The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-04-08
The inaugural address.

spirit, it gives pretty general satisfaction
and yet il is not a wonderful document after
all. Any well educated man from the land
of steady habits-where readin' writn' and
cipherin' come by nature and common sense
lby the schoolmaster-conldw write as good a
one. We have forborne any comments up
on it till everybody had an opportunity Of
Judging for himself AS we expect nothing
from the administration. we feel perfectly
free to notice this much bepraised document
as it strikes US.
The allusion to his recent domestic afflic-
ton in the opening Of the address, violates
good taste and smacks of egotsm. In his
affection. he had and has the sympathy Of
the nation. and it has been expressed by the
people of both parties, but its introduction
into state paper speaks much for the man
and father, but little of the Roman.
He then regrets that some ADLER man
than himself was not chosen to fill the great
chair he is called upon to sit in perhaps
three fourths of the people fully concur in
his regrets-we only hope they will have
no reason to feel worse about it before the
four years of his term Of Office expire.
Soon. however, we have reason to believe
that he is only using q little trick of depre-
ciating his abilities common 10 all great
men. William Van Kieft, the second Gov
ernor of the Dutch dynasty of New York,
who was very learned mana graduate
of Gottingen, and had his pockets full of
diplomas from all the learned institutions of
Holland, made the same humble confession
about his own want of fitness for his respon-
sible office, when he introduced himself to
the honest burgherS of New Amsterdam,
with the commission of their High Might
nesses the Lords States General safe in his
pocket Some of them, it is true, grum-
bled a little, that if he knew himself SO in
cable, that he should have undertaken their
government. But to return. After the
first feeling of self abnegation is passed,
the President seems to remember where ne
is and also to imagine that by some means
or another he has got into an old pair OF
Washington's can't do a0ithoutables, and he
talks of battles, wars and gunpoWder al
most as eloquently as a man might do who
had ever really been in a battle, before 1t
was over. His recurrence to our reVolu-
tionary struggle, is very patriotic, but saw
ors rather too much of Fourth of July
grafton. He makes one allusion TO his "brief
experience as a soldier" which no necessity
of rounding out a sentence should have be-
trayed him into We advise the Constitu-
tional Commander-in- Chief of the Army
and Navy of the United States never again
to make the ffaintest alluSion to his heroic
exploits in Mexico-if he does, we shall be
like Diggory when old Hardcastle told his
standing joke about the Russian General
obliged to laugh.
The President acknowledges his obliga-
lions only to the masses of his countrymen
for his election. Though he has nc
resentments to remember or friends to
reward, he gives the Wing officials, one
and all pretty plainlyato understand that
the sword of the Damocles is over their
heads, and his reasons are good enough
We like frankness and expect no favor of
Locofoco government. And he is every
day fulfilling his implied promise. Of course
he must fill the offices with honest and cap
able men, and where are such found but in
the Democratic party?
His remarks on 'indefnte expansion
squirt little, just little. to illibustering,
but probably not too much SO. With a.
,carlike President at our head the whole
world and the rest of mankind will stand in
awe of US.
On the subject of the late Disunion agi-
tation, his position is decided, and we hope
Mr. Secretary Davis admirers it as much
as we do. We hope that every secessionist
who voted for him or did not, will learn
it By heart. for as sure as he lives and
agitates disunion again. President Pierce
will act upon the spirit of his noble words
in his Inaugural. We intended to go
through the address seeundun 0rtene, but find
we have already occupied 50 much space,
must reluctantly desist from further com
ments. On the whole. it does pretty well.
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THE DAuPHIN sroRY.-The New York
Times states that the Prince de Joinyille has
written letter to the publisher Of PutnaUs's