Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1853-11-17
The Democratic, Press mud the
Administration. f


fesses to give "a hearty bat independent
support" 10 the administration, in its
last Saturdays issue raises the standard
Of revoll, and calls upon the South ITO
brand the politicians and the men, the
Presiden, and his Cabinei3) who brand"
Messrs. Dickinson, Bronson, and o.
Conuor, and exclaims, that "the blood
Of the martyr is the seed of the church. >
/! The signal for rebellion" is thus sound.
ed by the Sentinel:
| Then il were worse than ingrsti,ude for
southern men and southern presses. 10
Join IN the cry that has been raised a
gainst Them. Ii smiies us 10 the heart
to hear one word ol reproach against
them from a southern man. Abuse. wi
lfy, strike down these our lefenders!--
Never. Be unjust aud ungra,eful 10
those men of the north. who stood by
you in the hour of need, and where will
you find friends when your days of dark :.
ness aud of trouble return.
We ask both the South and the north,
and conservative democrats rywhere,
To speak out sill more distinctly. We
desire them to give eloquent and vehe.
lneni ullerance to their feelings and their
svmpathes. If we mistake not, what,
we have already heard, Is but the begin.
ming of the end; il is the first note OF
that trumpet, whose rising bias. will ring
through mountain and valley-lhrough
the broad sayannas of the south, and the
populous cities of the north.
The Richmond Enquirer, the old war
horse of Southern Democracy, which
has never before filtered in its adherence
to party, thus calls the Democracy "to
arms" against the course of the Presi-
dent and his Cabinet towards Messrs.
Dickinson, Bronson and O'Connor, and
their dragging "rhe ermine of State into
the sewers Of politics.
ave fear they have taken sides where
there is the least political patriotism and
putty; that they have formed an ALI
snce with men who will either lead The IN
astray from National principles, or will
bctray them, and The South along with
them. So long as The administration
stood aloof from these local slrIfes, and
dealt even handed justice to bota con-
ieslants, their position WIS delensible:
they furnished lhe nucleus around which
The whole national democracy could rail-
Iy; their appointments from that section
of belligerants which Was most obnox.
ipus to one half ui the Union could be
defended upon national grounds of com.
promise. But when they abandon the
position Of neutrality and take actual side
with an obnoxious faction against such
men as Dickinson, they compel the south
likewise 10 assume a decided position.
Reduced to tia, alternative, The chival.
rous and generous south can do no 9th
erwise than stand by The men 10 their
trial who stood by them in their own
tribulation."
The Alexandra Standard, another
Democratic standard bearer of old Vir-
ginia, concludes lengthy denunciatory
with the following exclamation:
The tinid may falter. and The
trsarherosss may desert" but the demo.
cratic party will condemn, uncondi,ion.
ally condemn. this &C, of Mr.. Guthrie.
This &C, Of Mr.. Guthrie having
received the approval of The President
and all his Cabinet, they must receive
their full share of the condemnation al
so. The Virginia Woodstock Tenth
Legion also thus products the result of
this domestic trouble in the party:
1--WE think il highly probable lha, the
result will be, that the administration
will find itself laundering in The meshes
of one of the most corrupt pc iiical or
ganlzalions that was ever known in this
Country; an organization which, in truth.
i. held together by the cohesive power
of plunder,' aud which must fall To
pieces whenever there are NJ Offices. fed
eral or state, To be bestowed"
We conclude our excerpts with the
following from the Winchester Virgin.
ian:
Nobody doubts that Bronson is an
honest and sound democrat and q faith.
fal officer; that If left aloEe he will re :.
main lrne To his faith aud party fealty (;
and tina. To eject him from office will be-
nearly equivalent To forcing hiT into The
ranks of the opposition. h will be poor
consolation that we secure John Van
Buren, by his os,racism. We would
not give three such men as Dickinson.
Bronson and O'Connor, for all The free
soilers that ever first swore and then
foreswore treason to the Constitution.
Gums DOings.