Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-06
The Case of Burke VS.. Pierce.

1t is conceived that the course OF the
Hon. Edmund Burke, of New Hampshire,
is any thing but agreeable to those in the
White House. 1t strikes US that if it
.'liles" them, they are borrowing trouble
on interest as, sooner or later, all the
world will find out the details of the
pretty little quarrel as it stands be-
tween the President and that gentleman.
They were long contemporaries in the
politics of their State, and so long as
they did not stand in each others way,
they were regarded as the very political
Damon and Pythias of the times. For
some time afterwards, it was quite doubt
full which stood highest in their home
party affairs. At the last Baltimore
Democratic Convention, it became evil
dent that General Pierce had the inside
track however, for the delegation from
the State, was really warmly in favor of
his nomination, from the start Mr..
Burke, who was a very decided Douglas
man, was prudent enough to repress his
desire for Douglass nomination, and to
cooperate warmly with his colleagues
1t was thought by those behind the cur
tain, that the tremendous lift" which
the convention finally gave General Pierce,
had removed all cause of bad feeling be-
tween them, and that, consequently, they
would again become sworn friends. But
the New Hampshire senatorial election
ICON s99mng e on M apple of dscord
Previous to the presidential nomination,
State Senator Wells, General Pierce and
MIR. Burke were most prominent for
The place to be vacated by the termina-
ton of John P. Hale's term, though there
were half dozen others, the Hon. Messrs.
liibbard and Peaslee among them, aspir-
ing; the friends of each of whom hoped
that the end of the struggle between W.,
p, and B. would be the triumph of their
particular man. On being lifted up so
much above his former rivals, THAT is, by
the action of the Baltimore Convention, J
General Pierce doubtless realized that an
animation from him would settle the con-
,cst as he pleased. And, as it strikes us,
being indisposed to take sides with either
aSpirant against the others, he concluded
to throw the weight of his intimation in
favor of the election of the Hon. Chas. G.
-Atherton !; more especially as he could at
the same time thus secure in the Senate,
hepresence of one of the most experienced
Democratic legislators in the Union. He
probably felt the necessity for having at
his elbow next winter gentleman so cap
TALLY fitted as Mr.. A. to be relied upon
to accomplish many things which might
not be accomplished, except through the
agency ofsome Senatorial veteran possess
ing the confidence of " the party" North,
South, East and West, as fully as he might
possess his 1.-THE President s. personal con-
iidence.
So, he is understood to have given the
sign; and Mr.. Anterior was elected.
State Senator Wells for some time took
ms political fate very hard, thinking
unutterable things, though wisely refrain
ing from saying much which might re-
coil ON his own head in future efforts to
advance himself by the favor of his party.
Not so with Mr.. Burke. From the hour of
Atherton's election to the present, his
hostility to Pierce has been unbounded.
Washington has teemed with all sorts of
rInkind things levelled at P, said to have
fallen from his lips as far off as in New
Hampshire
MIR. Burke was doubtless selected to fill
the chair OF their recent State Convention,
composed as it was entirely of friends of
ierce with the single exception of him
self, in the hope and belief that the COM
pliment thus paid to nina sort of tender
OF the olive branch-would induce him to
- come in"-as they used to say of hostile
i"dians in Georgia. However, when the |
question was taken on Mr. Burke's reso-
'ntion, even as modified by the committee,
lie alone voted for its adoption. His sub
s'1uent publications nominally to prove
mat he was not actuated by bad feelings
wards the Administration in his course
il the convention, which, by the by, en-
race additional very bitter assaults upon