The Nevada journal., 1853-09-30
The National Administration.


has been one quite prominent in many of the
newspapers, namely-the course of the national
administration in the appointments made to
important Offices for various reasons. IN the
first place, we hold it not to be decorous for those
in the minority, after the people have uniquivo-
cally pronounced against them, to find fault,
and carp at every movement OF the majority u.
power. Wherever the people have pronounced
upon measures and men, and placed Party In
power. we desire that the measures and men
they have adoptct. shall have far trial. We
have no interest in the success of any line of
policy which is not common to the great body
of the people, and therefore if an administra-
tion is placed in power, entertaining views diff
fcrent from those adopted by u.s. if it proves to
be good one, and the principles upon which it
is carried on conduce to the welfare of the coun-
try, we rejoice at it. And so that our domestic
and foreign policy are wisely conducted, and
honest and capable men are placed in Office, we
care not what may be the cognomen of the par
ty which holds the reins Of government we
owe it no i'll viii, but on the contrary feel bound
to give it the support which all private citizens
having the good Of their country at heart, should
cheerfully yield:
With regard to the foreign or domestic poll
cy Of the administration as far as it is develop
ed, (save with reference to the Pacific railroad,
if its views are fairly stated,) We have no fault
to find, and with regard to appointment to Office
We have no interest or concern if the men ap-
pointed to the Offices perform well and faithfully
their duties.
We have not regarded as Of much moment
the complaints which have been made in regard
20 the appointment of men from diverse sections
Of the democratic party, not deeming the dis
satisfaction to prevail to any serious extent in
the party, and feeling that, having been oppo-
nents Of that party, we had no right to inter
meddle, and ought not to DO anything to en-
barrass them in the responsibilities the nation
had entrusted to them.
Recent indications, however, manifest that
there is degree of disaffection among the dem
ocratic party which will probably produce an
explosion soon after the assembling of Congress
IN December. How much of this disafectioa
is owing to patriotic feeling among the leaders,
and how much to the organization of interests
for the succession to the Presidency, we do not
know, and if we did it would not become us to
say, but whichever of these causes predominant
: will make but little difference in the array of
ostility and the division of the party which
aeem now likely to happen.
1t will be found, we think, before the close of
the next session of Congress, that the overwhel-
ming victory of the democratic party at the last
Presidential election was as fatal to it as was
the astounding defeat of the Wings to them,
and that while one party received heavy blow
IN the moment of defeat, the other was mortally
wounded in the hour of victory. New issues
are forming, and rival political and personal in
terests are growing in the ranks of each party.
We shall follow our principles into the most eff
cient organization that will promote them, as
we deem the vitality and claims of party are
strictly dependent on its principles. We shall
therefore lend the small mite of influence we
may possess to those whose success will best
promote the welfare of the country by what
ever party name they may be known. We are
and have been Wings because the principles Of
that party, Illustrated by such men as Clay and
Webster, Everett and Quincy Adams commend
themselves to our Judgment and, as we believe,
are adapted to the great wants of the country.
We have no sympathy with that progressiveism
that bellies itself by feebly cropping after explod-
ed fgments, and strikes down the energies, and
hinders the destiny Of this glorious land, by op-
posing the great projects of the age. The bones
of Jackson and Jefferson would rattle in their
graves did they know the opposition of their
degenerate defendants to the great railway that
must elevate our land beyond the highest hopes
of patriotism. 1t is not by dead professions
but by living faith that parties should exist
In the dissolving and reforming elements Of
parties, then, we but ask part with that which
shall give most efficiency to true American prin-
ciples. If the Wing party is kept intact in its
principles and organization the next revolution
of the political wheel must bring it uppermost,
and that revolution cannot be distant. If it
succumhs to casual adversely, unlike the demo-
cratic party in lS40, it deservesruin. We view
with not little disgust the course of those pre-
tended Wing papers that sgnalze a defeat of