Year: 1859

cast into the sea than to have agreed in that.
They were divided wofully on the Filibuster
question, very considerably on the Utah
question, are now very greatly divided on
the Tariff question, the Cuba question, and
question of the Protectorate over Mexico.
On all the leading questions of the Admins
tration, these Lecompton heroes, who were
for reading everybody out of the Democratic
party that did not agree with the President
in trampling upon the doctrine Of popular
sovereignty, have refused to yield that united
support which was expected of them, after
their proclaiming that "to differ with the
Administration was treason to the Democratic
party"


Some Of the Southern Lecompton Senators
were almost ribald in their denuncations of
the President, because he undertook to say
that the Government had no business to en-
courage flibustering. 1t is true, if we may
believe VIM Walker "the grey-eyed man of
"a very Unfortunate destiny" that they had
some right to denounce him, inasmuch as he
had given, according to the said man of desti.
ny, secret encouragement to these flibuster-
ing designs. But this makes no difference
with the fact that they refused to live up to
their own doctrine, and to Sustain our noble
President"


How "noble" is he in their eyes? Just
noble enough to be rebuked emphatcally, if
not insulted, by a caucus composed of ma
jority of his Lecompton friends on the ques-
tion of a tariff. The South has certain free
trade notions that very materially conflict
with the peculiar ideas of the Administra-
tion Democrats of Pennsylvania, and rather
than give up one fraction of their Southern
selfshness, the same so thoroughly exhibited
in the Lecompton business, they would ig-
more the existence of the Pennsylvania Ad-
ministration Democracy altogether or delib-
erately give them leave to walk out of the
Democratic party 1t is true the tariff is
leading Administration measure, as much go
as was the Lecompton recommendation-Nr
Buchanan calls upon them to support it, in
order to save the country from the prostra-
ton of an enormous debt, to be relieved from
which and its terrible responsibility he sees
no other means than this same scheme of
protecton-but they allow him to appeal in
vain, and refuse to lend him united support
in any measure whatever that is not directly
in favor of the South Now, we are in fa-
vor of the old Democratic doctrine on this
subject, but, since the Lecompton leaders at
Washington were so ready to depart from
Democratic principles in the matter of the
Lecompton Constitution, on the ground that
no man was a Democrat who did not sustain
the Administration, why, in the name of God,
do they not live up to the rule of their own
adoption2


Not whit better were they on the Utah
question. They wouldn't agree at all in the
Presidents recommendation for an increase
of the army, owing to the necessary drain
upon the existing forces for the Utah Expe- |
dition. Oh no, nothing Of the kind. Le-
compton was very well, but an increase of
the army was not going to nefit the South
in the least particular. True, it would hAve
given strength to the Administration, but
they didn't care anything for the Admins
tration, except when it was doing something
exclusively for the South.


And even when the Administration, having
endeavored to do one little thing for the |
North, recurs to its old and almost uniform
course of favoritism to the South, and makes |
an awful leap, considering the emptiness of
the National Treasury, towards the acqusi
ton of Cuba, imagining that it was going to
suit the South exactly 10! and behold OPP
position to the measure arises in the Southern
Lecompton ranks, for no other earthly rea-
son that is apparent than that the acquisition
of Cuba just now would operate in favor of
Northern commerce, opening a rich and val
liable market to that section of the Union
But, whatever the reason may be, the fact
remains that there is not united support of
the President among his Lecompton adhe'
rents upon this Cuban question. Was there
ever an Administration so unlucky? The
real fact is, we suppose, that some Southern
Lecompton leader wishes to ride into the
Presidency on the strength of this policy,
and does not wish to give any power of ac-
QUESTION into the hands of the present Ad-
ministration, on that account.


Equally unlucky is "our noble President"
in his grand scheme of Protectorate over
Northern Mexico, the originality Of which
is due, however, to Sam Houston. lie ex-
pected to make "ten strike" in this measure,
in the way of gaining popular favor in the
South. But, what is the result Nearly
one half of the Southern Democracy rise up
and repudiate the policy They desire no
extension of territory in that direction be-
cause .hey believe that it would be free ter
ritory, and the glory of acquisition is moth
institution.


The fact is, that the only point upon which
the Administration party is united-the only
basis upon which it can rally-the only
thing it ever has rallied on, is LEcoMrToNIsM
simple and pure; the right of Representa-
tives to dictate to their constituents and the
old Federal principle that power should be
removed as far as possible from the hands of
the People.


SINGULAR AND TERRIBLE DEATH.--A young
man named John Woodhouse Heart, son of
Mr.. Heart, formerly of the Charleston Mercu-
ry, came to his death at Washington, recent