Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1853-06-29
WEDNESDAY moRsiss. June 20. 1858.


!. WEDNESDAY moRsiss. June 10. 1858.
APPOINTMENTS.
No one has forgotten the sshue and cry
That was raissd throughout the land during
The Presidential campaign, by the Union
Democrdts' Of sSoott, Seward, & Co..
falsely alleging, y was conclusively shown
~ the time, that should Scott be elected, the
Government would At once be placed in the
hands Of abolitionists, and the Union dissol-
we'd under the Leadership Of VIM. H. Seward.
Nor we're the Democrats alone in shouting the
rsllying cry Of "Piercc and the Union, -
come Southern gentlemen, who had acted
with Wings, in their professed devotion to
tho Union, under the pretencc that General
Pierce va eminsntly friendly to the South,
threw the weight Of their influence in bis "a
vcr, and in company with Martin Van Buren,,
the nominee Of the Buffalo Convention, and
John Van Buren,, who did not spprove tho
baltimore Platform, except for this election. =
Sided to defeat Gen. Scott. The perfect har-
mony into which every faction Of the Demo-
cratic party blended, --the Abolitionists and
Fressoilcrs Of the North, with the Disunion-
lists and Nullifers of the South, indicated very
clearly that the Union and Conservative por-
ton Of the party had but little to hope from
the Pierce dynasty. And what has the re-
suit proyedl In the North out and out
Barnburner, Frsesoa Buffalo platform 49,
o!isionisss rebellion. and down Nth
the Compromise measures. and dissolDe the
Union men, have received the honors and
bounties Of the present Administration. In
the South Ultraists, Hotspurs, Fire-eaters,
Sscessionists, and Disunionists have been the
especial pets and prOtegscs of the Govern
meanwhile the conserv alive middle-the
old-line, compromise democrats have been
overlooked and disregarded
The important local appointments both
North and South, have been, for the most part,
given to men opposed to the Compromise -
to men who have advocated resistance to tie
laws, even to disso ution of the Union
But who have got the high places,---places
of honor, with large salaries attached !! Read
the following list ye Union-loving Democrats,
and see how you like it,--see how it COM
ports with the preaching of the stump orators,
In Congress and out, before the election:
Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War--Nul-
liter and Sccessionist.
Robert McClelland, Secretary Of the In
terior--Frsesoiler.
John A. Campbell, Judge of the Supreme
Court-Nullifer and disunionist. n.
Rierre Souie, Minister to Spain--French
red republican, fillilustsr,~aud sccessiJnist.
'John A. Dix, sub-treasurer, New York,
with the offer Of mission. to France : Free
soller, and leader of the Van Buren, faction
against Gen. Cass in 184S.
Samuel W. Inge, u. s. Attorney for the
Northern district Of California Disunionist
Peter d. Vroom, Minister to Prnssia-Ac-
cording to the New York Evening Post, he
is Freesoiler, who denies the constitutions
ality Of the fugitive slave law
James Gadsdcn, Minister to Mexico--Nul-
liter and Secessionist
VIM. Trosdale, Minister to Brazil--Oppo-
nent OF the Compromise, who canvassed the
State OF Tennessee, in opposition to it, when
a candidate for Governor, and was defeated.
Scion Borland, Minister to Central Amer
ica--Bitterly anti-compromise, and SO ultra
state-rights as to deny the power of Congress
to pass fugitive slave law
Benjamin F. Angel, Consul at Honolulu
Bitter freesoiler.
Edwin De Leon, Consul at Alexandria
Disunionist, and lately editor Of the disunion
organ, the Southern Press.
Auguste Belmont, Charge at the Hague
Mr.. Belmont has been for years Consul Gen.
eral in the United States for Austria, that
bloody despotism, and is the person upon
whom Hulsemann deyolved his duties when
Webstcr's severe rebuke drove him from the
country. There is no American feeling about
him.
j. j. w. Grey, Postmaster at Cleveland
---Abolitionist, and editor of an abolition pa
per.
James Long, Register of the Land Office
- ~-.o wy VI ShiS"SO--r TctSoileI.
Richard S. Moloney, Register Of the Land
Oftee at Danville, Illinois Abolitionst-
Thomas Hayne, U. S. Attorney for Illi-
nois-Frcesoiler, and an elector on the Van
Buren, ticket in 1848..
Xhosnas Campbell, Commissioner Of Land
Claims in acknowledgements.
b. +. Hallet, U. s. Attorney for Massa-
chusetts-Chief leader of the coalition be-
tween the Democrats and Abolitionists in
that State.
This is but sample Of the many that might
begiven, and what says the Democrats Union
Press Of the South a-nothing, it is mum!
THERM0METRlCAL TABLE,
For THE MONTH or JUNE, 1855
REPORTED BY JOHN Il HARRISON.
For the AARTTNSBURG GAZETTE.
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