Daily American organ., 1856-03-26
The Administration. A

The Administration.
The Richmond Enquirer and several other
Southern administration presses have objected
to that clause Of the American platform, which
is generally spoken of as the Bill Of Indict-
ment" against Gen. Pierce's administration
but not one Of them has ventured to plead MOI
guilty to the several counts therein contained
Whenever those who would assume the defence
of the administration shall come forth and put
in the proper pleas, in behalf of the culprit
now arraigned at the bar Of public opinion, an
issue will be made which the country may de-
eide upon an impartial hearing. We, at pres
ent will only call the attention of the learned
and astute defendere of the administration to
the first count in the Bill of Indictment, and
ask them to plead to that and let US have a
speedy trial Of the issue involved in it. leaving
the remaining portions of the indictment to be
considered hereafter, at the convenience Of the
accused party; and we say, in behalf of the
prosecution, that if a jury of the country shall
acquit the accused upon this .frst count, a
nolle prosequi shall be entered as to the re-
naming counts In the bill.
charges, that the policy of the administration
has been reckless and unwise, "in removing
Americans By designation, and conservatives
in principle from Office and placing foreigners
and ultraists in their places" If the counsel
for the accused shall think proper at any time
to plead not guilty" to this charge we have
list Of some two hundred persons who will
be subpmnaed as witnesses for the prosecution,
in and around the District of Columbia, to say
nothing Of other hundreds in different portions
of the United States. Will the counsel for the
administration please give ns an hours notice
of the time they propose to go into trial upon
this count2 We pass over the residue Of the
bill of indictment for the present. simply re-
marking, that possibly we may deem it proper
to have further bill presented against the same
parties, founded upon information derived from
Democratic source, as the present bill does
not embrace all the counts which could be
maintained by indubitablc testimony
The "grand inquest" which framed the
pending bill Of indictment 1--WE suppose) did
not think it necessary to arraign the adminis
tration upon greater number of charges than
were embraced in their bill, because the seve-
raj terms Of punishment which would be de-
nounced upon the offenders, upon those several
counts, would quite equal the term of their
natural lives'--but, since their coadjutors il,
political wickedness are not content with the
merciful course Of the "gand inquest" /" it may
he thought fit to franc further counts, embra-
cling other acts of high criminality, as well to-
wards the Democratic party as towards the
country.
That the parties interested may have some
inkling of what is to follow, we extract from
the Democratic organ Of the States-rights De-
usocraey, the Washington Sentinel, the follow
ing, which is found in one of its recent num-
Franklin Pierce came into Office nearly by ac-
clamaton, and he had for his encouragement and
support Senate with large Democratic majority,
and but four Freesoilers all told House Of Rep
resentatives with an overwhelming Democratic ma.
jority and with only small Free-soil party. BY
the fast and loose course of his administration
his habtual faith-breaking with everybody -hs
pledges ever disregarded, or, what Is worse, eva
ded-his shutting, undecided course ia our for
eign relationships Abolition appointments
thousand and one other things we could add
equally demoraizing in their tendency, the Lower
House is In the hands of the Black Republicans,
and in the Senate of the United States the small
nucleus Of four Freesoilers has been increased to
one fifth Of the whole body!"
A comparison of this Democratic Bill Of In
dictment with that framed by the american
Grand Jury, will show in this, several specific
charges which are not embraced in the Ameri-
can Bill of Indictment Amongst others are
these: " The fast and loose course of his ad-
ministration, -" his habitual faith breaking
with everybody, -" ~. his pledges ever disre-
garded, or, what is worse, evaded, ,"---a his
abolition appointments, and "a thousand
and one other things we could add, equally de-
moralizing in their tendency" sfs,g
This, we repeat is the Bill of Indictment
framed by the Hunter Mason Butler Dickinson
Bright Bronson Hard-Shell States rights De-
mocracy--the real Southern Democracy
Now, we think the american Bill of Indict-
ment against the Pierce administration, is, to
say the least Of it, quite as mild and respect
ful towards the accused, as the one copied from
the organ of the Southern Democracy ts
What says the Richmond Enquirer to the
views of its Democratic contemporary What
say the Southern anti-American presses to
these direct, unqualified, free-spoken views Of
this recognised exponent Of the opinions of
those distinguished States rights Democrats
above namedp is the man who has trans
formed an immense Democratic majority Of
Congress into Republican majority, the man
for the Southf We have charged, over and
over again, that Franklin Pierce and his ad-