Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-02-15

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A pro.dside at the Administration.

merits OF tne pTeseut Inc CfH-
,inel is an able and popular democratic journal.
and issues almost from the very shadow of the
White House. Its opportunities for information
sre complete and its capacity to arrive at correct
conclusions certainly equal to those Of presses
at distance. whose daily business it is 10 laud
and magnify the Administration, and shout ho-
sannas TO the glory Of its head. What the Sen.
tine thinks of President Pierce and his Cabinet
may be known by the passages which we annex:
We have been living at the seat Of govern
ment to little purpose, il we have not observed
the many acts Of dupclty which have character
lied the present Administration, and the unpar-
alleled treachery with which its organ has con.
tributed to those acts. We are untrue 10 our
mission, If we do not devote our every effort To
prevent the continuation in power of "a dynasty
which has filed. at different periods of its exis-
tence. every section of the country with dis,rust
and suspicion.
oeived by the honeyed words Of fair professions.
or the newborn senimentality for the rights Of
the States, with which messages may abound
we require something more than the word of
promise to the ear, toe too have often seen
It broken TO the hope. We want 10 see, at tho
helm Of State, man whose life, position, nc
tions,private and public, give assurance of stead
mess in his admiaiss ration of this great country
1t sno saipo to us, that he should, after havi ng
used all the power of the federal arm against the
constitutional men of the country aud the iustitu
tons o the South. aud revived into new life and
power the whole army of Freesoiers. now turn
another face TO catch tho too often deceived sons
of the South.
/. Are the reople-the
honest people Of the Southern section Of our
country to be forced to forget the grievcus wrong
that Tor two years was perpetrated upon its rights
and dignity, in the soft blandi shments that are
now held out, at this mast convenient season,
for the purpose 81 ingratiating the Administration
with them. Are they TO forget the unholy aud
unforgiyen crusade against Daniel s. Dickinson
and the whole host Of Constitutional States rights
men who have fallen under the miscellaneous pow
er ot the federal governmcnt-martyrs as II
were, 10 proud and Just oausc' Are they To
forget the restoration Of Van kuren~nd his fol
lowers position and power. that they might
again, aud er,emp'oy their hsHfai Influence
rights and honor7
a. the South pre-
pared to forget and forgive. far a. again to
confer her suffrage upon Franklin Pierce, the
double deal,ug that characterized his advocacy
of the Nebraska Kansas aiR. now. because il fa-
Tored the iatrodacti,n of sls very insn kAusasand
now. hcause II was ''bill for trc,dvm," and
pledglpg his eIsnon that shaver, never could go
fheres Is ibe South prepared 20 endorse the
poiicy-,bat most fos a. unaat ural policy which
he adopted in the organization of the two terrific
rles 1T hansas aud Nebraska, which gave 90 the
northern STARE State organizations aud to the
souihern a Tree STATE orgupizQt,ss l. the South /
prepared rot cn'y to Contemplate with oemposure /
and calmness, but with appreciation, the fatai |
results of this policy, which now tareasems to |
weaken the tenure of the property Of her s.,ns,
ab solutely to force them 10 civil war, at the peril
OF their lives, to maintain aad uphold their rights
IN tins territory under the oo1p,on Constitution
OF Que compact !
For these and 9th
er reasons we arc opposed to the re esta& sh ment
OF fhe present Administration. We have no conf
dence IN the STABILITY er integrity M its Chief and
some ct his advisers. We know him Go 6e sur
rounded by carrart iOSgences. We knew him
to have yielded 10 Them; Ssa w. stand rcepared
to prove, II through his organ, are challenged.
that what we say is true
The reader win ngree with us that Ter demo
cratic journal this is a very stern srraig nnsent
of democratic Administration hut what i,n-
partial men can say that it is HnlWss What
fact is sais. stated-what CONCLUSION wrongly
drawn--what condemnation numerically de-
nounced' The history OF this administrator has
been that of others Of its psry-s yanss faced
double dealing. assembling, deeetful, swndling
mpostere 81 the South. From its acoe ssaen to
power, to the present time, it has been apras to
the South, deeds to the North. What DO polish
I'd and sephcmoric reprimasas of free seilers
amount to. when the same hand that pens them
distributes to those when il gates the loaves
and fishes that Keep life in thesn 0 what
avail are lectures against emigrant aid societies
and abolition prepegsrdism in Kansas, when he
who delivers them had declared that the law or
Canning government Ger that Territory was II
in favor Of tseedom-a dee sration
which he backed by appointing u tree -soiler
Governor to preside over 1T! But there is no
occasion to elaborate the views of the Sentinel.
We only ask Cor ti,ew, the supreiudieed consider
alton OF the SeR,inefs Swn party az the South
If they shall agree with that Journal we then
ask them TO consider, further, how often the de-
mocratic party have deceived them selves and
the South abeut the men they have endorsed and
support ed--so that It has new b~ecsae com
mon thing for them to repudate their owa acts by
refusing renonination 10 Office, and the proffer
of an opportunity to the people TO pass judgment
on those who have held hga statioa. The re -uom
inaticn Of Mr.. Van Buren, was biunder which
the party never repeated. That gentleusn was
vouched for and sworn by, till the country might
have supposed he had all the public virtues and
all the private mmaeolaey Of tho saints ssgcs and
patriots from the Good to the millennium. Where
now does he stand, even in the stmatioa o
those who then did him SO much reverence! Mr..
Tyler (,ce hope the reader has no fargottes Mr..
Iyier,) though not elected by them had their sup
port and endorsement. their praises and fat
teries. during his administration mt its
close they dropped him, with an alacrity equal to
that which accompaniesthe letting GO Of the hot