The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-06-24
NUMBER sc.

Arkansas, northern Mississippi and louisiana
and the fifteenth, raised in Ohio, Iowa, Wiscou-
sin, Michigan, the eastern part of Missouri, and
the western part of Indiana. Thus General
Pierce ranged under his banner 2, 800 men,
assembled from all sections of the Union. and
at the head of this command he landed at Vera
Cruz, from the bark Kepler, on the 2Sth of June
1847. His career from that time till the Amer
lean army entered the city ofMexico in triumph.
has all become matter of history In general.
II may be remarked that he was lavish of perso-
nal sacrifices, and magnanirnous towards others.
when laurels were to be bestowed. As soon as
the restoration of peace between the two repub-
lies became thing settled, Pierce resigned his
commission, left the city of Mexico and return
ed home, leaving others TO settle preliminar;es.
and quarrel over the distribution of honors.-
His personal courage, and his ability to COM
mand had both been repeatedly displayed He
had rendered all the service required of him by
the exigencies of the country: he had won the
good viii, nay, the enthusiastic love, of the
troops under his command. The men looked
upon him as friend and a father There was
no hardship which he was not willing to share
with them; 10 allowance of food or water in his
possession, however small, which he was not
willing to divide with a sick and wounded SOL
der, although few suffered more than himself
from the diseases Of that deadly climate He
now stands before the world, with health and
strength renewed, and honors thick upon him,
candidate for President of the United States:
and should he be elected, there is one immense
advantage which he possesses over General
Scott, viz: experience in public affairs. As
Representative TO the Legislature, Speaker of
the House in New Hampshire, Representative to
Congress, Senator, and, lastly, Commissioner in
Mexico, he has seen, and been through the
whole routine of public business He has pas
sed nine years at least at Washington as a leg
islator, and has, therefore, thoroughly seen the
working of the machinery of our government
/ He has also seen the working of that other ma
| chineTy-the distribution Of patronage-and
! this viii be of immense service to him in the be-
slowing Of appointments and the distribution of
/ government onage-points in which some Of
| our best Presidents have signalIy failed, and
| have involved themselves thereby in inextricabIe
difficulties with their personal friends and their
! party. At the time when the offer of q seat in
| the cabinet was rendered to General Pierce. by
President Polk, an occurrence took place char
rcteristic OF Pierce, and TO which we have not
| seen any allusion made in any of the attempted
| sketches Of him with which the press has teem-
! ed for the last four days. That was the aecep-
/ tance Of the comparatively triiing and unin-
portant Office of District Attorney for the dis
! tTict Of New Hampshire, which Office he actual
| " held, and the duties of which he was dischar-
| ging when he received his military commission,
| and was called upon to set out for Mexico
That Office at the departure of Gen Pierce, fell
to his law partner, Mr. Minot.
| Very seldom do human annals afford an in
stance Of man declining high, honorable and
lucrative station, like that of Attorney General
of the United States, for one like that Though
! a very honorable one certainly which General
Pierce accepted but the one would not inter
fere with his plan, fully determined upon-to
pursue the practice of his profession at home the
other would and therefore it was declined. 1t
was then that the eloquent and almost unequal
led Ichabod Bartlett, for many years the ac-
knowledged head of the bar in New Hampshire,
began to withdraw gradually from the harder
duties of the profession, and General Pierce, by
common consent, took his place at the bar,
| DaIIelL SIIll occasionally 1Ortn
in all the intellectual glory and light and beauty
of other days, and witnesses with more
delight than himself the professional triumphs
of General Pierce. If there be one thing more
than another redeeming in poor and infi-m hu-
man nature, it is the mutual regard held tow
ards each other by men like these.
General Pierce, at the bar, is one of those
who, though they do not hold with Lord Broug-
ham that 90 though the world should come TO an
end my client must be acquitted yet make this
case of a client their own, and enter with tbs
whole energies of their nature into the contesi
which the rights of client are involved Ye
so uniform in his courtesy at the bar that hi.
department might be cited as anfnstance TO show
how much is uniformly gained and how little j:
ever lost, by observing on all occasions o gener
Gus, kind, and courteous demeanor 10 others
Such is General Franklin Pierce, the candi
date of the Democracy-in private life gentle
man-in his Legislative career distinguished fol
ability, possessing the highest characteristics o
} an efficient and powerful advocate and gpopula
lar orator crowned with laurels won by fightin.
the enemy rather than by wrenching them iron
the brows of other men and lastly, crowned Q
the age of forty-eight years, with q unanimou
nomination, which has been hailed by the demos
racy with one spontaneous outburst of enthus
asm throughout the entire lenCfb and braod,h ,