Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-09


heather days, we fear that their favorite object
of divine worship would have been, not Jupiter
Optimus Maximus, (Jove, the Greatestand Best,)
but Jupiter Feretium, (Jove, the God of Spoils.)
THE OPPOSITION.
A sorely provoking sort of challenge has re-
Gently been thrown out once and again by the
friends of the administration to its opponents,
but which they have had to take with pious re-
signation,-and that was, to instance single
particular in which any respectable portion of
them can unite in condemning its conduct whe
Their foreign or domestic. Surely it is a rare,
nay an uuexampled felicity in set of function
aries thus elevated and honorcd, to escape the
breath ofcensure even from those who couet their
places. Their enemies seem driven to the
''non dno te zabide"-''l do not like thee Doctor
Fell'-to account for their mislike, and if dri-
ven from their seats it must be because, as with
the exiled Athenian, men are tired of hearing
their praise. The offensive dare to the Demo-
crazy first thrown out by the Wing press and as
yet unanswered, has been repeated in Con-
gress, but only with the like effect. The fact
itself is patent, confessed, and it would not do to
let 1t go unexplained, even if it must go unan-
swered. Accordingly his party is indebted to the
ingenious Mr.. Olds, Democratic NJ G. from Ohio
for solution of the difficulty, which if it do not
convince their reason, at least ought to crafty
their consciences, inasmuch as it carries with
it an unexpected and unusual, though apparent
y involuntary expenditure of truth and candor
This phenomenon in the political world de-
ponds, according to Mr.. Odds, not on the merits
of the administration, but upon the incurable
discords and distractions of the Democratic
party, which has come, it seems, to that pass
that it cannot be unanimous even in abusing its
enemies! He tells his friends in the late de-
bate on the Homestead Bill, that he sis free to
acknowledge, as a Northern Democrat, that he
could not feel proud of the Democratic party as
it presents itself to the country to-day. Since
the election of Mr.. Fillmore, elections have ia
ken place in different States of the Union. We
have demonstrated to the people that the De-
mocratic party are largely in the ascendancy,
and the Democrats throughout the United
States look with no ordinary anxiety for the re-
suit to be announced at the ballot boxes in the
next Presidential election. They scarcely anti
cipate that the result will be adverse to the sue
cess of the Democratic party. Yet he would
send forth his warning voice this day to the
exhibition which has taken place in the House
Of Representatives, and which proclaims to
the people of the country that the Democratic
party to which they are looking for success, and
the maintenance Of the present form Of gouern-
ment, is a divided party. The result of this is,
that within few weeks past the organ of the
administration has grown SO bold as to announce
to the world that the administration fears not
the Democracy Of the country, and that the De-
mocrats in Congress cannot pass resolution con-
ldemning any one act of the administration. No
wonder then the organ has grown bold and casts
these things in our teeth" "While the people
think all safe, we standingon volcano, or
magazine, which threatens to blow to pieces the
Democratic party" on which Che facetiously
ladds) "he safety Of the country depends" Hap
lpy Mr.. Fillmore again say we; whom even
his enemies cannot agree to curse. Thanks to
his star-his prudence-his fortune-his own
lnrtue-or to whatever other influence he is in
lebted for full and complete success. But come
back to Mr. Odds, and his revelations, ga nos
moutons"-"to our sheep" There was an an
cient philosopher who taught, that if we held a
hand full of truths, we should open but one fin
ger at time. But our friend, mounted on the
tripod of warning and prophecy, has not imi-
tated this discretion. In the eagerness of his
prophetic fury, he has stretched out all the fin
| nE hota ot ]ot
not only that the Democratic party, and with it
the hope of maintaining the present form of
Government are ''ikely to be blown into atoms -
but another thing-that while successful in local
elections upon local issues, in the separate
States, under the abused and inspted name
of Democracy, the moment the representatives
Of these discofdant factions attempt TO act part
| on the National stage before the public eye, no.
| a single principle of affinity, but only Of repul-
| ion, is discoyerabe in the elements which they
hoped would coalesce and be blended together.
| And how could it be otherwise How can the
Freesoiler and the Disunionist Though united
in their purposes of treason) make up between
them even the show of that impudent de-
ception called democratic Platform" in which
they could stand long enough to be hooted off by
by the indignant crowd The supporter of the
Improvement of Western rivers and harbors''
by the Government-can he longer sit, cheek
by jowl, with the Virginia strict constructonist,
under cover of that transparent humbug, OPP
position to any general system of Internal
Improvement in the Baltimore resolutions p
And then the young Interventionists- will
they harmonize with any remains of reverence
(if there be any, in this pie-bald organization,
for the wisdom and maxims of Washington !
The tariff, too-but we forbear, and will not run
out these discrepancies and inconsistencies, for
''their name is legion;' and well may Mr.. Odds
and Mr.. Buchanan, and any one else whom ter
ror may inspire with sincerity lift their Cassan-