Weekly conservative. (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1854-1860, 1855-06-23
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President Pierce,s Administra-
ton and the Democratic Party

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President Pierce,s Administered
ton and the Democratic Party.
We republished few days ago from that
veteran Democratic Journal, the New Orleans
Courier, the following significant declasation:
"ln conclusion, we say, it is difficult enough
to defend the Administration against Ia avow
ed and open enemies; but how can we defend II
against itself-how cope with the Wings, Know
Nothine and the Administration, combined
apparently for the pu. pore of pulling it down.
We submit it to Pr Gent Pierce that this is
task which no human power can accoip h--4
at least we find ourselves utterly inadequate to
the understandings
While the Democratic pa ty of Isouisyna thus
groans under the intolerable burden imposed
upon ut by the misconduct of the adQinistra-
ton; and speaking through its oldest md most
trusted organ declares the utter irnpossibility
of onger bearing up under that b1rsen, the
Satinl, one of the Democratic organs 81 Wash
ington. in an elaborate article, argus TO show
that the time has arrived when the mocrats
| ic party of the Union, If it would ! Re itself
/ from utter annihiiation,. must "ne'ihef ac-
knowledge or endorse. even by its silence the
past present OF future errors of the administra-
ton. q Holding that the policy" Of the pres
ent administration has brought into disrepute
..the long established principles" Of the Demo-
cratic party. the Sentinel earnestly maintains
that ssthe true dutyp of the party is to express
i its ..dissent and dissatisfaction Adferting to
! the gathering auspi es nnder which the present
Administration came into power, the Seafincl
i saws:
son the 4th of March in the year Of our Lord
Il 1858, Franklin Pierce took the Ivesidential
Il chair. It was accorded him most OYER
4 whelming =. jority Of the lAsas .Ga!sss
Il The Democratic party made him F5eir sta dad
hearer-its principles were emblj soned 81 es 2
pies of the old Republican party. enunciated
} and never, to that period, compromised or re
nounced. The party never was so strong. ney-
E er so powerful, never so numerous, never 6
united.''
Ii Contrasting the condition Of the party nov
/ with its condition on the 4th Of March, 1858
l the Sentinel proceeds to remark:
"What is condition of things at present
7 The last House of Representatives, coming inc
t power with the present Administration, hae
1 nearly one hundred Democratic maority-N,
e do not mean pielald Democrats but homes
e faithful Democrats in good standing with theil
s party. Nosc that majority has n0ebnly beef
= lost but a majority more than halfSds large II
h the next Congress IS dgdinsu sl Wasthere evs
d such revolution Out of thirty-ne States
i twenty-seven cast their ELECTORAL vote for th'
I present Executive. and by unprecedented pop
a ular maiorities Since elections havs been heis
it in more than half of. them, and thdresult ha
It been an opposition victory-except Virgini,
It and South Carolina. In the Senate If the Uni
IT ted States the freesoil strength basbeen NOR
= than doubled. and many of the BET nationa
le men in that body sacrificed to the &neral obi
4 UNI excited by the policy Of the present. Admin
lie istration'
In the same article from which til foregoin