Phenix Gazette

[From the Connecticut Mirror.]
THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION.

We wish some honest man, be he from East, West or South, would bring forward any one specific charge against the conduct of the present government. It would save a deal of trouble, and a great deal of mere slang and abuse, disgraceful to the character of a republic, and mischievous-ruinous perhaps to the institutions of the country and the preservation of its government and Constitution. Will any one of the organized opposition who values his character for truth, or whose character is in any political or moral point, of any weight or authority, say on his word, that the faults found with the administration were not those of predetermined opposition. Will any one deny that every prominent measure of the administration has been opposed by them merely because they were determined, right or wrong, to oppose?- Will it be denied that the real reason why those members of Congress from the South who are opposed to the administration hate Mr. Adams is, that he is a Yankee? and this too notwithstanding that thirty-two years out of the whole thirty-six, were filled by a Southern Presidency.

Did the north object to Washington? he never had firmer supporters in peace or war than the Yankees. Of the late Mr. Adams it may be remembered that his own cabinet turned against him, and that, though northern folks. they did not stick by him although he was one of them. Col. Pickering--Gen. Hamilton- Gov. Wolcott were of his cabinet. The opposition to Mr Jefferson was not sectional--it was strictly political That of Mr. Madison had no reference to the state where he was born. And of Mr. Monroe's administration where was there ever a more unqualified approbation than was manifested by the votes---the feeling---the reliance---the deep respect and perfect confidence of northern people. Have the Southern Statesmen no generosity of feeling? Will they determine to oppose a man acknowledged to be qualified in every respect for the office he holds, against whom not one single accusation can be substantiated, of whose sound judgment no man has had reason to doubt-whose measures as President have been evidently intended for the preservation of the welfare and rights, the peace and dignity of the whole-merely because he is a Yankee? If that be the fact, we would thank the Southern gentlemen to say so in so many words. Long may it be before the North vote or act on such principles-and long may they feel a kind and patriotic regard to their brethren of the South and West-but such unkindness comes with a sort of tu Brute' stab, that is felt to the heart.