Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-07-06
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defeat alter defeat comes upon the ADMINISTRATION
We have no heart to exult over them. We chronicle
them among the events of the day. They ur ,ish
food for comment. How the mighty have fallen \
little twelve months ago Gen. Pierce's Admins
raton came into power by the electoral votes of a
large majority of the States It's friends calculated
ON brilliant career for it. 1t has its course for
hut brief period Of the term, and alas how they
have been disappointed.
In almost every election that has taken place since
the Spring elections Of 1858, the Administration has
met with defeat So soon US it had been in power
long enough for the people to pronounce Judgment
upon II. the voice Of condemnation commenced. The
Empire State was among the first to repudiate the
Administration. Her thirty-six electoral votes had
been cast for Gen. Pierce but the National Democracy
of New York soon found that they had been taken
in" and took the earliest opportunity to express their
disapprobaton in manner that will soon be for,
gotten by the Administration. Other States one
after another have fallen into the opposition line In
every State election that has taken place of late the
Administration party have met with Waterloo de.
feat. The approaching elections in large number
of the States promise no comfort. They will only
swell the list Of States rcpudisting Pierce, Marcy,
Co. Beyond the favored recipients Of the public
plumber 1t appears very much like no friends at all
are to be left.
Even Ne,o Hampshire has bolted. The Presidents
own State has enlisted in the ranks of the dsafected
The New Hampshire Democracy have split into fac
tions, and with the overwhelming majority they have
in the State legislature unable to elect United
States Senator and the election has been postponed
with the hope of restoring harmony The antics per
tnaciousy refuse TO support the Administrations ia
vorte candidate for the Senatorship and now in Nec
Hampshire the lamentabe fact appears that Franklin
Pierce has not strength enough to procure the cleo
ton Of an Administration candidate TO the Senate OF
the United Staes. But, this is not ALL At an cleo
ton in the New Hampshire Legislature last Saturday
for State printer, the Presidents bosom frierd-the
editor Of his home organ-Buterfeld, of the New
Hampshire Patriot, was thrown overheard badly
defeated in the for the office of State printer
and the publishers Of the New Hampshire Reporter,
Burke's anti Pierce Democratic organ triumphan,lv
elected.
When the New Hampshire Patriot goes by the
board and the New Hampshire Democracy bolt. times
are getting squaly sure enough with the Adminis,ra
ton party. They had better look out sharply, there
is more danger ahead than "drugged liquor" or the
Know Nothngs. When the Granite State thus re.
pudiates her iVustriO.s what is he TO expect in
the elections TO take place soon in other States The
result is fearful to contemplate We not surprised
to learn that there is agonizing apprehension felt
at the White House with respect to those elections
1t will not be long now before their worst apprehen-
sions more than realized. The day of reckoning
has commenced.