The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-12-27

? The Union makes pitiful appeal to tt
} conservative wings to sustain the admins
t. tration. The voice Of Henry Clay and DAME
), Webster it exclaims lis not yet extinct
t "tbe proud and lofty spirit Of the olden time,
: it plaintively urges has not been lost, Z and o
the strength Of these loud sounding phrases
exhorts the wings to come to the aid Of til
"broad, bold and defiant vitality that exists il
the Pierce party. To this half blarneying hal
beseeching language, which we suppose wa
penned by the editor Of the Irish portion Of tn
Union, the Baltimore Patriot properly wants t.
f know, what can have brought the Pierce orga,
to the depth Of disqualification implied by thi
appeal to the wings. II is difficult to answer
Certainly the condition of the office holders
party, and its organs. must be desperate and it
danger most imminent when it consents to seel
succor from those whom it has spent lifetime
in maligning,, and between whom and itself il
has been widening for years the great gulf o
partisan bitterness and corrupt political dcma.
gogueism. With irreverent hypocrisy itinvokes
the memory of Clay and Webster; but if those
distinguishing men were now living, would not
they be found battling with all their strength OF
noble purpose and lofty intellect for the country
and against the Union, president Pierce and his
freesoil and abolition myrmidons in Office? It
would be foul SANDER on their great names to
suppose otherwise. An administration that
has, ike the Pierce, cndcavored to rule the
country and to peRetuatc its own power by an
organised system of public rewards and penal
ties-that enforces its purposes with promises Of
official patronage and feightens malcontepts
with the penalties ofremoval from ofce-which
stoops to interfere in local elections, and whose
petty tools in Office are ever found to be the
most conspicuous, busy and noisy persons to be
seen at a State, parish, or village election; and
whose partisans even when elevated to office
and living on the public cannot refrain from in
termeddling in an election, if it be but for
constable or a watchman-an administration,
which coming into power on express obligations
to dscountenance agitation within or without
congress- has itself blown, kndled and nursed
to flame the fire brand that has convulscd the
an administration as this, fa-
nous for its political tergiyersations and notor-
Gus for its national ofences-can have no claim
upon the consideration of national or conserva-
tive wings, and will in vain seek to rally them
% its support even by the powerful incarnation
Of the names Of the illustrious dead The fol-
overs Of Clay and Webster will never stoop so
ow to aid the spoils party
Were the dangers to the country and the
constitution, which the Union, with it's usual
oadylsm to foreigners, pretends to ascrbe to the
Know nothing movement real and were it in
ruth that combination of proscriptiycness and j
that it is represented to be by
he Pierce organ and office holders, the conser-
'atlvc, national wings, as true Americans, would
ook elsewhere, and to higher ground than
he present administration can offer, for the raj
yng point on which the hopes of the country
could be placed and safely defended. The
Union must learn that between itself and those
t seeks to address there are no affinities--that
he we'll founded deep distrust with which every
rue wing looks upon the administration of Mr..
1lerce must forever prevent them from uniting (
With 1t IN any effort, or entertaining with it any {
ommon purpose. Wrecked, stranded and dis s
onsoate, with the condemnation of the nation t
ecorded against it, that administration must +
ght its own battles: and fall back for succour c
pom the "bold, broad and defiant vitality" of
hlch the Union pirates, and which, we sup '
ose, means the New York oft-shell frcesoil-
rs and oftice-holders. Wings have had no con-
dence In the Pierce democracy in its days of y
over, and can feel no sympathy FORTS reverses '
may seek to die gracefully by covering itself }
18th the drapery Of the constitution, which it +
as soiled and polluted, but the talent of the +
erformer is not sufficient to hide the STAGE ),
lick from the audience. Let the curtain fall u
IS in vain TO make a tragedy out of what is ="
ercly passablc farce. +
The last number Of Blackwood's Maoazinc d
2ntalns an interesting paper on the ''nhabi- S
nts of the stars" which displays great abIi- al
, and deals tremendous blows, right and left, cl
those philosophers who have specuated SO 81
UGH and SO inconclusivcy on this subject
he venerable sir David Brewster, who has SO Sc
army espoused the side ofthe question which "
opposes the stars to be inhabited, as being the tr
ope OF the christian, receives severe crit I,
SIN. Sir David has certainly some very sin of
liar notions respecting the stars being inhab- N
"a, and III his answer to doctor Whewen who 1.
IS written work to prove thatthe earth alone re
all the planets is nhabitable, asks, 'is it ne ar
ssary that an immortal soul should be hung RI,
'on skeleton of bone; must it see with two al
es, and hear with two cars, and touch with NJ
n fingers, and rest on duality of limbs?- ~,
ay it net rest in Polyphemus with one eye to
H. or in an Argus with hundred? Nav it fl,
t reign in the giant forms of the Titans, and c1s
'ect the hundred hands of Briareus? The ~,