New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-03

conce;ved that. as attachment to the Compro-
mise and fidelity to its principles were the great
leading features of the Baltimore Patform' IL
was but natural and necessary that, ooth IN
the superior matter Of the formation OF MINIS
try, and the inferior one of the distribution OF
federal offices, they who have always faithfully
stood by the party should be made quite as
much of as those who had almost broken it up'
that they who had fought for the Compromise
should be as well rewarded as those who had
| hattled against il; and that they who had
rallied to the saving of the Union were at least
| under democratic, a Compromise, and an anti
d;suniop President, to find quite as much 1avor'
| "a receive quite as strong marks OF peeuhar
| r.o.o and confidence, as those who had been
most desperately bent on pulling down the
ITn;on. Jeff. Davis, John Van Buren,, or any
body else.
Now, to our thinking-we say it with great
reluctance; for we can't help esteeming then
and even their mistake-all this was only
making great asses and very shallow uupes oi
| themselves. They ought to have known great
| deal better. For they were old and pracuceu
| politicians, not men of the mere credulous moo'
whom any body can deceive that is only rogue
enough. They should have reflected that they
who are foolish enough to place in the sovereignty
prince of poor stuff, destitute alike of abilities
and popularity, emily prepare for themselves
reign of Intrigue in which, of course, the better
men are, the surer to come by the worst mat
man, like Mr. Pierce, who felt hmselfto be mere
creation of chance, the effect OF CONFUSION anu
folly in a party convention at its wits end-ar
empty and known political Illusion a chea'
set up to gull the rabble, mere man OF stra"
in the Presidency, king peced up out OF th'
shreds and patches of party then gone to tat
ters-must of necessity seek to make hlmsei
props for his weakness, and get crutches Tor hi
lame authority in short would have to hell
himself along on other peoples shoulders Now
to whom would this necessity lead him int
what hands throw him, Not thers-the hards
For they were not going to combine with tn
| softs their domestic, nor with the secessionists
| their Southern aversion. But they were onl.
os numerous as the latter; and weaker thai
the former; 50 that as the PRECEDENT would
\. by espousing them alone-only thlrd par
of the whole party-have gotten not more
strength (Which he wanted) but more OPPOSE
t;on (which he did not need) it was easy II
have seen. with half an eye, that 1t was no
,,ono to he the Hards that he would take to hi
bosom. Besides, they should have seen that N
two things could be more certain 10 combin
against them than the willy Softs and braggar
secessionists. For, between these two there wa
only simulated hostility They had long bee
helpinc each other, like cross-cut sawyers, b
appearing to struggle Twas only that owe
which they pulled their sharp-set questio
backwards and forwards-the countryside
suffered The well acted contest made the on
set popular in the North, the other of some const
ouence in the South Each knew the other to
its best friend, without whose apparent hatre
and real assistance, it would at once sink in
jr its proper nothingness. They are, in short e.
tremes that very easily meet Not one of the
ultras of the North and South but feels in
~ heart that it was only for him to be born or
belong in the opposite section in order to
lust as noisy on the other side. In Congre
everybod has long remarked that they al
= ever abusing each other and ever voting Il
2 gether; only taking care to give contrary REF
= sons for it.
tn All this, Mr.. Bronson and his friends shoul
have foreseen, along with Governor Foote an
the Southern Unionsts, Every one else foresa
} it; and, accordingly, combining for power al
for vengenoe against the Unionists, North al
IS South the freesoilers and the secessionists ha
er taken possession of Mr. Pierce, the Cover
cy ment, the offices, every thing, and have drumm
d. the astonshed Compromise men out of cam
er Judge Bronson the first man, the St, Steph
nd and the proto martyr of the Platform.