The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1853-06-22

For the Union.
Is Franklin Pierce a mistake or is he
mistaken.

EOi u OhiVhs |
q Franklin Pierce a mistake or is he
mistaken.
Mn. EDIToRi-I was gratifed to see in
your last issue, a disposition to speak out
upon the subject Of Executive appoint.
and determination 10 condemn the
wrong, whether found within our ranks,
or the ranks of the common enemy; and
although cannot agree with you entirely
in the idea that the responsibility rests
with our delegation in Congress. have
no doubt but that they should bear their
full proportion of the approbrium which
justly attaches itself TO the endorsers of The
corrupt and designing men who are being
loaded with iavors BY The administration.
II is nc doubt true that the best of men
may be sometimes imposed upon, but moi
SO repeatedly. When The number Of rotten
men who have found favor with Gen.
Pierce, leads me to believe that lie is sad.
ly deficient in frmbess. and the fatal weak.
ness which he has hitherto evinced in a
portion Of his public life, is still upon him,
and while | can, and do believe that lie
would like 10 do right, | am constrained to
believe that he is so vascillaling that he
canno do as he wishes 10, when lie knows
he is in the right. That he has been sad
ly imposed upon in the appointment of
that notorious "GGPhin," Il. II. Gibson,
through the representations of a designing
man, have nc doubt; butthe same excuse
cannot be urged in extenuation of the an.
polnlment Of men whose corruption and
venaIity had become familiar throughout
the country, and who now stand robed in
their wi infamy, and by virtue of appoint.
ments received from this administration,
have become a eliminating point in the pc.
litlcal armament from whence to shed their
corrupting radiance upon our party. A
new impulse has been given To political
corruption by the promotion of these bad
men, and the effect may be seen when the
history of their populations upon the gov.
eminent shall have been written. | OBJ.
serve by eastern papers that one Judge
Dom Piatt, has become the chief regula.
Tor OF Ohio matters, and that he is strongly
thought of as a suitable person TO receive
an appointment. Where in The past his.
tory of this corrupt man, the P~rcsidentca a
find anything 10 recommend him to the
sympalhies Of honest democrats, | am at a
loss 10 imagine. lit is in his former &C.
ton with the wing party, his later supper
of the abolilionisls and furious denuncia
tons of that "unholy par Nth Merico,'
lei II be made known, butif it is because thu
anxious enquirer after corrupt and bast
men had in vain pushed his researche.
from Maine 10 California, 10 find his equa
in all that renders men base, let that b,
published, and if he is to receive Office from
this administration, let it be endorsed upor
his papers that this man has been iount
to be superior in these qualifications to al
Others; although The country has been ran
sacked from The rugged heights of Vernon
to the prairies Of Texas. In vain have WI
looked for that "steady and stern resis
lance" which you and | both heard him
declare upon The 4lh Of March last, III
would at all times "inierpOse 10 euer,
theory calculated 10 diss9iue The bonds o
iOUe and affection in his great conJirai5
racy." Is it eyincsd in the resurrection o
Jefferson Davis to political vitality, so sool
after the people of his own State had con
signed him to oblivion and condemne,
his action. Is it shownin the appointment
OF those political half breeds in New York
who in 1913, gave that State TO Taylor
and thereby fastened upon the country ,hi
Ubiquitous GalPhin administration of Tay
lor and Fillmore. Who is more response
bic for the millions squanjered during III
last administration, than the New Yorl
boilers. Is The STEADY and Stern resis
lance evinced in the overslaughing o
Cobb, Foote, Bright and Miller, in tn
Strengthening hand which he extends to lhei
enemies in their respective States. Ar
these men who stood first and foremost il
defence of the right during that "perio,
w ''"'e"'OV'eu 10 an uufUOHttiOU an
not as an encouragement" to be thus Gu
down by the very man whom they havu
raised up. 1t cannot be said that Van Bu
rem q Co, have renowned their forme
reasonable doctrines, for they stand upo
precisely the same ground that they occr
pied in ls4s, never having renowned an
OF their heresies, nor does it appear nece,
sary that they should, 10 succeed in the
chief object-the lOaves and fishes.
In vain do we look for the execution {
those high-toned and patriotic sentimenl
which fell from that Presidents Inns, a
he. delivered his inaugural. We see b,
the appointment Of those "agilalinp" mil
ions of Van Buren,, Chase & Co., the blac
hearted defamers Of all Union men-agi,.
'ators who express their determination 't
resist the compromise measures with a
the means in their power" Is not tn
'yielding 10 d rGUsn spirit that froi
considerations gfpoiicy wouid ending.
The Union"
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