Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-11-22

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ministraiion Of the present Chief Magistrate,
when contrasting the condition Of the different
departments nObr, with what they were when
he came into power. With chaotic confusion
in them-with accumulated masses Of neglect
ed and unfinished business with startling ev-
idence OF wide spread fraud, peculation, and
corruption-with numerous complicated and
dangerous foreign questions unadjusted- With
all this LEFT as a legacy by his predecessor, and
all now amicably settled, and The country pros
porous and happy, it would occur TO any but a
very Ignorant or a very blind fanatic, that lie
structures of the Register, proceed from a reck-
less disregard Of truthlulness. The amount of
abuses aScertained and corrected can never be
fully deyeloped-lhe amount Of labor which
it was necessary 10 employ in the work can
never be fully appreciated. A faithful record
Of the frauds which have been detected aud
deleated-of the populations which have been
exposed and disappointed-of the ingenious
devices for plundering the treasury which have
been discovered and Iebuked-and all enacted
under wing and abolition power-would star
tie the public mind ami overwhelm the rana.
teal a5sailants Of the present administration
with shame and con fusion. At the head of
every department there has been an efficient
Secretary, who has devoted his sleepless at
~tention to the reformation which was called for
by honesty as well as fidelity and competen-
cy. A warfare has been waged upon ingeni-
GUS fraud and bare faced corruption. Galphon.
ism in oil its phases, and in all its sizes and
dimensions, whether it laid violent hands on
the reven nue. at San Francisco, or whether it
hid is deformity under the disguise of transfer
draftS-whether it plundered by thousands,
hundreds Of thousands, or only drove a small
petty l~arceDy-whether it came in denreda-
tons upon the ignorant Indians, or in abstract
ing the pittance due 10 old soldiers and PEN
stones, or in rfing and !ObbIng the mails, no
matter where or when or how il made its ap.
pearance, during he administration Of Frank
lin Pierce, il found Itself repealed, rebuked
and punished. 1t is upon these great national
points that the sound, sensible thinking men
Of the nation will judge Gen. PIERCE and his
ndmi I%S.raiion. If tie domestic peace and
prosperity Of the country have been maintain
ed and protected; if the constitution ani the
right Of The States have been seduously guard
ed against the diSinteregation Of domestic trea-
son and local faction; and if the honor end
character and dignity Of The nation have been
elevated and enforced among the governments
of the Ola World, the verdict Of approval will
be most plain and emphatic. Tie great mass
of the people have no sine 10 enquire into the
petty iga|ousics that may CONFUSE a State
contest for local Offices. They look OF the
great results Of an administration. Everybo.
dy rementers tie message of Gen. Jackson
on the French inde mnity bill, on the Bank OF
the United States, and other great national
questions. 1t is such grand ideas as these that
make the fame Of an administration. Two
such prominent features are clearly and plain-
ly dis'inguiShable in the administration Of
Franklin Pierce, The one, love, devotion and
fealty 10 the Constitution and the Union; the
other, a w%atchlul Jealousy over the honor and
Of the nation in reference to her for
elgn relations. Not all act in the official con-
duct OF Gen. Pierce can be pointed out which
has not its source in one Of these two pure
and patriotic fountains; onl jaundiceJ jour.
nalism may pour It's complaints upon the pub
lie ear-eloquent orators may prognosticate
caiamIlous ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS men
may threaten The graveSt diSasterS-and all be
by the supposed mai. administration
Of the President and his counSelIors, but The
heart has no answering impulse for
Lhese dlscord0nt manifestations. North Caro-.
Ina has rep!oEounced her confidence in the
principle Of the President; Tennessee elected
democratic Governor; Louisiana proclaimed
her faith in democratic principles; Ala
'ama spoke fol Democracy; Georgia gave her
'erdict once more 10 Pierce; and Virginia out.
azzled her own bright past. Maine, Texas, ,
Illinois, and Indiana, remembered in The late :
onteSt none of the caIumnies that have been
urled against the President they aided 10 eleci; :
nd even as we write, the majestic column Of
.emocTatic triumph is crowned with tie no.
HES Of victorious Pennsylvania. In the face ,
+ these evidences Of approval of the course I
f Franklin Pierce, os President Of this pros. !
'eFous Nation, Abolitionism, Know Nothing G
SIN and FOnatacism, may rant and writLe, +
AL find fault-it will effect him none. For =
lch foul epi,hets and slandeis, as those quo. 4
ID from the Register, he has nothing but =,
corn and contempt. Instead Of him being n
entirely forgotteP' or clicked out of tie r
'ay," by the democratic party, Os the editor X
his CLAIMS are as warmly and ardenlly 81
in connection with the next Presi- ;;
,ncY, as those Of any other Of the distinguish. n
| statesmen Of the party, and should he re
the nomination of the National Conven-
On, which will assemble in Cincinnati next E
miner, he will be triumphontly elected, not B
outstanding The cries Of a pack of political az
and the ISLANDERS beaped upon him, eC
such NAL contents and knayes as the editor o
the Reg'ster, who while referring 10 the gi
mocrotic larty or the administration, can bu
e nothing but despair and decay. ipc