The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-04-22
TIE w IHI(4.

- 49, NC tUli0Niu5 dILlcle ~ from Tue ~
Z Daily Tribune. always strong anti
Fillmore paper
BOOKS PosrED, The Wing party ha
just surrenaered the administrator Of til
General Government, which. like hose 0
our State and City governments. is nov
complctelyin the hands Of its principal an
tagonists. Thou Embarrassed and Grip
piled by distractions in its own councils ane
a strong adverse majority throughout il
both Houses Of Congress, it has done some
things worthy Of note on transfer of thu
Executive power probably Of remembrance
hereafter.
It has preserved peace from first to last
in the face Of a strong popular tendency to
wards agitation on the rights Of neighbor-
ing nations. IN 0 foreign State has complain,
ed none hos had reason to complains
any deficiency in good faith or good neigh
borhood on the part of our Government
since Gen. Taylor's Inauguration And
there is not to-day a speck Of war upon our
horizon, nor is there likely to be, until our
Government shall see fit to create it.
1t has done all that it has power to do
for nationaldevelopment and industrial pro
Never crowding upon the Aborigi-
naltribes, though sometimes constrained to
repal their savage foray on our border set
il has purchased many millions of
acres Of territories and paid them literally
therefor It has expended millions in orga-
MIXING, protecting, surveying, &c. the new
Territories acquired under its predecessor
from Mexico or created out of our more
Northerly domain. During its four years,
large sums have been expended IN building
Custom Houses, Post Offices, Marine Hos
pitfalls. DC. in all parts Of the country. And
though Systematically resisted and bafaed
by majority of Congress in its earnest eff
forts teseffect something for our more expos.
ed and crippled industrial pursuits, il. has
had the satisfaction of Of obtaining at least
one handsome appropriation for River and
Harbor Improvements similar to that vetoed
BY Polk during the previous Administfa-
lion.
1t leaves about sixteen millions Of hard
coin in the Treasury, although the second
great source of Eadonol income-the Pub
ic Lands-have been nearly sequestrated
.hroughout.its term. BY the issue Of Bounty
Warrants to soldiers in the Mexican and
earlier wars. And. although the nominal
Of our public debt under the
Wing Administrators, has not been large,
yet the aeol redueLson of that debt, through
he payment of indemnity to Mexico, and
10 our own citizens holding claims againstI
hei tor spoliations which our Government
rontradicted by tie treaty Of peace, to sat
isfy the payment Of indemnity 70 Texas, for
Die surrender Of her pretentions to New
Mexico. be payment Of Fremont's and other
claims against the Government and The als
Ioflnent Of bounty lands to old soldiers
(which is only juslifable on the assumption
that it is done in satisfaction of an equitable
claim d henation must altogether amount
% NANNY millions
Finally The national credit stands higher
81 this moment than ever before. and loan
could be effected on terms more favorable
d the Treasury than At any former period.
Such are the material circumstances IN
der which the Wing party snrrenders tots.
antagonist the Executive power Of the Fed.
eral Government. It's brief official ascens
dency has not been brilliant for il has stolen
nothing from other nations: il has not been
event and stirring. for il has Magsd no
ser upon induslly commerce q crds At
home no honest, euterpTising aw.abid.
ing citizen has slept perturbedly through
the night, from apprehension that some re-
DO. y 81 the deposits, specie circular. 81
what nes. would deIange biz 81 ness Of
bIas. bis prospects before morning
ID these. NE are quite aNare. are very
lane, slow conside Ii such i pfogrss.
siys age. an with such progressive pso.
Die IS ours We do not hope, By present.
ing hem. to arrest the attention Of those
nov inlentIy engrossed u The distribution of
the spoils We have nodssire 70 repre-.
SEMI tie outgoing administrator g faulslsss