The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-21
tie south appear


"the democrats are looking to Wheatland, an
not to the White house, for instruction! 1t i
the peculiar privilege of an administration no
absolutely triumphant in any Of is nu'oerou
undertakings, to be perfectly dead before it ex
pires; and the ceremony of the dead presiden
driving to the capitol with the president elect
to assist at the Inauguration, is little better thai
assisting at his funeral in the quality of chic
mourner C'est pourtant jol!'' This is yer,
fair and candid The most violent opponent o
Mr.. Pierce docs not say anything more bite
than that the administration has failed in every
instance to carry out ''its numerous underta
kings" and lis perfectly dead" But this /:
not all. The writer continues, lit is now al
mtted on all sides that the treaty with Eng
land, lately negotiated by the hon. George NJ
Dallas, is virtual Surrender Of the Monroe doc
trine, and an abandonment Of all the principles
whieA hare heretofore characterized tie foreign
policy e'Me democratic presidentsH! There is
not single objection made to the CIayton-Bu-
wer treaty, and considerable opposition to it
may; therefore, be expected on the part OF those
who feel disposed to oppose the first treaty.
Per contra, the senators from New England,
all but one, are delighted ach this finishing stroke
of Mr. Pierce's administration, in which his
earlier proclovites celebrate their last triumph
over the personal attractions of his later friends.
The treaty will hardly be acted upon during the
present session, but will probably come up dur
ing the extra session. My humble opinion is
that the treaty will hardly receive the requir
ed two-thirds vote, and that negotiations will
recommence in Washington, where they ended
with Mr.. Buchanan's departure from London
So much for the lauded treaty negotiated by
Mr.. Dallas, who, we suppose from the tone
of the writer, will be speedily recalled by Mr..
Buchanan But we will turn from the recog-
missed organ Of Louisiana democracy to that of
the State OF Mississippi The Natchez Free
Trader, Originally started under the auspices
of ex-secretary Walker, and now the special
mouth piece of Jeff. Davis, } fires up at the full
some praise lavished upon the president-elec
by the democratic papers at the south, and de-
clares "that there is a strong distaste for them
beginning to prevail in the democratic party"
and adds:
awe often ask ourselves, "what constitutes
a party organ?'' If it be the approval and sup
port of the great body of a party, then has the
democracy, of late years, been sadly deficient
Il this respect. But if nothing more is requir-
ID than tie patronage of the 'powers that be-"
hen have we been blessed beyond our asking,
md beyond endurance We are sick of organs
md organ grinding. There is one set of poli,-
cal tunes, which are played again and again;
nd the same air which mourns over the set s
ing sun, may, with few slight variations, be :
sed to celebrate the rising of his SUCCESSOR :
We can admire that partisan spirit which con-
ders itself morally bound to defend everything !
lat is done by its friends, and to assaiz every t
ing that is done by its enemies. But we CAN C
OF but feel indignant when that spirit subsidies t.
ITO toadyism. How great must be the dearth +
fhonesty, in the realm of newspaperdom when :
arty organs, protesting to maintain the same :
democratic principles, are divided one against i
ians of that party are ignored, because, for
Doth, they do not always give their counte- f
ance to those organs. Oh! for an editor or -.
NO, of that class of men, who
Would not fatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for his power to thunder"
1--WE were partially led to these reflections by
icing, in the Washington Union of December
3, an editorial notice of the speech of governor t
lyer, delivered in the senate on the 9Th ofthe c
'me month. The Union does out its fulsome '
nd rather doubtful praise, in that pithy style.
hlch, we suppose, is kept stereotyped for such '
;casions. Being informed by the Union that d
e ex-governor had revised his speech, we were e
mpted to look al it, and we confess that we a
ere unable to discover any strong points, in ;,
catlve of the "peculiar powers of a well bal
iced mind" On the whole, the production e
emed to US rather rambling and incoherent. |
he best or rather the worst part, of such Jokes r.
that everybody sees through them No mat fl
how low politician may stand in the scale !,
mediocrity, if he lends his influence to pa. Il
r, he is sure to be praised by it; no matter e.
wv great may be the talents, or services of o
an. IT he does not ask to be noticed, and bow O
tore the august majesty of an editor, be is =,
ssed by in silence. And then people grow r
and the faults of paper are sad &c
ed upon party, and the literary guide falls il
10 disrepute. Truly, it is vile trade, that
political organ grinding"
The Free-Trader has ground out its music as tt
organ of the Mississippi democracy for more Al
an twenty years, and is. therefore, fully COM W
tent to pass Judgment on the merits and du- o'
of that class of periodicals. 9rhe picture it OF
avs of "organ grinding" is by no means too K
,hly colored. m
IHE TERRITORIES are at this time
en- for settlement the territories of Minnesota,
~, tW
egon, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, New y.
n, ' Nv" ia
xco' and Utah. These territories contain, 49,
.a j.. /. u, ar
'ordlng to the returns of the secretary of the D:
enor the following area ofsquare miles: h.
Minnesota, l66 Oo5 80
O[e8oh 5S5 1875 ha
N N. 9e5,8~2 Ell,
mash'hgtoh' 123,022
H I Mexico, POT O0S fo
ot'h' 269,l09 FL,
y, Total, l,2S6,O79 at
li4,'9S fal
e first named six territories in the table con-
l,2S6'o79 square miles of land, and the
Al area of all the States and territories is m;