The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-06-24

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The washington correspondent q the
New York journal Of Commerce. whose
sympathies are al with The administration.
says in letter 70 that paper.
eThe Cabinet are every day II long and
solemn conclave about some tW0spenny APP
pointment, TO the exclusion Of much and
al other urgent business. No one here who
/ may have important business with the Cow
eminent can get 8 moments attention to IT,
and the reason given for the difficulty isl
that he applicants for ctEes 60 daily rounds
to each member Of the Cabinet Council;
and in the. Council no other subject these
appointments can be considered How long
this state of thing Is to continue to the
great detliment Of the public business and
the public interest, we cannot tell. /"
What q tale is this, for one of its friends
to tell Of the Administration and the party
which placed tin pcwerl We have long
believed that possession Of the spoils was
the paramount object with the LocOfOco
leaders in their struggles for power-but
We had not expected to hear it confessed By
one of the party, that the government. cho-
sen to preside over and direct the affairs OF
this great Republic. was occupying itself
with the paltry and disgusting Office Of al
mere parti,ioner Of pelf. to the neglect and
injury Of the public interest. While the
campaign was in progress, we were told by
Locofoco presses and speakers that we were
in the midst of national crisis-that the
political sky was thick with portents-that|
our foreign relations were in the most deli
cate aud threatening condition-and that
the administration of Mr.. Fillmore and the
Wing party was unequal to the momentous
exigencies into which we had fallen. All
this we were told, and many were doubtless
led to believe it. What is the practical COM
mentary cf,this party. upon the declarations
and pretensions then made? We have it in
| the woIds Of the writer whose language we
have quoted. While they were in pursuit
iof power. nothing but the most enlarged
and anxious spirit Of patriotism prompted
their actions--so soon as power is obtained
what we had taken for concern for the pub
lie good exhibits itself as only miserable,
morbid craving for government pap.
So far as this gives an insight into the
] true character of Locofocoism, we care moth
/ ing for it. because We needed no new light
there. Il concerns US the least of all things
to know that scyeophants. parasites and
spoilsmen are congregated in hungry herds
around the seat of government, begging
the crumbs that fall from the public tables.
or fighting over the garbage thrown out
from the treasury shambles: but as an
American citizen. having some share of in
terest ID the common veal, we have a right
to demand that the officers of the govern
ment shall not neglect their legitimate and
important duties, to become oyerseers.of-
the poor and aims -givers to those political
llazaroni. They are placed there for other
and better purposes. and should be made
/ to feel the dignity and responsibility of their
station IF President Pierce had inherited
the government as his individual property.
Untrue hingly style. be might, if be chose.
make the rewarding of fayorites and the
pensioning Of paupers the chief objects and
ends Of his administration hut when be
has received authority in trust only, to be
used for the equal good Of the whole peo-
pie. and 10 be exercised under the direction
of written Law, to imagine himself only
Grand Almoner Of the realm. and the gov
ernment nothing more than great eleemo-
sgnary establishment, IS to misuse and be-
Etray the confidence Of the people, and Grim
inalIy degrade and dishonOr the. high Office
i be holds.
E & IS nor nearly four months since the
] present administration was inaugurated.---
We DO not denonnee il. except upon charges
fofsita friends. sIfsthose charges are untrue
our strishres do not apply But we desire
10 know, independently Of this, what i has
done, since the reins Of power came into its
Hands. to verify the ext1ayagant promises
Of its friends, Or justify the popular move
n1ent which determined change IF nation
! Il policy and Of federal executivel In what
has tie country pro6ted, o. IS likely 70 pro-
E6t2 Are the American people happier, SAT-
er, and Iichera Is the American name
more hopoEed and feared II The space FOR
calm fsaaetlen. which has followed the cleo.
ton d last November. have those who d.
ehieFed is result beenable to justify them
selves to their own consciences and intel