Eastern times., 1855-09-27
The Administration.

AT the great democratic festival at Louis
vile, in honor of Ex-Governor POWELL, the
following sentiment was announced as the 9th
regular toast -
The present federal Administrdtion-Purely
democratic, honest and faithful. In such
keeping the peoples treasure is safe from
peculation-the rights of the states secure from
aggression-and the nations honor protected
at home and maintained abroad.
On the call of the party, DR.. Green respond
ed TO the toast in a speech of some fifteen min
utes, making forcible, spirited and eloquent
defence of the administration. DR.. G. said
So The present democratic federal admins
tration, having the constitution for its COM
pass and the Baltimore platform for its chart,
had faithfully and successfully steered the
ship of state through the greater half of the
presidential term. With an eye steadily fixed
on the faultless compass, and a faithful obedi-
ence TO the letter of that unerring chart, no
man could say that the President had ever fall
tered or tainted in any emergency requiring
the protection of the rights of either states,
communities, institutions or individuals, from
the sectionalsm, the bigotry, the fanaticism
and the vandalism, that have alike threatened
each, wherever it has been the province of his
administration, to offer such protection nor
has he been less vigilant in maintaining un-
spotted the honor and integrity of the nation
both at home and abroad. The fugitive slave
law has been executed in the city of Boston,
where-those who are both know nothinge and
aboltionists combined to resist it, and Martin
Kosta, an humble individual who had declared
his intention to become a citizen and claimed
protection under our flag, was wrested from
the grasp of naughty despot, and his liberty
protected. Looking alone to the letter of the
constitution and the cardinal elements of dem
ocratic liberty, the present has been pre-emi-
nently an administration of principle rather
than of policy.
This, after all, Mr.. President, is the great
distinctive characteristic between the demo-
cratic party and the hundred successive parties
Who have from time to time opposed their ad-
ministration OF the government. The demo-
cratic party rs the party Of printiple-of princi-
pies inherent in and derivable from the letter
of the federal constitution. Upon these prin-
ciples has the government been safely and sue
cessiully administered for more than three
fourths Of the three-quarters of a century of
its constitutional history. Under these demo
cratic administrations has its area been ex-
tended from the thirteen original members of
the confederacy on the Atlantic TO thirty-one
| free and independent sovereign states stretch
| ing their fertile borders from sea TO sea, and
capable of maintaining two hundred millions
of prosperous and happy freemen. Nor is
there any danger of the permanence of our
government or of the Union, if democratic
principles and democratic administrations pre-
vail. Democracy looks not 10 the dazzling
lustre of brilliant names, nor the strong arm
of secret orders for the protection of our liber-
ties, but to the guarantees of the constitution
and the Immortality of our principles. Let
the federal government be confined TO the le-
gitmate grants of the letters of the constitu-
ton, and the rights of the states and territories
TO regulate their own municipal and domestic
institutions so gallantly vindicated by the pres
ent administration, be maintained, and we may
multiply to aR bundled sovereign states with
out weakening, but actually Strengthening the
bonds of the Union.
But is it not amusing, Mr. President, 10 be
told that the party who have added all that has
been added to the American statue; that the
party who gave US the great valley of the Mis-
sissipp, the most fertile valley of Gods heri-
taee to man the party who gave US the Flor
idas, the lone star of Texas, with her broad
alluvia plains, and California, with its rich
mines OF auriferous wealth, have come to be
the anti-American party; whilst those who
uniformly opposed these great acquisitions.
who gave aid and comfort TO the enemy, in ev-
cry struggle, the man who would welcome
American soldiers with bloody hands to hos
pitable graves, and the man who denounced
our struggle in arms as ian unjust and an un-
hDly war, and war against God,' have come
to be the leading spirits, the guiding stars Of
the present modesty assuming American party
But Mr.. President, continued the doctor,
cannot conclude my response to the sentiment
which has called me up, without making spe.
cial allusion to that member of the administra
ton whom we of Louisville are proud to claim
as our fellow citizen. Under the watchfu
vigilance and unbending integrity of james
Guthrie, the nations treasury is safe from pee
ulation. No Galphins nor Gardners, no
largely fed attorneys nor bribed officials hav'
dared with impious claims to invade its sacre,
: threshold. And that wholesome democratic
statue SO much reviled when first proposed b,
! MIR. Van Buren, and afterwards so UNIVERSAL,
acqulesced in. the sub treasury law, has beel
: for the first time administered according to il
letter, by the present secretary of the treasury