The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-22

desperation, would attempt to convert the tri-
umph Of the 6ewasditss ia New York Into an
Administration victory, it seemed improbable,
and almost impossible, that they would have the
effrontsry so to do. But they have fulfilled
that prediction to the very letter, and boldly at
tempt to braxen out the monstrous assertion
against facts familiar to every man in the coun-
try, plain as the MONDAY sun-gross, open, and
palpable.
This second farce played at Albany by the
friends Of the Administration, resulting in dis
com6ture more disgracsful and ruinous than that
which followed the Syracuse secession, is rem
dered more pitiably humiliating by this insane
effort to stultify the common sense Of the coun-
try into belief that the election Of HAMILTON
FISH gives sincere sa,isfaction" to the Admins
tration-to that Administration which strained
every energy, and put in operation every engine
that could insure his defeat which even con-
descended, through its friends. Gf not imme-
diately) to offer terms to the hostile faction
terms which were disdainfully rejected and
which now stands ready to kiss the hand that
smote it, if that too be not withheld in con-
tempt of 80 feeble and facile foe, by the victo-
rious SEWARD.
Never In the political annals Of our country,
(but once,) was such coalition contaminated
'as that which Is now rendered by the Administra-
tration to its victors, and under circumstances
which make the concession amount to an un-
qualified surrender, without even the honors of
war.
1t was bad enough to be thus baffled and
beaten-mortifying enough to have been 80
scornfully derided and defed but lower deep
still yawned for the Silver Grays and the Ad-
ministration, to grace The triumph Of its enemy,
by voluntary appearance in the procession,
bound by the chariot wheels of it's insolent and
unforgiving enemy. The satisfaction" which
the Administration has derived, is very similar to
that which the duelist, who falls before the bull
let Of his antagonist is said to have received
in the cant of the code Of honor !" but the
wounds of the Administration are in the rear,
not in the front--it has fallen in flight with its
back to the foe. and is now in the humble atti-
tude of suppliant for mercy.
We will not so far distrust the intelligence or
the memories of our readers, as to recapitulate
the facts connected with the nomination, the OPP
position to, and election of HAMILTON FISH, nor
review again the attitude assumed by the Or
gans and especial friends Of the Administration
towards him. Neither is it necessary to revive
the recollection of the intrigues and negotia-
tons between the factions and the final failure to
adopt any basis of adjustment" or compromise I"
These things are too fresh and familiar to every
mind to require repetition, and the proofs are
scattered broadcast over the files of all the
prominent presses in the country.
No one that ever read those prints, can forget
the bitter denunciation and savage scorn which
brcathed through the editorials of the leading
free-soil papers of New York--the Albany Jour
nal and its allies-when the organs of the Ad-
ministration in that State opposed the election
of their chosen representative, HAMILTON FISH.
No one can forget how those prints responded
or how the Silver Grnys acted on that occasion,
sustained in such action by the we'll understood
sympathy and support of the Administration
while the elimination and re-crimination which
ensued, caused the two wings of the Wing party
in New York to assume an attitude of armed
hostility to each other. Then followed the at
tempts ut mediation and compromise-all frus-
trated by the obstinacy and the arrogance Of the
Sewardites, who would not even make the
shadow of concession, but bearded and defed
the Administration to thwart the will of the
Wing party in the State Of New York, by de-
feating the election of its chosen candidate.
And then-last scene of this strange eventfnl
history--the Administration covers and collapses
before the foe it had provoked and defed-
makes an unconditional surrender-and It's or
gans peal forth exultng ppans to the victory
accomplished victory for which it should
rather sit in sackcoth and ashes-for with it
passes away all its power, and all the remnant
Of confidence in its opposition to the frec-soil
faction which its credulous partizans at the
South, hoping against hope, might still have en-
tertained. We gave yesterday the timid, half
congratulatory comments of the ex-organ, the
National Intelligencer-we did not give the
palmer demonstration Of the more immediate
organ, The Republic-here tits:
"Nlr. Fish has been for many years prominent
among the Wing politicians Of his State, and
has always been a consistent and faithful mem
Der of the party. While lieutenant governor he
was associated in the Administration with our
present Chief Magistrate, who was then Comp
troller of the State and their views at that time
harmonized on all public questions. He was an
early, efficient, and active friend of Gen. Taylor.
| lie oiA render cordial support 10 the Admins
tration 10 ,ohch noe hare 10 kno,o his cleo
tion gires sincere satisfaction. None who are
acquainted with his general prudence, modera-
| ton and good sense, can doubt that Mr. Fish
will pursue a conservative and patriotic course
in the discharge Of his senatorial duties"
Here is an astounding revelation. Mr.. FISH
is marvellous proper man for the Administrn-
ton the opposition to him, therefore, must
| have been a mere ruse--the ingenious simplicity