Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-02-26
CONDEMNED AND EXPIRING,

The above remark, as applied by us to the
administration of Franklin Pierce, is made the
text fr d lengthy discourse by one who often
figures in the columns Of the Democrat; more
presume, for the purpose of drawing rs into
a controversy, than from serious desire TO deny
the truth of the remark We are drawn 10 this
conclusion by the writer's evidence, for he
mentions four classes of indiyiduals7t no. he
says, condemn the administration, to-wlt =
The " Know Nothings," the Black Republl-
cans Tone of the choice epithets Of the writer,1
the +" Outs"-whom he terms highly patriotic
and disinterested class of Democrats, whose
fealty to the party has not been resed1dod by the
President with good offices"-and :" a set Of
politicians Democrats who have great faith III
the influence of the niger question, and also
consciousness of their own dishonesty in poll
tics, leading 20 doubt of everybody else" With
which of these classes he would number THos.
H. BENTON, FRANCIS P. BLAIR, SAM. HoUsToS,
A. J. DONALDSON, the late Ben. c. EASTMAN, the
great champion of the National Democracy in
New York, ex-senator D,cKExsoS, and host of
.tho- !" Democrats whose political honesty is
ia. above the reproaches of Franklin Pierce and
all his apologisfs, are not told
We Will pass over the vituperative epithets of
the Democrat, admitting the writer's superiority
in that class of literature, and refer 10 fact
that would satisfy any impartial observer that
President Pierces is none other than
demned administration it has been so
pronounced by the People, whose right it is to
pass sentence upon the acts ofeven the President.
In the last Congress, the opponents of the
administration numbered but &c in the House
of Representatives, all told. As these Repre-
sentatiyes are chosen by the people, they may
be supposed, general rule, to express the
viii of the people upon National politics, and
the 81 Democratic majority in the House at that
time, would, as a matter of course, indicate an
approval of the Administration. But the acts
of President Pierce, in favoring the peculiar
institution, and striving for its extension, have
produced a change, so that in the present Con-
gress, notwithstanding the efforts of the South
to sustain Mr.. Pierce, he count on but about
IS Democrats, and % of his Know Nothing
allies, to approve his course. If the admins
tration of Franklin Pierce is not condemned by
the people, what has produced this change
If such condemnation is considered by the
writer in the Democrat as " better than approval"
we trust he may have sufficient of it to satisfy
hin.
The final vote for Speaker may be considered
atolerable fair test of the approval and condem-
nation of Mr.. Plerce's administration and in
this connection it is somewhat instructive to
notice who approve and who condemn it.
Mr.. BANKS, the Republican candidate, received
lob votes, but one of which was cast by a Know
Nothing, and not from Slave State Mr.
AIKEN, the Administration candidate, received
100 votes, of which ttceyty-seron We're regular
Know Nothings, and only eighteen out of the l3l
votes given that occasion from the free States.
Ii the Democrat reioices over this approval OF
Mr.. Pierce's administration, It's editor should no
longer claim to be opposed Slavery extension.