The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-07-29

WHAT rs THE ADMINISTRATIONS SDoING!-Ihe
dilatoriness of the administration IN reference
to the difficulties with New Granada and Utah,
afford but poor augury for the energy which
we were told it would exhibit, not only IN deal
ing with these, but in conducting the affairs OF
the government generally during the present
regime. The country is becoming restlve and
loudly demands action. 1.-THE administration
will act with energy has become stereotyped.
We are tired of hearing it and want to see the
proof We fear the management of our for
eign affairs is gradually sinking deeper and
deeper into the abyss Of slipshod inefieien-
cy. The American name is fast becoming IN
foreign countries, we fear, synonym for CON
tempt It is popular belief that American
citizens are frequently compelled to deny their
nationality abroad, and profess to be English
men, in order to have their rights respected!
This,if true, is mortifying and disgraceful, and
we are inclined to believe it is, from various
facts and circumstances to which 1t is unneces-
sary here to refer We of course do not hold
the administration responsible for the past, but
we had indulged the hope that it would inau-
gurale course Of conduct which, while it was
not rash, would teach those who from past for
bearancc, have come to the conclusion that
they can do violence to the rights of American
citizens abroad with this impunity, their error.
The Panama massacre was one of those shock
ing excesses which should have reused the late
administration to instant action. A better op-
portunity for teaching the mongrel hordes OF
the free-negro-I Indian ~mnlat.o races on our
southern border, that they cannot indulge their
thirst for blood and plunder, when our own
citizens pursuing their lawful business, are the
objects Of it, without being held to a strict and
speedy account, never occurred, and probably
never will But instead of acting with proper
prompitude and firmness, the administration
adopted the same course towards these SEMI
savages, that it would in dealing with an en-
Iliehtened nation This of course, only caused
us to become the objects of their jeers and in
suits What do these creatures know or care
about diplomacy? According ly when the pre-
sent administration sent an extra agent to Bo-
gota-we already had minister there, who 1t
might be supposed was competent to manage
the matter if anything could bring that gov
ernment to its senses short of the only argu-
merit which they appear to be able to compre-
hend-he was ridiculed, insulted and almost
driven off by violence. Now, thought we, this
government will act with promptitude, and
5 with the energy and dignity betting it. AT
, ter this bloody horrible and atroclous out
rage; after our citizens have been shot dowr
like dogs; after women and children have beer
S fred upon in railroad depot in Panama, like
/ so many wild beasts; after demands for redress
have been presented by our resident mlnlste
f al Bogota and refused; and after new agen
y has been dispatched thither only to be hoote(
: at by the rabble, and has returned and mad
: his report; after all this, we said to ourselves
: surely the administration will certainly stoo]
4 no lower, will not submit to the disgrace o
e begging anew for diplomatic redress; will surel
S not, through its representative, dance attend
ance any longer upon the naughty, self-suffi
cient, moustachioed, HispanoNew Granada
S officials at Bogota.
i 70 strengthen this view of the subject tn
n newspapers, letter writers and telegraphic col
a respondents at Washington, assured us thu
1T the administration would act with energy!
of Some months however, after all this, ministt
y Bowlin-we thought he was coming home a
y Ter the insulting rebuff which he and Morse r.
=, ceiyed at the hands of Messrs. Limo de Point
2 and Gonzales-writes that he thinks the diff
y cultes may be settled as a new administratie
ct was about to come into power! If not, /
n, would then certainly quit. Meanwhile the r
J. petitions that our government will act with vlg'
a and prompttude continue to pour upon us!
is The robberies, the counterfeting, the outr
ae ges upon the United States officers, and tt
ID murders in Utah, have been known to our go
at ernment for months, and some of them II
S, years; and still nothing is done. Truly v
of hear of preparations, and we are assured tn
the administration will act with energy, ar
j. decison;" but in the name of our outrage
le laws and the blood of the murdered, how lor
le does it take to prepare to act in this name
~ One would suppose that in case of open +
e. volt like Utah. three or four weeks would
TX sufficient to start military companies for tt
of point of rebellion.
~ A desperate disease requires desperate rem
,e dies. The bite of the rattlesnake, or of b
is black spider, or a mad dog, requires celer
j. in applying the antidote, OR the poison sprea'
I'd to all parts of the system. And although v
have no fears that the hydrophobia of mo
n. monism will spread through the country, st
we submit that the elements of lawlessness a
~ ~ too rife generally to make it safe to dilly dial
', with the open, faunting defiance OF ohe autho
- itv of the government that the Utah brlgan
T." Enthusiastically manifest, and scout at the i'd
W that the United States can subdue them III
r. government ordered out force to maintain tt
u u laws in Washington city lately, and it did rig
- - in so doing. There is anecessity for the san
. :, thing in Utah, thousand times greater, al
L. has been so for months, and the governme
=. knows it. So far has the season advance
q a. while this dilatory policy has been pursue
% that it has been doubted by some if it is n
~. ~. now too late to dispatch military force acre
40 -. to. Utah this year at all! Had man like
u ~ Hickory, or the model president, been at t
'T head of affairs, we firmly believe that the for
'; necessary to subdue the, enemy would ha
-. ~ been at bis doors before now. We shall n
~ ~ be at all surprised if the despotic brigand
N Utah should maintain unmolested his attitu
y of contemptuous defiance to the whole pow
g. of the United States another year. Past II
q. a. punity has greatly emboldened him; and If
ss succeeds, as it is understood be is trying to
a. in attaching to his interest the various lndl
d tribes in the north west with the ample tlr
e- that has been conveniently given to him
=. :. preparation, he may make against the Cover
III ment desperate and bloody stand.
Il But it is not with reference to Utah and Nc
Granada alone, that our government manlies
A rlo+tor IN fha Naw York Su