Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-07-09

and relentless as TIGERS before his election, they
have become more gentle than lambs and keep as
meek as turtle doves They unwillingly allow him
the enjoyment of that peace add quiet wkieh they
denied to Jefferson, Madison and jackson. For
federal editors and orators until recently shared with
less rational animals the vicious and useless habit
/ yeping at objects vastly beyond their reach. Thus
Jefferson was subjected to that measure of annoy
ance to which watch dogs subject the gentleman
in the Moon, when they bark at him at distance
of very many thousand miles, and wonder at the
quiet Indifference which he exhibits under such
trying circumstances.
In less than four months, " the filthy attorney
of New Hampshire-the blue-nosed Yankee, " as
they were kind enough to term President Pierce,
has crushed every particle of resistance out of his
opponents by the wisdom of his administration.
How different the first four months of his admin
istration from the period of General Taylors.
Before the close of June. l849, the Administra-
ton of General Taylor in consequence of the ras-
= caty OF Ewing, the greediness of Crawford, the
ttpsy imbecility of Clayton, the Abolitonism of
lCoaner, and the utter insi gnifcance of Preston,
had fallen so low in the estimation Of the public,
that it could only be safely handled with pair of
very long longs and the plentiful use Of disinect-
ing agents.
Before four months had elapsed, an incompe-
tent President and flithless Cabinet had utterly
destroyed the faith and confidence of the country
in that time General Taylor had violated all of his
sacred pledges about prescription. Clayton and
his dogs had bullied, and then backed out of, half
a dozen diplomatic difficulties and that uncon-
elonable Judas, Ewing, in exchange, had bartered
! away the offices of the government for real prop
erty in Washington and Crawford had perpetra-
ted that delicate Galphin transaction which has
perfumed his reputation and name so sweetly all
over the country.
| In four short months, by unconstitutional and
abolition influences, the Administration of General
Taylor had deprived the South of all right and IL
| tile to California, and Thomas Butler King, acting
under the authority of the Executive, had without
| the action Of Congress, deprived that country of
all control over large and valuable territory In
deed, within the first four months of Taylor's adj
nrnstratlon, there were more unconstitutional in
Judlcious and corrupt acts perpetrated than during
the Administrations of Jefferson Madison Jackson
and Polk together. In that brief space, materials
had been furnished the Democratic party sufficient
ly strong to throw at the very next election the
Administration into minority in the House of
Representatives.
The same period of time has elapsed since the
Inauguration of General Pierce but with results
to the Democratic party and the country very diff
terent. Time enough has elapsed to silence the
voice OF opposition, if denunciations are heard
they are from quarters insignificant that they
Will ho respect even Oy Ine leaders OF
the Wing party.
vi GalPhlnlsm, incompetence, barterng of of
hces, trading IN contracts broken promises dishon-
est officials, and drunken prelniers, we hear not
single word. OF such insects Crawford, Coam-
mer Ewing and Preston not word is heard The
Lord no longer afflicts his people with such Epyp-
tian plaques as the frogs and flies ofthe TAYLOR re-
glme Ugh official station is no longer a crow
bar for przing open the barriers and strong doors
of the treasury. The black flag of pillage and
piracy, plumber and robbery, has been hauled
down from the Departments We no longer hear
ola President of the United States surrendering
his responsibility and conscience into the hands of
an irresponsible Cabinet of broken down, spawned
political hacks. The Tension office is no LONGER
hospital for incurables, or the Department of the
interior an overstocked pasture for the donkevs or
broken-down attorneys like Sandy Stuart, whose
carcase in 1850 the swarthy Fultz and the narcotic
Shelly tossed in triumph.
The difference between the fonr first months of
Iaylors, and the four first months ofpierce's, Ad-
ministration consists in his:-the first gave gen
eral dissatisfaction produced universal disgust and
deprived the Administration of the respect of the
people, whilst the last has been so honest discreet
and polite that it has silenced the factious oppo
sition of the Wing party.
Two things alone silence the opposition Of de-
teated minority. In governments constituted diff
own, where Tie people, unpfOtec-
ted by written constitutions, are at the mercy of
despot, the voice of the disaffected is summarily
hushed by the halter and musket, or rendered in
audible by the thick walls of the dungeon.
Thus the imperial Ape, in France who las a.
vailed hirnselfof the posthumous renown boots and
cooked hat of great and ambitious uncle, packs off
the editors to Brussels, and exports eloquent Red
Republicans to England, when they murmur a
word Of disapprobation respecting the villianous
manner in which he has obtained power and place
and the benevolent gentleman who manages small
Russian family Of very many millions, puts down
opposition to his paternal sway, by sending the
discontinued to the mines of Siberia and admins
tering liberal allowance of the knout.
In such countries the silence of the defeated fac
ton is the silence of fear, "a silence that reminds
US of the famous bulletin of the general who over
run Poland, who, after demolishing the principal
city of that unhappy country, and slaughtered its
citizens, dispatched the following bulletin Sire,
peace and order reignin Warsaw"
The silence Of the opposition party, which the
and cruelty fdespotislns secure in 9TH
and less fortunate countries the Democratic par
ty has accomplished in the United States by the |
wisdom of its leaders, and the successful practical
operation oft measures Of domestic policy.
To General Pierce and the Democratic party be-
long the honor of having in country like ours,
where the Constitution secures to the most unscru-
pulous the widest license of tongue and pen put
down opposition and silenced the worst of Lhe hun-