The daily union., 1854-07-25

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For he Union
GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE.
There is morbid idea among our people as to what
constitutes good governments sound administration of
the laws under the constitution The time has been when
even politicians would be satisfied with the manner of
Quoting public affairs that only prosperity regned
The time has been when if the people prosperous and
happy-when, if every branch of industry was crowned
with abundant success, the government would have re-
ceved credit for that general prosperity The times have
sadly changed.
Never in the history of any government has greater
degree prosperity attended the efforts of people than
falls TO the lot of the American nation Never have
the avenues of trade been richly blessed Never
have all classes of population had greater
oce and give thanks for their veal than this present
And yet there is large class Of in the
try who for years have been watching for the good time
coming and prayerully hoping for that auspcious advent
whose eyes blind whose deaf and whose
derstandngs benumbed by expected though deferred
political miracles that they cannot detect in the present
prosperous and happy state Of affairs the enlvenng fact
that the good time long wished for, has already
rived.
What people want than security of life pros
perty in business and happiness in the general veal
What ought nation to expect or to hope for than
those blessings just enumerated Some ook for ahso
lutte miracles They like the ever-expectan Jews,
straning their visions to catch glimpse of fsr-ot
though political Messiah who is to bring
about of things wherein the happiness Of the
ton to become sublmated and all rich free and
prosperous whether they put forth the necessary exerton
to that end or not
Ii has been considered by most men that swell enough
should always be let alone Few who do well come
off better by changing their original purposes and go of
after something better than good. So now. What is al
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duce larger amount of prosperity commercially politically
morally? For something of this kind is really supposed
be needed by certain class of our citizens politicians
a small class TO be sure but nevertheless class. 1t il
composed of general rulefrst sour-mnded men by
nature; second, unhappy, nervous nevero-besatisfed
men; third, disappointed ofeeseekers, who discover tht
whole world to be going wrong, and everything opsy
turvy because they have been able butter the
bread from the fat sides of that fine old gentle
man. Uncle Samuel Unfortunately, this latter class i:
and to endeavor to satisfy it by any mode
of administration would be attempt futile that Of
snuing the Aurora BorcaIis with thumb and fin
ger. They will not he satisfied because they have moi
been pleased The public crumb has not fallen into he
capacious maw and public peace public turmoil,
tional prosperity universal rum is and the same
| thing to them, consequently.
There is getting to be too much expected of the govern
by countrymen. Principle. akin to those of thu
French beginning to gain ground with rapidity tha
the government should take of the people instead
they the government 1t is all wrong. Government |.
formed for and by the people And the moment the peo
pie beget the idea that their responsibility uphold h,
government has ceased, and that such responsibility hal
been assumed transferred the government that mo
national pride national prosperity and every grac,
and beauty which can adorn nation disappears, anC
political anarchy and moral depravity will prevail
Let Us take the present time, and the present ainstr
ton example of text AT time in the history
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prosperity prevailed among all classes and in every pursuit
of industry Yet among the dsafected classes enumera
tod above such pnn,tgateh wailing heard
Thus far the administration of franklin Pierce has been
complete ,riumphone series of grand displays Of
craftsmanship and national victory. Il = - s -
! =. n cnumeratc them. Yet the question
o.,en asked "Wha has been done by the government
since the democracy into power the 4 of March
Success OF the party aud the President is not su
cient Nothing but uncarthly stroke Of policysomc
wonderful coup dfa will please these grumblersthose
never-to-be-satisied political dis-appontees.
Now il would SEEM to look at the point in the proper
light that it ought not to be prerequisite successful
government that President an Administrations, should
turn the country upside down. or the nation into
doubtful scheme of aggrandRcmcn The most successful
government and that best adapted to people and the
republican institutions under which they live is that which
with the greatest quetness and rmnes steadily
down by jefferson, Jackson and Polk and being
practically carried out by the peoples choice of 1852
Franklin Pierce and the able associated with him in
the cabinet
1t is national homicide to deviate from the true and
known path of administration for the devious aud
doubtful one OF speculation and abstraction Nations
like individuals must; will be governed by circumstances
Hence Of importance should never be premaurely
FASTENED Large bodies naturally slow; great
events cannot under ordinary circumstances be perfected
and spring into life and activity like evanescent objects
which last bu, day and exist to little purpose but for
an hour
Government ia a machine, the working of which few
men can comprehend One object depends upon another
from the beginning the end This is what makes gov
ornment intricate and difficult 10 comprehend and all
eyes cannot view with mnuteness the mysteries of ia
workings the best the people have of the
correct administration of their affairs is in the fact whether
they prosperous and happy unprosperous and mis-
cradle
WASHINGTON, July 20 1854 H. II. H.
There is bachelors club in Danve Virginia which
has been brought into bad repu'e by weak brother who
Erat,r .of.