The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-05
The Administration in the South.

The war which vas opened in tue South some
month"; since against Mr. Buchanan and his Cabi
net continues to be prosecuted with uusbated
zeal and with that reckless disregard of conse-
quences that has distinguished il from the begin
ming An article from the Charleston Mercury
which we publish elsewhere, furnishes very fair
specimen Of the style in which the war is kept
up and of the frenzy which impels to it, "The
cotton States" Gays the article, will let Mr. Blu
chanar, Walker, and all the national spotsmeu
even OF Virginia slide" By national Fpoilsmen
Is me ant, of course the national democracy,
which the Mercury is willing to see sacrificed on
the shine Of its own inordnate ambition and
folly. This article FROM the Mercury is in'rodu-
ced by very sensible editorial from ano her
Southern paper, the Richmond Enquirer, which
takes the opposite view of the matter The bane
and antieote are thus before QUE readers, and
they may Judge for themselves of the merits
The whole question.
Que mieot fancy from the msligujty of the at.
tscks contained in the Charleston Vercary. aud
other otgaas of the ultra rabid States rights de-
mocracy Of the South, that Me. Buchanan was
Ii Seward in disguise, and that his Cabinet was
composed of the blacklist stripe Of aboltionists
And yet how opposed to this is the fact? The
President is an able. honorable, high micded
statesman, influenced by no sectional or pa, tisan
motives, but animated by the single desire OF
governing the republic on sle pure, broad princi-
pies of democracy on which it was founded The
gentlemen whom he has called to his Cabinet are
honest able and patriotic and alike free from sec.
tional prejudice, In fact II may he said with
truth, that since the days OF Jackson or Polk
the government Of this couutry has not beenco
6ded to ADLER or more Trustworthy hands than
those Of the pre- sent administration.
And yet, although that IL the all but unani-
nous verdict of the American people, this admin
istration is not free from assaults. A lot of DO.
Gtical desperadoes and ultra Sta'es rights
presses in TIE South seem TO b ave eoteced iato a
conspiracy to poison the minds Of the Southern
people against Mr. Buchanan aDd bis Cabinet.
and for that purpose they employ all the means Of
vituperation that their ingenuity can devise.
Being destitu,e OF any real grievan,s on which
TO base their hostile attitude they re, ~ an
imaginary one, and rave and rant thereon in the
most maDiacol style.
Ttey invest with the utmost imoortaDce come
words contained in Governor Walkers inaux l.
raj. which Of themselves are mere surpusasc.
and ough. TO lie, perhaps. "a a Scotch Judge
would say. depleted. Gov. Waller offended in
first intimating II as his opinion that Ksusls was
destined. from natural causes, 10 become a fces
State; and second. 1attering tue peoples self
love by assuring them that they would have the
opportunity Of adopting or rejecting the con
sttutieD which IL SOON TO be formed for them
Both these serious trsnsuessions, IA the eyes Of
Southern utraists, do not in the eyes Of rational
common sense individuals, cons tu'c the faintest
shadow OF an excuse for complaint. And yo.
on these grounds, and ,bese alone, are Governor
Walker and the administration made the targets
for the envenomed shafts Of Southern mad APPS
The efforts thus presistently made to injure the
popularity Of Mr. Buchanan add his Cabinet in
the South, may have, and probably will have,
their corresponding results The support watch he
derived from the Southern States in the last Pee
sidential election may be, TO some slight extent,
impaired aud weakened And IL may b. somewhat
disbcartening to him TO see his popularity flicker
and wane, be IL ever so slightly, ia the quarter
where il had most strength. Nevertheless, al
though some few hundred people in The S)u'b
may bc influenced the incessaut AL icks Of these
journals that oppOs, Mr. Buchanan. We do no.
think that thc bulk Of the people there wilt pay
the shghest attention TO them. 1t is only fe "
suffering ambitious, reckless political d,ma
gogues who have got no this ridiculous CRY
about walker aod Kavsts aud the adnloistra
ton. The ~ealIy. sensible, Intelligent. respect.
able classes ~ the community, who as general
thing escbe~ politics as an ungentemanly occl-
patton, and think for themselves on most subies,s
are not to be lea away by this absurd cry !:
they know that The administration and the Go.
yeInOT OF kaUsas have been syayed by pure ana