The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-12-20

THE SOUTH AND THE ADMIN1sTRATIoN.-Un-
der the above caption we lind the following
article in one Of the very ablest and most IN.
huential whig papers in the United States, and
one most severely southern in its character
the Richmond Wing. It will be read with
pleasure, and sanctioned by the wings OF tins
state:
General Pierce's hand-organ, at Washing
ton, in mourning over the unhappy condition O
the administration in having an anti admins
tration majority in the next house Of represen-
taives. consoles itself with the idea, that "TheTe
will, however, be no southern opposition to the
adminstration-eyery man in the house, from
the south, will stand upto every measure which
the administration is known to favor Now,
this is bold assertion, and certainly mos
reckless one. We have yet to learn that the
whig members of the house, from the south
have the most remote idea of standing up to
every measure which the administrator Is
known to favor Indeed, we know OF not a
single wing member Of the southerndelegaton
who entertans any such purpose, nor 90 we
believe that there is one such to be found IN
any southern state Where did the hand-organ
get its information from, or upon what ground,
or hope, does it base its CALCULATIONS? What
the democratic delegation will do-whether, in
any and every contingency, they will ''stand up
to every measure which the administration is
known to favor" is not for us to say. How
much farther subserviency to party will carry
them, the future must disclose. But that the
southern wing delegation expect thus to stand
by the Pierce administration, is just about the
most ridiculous thing that we have seen in print
for many day. We undertake to say, that
they do not expect to do any such thing. And
why should they? What has the Pierce admin
istration done for the south to enttle it to
southern support? Is there any thing In the
antecedents Of brigadier gen. Pierce to pre-
possess the southern people in his favor? Is it
to be because he hated and loathed slavery so
heartily before his nomination and election to
the presidency? What then, has he done since
to recommend him to southern favor? Is it to be
because from the very day of his inauguration
he took to his councils a crew OF as rampant
freesoilers and abolitionists as are to be found
in the land-consigned the administration Of
the government in great measure to their
hands-avshed bounteously the federal pa
tronage upon them-infused new life and vigor
into abolitionism, and sought to buy up its sup
port to his administration at the sacrifice OF the
south, and of the best men of his own party at
the north? If this course is to place the south
under many and lasting obligations to gen.
Pierce's administration, then there is, indeed,
some force in the supposition, ..that every man
in the house from the south will stand up to
every measure which the administration is
known to favor"
But perhaps the hand organ relies upon the
support of the administration to the Nebraska
bill, in its calculations for southern favor-no
doubtit does. And why should it? What was
the nature of that support, and what were the
motives that prompted it? Did not the admins
tration, through its organize Washington
bitterly oppose the incorporation of the
for the repeal Of the Missouri restric-
ton when the Nebraska bill was first proposed,
and only when it was found to be indispensably
necessary to do something to conciliate the south
and pacify the party here for its palpable free
soil and abolition sympathies, did it face about
and 90 for the repeal of the Missouri restriction.
When it had been dragooned to go thus far
what is the Interpretation that the president, in
secret conclave with northern party leaders, puts
upon the bill? Does he not at once set about
Matching treason to the south by endeavoring
10 put the construction upon the bill, that it is
"a proposition in favor of freedom that by
is fundamentally not another slave state would
De added to the Union?'' Does he not 90 for
he bill on that treacherous ground, and per-
,uaded his cold friends" at the north to dol
likewise But again, after the bill had passed,
md storm of Indignation is raised about his
ears, at the north, does he not still farther show
he cloven foot, by hoping to shirk the respon-
;bility with the avowal of the doctrine of
,quatter sovereignty, through the columns of
lis organ, the Washington Union-a doctrine
which in the language Of the organ of the
Virginia democracy, awe, of the south, can
lever submit to-" Is it for such support to the
Nebraska bill that ''every man in the house,
rom the south, will stand up to every measure
which the administration is known to favor?'
If not, then, for what? What else has the
done to commend it to public ap-
probation? What single scheme has it de-
Used, or executed, for the good of the country?
Half its term will have soon expired, and where
ire its works? Judging the future by the past,
md what is to be expected of it? Now, when
democratic journals presume to claim not only
he support of their own party at the south, for
rem. Pierce's administration, but that of the
Wigs and every body else, we trust that they
Will, hereafter, not forget to tell us Of some
hing which entities the administration to such
! claim. Il is surely not for its freesoil and
abolition appointments, nor for its corrupting
pois policy, nor for any governmental measure
hat it has originated or carried out, nor for its
oungling foreign diplomacy, nor even for the
military glory and renown of the destruction
If Greytown! But, if it is for its aid to the Ne
oraska bill, will those democratic journals favor
he public with an exposition of what sort of
lid it rendered-what were the motives it had
n view-in short, what construction the ad-
ninistration puts upon that bill? Does it look
upon it as ''a proposition in favor of freedom"
BY which, "not another slave state is to be ad-
led to this Union,' and does it, or does it not,
endorse the doctrine of squatter sovereignty?"
Until that is done we submit, with what grace
any journal, or individual can expect that
every man in the house, from the south, will
stand up to every measure which the admins
,ration isknown to favor On the other hand,
should they not and every true friend, not only
Of the south, but of the Union, make war, to