Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-11-02
The President and his Friends.

ne IEes1uent ana MS Friends.
The constancy of tho administration Pres,
to the present chief dispenser Of Govern
ment pap is worthy Of better cause. Il
surpasses even that of Mrs. Mlcawber to her
lord and master. 1t yields to no trial, anc
can evidently be shaken by nothing but a
stoppage of the supplies. After what We
have seen in the past three years it is safe tc
affirm that the administration can bring for.
wird no measure too odious to be acqniesced
in and even applauded. Whatever Mr.. Pierce
may do, the Union and Boston Post will
e1tol, and the word given by the fle-leader,
will he passed unhesitatingly down the strag.
Cling line of government officials.
Tic administration journals of our owr
state are no exceptions to the rule. They Lave
seen Mr.. Pierce preventing the improvement
o. our rivers AMI harbors, Intervening
the charity profftred by tie COUNT '
t. its INDECENT insane, sending lpafers and
ruhans to represent our Land abroad. bonn
harding an inof.nsivc village, helping eager
ly the schemes ot those who would outrage
the dearest rights of the north. by the cxtcn.
sion OF Slavery into free territory, and
standing stolidy with his hands in lis
pockets, while the most disgraceful and un
heard OF outrages are perpetrated before his
eyes, In the territories he was placed in power
to protect. All this and more have they seen
and have yet to utter the first syllable of
disapproval. The Patriot declares that "his
policy and motives are coming gloriouslv
forth as the clouds Of fanaticsrn disperse"
and the Sentinel states that its respect
for his talents, integrity and patriotism, for
the purity Of his motives and the wisdom Of
his proceedings, has increased rrom day to
day and month to month"; -
The men who are willing thus To egg on
weak and unscrupulous man in his cours.
oi Jolly and wrong, are, however, but n curpo-
rails guard. All democrats do not swear hv
Pierce's Administrations fact attcsted by
some recent and notable instances.
The Albany Atlas, the organ of the SoftS or
Administration Democracy, in that city. has
recently given the public II piece of its mind,
upon the course of President Peirce. and for
Its audacity. has been read out Of the Demo-
cratic party by the Administration organ at
Washington, and is moreover, it is said. IA
bedeprived forthwith Of the government print.
ing it has enjoyed. We give some extracts
from the Atlas article
But either fortunately or unfortunately as
events may determine, Sarery aLidcs no iruce
and Keeps no JaiM chcre ns interests man be
adrancedby The Jrcach Of either. Even of tl,is
we should not complain, but for the comrli-
city Of an Administration elected hy the free
States, and pledged in the most solemn nun
ner to maintain II strict neutrality in refer
cnce to this exciting topic.
IL Is not necessary that We should advert
at tins time to the circun stances under which
the Kansas bill WAS introduced or to the re-.
markable events winch ATTENDED it, progress
and passage. Enoughthat it became !, l,w.-
Enough that it received the sanction Of II De-
mocratlc President. and that the fruits of t.is
'newil OF the slavery agitation are Incoming
idlly more apparent and deporahlc. F,r
us agitation and its Consequences, Congress
and the Administration are rcspo slide. Ii
arose from no cxigency, it was founded in no
imperative necessity, it WAS no otf,print of
popular demani. Its paternity was ambition.
not statesmtnship, its sanction was weak
ness, not wisdom a; its Results violence aud
uiscurd instead oi peace and quctness
The Democracy OF New York are anxious
and willing to" stand by all the compromiscs
of the Constitution" But they believe that
Instrument To have been adopted for the pro-
lection and diffusion Oi Freedom quite ns
much as Tor that OF SLAVERY and when they
see It's provisions wrested to the Advancement
OF the latt9r-when they see the faith and
practice OF the Democratic fathers repudmted.
ahd new principles engraited upon their creed
when they find IL de ,erminatiun evinc.d [,
turn the Democratic party into mere hcwcrs
OF wood and drawers of water Tor the pru-
ragandists OF Slavery-when they see that in
stitution extending itself into the free States.
and under color oi federal jurisdiction claim
ing 10 hold Its victims wherever it shall please
tue master 10 carry them-we may well pause
and inquire to what consequences, both to
ourselves and children, as we'll as to the char
acter and institutions of our country, these
proceedings tending
The Democrats of New York are loyal TO
the Constitution ard to the lust right, of
their southern brethren but when they see
wrong ana outrage perpctrated without re-
buke-when they witness the whole bower of
the Government called into requistion to de-
liver over one poor fugitive into bondare:
and to this end, what should be the temtl OF
justice, surrounded by AN armed soldiery,
ready To stay any gushing of popular sylu-
pathy with - lead in the morning and steel ut |
night when they behold u citizen of II free
state, without indictment, without trial, with |
out conviction, consigned to prison upon the |
mere ipse dirH of II federal judge-wlen they |
mark the administration Of their choice as
wholly devoted to slavery AS ever Athens was
to idolatry-when they see that the arm ot |
federal power is only palsied in the defence Of .
Freedom-it is not to be wondered at if they |
should hesitate longer to give cOuntenance /
to such eventIalities, OF support to those by I.
whom they are produced.
1t is a conviction of the truth Of these la .
facts, which unneryes the sterling |
Democracy of llerkimer and st. Lawrence, of |
Delaware and Steuben, and makes them look /
around for means by which they may he di- /
vested of responsibility for this prostration of .
Democratic principle. Nor is this feeling .
confined to the strong Democratic counties .
we have named. 1t peryadrs the masses
throughout the States, and though interested /
partisans may affect to control it--though |
there may he no upheayings oi popular dis /
they may he reluctant to .
break old associations, and suspicious OF .
forming new oncs-the feeling OF irritation |
ana dlscontent ~ too apparent not to be |
visible to the most casual observer.
Hence we say to the Washington Union in
all sincerity, that if it wishes New York to
stand upon the right side in 1886, 1T must
cease to expect the Democrat, of the State to
make u platform upon the slavery question
which shall he acceptable TO Virginia, South |
Carolina ani Mississippi it must cease e.
uphold the doctrine III n rthern men may
adopt the most ultra resolutions in favor ot
slavery, and be eminently national and dem
ocratic, whilst it ostrdcisas northern demo-
rrats for adopting resolutions in favor of
freedom and against the spread of the "pccu-
liar institution = it must repudiute the out
RACES and violence by which the elective fran
ctise has been rendered mockery in Kan
zls and the Administration which we have
aided to elect must show stronger devo.
ton to Freedom, more vigorous determinl-
tion to enforce the right, and eyince con