The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-21
THE ADMINISTRATION In THE SOUTH.


THE ADMINISTRATIONS IN THE SOUTH.
THs SATioSAl CONFERENCE.-The has been
an administration OF the which much
deserved the thanks and gratitude the people Of the South
as that OF Gen pierce.--NashrMe (1enn.) dnioa
In this remark the Nashville Union shows that its editor
properly appreciates the fidelity his pledges and the de-
voon to constitutional principles which have distinguish
ed the administration of President Pierce Our cotempo-
rary does not mean of course that the President has
swerved from the right line of constitutional duty the
expects desires from any Chief Magistrate The
that the southern people ask of the Executive is that he
viii take the plain meaning of The constitution for his
guide and following this rule that he will observe faith
fully all the compromises and guarantees of that ns,ru-
because he has done firmly earesly and constantly du
ring period when the wild spirit Of knaticsm has sought
to overrun the rights guaranteed to southern men by
the constitution he has entitled his administration to the
high compliment quoted above.
If the South could fail to feel the obligation TO admire
and be grateful for the disntcested fidelity with which
President Pierce has breasted the of abolition fna
csm in maintaining southern interests would
deserve Chief Magistrate who would watch its rights
We should hardly deem ii possible if did know
hearty acknowledgment of his faithful devotion 10 their
rights. Even in the South, in unfolding whose interests
he has incurred the most relentless warfare in the North
there who join and compete with bis northern
salants in sandcrng and denouncing Franklin Pierce
They belong the party which boasts of its purity and
its piey and which claims sprung up political
necessity from the corruption OF the two Old parties In
the North this pure party abuses and deneuncc President
Al t.t,.t,a
rights of the South In the South where this pure party
claims TO be especially sound and national on the slavery
question: they not less violent than their northern
brothers in denouncng the President They do not COM
plain that he has been to the South, but that he is
opposed their ntoerant and proscrptve organizations
that he has abroad ministers few foreignborn
citizens and that he has not prescribed Catholics from
Office These charges of his southern know-nohing as
niants well made and the genuine friends OF civil
and religious federation and freedom rejoiced that
his administration is conducted to incur the hos
tile attacks of this ntoerant association He has shown
his fidelity to the South gnaly in his opposition to
acknowledged in his opposition to abotonsm, and
his constant adherence TO faithful observance Of those
constitutional compromises which and perpetuate
the ights of the South 1t would be strange indeed, If
the South could hesitate in mani.esing the warm graft
tude of her to President who has shown
himself so his official obligations and to their
constitutional rights to incur the bteres assaults in
that section of the confederacy with which, from birth
and education and residence he might be naturally expect
ed to sympathize upon the slavery question. Franklin
Pierce has proved 10 every impartial southern that
northern democratic President can be faithful TO
the rights of southern men, guaranteed by the con-
sttution southern President; and it Is because
his administration has Illustrated this important point
during period of deep and perlous concern TO the
South, that all truly national in that section viii
heartily respond to the sentiment Of approval justly
pressed by contemporary of the Nashville Unon 1t
essential to the maintenance OF aterna relations be-
tween the North and the South TINT such demonstration
should be made. The sentiment gaining ground in
the South and being made the prctext for the forma
ton of southern party that the South coud trust
but southern for President President Pierce has e
ectualy crushed this dangerous sentiment and has
thereby contributed largely to the safety Of the Unon by
proving that lie sincere when he uttered the noble
feeling No North no South, no East, no West.'