The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-11-25
From ne Iznehburg vIraInlan.


swelling tide Of popular confidence which
bore him into poWeris atits ebb. Il has hap
pened that very few acts Of the administra-
tion have been such as to arouse party OBJ
position, and the unpopularity into which It
has fallen has resulted from the obedience
Of its former friends, rather than from the
active hostility Of those who originally OBJ
posed its accession to The Chair Of State
This unpopularity. we are convinced, is
more general than at first appears, or will
be admitted by the government party.
/ There is great reluctance on the part
of politicians to admit that their sagacity
has failed them, that they have been deceiv-
ed and imposed on. There is q still greater
reluctance with such men to cut themselves
off from the favor of those who dispense the
honors and emoluments Of the government
Nevertheless the Indications are not few
nor feeble of wide spread and deep seated
feeling Of discomfort and disappointment.
In the South this feeling betrays itself
most frequently By filings at the Washing
ton Union--a paper whose whole vocation
has been to defend and panygerize the Elk
ecuiye-& which has sunk intosuch disfavor,
as to have required the establishment, al
the seat of government, of another dem
ocratic organ-destined to be the rival of
the Union for those favors which the party
in power have to bestow. In the North,
and especially in New York, the dissatis-
faction with the administration takes, most
commonly, the form Of objection to the Cab
met; and we see the New York Herald, the
National Democrat and other papers which
labored most zealously for the election of
Gen. Pierce, relieving themselves daily of
the heartiest and heaviest denunciations of
his chosen colleagues and constitutional adj
visers. The Herald calls savagely for their
removal. and thinks nothing else will save
the administration from utter disgrace and
overthrow. In the same State il is under
stood that FIVE of the democratic members
elect to Congress have openly and indig-
nantly proclaimed their opposition to the
Pierce dynasty, and their repentance for
the part they bore in bringing it into au-
thority.
What are these but proofs of the rapidly
waning popularity and certainly coming
discontinue of the administration? Proofs,
not Of the factious opposition 81 enemies.
but of the fatal detection 81 friends! The
wings. for the mos lave borne in
peace and patieno lhe fortune of their last
encounter with their political adyersaries,
and have been content to await the practi
cal demonstration, which they felt sure the
country would have, of the unitness, for
such post, ofthose who stood at the head
Of affairs. The Wing press has faithfully
spread before the people a record of occur
ring events. commenting without prejudice
or passion upon such as deserved notice,
praising or censuring as its judgment die
rated. The wing organs have attempted
but little, and effected nothing, towards es-
tranging the confidence and regard of his
political friends from Gen. Pierce. Where,
then. can we find the secret of so sudden
reYuIsion of popular feeling? We answer
that the cause is with the President, but
the fault with the managers andleaders Of
the democratic party.
The cause is his own inherent incompe-
tency for such arduous and trying duties
the fault is that such man should have
been chosen as candidate for such an of
fee. What were the facts of the case? Al
respectable, by noemeans distinguished
attorney--away of in the cold and churlish
regions of New ampshire-Whose life had
been unmarked by solitary event exhibit
ing more than moderate capacity-Who,
in the civil service had failed to win renown
and in military life had narrowly escaped
disgrace; who lacked the enlarged expert
ence, the philosophic mind, the practiced
craftsmanship and comprehensive knowledge
OF public affairs. which the position demand
ed:-whose nomination was not called for,
nor thought OF, by one citizen in a hundred
thousand, out of his own State--such a
man, because the clques of a convention
would not unite upon some more emminent
member Of their parry was lifted up before
the American people AS a candidate for the
first office in their gift-the highest and
most responsible on earth! Il is mere
waste Of breath, fault, a wrong, an impo
sition:-and tits an equally useless expend
iture of words, aosO, to say that itmuse have
demonstrated its own folly and Improperly
by self-exposed inability OF the nominee
to meet the requirements ofpublic expecta-
ton and offieia duty.
A few of the steps downward and back
ward which the creature of this political
genesis has taken are pointed out by the
Baltimore Patriot ellis inauguraladdress
says that journal, prepared rejecting men
Cor the events which have since come to-
pass. Il was stilled, bombastic, and de-
clamatory, and would have answered as an
ambrosial philippe for the festive board, or
harangue from the gallery of Tammany
Hall. He chose for his secretary OF State
man whose friendship alone would have
exposed him to disagreeable suspicious, and
whose connexion with the Cabinet vas the
signal for detection everywhere. His At-
torney- General IS recrusant from former
faiths notorious free-soiler, and at heart,
IL he have any. implacably opposed to the
institutions which Mr.. Davis upheld even to
the verge of secession. Mr.. Guthrie was