Butte record., 1853-11-12
THE POSITION OF THE ADmrxIsrRArIos.

THE POSITION OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
Dur sagacious friends of the .4Ita. who can
ALWAYS find mountain in a mole hill. and a
storm cloud in even the most attenuated va
DOR. especially in matters connected with the
Democratic party, see in recent developments
in the East, ''the whole fahricn of General
pierce's administration ssfast falling to pie
ees Among positive men Of all shades and
stripes of opinion. we are told, 'sthere is grow
ing up an indifference towards the president
closely allied to contempt" which must even
tuate in the speedy dissolution of his party.
While we fully admit that the great delao-
cratic is not so solid and united as il should
be, and that there is an energetic attempt III
certain quarters to get up an organized oppo-
sition to the president, yet we see nothing to
warrant other than the belief that the present
administration will be triumphantly sustained
not only by the large body of the party. but
by the mass Of the American people. Much
less can we distinguish any thing indicative of
the startling fact so solemnly put forth by our
cotemporary that it is ''fast falling to pieces y
With the exception of a slight disaffection in
Georgia and Mississippi, the fact must be ad-
mitted that the southern democracy have fully
acquiesced in the policy pursued by the presi-
dent. All the south has ever asked of the
north is to be let alone. The people of that
ctNNASNA
so long as their rights are respected and the
guarantees of the Constitution sacredly en-
forced An abstract opinion off slavery is
what every man has Il right to entertain TO his
hearts content. When however, noisy and
corrupt demagogues for their own selfish pur-
poses, seek to trample on their right, and in
defiance of the Constitution to impair their
most sacred privileges, it is not to be wondered
that principle stronger than party allegiance
should prompt them to denounce, not only the
agitators themselves, but all who affiliate with
them. Had not the democratic party at the
last Baltimore Convention solemnly pledged
itself to the strict maintenance of the compro-
mise measures as a final adjustment of the
delicate questions at issue between the north
and the south, the southern democracy would
never have united in the election of the ticket
presented To have done so would have been
a recognition on their part of the arrogant
pretensions of northern incendiaries, who find
no barrier in the Constitution when it stands
between them and their unhalowed purposes.
As it was, however, they accepted the plat
form as a full recognition of their rights, and
greeted as democrats all who planted them
selves upon it. The almost unanimous vote of
the south in favor of General Pierce hailing
from the extreme north, showed their conf
dence not only in the man, but in the princi
pies upon which the party triumphed. We
say then that the southern democracy, with
slight defections in the aforementioned states,
are satisfied with the course pursued in the
federal appointments.
Where then is this great disaffection spoken
of Where is the evidence that the admins
tration is fast falling to pieces So far as We
are able to discover, they are confined exclu-
sively to the interesting family squabble in
the State of New York While the south is
satisfied with the presidents appointments,
portion of the party of that state have arrayed
themselves against him, because he has con
ferred Office upon men whom they allege are
not true to the rights Of the people Of the
slaveholding states Notwithstanding the pre-
sident has emphat.. ..cally declared and solemn
ly pledged himself that he will appoint no one
to Office who is not ready to Yield a cheerful
acquiescenee 10 the compromise measures, AMI
that he would discharge from Office any one
who would violate this pledge, we see. in the
face of this fact, a systematic attempt to re-
open the whole subject of sectional agitation.
and irritate afresh that fostering disease
which at one time had weii nigh sapped the
vitality Of our political organization. This
family quarrel, then, will not only be frowned
down by the democracy of the Union, but rs
instigators held to q strict accountability ~
the Union loving men of all parties. We have
no fear that they will succeed IN destroying
confidence in General Pierce's administration
SO long as he stands frm by the Baltimore
platform, and squares his actions to its re-
quirements-so long as he conforms to the
principles enunciatad in his nasterly and
beautiful inaugural-or, in other words, so
long as he is guided by the grea' landmarks of
the party, and controls himself in conformity
to the the teachings Of the enlightened pro-
gress of the age, can he appeal for support to
m intelligent constituency. We feel well as
sured that nothing he has yet done, either by
omission or commission, has compromised his
position; and that portion of the democracy
who are seeking to undermine his administra-
ton, will find that they are but digging pit
in which they themselves will be inevitably
engulphed.-[ Transcript.
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discovered gold mines on the Amazon
will undoubtedly attract adventurers
thither from the Atlantic States and
South America The mines are upward rds
of four hundred miles from the coast of