New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-28
TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE %. 1876
THE ADMINISTRATIONS.


THE ADMINISTRATION:
Some Of the Southern yhigs are magnifcen
fault-fndefs. They 60 the thing with rush,
relish, and an JUNCTION which is refreshing fror
its very impudence. 1t is truly laughable t
hear them complain Of the President for APP
pointing . Southern secessionists and Northern
free-soilers to Office on the ground of danger
to the peace and permanency of the Union
.Aaer having ruined the wing party by selling
it to The sellers, they step forth and gravey
rebuke General Pierce for having dealt fairly
with those Free soil democrats who made a vol
untsry surrender Of their principles, in favor Of
most ultra national platform. 1t is the .eul-
mination Of impudence. Hear the NewOrleans
Daily Crescent National (NY.) Democrat
Ws respectfully submit to the National Dem
ocrst and those other journals of the party that
still stick by the Administration, that the ques-
tion Is not whether the Southern wings are good
or bad faul- finders, or whether the wing party
sold itself or not to the free-soilers. Tho matter
now in hand is this Has not the present demo-
cratic administration in the few short months of
its existence belied the promises that secured its
success, and falsifed the principles and profess
sions that won its electioni Has NOT the Ad
ministration, by every means in its power,
rebuked the compromise men and honored and
rewarded their opposers' Was not Gen Pierce
elected as an earnest and sincere Union man,
and has he not proved himself-so far as he
could-to be exactly Of the opposite stripe
We judge mans feelings by his conduct, and
it i generally safe to suppose that an individual
kicks and contemns those whom he dislikes and
favors and advances those whom he loves
1t has always been complained, from the inau-
gurstion Of the Federal Government to the pre-
sent time, that the offices at its disposal were
given away to strong partisans rather than to
competent men, and that the requirements were
oftener political than official. But Gen. Pierce
acts in direct opposition to both of these rules
He proclaims himself a. Unionist, and composes
Cabinet Of which the lis hardly member
not notoriousas secessionist, agitator or aboli-
ZIONIST. He assumes to be a Compromise man.
and yet Stays the Compromises right hand and
left-fseding the fishes and loaves to their most
determined enemies Yet, in the very teeth of
such conduct as this, his organs attack us for
not recognizing his strong nationality and ear
nest love of the Union. Why, there is not
locofoco journal from the Penobscot to Califor-
mia that would have tolerated such conduct in
a wing Administration an instant, or allowed
any amount Of balderdash about fairness to
free-soilers and secessionists to have misled
them moment; and we trust that they do not
expect US to be perfectly blinded by such a
transparent humbug, wings though we are
If the penitence Of the trainers and support
ers Of the Buffalo Platform, and the upholders
Of the Nashville Convention required some re-
ward we wish to know on what principle the
sturdy old flers, the Union Garden men, the
baltimore Platform men, who worked through
the last election, and the one before it, without
variation, or the shadow of turning are cut
off without even parting curse, and consigned
to everlasting oblivion If the free sellers get
80 much, why don't the hunkers get something
If the fre-eaters are elevated to the Cabinet,
and sent on foreign missions, why can't the
Unionists get Consulship or Clerkship'
We are told that the President considers
every man who took the Baltimore Platform,
and who asks for Executive patronage, to be
Compromise democrat, and to be pledged to use
his influence against all further agitation of the
slave question" Where, we ask, are the evil
dences Of this political regeneration Has it
been shown in the fr> e-soil journals that OBJ
tanned the Government patronage at the ex-
pense Of their democratic competitors Has it
been shown by Of the Van Buren, men in
the New York Legislature, who have refused
over and over again, and still refuse, to
endorse that very Baltimore Platform 1t is
all folly and waste of eloquenoe to en-
deavor to make the Southern wings believe in
the wisdom Of appointing such rabid free-soil-
ers and abolitionists as Marcy, Dix, Hallett,
Moloney, and their thousand lucky brethren.
1t is equally impossible to convince them that
the antecedents Of Pierre Soule, JEFF Davis,
Campbell and DeLeoi were of character that
warranted the good fortune which has fallen to
them. The fact is the President preached one
thing and has practced another He has be-
lied every profession of nationality and gone
over to the anti Unionists just as completely as
his illustrious prototype, Martin Van, did n,
fore him. Every day convinces us of the e.
and one half of the democratic journals de-
nounce it. The Democrat would do better by
endeavoring to amend rather than apologize for
a fact SO serious and SO much to be regretted