, have lost their
charm. The magician's wand is broken. The
country stands in need of rest, and it is we'll Per-
haps the quiet is ominous of the storm that is TO
burst upon US next year
There has never been time when the Wing
prospects were brighter than at present, if the
Wings only true to Themselves and the coun-
try. We believe there never administra-
ton more popular, or which more deserved to be
popular, than that Of Mr.. Fillmore. It's measures
and policy have been emincntly calculated to Sc
cure the appreciation of the moderate and reflect
ing portion of all parties. He be unalterably
committed to party who does not see in its conduct
and character the evidence of an administration
wholly devoted to the honor, happiness, and well
fare of the country. The course marked out by
Mr.. Fillmore and his Cabinet, when first called to
their present position, they have wisely and firmly
pursued; they have adhered with unyielding in
tegrity to all the compromises of the Constitution;
their whole policy has been marked by entire free.
dom from narrow minded or sectional preudces,
and by the most arduous efforts TO restrain and
keep down sectional encroachments and animosi-
ties.
II the Wings are successful in the next Presi-
Dental canvass, they will that success to the
respect which the Ad administration OF MIR. Fillmore
has commanded from all shades of public opinion
| much as TO any thing else. No Wing can be
otherwise than proud in pointing to it as an illus
tration Of all that they have said national
administration ought to be. In comparison with
that Immediately preceding it what a contrast
The Constitution has not been violated to procure
tho AT af State
war of conquest upon weak and unofIending
! neighbor. The public mind has not been set wild
with visions of universal conquest, nor the passion
for unlawful acquisition fostered at the expense of
all that contributes to maintain peace and quiet at
home, and respect and good will abroad. Agita-
ton have had, indeed, and the bitter waters OF
sectional and party strife have wellnigh submerged
the land; but these have been but the natural re-
suits Of that fruitful harvest of ills sowed by the
late administration, and left to its successors TO
reap. That Mr.. Fillmore has dealt with all the
difficult and delicate questions left TO him wisely,
honorably, and successfully, candid men Of all
glasses and shades of opinion must admit.
We hear, as it were at distance, the busy
notes Of preparation for the coming contest Of 1852
Parties are striving for the vantage ground and
getting their men ready for the action. The De
mocracy particularly buoy in reconciling diff.
ferences, and promoting harmony in their dis
tracted ranks. Al the South they have been rent
ia 0under by secessionists and Dsunionists, while
the Wings united one man At the North
they are far more disorganized than the wings
with less prospect Of coming together. In New
York, assuming to have learned wisdom by their
defeat in ls4s, they arc preparing to sink all minor
considerations for the sake OF harmony. Having
been deprived Of the sweets Of office for four years
they conclude that II is better to succeed by an