The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-06-08
From The Chillicothe Ohio) Gazette.
The National dminlstration.

The National Administration.
The praise of ''tho Fillmore Administration, ;" in
view of hat 1t has accomplished, amid the diff
culues by which il has been surrounded, is in
everybody's mouth. Most of the respectable and
influential opposition journals accord high praise
to the President and his Cabinet-''the Govern
mcnt - in the jackson sen5c-for the wisdom and
moderation of their official course. True enough
large portion of the Locofoco press, whose con-
ductors never have been and are morally incapable
either of seeing, Of desiring TO see, any thing
commendable in their party opponents, have stri-
10 place the Administration in a false light be
fore their readers; but their arrows have fallen
harmless to the ground, blunted by the armor Of
siatesmanlike integrity towards which they were
aimed.
IL should be recolecttd that ''the Fillmore Ad-
ministration" took charge OF the Government at a
moment when long course of wasteful misrue
had placed all its financial interests in the most
Strengthened circumstances. An enormous war
debt hung II. tariff which invited the larg.
Get amounts Of imports, and only afforded com
potent revenue by stepping the people in debt,
Gripping their manufactures, and striking at their
agriculture, was (as itstill is) in vogue. The ne
cessity Of making immediate provision for the
government of the new Territories purchased Of
Mexico by a caamitous war and some millions of
aud challenged the far.reaching invention Of the
Executive TO suggest settlement Of the exciting
collateral sectional questions BY the guidance of
the overruling Power, which enabled our
fathers, with means apparently entirely inadequat.
to the mighty end desired, 20 achieve the political
independence Of this country, basis Of settlement
was devised "by the Fillmore Administration"
and passed by the legislative ,o.ordinates. Thus
a great domestic difficulty bequeathed by the
preceding administration difficulty which
threatened, most seriously, tho existence Of this
Union fairly and amicably arranged.
Nor has the duty Of dscharging the ordinary ex-
penditures Of the Government been the least of the
burdens imposed upon the Fillmore Ad.
ministration." The task put upon the servile Is
raeiites, by their Egyptian masters, Of making
bri k, with or without straw, was bot prcfgura
ton Of the burden deyolvod upon the Wing Adj
ministraton by Looofoco Congress. The most
extraordinary feats Of diplomacy and government
al achievement were required Of the Executive !;
while the most niggarGly parsimony--tbe stingi.
est economy Of material aid"-has been melted
out - Congress.
Again The delicate questions growing out of
our relations with France, Austria. and Spain
/ the Cuba campaigns, the Hulsemann troubles the
Thrashcr negotiation, Kossuth fever and ia. n.
/ score OF troubles beside, equally perple1ing and
]
dfocre Cabinet, or Government like that of Mr..
/ Polk, which went upon the "hbuster" principle
would certainly have been blown into ca.u, bsiIi-
/ were met by "the Fillmore Administration, ;" pa
cited with Gaze, pushed 10 ssue at once graf
/ lying 20 the feelings Of citizens and bonora
bic ~ the country. The ncwspap ers Of the uppo,i.
| ton, which event of at halfcock," and piled up
/ the agony on Mr.. Webster the Whiqs and The
4 President, az though the country was about to be
ndered at discretion TO the tawny Spnniard or
imperious Austrian, bad IN each successive To
! perform the unplcasant and awkward operation Of
/ hauling ia horns, and acknowledging that they
I had acted like both knayes and fools
! Let any candid citizen, who knows that in the
above hasty paragraphs we have claimed nothing
tor the Administration - hich does not plainly be.
! long TO it, osk himself this question: II instead OF
a majority IN Congress which, however discordant
on other subjects, agreed IN that OF surrounding
! the Executive Office with tangible difficulties q
/ Wing Congress, co operating with the President
and carrying out his recommen dations, had been
| IN power, how much more good could "the Fill
/ more Administration" have done for the country
than under existing circumstances, il was possible
! for il TO PERFORM
! With an eye single 10 lis country's glory; with
a capacity equal TO any emergency in which that
countrys honor nd interests have yet been ola
with the beet men y all partes freely according e
I the NEED 81 "~eH dOue' 20 Willard Fillmore; we
nevertheless sec him Fpurnug even the usual sup.
/ gcsiions Of honorable ambition, and. within the
last fortnight, thus addressing HE friends in Phila
! delpbin:
/ - an idi hOie ahAlyuS 80 70 CONDUCT IL as TO
merit the appreciation OF my country during the
| time have 70 serve than continue IT for a day
/ longer.
| Let The people select my successor, wholly un.
Influenced by me, and If be be honest and true 10
! lhe Constituton and the country, shall be salts
/ fed. psk no more.
81 am truly, yours,
"MILARD FnLMoRg."
! Such a man may be, passed over for the nonce
/ by struggling partisans; bot verify he viii have
! his reward,