Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-04-27
RICHMOND WING.
It'd CORRESPONDENT.
M. Asuln,.,,..,en-An.lr. in w..A.ns,sn.

The Admini.tr aion-An,irs In washingtdn.
II the concurrent testimony Of disinterested men
Of oil parties is to be taken evidence in the mat
ter then the present administration is an overwhem
ing and disgraceful failure. Never before was such
deep and general distrust felt in any set of men as is
now entertained toward the beautiful batch Of polit-
cal adventures, who hold sway at Washington. The
eonvictio, is almost universal that the country has
been wofally deceived and imposed upon in the eec-
ton of Mr. Pierce that ne has cruelty disappointed,
not only the antcipatons of his friends but has fa!-
len infinitely short Of what his enemies expected
Of hm-and that there is not the least visible pros
pect Of any amendment change for the better here
AFTER Not even Captain Tyler and his corporals
guard during their entire parenthetical reign,
fell into such miserable disrepute has the unfortu
nate Bngadier and his motley troop of unprincipled
advisers, in the course Of short twclvemonth.
This is no mere wing assumption. Thisis not wing
trick-an unsupported wing assertion contrived for
political effect But it is the deliberate and we-con-
sdered opinion and declaration Of democrats themscl
1t is tho frank expression of their ownjudgment
that the Democratic party through the imbeclity ard
corruption of the President aud his advisers, from
being powerful and triumphant only twelve months
ago. is PROSTATE and exhausted" is supine in
different and distrustful-weak and distracted 1t
is their matured and conscientious conviction avowed
in bold and fearless language, that universal dis
trust has grown up among the people, even among
the sternest and truest Democrats who believe that
they have been duped, defrauded, and cheated, and
that the high places of the government are surround.
ed by mean, low and contemplate men, that keep
off from high sources every expression Of honesty
and dsinterestedness, and do but "crook the preg-
nant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawn
ing" Such are the calm, sober, we-weighed opn-
ions Of leading and influential Democrats themselves
in respect to the present administration-even the
opinions Of the spokesman and organs of the party
who profess to be "forced by most unpleasant
compulson" to speak the TRUTH and proclaim the
rial, undsgused condition of the melancholy brother
hood. They are bold to ask also, and the question
carries with it the severest possible condemnation Of
the Brgader and his administraton-"it honest up.
right men, seeking counsel Of honest and upright
men, had controlled the policy of the government could
such state Of things exst?' To this grave and
stinging interrogatory, prefer making no manner
reply urseves because it is better aid more for
chilly answered by the duped and cheated gentle
men that started !t-by an able Democratic editor
who both understands the full import of his own Ian
guage, ahd the nature and extent OF the causes by
which his party has been brought to the sverige of
disintegraton," and by which the administration
itself has been rendered complete and ignominious
let This, then, is the pregnant and emphatic an
swer =" We think not; and our opinions are formed
not without experience, aud not without some know
ledge Of the cabre and weak principles of the
meu who now control the public affairs" These sem
timents, be it remembered, exclusively from
Democratic source. And what harsher judgment, we
ashland its harshness is owing entirely to its truth
hive Wing Journals and polite ans ever expressed
in relation to Mr. Pierce and his administration? An
administration, ding to the testimony both or
its opponents and its irends,-whch has no para el
in our hst'ry for it, proaigacy and corruption, and
for an habtual disregard Of its Legitimate duties and
the manifest interests Of the country.
What, then, is the cause of the present condition
Of affairs? Why is the President universally dis
trusted2 Why is he almost despi ed by the better
portion Of his partyH AS we have already
shown, Democrats themselves have partly saved us
the trouble Of answering these ques IONS We will
assign, however, but single consideration, which, in
our judgment is a cont ong and all sufficient reason
why the people have lost all confidence in Mr. Pierce
and even experience the lveest disgust at the mere
mention Of his name. 1t because h. has surrender cd
himself body and soul, into the keeping of other
councillors than the constitution prescribes lie is
surrounded by Kitchen Cabinet, composed of the
most unprncped and infamous men in the land, az
in whose hands he himself is but a nose of wax
Forney, it is wel-known is the chief Of this back
stair caba, and the controlling spirit of the admins
tntion-the power behind the throne, greater than
the throne itself. Pierce is merely supple tool in
his hands He communicative President obeys He
drects-the President executes Forney, in short is
the administration President Cabi let and ALL Is
it any wonder, them that the whole country should
be disgustedH Is it any marvel that there should be
but few in all the land of either party so poor As to
do reverence to the Brigadier? Is it at all strange
that the administration should, in so short a time.
have proved miserable failure and actually stink in
the n"stris Of the people2 1t is humiliating enough
Tor Pierce to be President, but must we submit,
also, to the degrading rule Of Forney?