New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-03
POLITICAL.
The Pierce Intrigue-Its Origin.

The Pierce Intrigue-Its Origin.
Correspondents Of The n. Y. Tribune
PORTLAND, Maine Saturday, June &C. 1852.
All Intelligent men in New England were
completely surprised by the nomination OF Gen.
Pierce, of New Hampshire, for the highest office
in the gilt of the freemen of this vast Republic.
Some men residing near him, have contended all
along, that Gen. p. and his friends were maneu'
yering to secure for him the nomination for the
Vice-Presdency while they professed to believe
that Gen WILLIAM o. Butler, of Kentucky,
WAS the man who would receive the support tor
the Presidency of that portion of the New-Eng-
land Democracy, which was anxious to do some
thing for Pierce Gen. 2. and his friends have
been at work for many months, and they have
worked early and late as well as very hard.
1t is now not far from two years since the
friends Of the late Judge WOODBURY., Of n. H.,
attempted to bring his name tet0r' the American
People ss a candidate for the Presidency, but in
the State Convention, where the attempt was
mac were few Indifferent lawyers who were the es-
pecia friends of Gen Pierce and they managed TO table
the resolution which had been introduced, naming
Judge w as a suitable 10 be put la nomination ~
the Democracy of the Grante State fret and then by
that OF the Union in National Convention assembled, tor
the pext Presidency. This maLeuver led the fTiends
OF Judge w tn that Pierce aud his friends were
looking to Kentucky for a candidate for President,
while Gen p was to be the candidate for the second
Office
secured his election Delegate 10 the Convention,
then soon to be convened In hs Capitol OF ths State,
10 revive the State Constitu ion, which the first,
and has proved believe to be the only elective Office
ever be STOW ed up tim by the town In which he re-
ridts AS this bad been accomplished, his ac-
tive friends themselves to the task OF preventing the
which accomplished by assuring the Dem )cratic
Dele gates the Convention by eIer or by seeing them
lersopaly before they nbcd that Judge w. would
not be candidate for the Proficiency Of tue Convex.
rt D. RI it would not probably close It's session until
sometime In the month OF January and 1t would be-
nece-sary for him to be In Washington before the
2Cth of December to take his seat upon the bench oil
the Supreme Court This artihce worked well, AID
when the Convention asss nbled, Judge w. and his
friends found how matters stood and he at once de-
clneo being a candidate and Gen. p. was elected
PRECEDENT This last successfully played game
otened tie eyes of Judge WIS friends, ami
they were not caught mapping when the next DEM
Ocratic State Convention held, which took
place year the present month"; and at that Con-
veniiuL Judge w was nominated by great majority Of
the Delegates a candidate for the Presidency. la
few days after this Judge W. sickened and died. and his
death was soon followed by plCts and schemes, and
plans all having look to the Vice Presidency tor New
Hampshire 80 isr as shrewd ounders could divine the
movements of the wiremanagers IL was IT'LL believed
ths Gen. Butler OF Kentucky TO be the trat cdnd
date ind II thought 10 be told push on the pare OF
Gen snd his friends to strike tor The
and before the advent Of Gen Pillow 10 New England no
sane man here except those who were used % pull
wfe' dreamed that the Presidency was the prize
for which Gen. 7. and bis friends were aborng MAJ
Lally OF Maine, Gen. Gushing Of Mass, Cen PploW Oi
Tenn Gov. Seymour of Conn, and some one huSdred
ether acve men, were busy about New'Engl'nd New
York and some other States, all OF whom saw eye TO
eye, most deeply laid plan TO hil of all the prom-
Of The party at once ma'ured al comnit
ted committee of political managers, wno
the proper time repaired to tltm)re played every
card il the whole pack most scientifically, aud la the
"A Il M.u.r Iuga pffgl.a
Marcy, Butter ana all their friends, into the mine
hChs," "tHrHed up jack, secured the odd trick, and
then claimed TO have gone out by honOrs
AZ az the game was won all the leaders OF the
d, mucracy In New England, and especially in Boston,
G l. Woodbury., .. Barnes and host Of Others
seemed TO have known for weeks that Pierce was To DO
nominated. The history of political Intrigue aud man.
egemebt in hs country at no time since the adoption OF
the Constitution turnish perfect, deep, and
successful scheme for ripping up heels laying out
muldere1 candidates. "tOODg shrewd men" and "of
uaknga great out of so email amount of mate
ria IOr the JOB" the winding up of the late Demo-
cratic Convention at Baltimore has brought to light and
messrs Editors let that In all parts
Of ibis Union il be Introduced system of political
tactics sucb has been witnessed In any state
except little Granite neighoor, and such AZ vi"
destroy s iDdepenC of thought action wherever
i. prevails, " 1t makes mere machines Tor party use oil
eli men but the leaders, and they the machnepro
pell,Is In the "Grapite State" under Democratic
rule "e end sanctifes the mans" and there too, we
are too, all u far In p,ittcs"
have bsen unde the heaviest hammer that anti Whigs
ywhere swing, and that too, for % years without
fipching .
thus far have given you but peep or two behind
II curtains but soon will give you another for the
Yankee wire. puers never out 10 open Hight but
Darkness il round about them lnthe present con-
teri thousands and thousands OF promises OF political
p,tfeIment will be made and 30 far as bleeding urea
suty can redeem those promises it will be required 70
DO H. in case Of PeTces election Others Will be re-
piouisrd provided they work hard next q ne. Two
men have already been promised the Presidency AFTER
le7 anc they are b, IN take the stump soon az
CuLgr IS s6jouns and sentOccssonally before, OPP
purul ities shall present themselves One thing, how
ever certain the President will not reside At Chiedyo
and N,te. OrLeGBs at the time; yet Louisiana Will
allow er senator 10 teach New England Puri,ans what
are "the il alien rights Of man. and how WICKED u
1. that "eyefy yoke may be brOken and the OF
,,p,.o 90 free and iil ole will content 70 allow her
Ser a,or 10 vsf Ysnkeedom, 10 tell the young men OF
i- region h, fortunes can be made By marrying nhok
| plantation ~ a Tine
mi New Hampshire IN particular just now, negoha-
,ins for Douslas and the say follows him that SJO
600 were expended during the last ak months u Sc
cure The nomination for Young America" In one way
and another publishing Democratic RsrieEs, &c. &c
but the future must Iquare up past accOunts and Ia
81 me usy or other Uncle Sam must loot the bills
tell you Messrs Edit rs If the Mexican-Lsv Ex-
| Generals who knew nothing Of "blood and carnage
uDul they went 20 Mexico "to build bitches" and
"to fight sibt the may be, suffer either vi
the Two Senators be President In 1851 then shall
guess smiss Ia the matter desire TO tell the Two Law
yer that before they csnyassing the
country they would do we'll 10 remember ina, ien Pl
| loT, Gen Gushing, Gov. Seymour, MAI Laley and
other Ne xicso heroes yet 10 be cared for, vhsr
Presidential Democratic Conventions come round once
In four years and as the Mexican War was bogus and
carried for land and glory Senators who remained
q. home while and when glory was coveted abroad
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