The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-09
Young America on MIR. Pierce.

selection sis the creation and first palpablt
effect of Young America" The unsparine
rejection of the Old Fogies is the first primo
tacie evidence in support Of the proposition
which is strengthened by the circumstance
dwelt upon by the Reuielc-that Mr.. PIERCE
is most acceptable because he is "wholly I'M
pledged" He is "not trammelled" by personal
pledges, and is on that account available for the
EXTREMIST purposes.
The Democratic Repie,D is naturally indig-
nant at the "tmid conservatism" of the Wing
platform, whose embodied adherence "to the
doctrines of the Farewell Address and no en-
tangling alliances is characterized as ''do-
nothing, tay-at-home, alone plank" The
Democratic plank on the same subject is, on
the contrary, hailed as a "sweeping, whole,
souled declaration" in support of the Kos
sUTH doctrine. The following is the version
of the resolution published by the Revieec,
the asterisks indicating the omission of what it
calls ga few verbose nothings, intended merely
to fill up the gap in the brains of the discom-
fitted ancients:"
"ResoIped, Thatin view of the condition Of pop
ular institutions in the Old World, high and sa-
cred duty is devolved with increased responsibility
upon the Democracy of this country, as the party
of the people, to uphold and maintain the rights of
every State by vigilant and constant
adherence to those principles and compromises OF
the Constitution, tohich are broad enough and
strong enough embrace and uphold the Union
as it is, and the Union it should be- in the full
erpar sion Of the energies and capacity Of this great
and progressive people,"
On this text the Reuie,v builds its PIERCE
eulogy after the following fashion:
With that platform we are satisfied. 1t is, as
VIC said, 20 X and means Cuba and all the
islands on the main and in the gulf; it means
Canada, and all NORTH at the proper time; it
means the assertion, vigorously and practically,
Of the Monroe doctrine in Central America and
on the Isthmus, both of Tehuantcpec and Granada;
it means full expansion, North, South, West, and
moreover. East; it means that this great and pro
gI essive people have interests at stake, and a new
and vast commerce to be attained and upheld in
South America, in the Pacific, the Chinese and
Southern seas it means too, in view of the con-
di,ion of popular institutions in the Old World
that our interests, our commercial and producing
interests, we'll as our sympathies. and the gym.
pathes of all generous hearted men, Of all manly
ing curs and voluntarily prolessed towards. are
bound up, and indissolublc, from the interests Of
our great consumers, that European population
which we feed, which support, and can alone
tend, by their increased prosperity and consump-
ton, corn and cotton trade, who arc bone of
our bone, and flesh of our flesh, who ore deeply
anxious TO trade with us, and would trade with US
to tenold the present amount if no ruttian bully
royal thief was permitted to stand armed at their
open Threshold and tell US, Ye shall not enter into
the house of my subjects! Such we take to be the
distinct declaration Of the Baltimore Convention;
such, at all, events, without cramping him, or
limiting him in his manner OF doing it, must be
the work of Frank Pierce.
.'The last great holy war between tyrants and
republic anism ia everywhere at hand; frat in Eu.
rope for the utter slaughter and final burial of
alice the people; next for the destruction OF our
commerce, the closing up of this land asy
lum for banshed or escaped republicanism, and
for the final claiming of that eagle which has been
the Of the impous the hope Of the good, and
the consolitory saviour Of the unfortunate. This
grand and magnificent opportunity awaits the
election of Pierce. The suffering world will crowd
round the elect of the great Democracy round
a saviour and an avenger. The nailed hands of
tyrants will be stayed, and prison bars will give
forth sweet music. America springs to her posi-
ton among the nations, and the oppressed OF
the earth-the German, the Italian, the Pole,
the Hungarian, the Irish. the conjoint vic.
Tins of that vest and most fearful of con-
spiracies, the Holy Alance-will derive new
strength, and higher and more certain hopes, from
valleys of the White Mountains, to lead its young
and it's greatest generation to the battle for the
worlds liberty, and to the fulfilmcnt of its mag
nifcent destiny"
Grant that this is SO much rhapsodical non
sense-a overdose nothing" in the mind of
every intelligent man; still it reveals the fact
that the fillibustering hints of Judge DOUGLAS
represent the settled purposes of the most
active section of the Democratic party, and
that this section regard the ambiguity Of the
platform and the unpedged position of Mr..
PIERCE as altogether favorable to the accom-
plshment Of their widest ends The annexa-
ton Of Canada and Cuba-the exercise Of I'M
controlled sway throughout the Gulf and the
Caribbean seattle seizure of another slice
from Mexco--the capture of the Sandwich
Islands-and, possibly, the hosting of the
stars and stripes over the imperial palaces
of China all these objects are to be set
about forthwith when Mr.. DOUGLAS and his
Young American colleagues become the Cabi-
net officers of Mr.. PIERCE. And then, hav-
ing constructed an ocean bound republic
| and something more, Mr.. PIERCE is to lead the
armed hosts Of his country against the com,
bined tyrants of Europe, and never to sheathe
the sword until he shall have fulfilled his desti
ny as ga saviour and an avenger." KossUTH
was christened by one of his Aboliuonst ad
mirers the saviour of his people. PIERCE is t.
be both ''saviour and avenger." He is to carry
out the intervention principle to its fullest ex
tent He is to do more than KossUTH eve
asked for. Instead Of wasting words in the
form of protests, he is to declare war forthwith
in behalf of Ireland, Germany, Hungary, Pc
land, Italy, and mankind in general. The op
pressed are everywhere to worship him as thei
champion, battling "for the worlds liberty,
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