The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-12-28
MR.. BUcHANAy AND HIS TRADUcERs

Administration of Nr. Buchanan has been
and is more bitterly denounced, misrepresentation
and vilifed by the opposition press and parti
zans than that of any preceding democratic
President ~ Our eotemporary is MISTAKEN as
will be seen by references to the opposition
Journals of any period from the Presidency of
Washington to that of Mr.. Pierce, both inclu-
siye-and especially during the term Of Jeffer-
son, Madison, and Jackson. It is true that
Mr. Buchanan is very thoroughly vili6ed and
misrepresented IL but certainly not more so
than have been many of his iilustrious prede-
cessors. But the administrations of those pre-
decessors stand in history and in the estimation
of all men of all parties at the present day as
the most brilliant eandu successful that have
marked our national career During the eight
years that Mr.. Jefferson administered the Gov
ernment, the nation rang from one extreme to
the other with one unceasing, uhrelentihg, ven-
omous cry against the ineficiency, the extrav-
agance and the corruption of the Government
The opposition journals, and debates in Con-
gress, and the records of the hustings during
those eight years, are laden with the most vio-
lent, bitter and vindictive denunciations of
the President and his whole policy, foreign
and domestic. In every leading Government
al measure, the opposition saw and proclaimed
an act of tyranny, corruption, and inevitable
ruin to the country. 1t is edifying and inter
esting to compare the Judgment of the opposi-
ton parties then, with the estimation in which
the Jeffersonan administration is held by the
country noar-and in that comparison We dis
cover the judgment which the same opposition
who now denounce will speedily be compelled
to pass upon the administration of Buchanan.
The party that fifty years ago denounced Jeffer-
son for all that was weak, wicked and corrupt,
now call for restoration of the Government
to the patriotism and purity of the Jefersonian
era. So, in a few years, when some other dem
ocratic President shall be guiding our national
career to its glorious destiny, this Same oppo-
siton party will denounce him, and the princi-
pies that control him, as they now denounee
Buchanan, and as they have denounced Pierce,
and Polk, and jackson, and Madison, and JEFF
ferson, and Washington. Then they viii cry
for the restoration of tho proud era when Br-
chanan held the reins of governments. Such
has been, and such will be the course of the
opposition. AS VIC said, the present is not the
best Cor worst) abused of our democratic Pres
idents and t1 show it, we might FIJI countless
volumes with such extracts as the following
from the Hartford ICourant Of 1906: .ias5.5 =.
"The Jeffersonian; Administration. have led
us blindfold into the most perilous situation
they have brought us to the brink Of ruin by
their weak and worse than. weak measures
they have destroyed our trade; beggared our
scamen, cut the farmer from his market, and
the mechanic from his trade = our merchants
are ruined, because their business is brek en- up
credit annihilated; and, to crown the whole,
we are madly rushing into a destructive war
with great Britain s's5''io@f
That same Coardnt, tho leading organ now,
as then, of the same opposition party, unable to
impeach now the wisdom and purity and pat
rotlsm OF the Government it then assaled as
weak, imbecile, reckless, extravagant and ruin
ous accompanies its assaults upon the same
democratic principles and policy, with lamen.
tatons for the departed glory of the Jefferson
ian era ~. 1 so - -
When Mr. Madison came into ofice, the
same cry of imbecility and corruption was
raised against him, and never ceased until he
had added eight annual and most brilliant pa
ges to our history, in the contemplation of
which the venomous tongue of partizan hate
was stilled and the voice of detraction flushed.
Madison was as thoroughly denounced as Mr..
Buchanan is, and with equal apparent justice.
Yet we think there are few men of this genera
ton who will deny that Mr. Madison's ad-
ministration was eminently distinguished for
ability, ,yigor and purity. Many of US remem-
Der, and those who do not can easily see in the
records of the times, the spirit in which the
opposition treated the governments of Jackson.
The following extract from Federal journ-
al of the time, is an example of the tone and
terms in which, for eight years, the opposition
of all shades and colors throughout thelength
and breadth of the Confederacy treated Jack
son and his administration: af aot Er]s5
''For our single self, we would unite with
politicians of every hue and complexion to put
down the present Administration. For such
a holy and political purpose no honest Ameri-
can would hesitate to join an alliance actth Sd
tan himself, knowing that he must then be
successful, having the sure word of inspiration
~ n LII ,1-Al
stand
But the holy alliance with Satan was not po- |
tent enough to put down the Administration ]; |
and now, the very party and men who sought |
that alliance, prate about the stern patriotism
and incorruptible integrity of jackson, in or
der to give color and force to their wild and /
reckless assaults upon Buchanan for carrying
out the same principles and policy that charac-
terized the administration of jackson. And
so it goes. We are taught by history as well
as by reason and observation. that the mere
blind fury of men and parties who denounce
without cause, and charge without truth, nei-
ther breaks down administrations, defeats the
national democratic party, checks the progress
of Constitutional principles, nor seriously en-
dangers the prosperity Of the country - Oregon
Weekly Times. .a.J fa Croft -. Z
GUN WADDINa.-The Paris papers speak |
of a new material to be used in loading fire /
arms. Sea-weed has ssbeen found to be the best
gun-wadding ever yet used. 1t answers the /
purpose admirably, keeping the iron cool and /
not liable to ignition like the cotton wad hitherto
in use. BY order of Government large amounts
have been gathered on the coasts of Normandy |
and Brittany The material has already been;
distributed to the eordnancesdepartment atoVin- |
cennes. s1a sjsilcs 5,avi- As5an8 RJI oil
...srs., afft rs5 tr.r
nA-T There was avery large sale of wool
(sheep'sl last week in Philadelphia, There
were some three hundred and fifty thousand /
pounds disposed off, Philadelphia took 4Sslots.
weighing 1890 pounds; Baltimore and other
stiles south, 200 pounds; New York city
and State 65,2oo pounds; Boston and Massa-
ohusetts, $4,000 pounds. Other eastern mills,