Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-10

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From The Baltimore g.
Attacking the Government Gun
There is with too many of our coterno,.
prevalent Opposition to attack the admnist,oes
the government of the United States. N M n OF
what party IS in power, there is always nar,u 'et
of poscer ready to magnify the slightest error out
part of the former, and to impute thereto ins VI Tue
and even crime upon the faith of public rumor ;,y
out pausing to inquire how it originated Bnt G, =
not only panty out of power who will do this. IS
frequently the material of paragraph for 81
uar and even religious papers, not profess;onoo1TG
partisan. A fling at the United States govarnrny
reckless inuendo levelled at the integrity of ~
ticular officer, discharged indiscrim inatey acaas.
the whole of them, is feature of current Sport uS
many who, whether prominent in connection with ba
press, or in any other way, should set better ~.
ample before their readers and observers, "a
/. The government of the United States has inv.,;
bly, embodied in the personnel of its adminsraI;On
infinitely more talent, honesty, efficiency and general
excellence of character tham that of any other no
ton It is constantly exposedaao the unresrctaa
scrutiny of powerful opposition, the free criticism
of the press, and the most searching demands Of
Congress. 1t cannot secrete vlany were it So d;s.
posed And the most thorough investigation has
failed at any time to detect and expose systematic
fraud, under the direction connlVance of the gov
eminent of the United States. This can be said 81
no other country in the world. Indeed it is no,or
GUS fact that whenever investigation and exposure
have been practicable with respect to European GOV
ernments, system of wrong-doing, extravaganza
and villainy in some shape or other has been suf6
GENTLY exhibited TO convince the most sceptca that
worse remained behind.
| Besides this our government is free from the ra
proach of aristocratic routine and conventionalitv
peculiarly obnoxious in foreign affairs That marked
and honorable distinction is ours which holQs the
highest offices in the gift of the people open to the
faithful public service and honorable ambition of the
man.of humblest origin amongstus This is enough
to endear to system of government and should
be sufficient to make us exceedingly cautious how
we utter word of unjust reproach or careless de.
traction against the chosen by the voice of the
people for its administration. But we find the re-
verse of all this. The very liberaly of the system
seems to be esteemed by some only as the anplest
license for the most unrestrained abuse. Even that
press which sometimes affects nominal respectable.
y unattainabe by any other earthly thing does rot
hesitate to- fling its vulgar opprobrium hardly candid
by the common decencies of language against the
reputation and conduct of faithful public officers IT
presumes to utter things in type which it would cour
teousy forget in personal intercourse and if inter.
rogated, would ascribe to political feeling the mag-
nifty of the pen.
We have before US an article from a New York pa.
per upon educated politicians, in which some good
things said, though general principle is misap.
piled And the article closes with the broad and un
qualified assertion that "the country has tried educa-
8 ted politicians for the three four last admnsra-
tons last past, and had most wretched, imbecile,
u plunderng, rerogressive governments, the 1--WE
l. think, natural consequences
L. The purpor of the article is TO detract from the
= services of educated politiclans"-men accustomed
j political life, and especially lawyers, and by way
J. of bostering the argument, the above assertion is
most recklessly put forth. Now, we venture to say
that each of the adjectves applied to " the three
J. four administrations last past is wholesale libel
upon the Republic the republican system, the people
of the country, we'll the several administrations
J. referred to. 1t would be disgrace TO this great
c ton if the assertion true, consequently to
sert so foul ltel is little less than treason the
70 republic
d The foreign and domestic policy of the country
have equally prospered under the successive admin
: stratons of Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, and Pierce
:. Mistakes may have been made by all, or either Of
- them. We do assert sinfalliblity' for Amer
lean President or his Cabinet, whatever party may
Il happen to supply the White House for the time be-
IS ing But maintain that each Of the administra
Is lions named would compare favorable with most Of
those which have preceded them. While the proba
blty is, that the " uneducaed politician. Genera
} Taylor made the most serious mistakes of any AnC
y that in has the public policy of the admins
tratlons warranted the assertions that they i'm
y beetle, guilty of plundering the public treasury
retrogressive in their influence upon the nation In
this case facts speak louder than words, and vind-
:, cate the nation against the calumny. And
= there is not man amongst who would heal
u toregner-a foreigner in the real of the tern
&c "a royalist of E.rope-assert foul libel as THU
against the government of the United States, without
+ at challenging the proof boldly and being
fdent to the result.