Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-04-13
From the Philadelphia Press
Must the Democracy Garry the Admin
q istration.

ltrom the" Phlladelphl2 Press
Must the Democracy Garry the Admin
istration.
1t is with no spirit Of exultation tina
we contemplate the ruin which, like The
avenging Nemesis, has punished, ant
is furnishing, the great treachery which
signalized the first few months of Mr.
BUcHANAN's Administration, and which
has been t%yrannically persisted in up Il
this moment. That treason to truth, tc
honor, and to plighied faith, has been the
source of unnumbered evils, alike TO the
President and 10 the North, dislocaled the
| Democratic party in every free State,
and the subsequent prescription by which
this departure from principle was sought
10 be sustained. alienated one section from
the other, and revived examinations and
f~jealousies which, it was supposed, had
been buried forever. Factions in Con.
gress, and factions in the States and Ter.
%ritories, were the prolific offspring of this
false and fatal step. The Government
itself has been wresteG from its orbit, the
Treasury opened to plumber, the other
departments 10 favorilism, and the Exc
culive iiselfto the suspicious transactions
all intended TO promote the design Of
~elevaling that into u precedent which
was neither more o less that an unre-
LEVIED crime, and of vanishing over the
grained and ineradicable spots which
blacken the reputation of the A~dninistra-
ton. There is, we say, nothing in this
spectacle 10 inspire exHltation, even to
the most remorseless enemy Of JAMES
BUCHANAN. Sorrow, and not Indignation,
is the sentiment which will be instinct
lively suggested. Ia former Administra-
lions-lhat, for instance, of Gen. TAYLOR,
when the Galphin transaction came TO
light-lhe head of the Government was
enabled to rescue himself from the cen
sure which attached 10 one of the mem.
bers of his Cabinet; bat, under the pres
ent dynasty, the President stands al the
very head ofthe offenders and the blame
which is everywhere cast upon his Cabi
net is reflected luridly upon the man who
ought to stand forth before the world as
pure as an angel of light. What is the
state of things to day, and as exhibited
since the firstof December, 1858! Meth
er more nor less than that three leading
members of the Cabinet-Mr. COBB, OF
the Treasury, Mr.. Brown of the General
Post Office, and Mr.. ToUcEY, of the Navy
almost in terms been
gravely arraigned before Congress for
acts of omission and commission in Office,
or have been deliberately and formally
rebuked. Mr. CoBB's revenue policy is
at this moment regarded by sensible men,
in and out of Congress, as of the most
sighted and unsiatesmanlike charac
Ter. In the lower branch there is an as
majority of twenty or thirty
against it. The Postmaster General has
been repeatedly condemned by distinct
votes in both branches; while the Secre-
of the Navy stands today before
Congress aud the country in an altitude
which, TO employ no harsher phrase, is
at the least, q most questionable and
one. The President is him
self gravely censured, in n important
in strong terms, and in another
by obvious suppressiOns. We ask, in
all candor, whether Tie Democratic par
should be held responsible for these
levelopments2 We ask whether, after
nobly ballled for principle, the
masses of the Democratic party shall be
called upon 10 explain, TO apologize, and
prevaricaIe, upon record made up
against i cir public servants, in the hot
aud angry prescription which these SER
wants have conducted against those who
nave stood firm 10 the pledges and TO The
of the Democratic party? Are
.hese offences of the federal Adminislra-
ion TO be incorporated into the party
Are orr candidates for office
o be put before the bar of public opinion
o defend the men who having first DESERT
ID the party faith, subsequently, pros,i-
uied the powers of the Federal Govern
.ent to make this dese!tion a party test!
Are Democratic journals 10 be made the
vehicles of the praises of these derelict
~;ervant>l If so, there is nothing in store
or US but uImeasured calamity and deg
addition. But if, on the other hand, we
proceed upon the straightforward plan,
md repudiate all connection with these
Transactions, we shall entille ourselves TO
he confidence Of the country, and to The
approval of our conSeiences.