The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-12-02

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1853.
Bronson and the Administration,
The correspondence between Messrs
Guthrie and Bronson has disturbed the a.
miable complacency of some Of our democrat
ic contemporaries to a degree that renders it
doubtful whether they enjoy the comfort
able assurances" of victory and power. any
more than they relished their late position
of outsiders and oppositionists. Success
has brought witFsit neither to Gen. Pierce
nor his followers the pleasure for which they
painted. Instead of the glorious repose and
splendid dignity, the rich rewards and inn
perial state-the pomp and place and pow
Ter, which were to crown their labors and
recompense their toils--they find that vice
tory was the beginning of troubles;-that it
was more easy to overcome the adversary
than it is to control the conquerors-and
that having defeated their political oppo-
nents they have within themselves--in their
own passions and discords and rivalries. en-
emies still more fierce and formidable. We
have read of the fruit that turned to ashes
at the touch-of the uneasy rest of the head
that wears crown, and how better and
easier it is to take a city than to govern ones
seIf-and we have in the present condition
of the dominant party verifcations ofthese
high and difficult moral teachings.
Il would Be amusing. f were not dis-
tressisg, q witnoss the many and valied
evidences of chagrin, contempt and anger
which the late letter of Secretary Guthrie,
to the New York Collector has elected from
the friends ofthe administration. We have
already shown, by extracts from the North
ern press, how the national democrats of
that region regarded it. We wish that We
could have seen in the South as many proofs
of independence and frmness. Strange to
say, the chivalry, for the most part, seems
to have lost its voice or its courage! Argus
sleeps; Hercules has lost his club: the scis-
sors of Della have been about the locks of
Sampson; Bayard consents to be buffeted
and spit upon! What has become of that
band of Southern champions, which two
years ago guarded with such eager and i'm
patient vigilance the rights of the people
and the dignity of the nation? Then, ev-
cry executive act was an Insult to freemen;
every breeze that came to our shores brought
a faint to our flag! Where are the knights
and cavaliers, with half-draWn swords and
lances in rest, the sound Of whose horses
hoofs were then ever in the ears of quiet
and unconscious citizens? Alas. after al,
were they gaily caparisoned Hidalgos
whose soul sickened at the sheen Of tie op-
poser's armour?
Southern chivalry, we say again. has lost
its voice; and while the North speaks the
bold language Of contempt and apprehension
for the tyranical treatment Of Mr.. Bronson
by the administration. the South, with few
exceptions, is as dumb as the depths of the
earth. One of these exceptions is the Rich-
mond Examiner. which. with characteristic
fearlessness and freedom, declares that the
correspondence deserves no mercy At the
hands Of the democratic party. because ii
brings "'reproach upon The party, its prin-
ciples and the Republic itself"
We are offended, the Examiner says. as
mr. Guthrie's letter, not for what it sought
to accomplish between factions in
N. T..but for the vulgar brazen manner
in which it discloses its authors action in
this dirty and obscene, but necessary work
It makes him more than ridiculous, and tells
with infinite more effect against the cabinet
officer than the soup letter Of Gen. Scott told
upon the fame Of the meritorious general
and glorious captain.
The examiner. as much asitdislikes thele
ter Of Guthrie, does notrelish the exposure
of It's weaknesses and absnrdities by Mr..
Bronson. and therefore says:
Of he had been q friend Of the admins
tIalion, devoted to the democratic cause, and
imbued with The elevated principles and
feelings So Wanted in his letter. the letter
never would have been written. He would
have allowed thal Of Mr.. Guthrie 10 die its
own death, under the ridieule oI our polite
al advers ries. and the silent modification
Of the Republican party
TIE Examiner further characterzes Che
letter Of M Guthrie IS weak and silly
indiscretion. cloWnish bungline 6c;
but its ef censuIe IS directed q r Bf0n-