New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-06

In Virginia, could not hold pace III noi
affections beside her chosen Pierce, OF
whom The Examiner emphatically says:
"The more severe the test the higher rses our esu-
mate of Franklin Pierce Until examined his Con
eressopaI record e did rot beere that any such poiai-
clan had ere Hced North Of ne Potomac In Congrsss
| he Invariably true TO southern hgns a. nI'
Calhoun himself and every CONCENTRATION OF crcum'
sance, In which he has since been placed makes more
evident his answering sincerity to his convichon'
| Evsry assault upon him only renders the truth more
plain
The Examiners leading article of the
Sd inst. indicates part of the work which
Virginia has selected Frank Pierce to do
namely, stop the passage Of any more
Rirer and Harbor bills. 1t says:
"The River and Harbor bill has passed the House OF
Representatives. sppropriates the sum OF ST. ij9 $50,
to the improvement Of rivers and bays In every quarter
Of the United States and gives $4,000 to the removal
of the distractions in the James and Appomsaox
Rivers.
ought not to reconcile any Vsnien TO this audacous
bill Ii Is perfect VIOLATION OF the Constitution. The
Constitution gves warrant for these appropriations
Ii bs verynice thing to get rivers cleaned
out at the expense OF the General Government, but we
had better deny ourselves many such nvenences ID
t. overstep the bounds of tbs Constitution When vio-
lated In way for expediency 1t may be violated In
security which enjoy while living under fixed and
known organic law, and plunge Into sea OF trouble
and uncertaiIty We say again. that 10 bstter to do
without many little convenences like these, than to
give up the Constitution
1.-THE bill has been so framed as to bride every Sec
iion Therefore has passed the House, and therefore
it will pass The Senate. Mr.. Fillmore will approve it,
for Is the settled policy Of his party to disregard the
Constitution whesever eypedieDcy invites II. Blu; we
have one consolation This bill is the first of the sort
tlst hss been passed for long time, and IL VR be me
ias, for four years last FRANKLIN PIERCE will come
isiO power the 4ih Of next March. strict con
strucon ard respect for the Constitution Is the Medean
law If III Democratic party; and Mr. Pierce, besides
that general reason IS boUHd BY ecy idea Of consistency
his He vii DO II, II they are presented to him. just
20 surely az there is a sun In the sky
- Men of Michigan, Illinois, WiscOn-
sin, Iowa and the Great West do you
heart You know that this Nullifer's
boast and threat are well founded-that
both Pierce and King, when in Congress,
have been steadily and swcepingy hostile
to appropriations for River and Harbor I'm
proyements, and have opposed to the BIT
ter end even the bills approved by Jackson
and Van Buren,. 1t is doubtful whether
their followers in the present Congress
may not defeat in the Senate, by delays
and strategy, even the reduced appropria-
tons which have recently passed the
House; butt is quite certain that, should
Pierce and King be elected, this will be the
last River and Harbor bill that will have a
chance of enactment for the next five years.
Dwellers by the Great Lakes aud Rivers :
how can You vote to stultify yourselves and
obstruct your own prosperity! But no,
you cannot, you will not You will elect
SCOTT and GRAHAM with a Wing Con-
Cress, and thus secure access to your
ports, thrift to your towns, shelter to your
stom-stayed seamen, and vigorous inn
pulse TO your general prosperity All
hand. TO quarters