Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-08-18


and admirable manner in which he has redeemed his
pledges, and placed the ship of State on the repub
can track
Among the valuable proofs of wise and statesman.
like administration OF our foreign policy, the Boston
Post refers to the brilliant results of he:negoations
10 enlarge our commerce and TO protect our rights
l. The treaty with Mexico, by which serious DIFF
hculties OF boundary have been peacefully ad usted
a right of way for interoceanic communication has
been secured valuable QUESTION of property has
been gained, and thus rupture with that country
avoided.
2. The treaty with Japan, by which new world
has been opened to commerce. commenced it is true
under the previous Administrations but concluded by
this.
g. A similar commercial treaty with Borneo bv
which Our trade in chat region will derive great ad
vantages
4. The brilliant success in obtaining Of Denmark
Tor American vessels, exemption from the Sound
tolls-an exemption that European nation enjoys
and which was acquired by firm protest against
their injustice, enforced by urgent argument.
5. An important treaty with Russia by which the
great and searching principle of FREE SHIPS, FREE
GooDs is made part of the international law be-
tween the two countries.
6. The reciprocity treaty with Canada-a LIBERAL
comprehensive and splendid measure American TO
the in its basis-securing large measure of re-
ciprocal trade the free navigation of the ST. Law
renee, and the extension of fishing rights; and clos.
ing up, sensbly and thoroughly important points of
dispute with Great Britain.
7. number of treaties with the Indians, extin-
gushing their titles to lands in the territories
10 these, we doubt not, we shall have the plea
sure of adding, what will be the browning act of the
administration and work of numberess blessings
to contederacy and to the of good govern
ment throughout the world-we mean the acqusi-
| ton of Cuba, not by the fierce instrumentaty of
| lawess flbusers but by the silent and potent in
| fuence of wise and vigant and energetic argument
and negotiation.
1t is matter of sincere qualification that, while
the President was called upon to nterpose his veto to
check the wild legislation of Congress- his bold ana
patriotic action finally sustained by Congress,
thereby sanctionng the voice of the Democracy in
1852 and giving strength and soldity to the strict
construction Republican cause.
| No less gratifying is the firm in which Pres
ident Pierce has executed the laws. g hold that
the laws Of 1850, commonly called the compromise
measures strictly constitutional and to be unhes-
itatngly carried into effect Let recent events, we'll
says the Boston Post, tell chow firm and wisely the
President has acted this conviction. Was the case
presented to him, in the instance of the Kansas
Nebraska BILL of carrying out the truly constitution
al intervention principle of the 1850 compromise
to interference by Congress with slavery? lie was
ready 10 sign the bill, and thus unhesitantly carry
into effect this great principle. Was the case pre-
scented OF traltorous resistance to the fugitive slave,
| law He was ready promptly, and unhestantIy,
to say to the officers of the Government the law
must be executed and thus to sustain by force of
arms need be, the constitutional rights which he
had pledged the country to support.
/ w 18th an administration that has produced such
results, what is there to prevent all who 10 OPP
pose stern resistance 10 the dangerous ambition
the morbid enthusiasm that would dissolve the bonds
that bind the country together, from ralyng about
it! Opposition to such administration is TO be
pected. The present is of the character
that which Jefferson and Jackson encountered. No
language, whether designed belittle to ability,
or to reproach for success, has been applied to Gene
raj Pierce, that is outrageous than applied,
by the opposition, to Jefferson and Jackson. Both
were held up by opponents as unfit for the station
both were maligned as to motives both pro-
nounced to have lost their popularity, Both, also,
encountered opposition in the ranks Of the democra-
cy jetfersons party policy, which he terms one Of
coalition, estranged at first many of his supporters.
He urged reunion, liberal principles, with his
opponents and for this he was charged with deser-
ton of his principles. Another of opposi-
ton he thus 0S01) describes -" Political adven-
turers, who have lost their chance of swindng and
plumber in the waste of public money, will never
to brawl on the breaking up of their sanctua
s ry." Another source was disappointment as TO Of
fee; and this carried off the brilliant Randolph
But the country looked to measures and because of
these, it sustained the administration. Precisely the
same results in Jacksons. Did not the
papers team with meetings of original Jackson
: men who denounced the intrepid hero? Did not
eminent supporters fall off in Congress Was he
: not vituperated as much as Jefferson But the
people looked to his acts the of his admin
= stratlon, and gave their judgment eccordIngly.-
Though union of all the elements succeeded in
electng opposition Congress, yet the people, when
time and truth had done the work with clamor, noby
rallied to sustain measures that promoted the glory
of the country The intelligent constituency
exists TO appeal to.
: When such measures we have enumerated, that
will promote the good of the country, come to be
: searched, they will make friends. The democracy,
md indeed all good citizens, will ask with emphasis
y for the reasons why they should join in opposition
to such measures. In due time the democratic par
0 ty will rally 10 support President and admins
ration SO faithfully engaged in correcting, maintain
II ing and Strengthening the Laws, the Constitution
and the Union. And when this noble organzatlon'
e which in the past has borne nation 50 gorl-
ously, rallies unitedy and rallies for the sake OF e
: country and nothing less than the achole country II
= is sure 10 wave its banner in VIcToRY.'
e IMPROVEMENTS IN PHoToGRAPHY.-At converse
ton at the Polytechnic Institution ION THURSDAY
n curious illustration given of the capabilities u
If photography in experienced hands. Two ph0'o
graphs exhibited the largest and the ohe
the smallest ever produced by the process. The hr's
J. portrait the full size of e and the last was
Il copy of the front sheet of The Times surface
h scarcely exceeding two inches by three. Both ?'
e lures were exceedingly perfect the portrait pens
more pleasing and far more correct than those u' -;
q, ally produced, while the copy, MISUNDERSTANDING w.
exceeding minuteness, could be read without Ih h
, assistance of magnifying glass. The photograph
. were exhibited by Mr.. Mayall, The well-known d..
- fist OF Regent street. and excited considerable ln
3 est during the evening.-London Times
g BEET SUGAR IN RussIA.-The cultivation OF 'n5
- beet root in the vicinity of Odessa, in Russia ""u
l. the extraction ofsugar from it, have been and are U
70 carried to considerable extent by the large i"H
lded proprietors of the country.