The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-19
THE GADSDEN TREATY AND. THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

THE GADSDEN TREATY AND The
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The various tricks and devices Of the Pierce
administration to consolidate the Cabinet and
Congress and the democratic party, have been
but series Of miserable failures. First, there
were the Bronson rnanifestocs for the relief
of the Van Buren, free soilers. That trick
was wretched failure. Next, there was the
attempt to palm off the Washington Union
upon the Senate as the national democratic
organ. That experiment was a'fizzle and
shocking failure. The Senate decisively re-
pudiated the free.soil white-washing concern
Next, We had the Nebraska bill thrown in
upon the Senate, and that has proved the
most crippling, disastrous and humiliatins
failure of all.
The only plank left to Gen. Pierce, of the
Baltimore platform, is that rotten plank oi
rctrcnchment. Upon this great democratic
principle the New Hampshire successor Of
Martin Van Burcn has come to the rescue
with the twenty million Gudsden treaty. This
has proved failure; but the Senate have
adopted substitute for ten millions, which
may possibly open the Treasury to the coali.
ton of American and Mexican stock jobbers
concerned. Possibly, we say, for there are
vet some Instructions to be removed.
The Senate, in adopting the ten million
prget rs a substitute for the original Gads-
den speculation, are to this extent involved
in the criminality of the administration. Col.
Benton, therefore, in his indictment against
the treaty, must arraign the administration
and the Senate, md put them in the crmi-
nails box together. As the prosecuting at
torney, he is bound to have this done, and to
push the trial to the full extent of the law
Upon this trial, when it is opened in the
House, we expect royal fight. There was
good deal of ground and lofty tumbling and
rough jostling among the democracy in the
Bronson squabblc-there was smart little
campaign Of sharp shooting and hard swear
ing between the kitchen cabinet organs and
the hardshells in the election of the Senate
printer-there has been n regular insurrcction
on the Nebraska bill, and the killed, wounded,
crippled and missing among the Presidential
cliques and candidates can't be counted. The
men of rags and straw which have been hung
and burned between Cape Cod and Chicago,
scarcely surpass the men Of straw and politi-
cal rags that have been knocked down flat
and stiff by the Nebraska bill, beginning with
the administration.
But upon the trial Of the Gadsden treaty
conspirators before the House, under the
management of Colonel Benton as prosecut-
ing attorney, all the above mentioned fights
iasurrections, and stampedes, will be CON-
pletely eclipsed. Great will be the fight upon
the Gadsdcn trcaty-grcat the crash among
the small beer advocates of the spoilsmen;
and the general smash.up Of the crockery of
the kitchen cabinet will be .frightful. Benton
is an awful executioner when he takes a job
of work in hand of this sort. Broken heads
and dislocatcd arms and legs follow the ter
rible sweeps of his horrid cleaver. He is the
very man, on this account, for this identical
piece of business. He is the very man to
probe to the bottom this unLlushing conspi.
racy to plunder the treasury. In fact, there
is prospect that it only requires such man
as Benton to open tho prosecution in the
House, in order to secure the defeat Of tho
ten million project and the public condemna-
ton of the conspirators. Call up the prison.
ers, read the indictment, and let the trial
proceed.
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