Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-08

Pierce, accompanied by the vituperativt
and shameless missive OF insult, vulgar.
lty and cOarSeneSS, hurled from the Office
of the Secretary of the Treasury, at the
unotfending head of the Collector, as it
fell into the Judas Iscariot basket or BAG
of John Van Buren, by command of a
fifth rate country court TREACHERoUS PES.
TIFoGGER OF New HAPsHIRE, who. by
accident simply. happened to reach an
exalted position, only to disgrace it, and
COVER HIMSELF WITH INFAMY! Why,
again, | ask, was the head of the victim
called for and the slaughter demanded
Here is the proof, strong as
holy writ, that the delir1ous occupant OF
the White House and has IN fated Cabinet
at Washington, have undertaken the
rather difficult task, l apprehend, of con,
trolling the local elections Of this State
There has been no deser-
ton on the part of the National Democ-
racy of the principles Oh which General
Pierce declared his administration to be
founded on taking charge of the govern
ment. The only deserter in the camp is
the General himself. who, instead of being
the honored and acknowledged leader of
great patriotic and powerful party, is
now only the nominal head of a Cabal-
a sort of a Punch and Judy conductor of
the frce-Soil performances, with wire in
his back, by which he is twitched back
wards and forwards, and madeto kick up
his heels here and dance there, to Just
such kind of music as the organ grinders
of his cabinet take fancy to sing in his
deluded ears
General Pierce opened the performance
of his presidency on the Baltimore plat
form ; but having a previous engagement
with the free-soil managers, the curtain
fell in pronouncing his inaugural prologue
there, and he has ever since been misera-
bly, playing to thin houses of ill-fame on
the Buffalo platform.
"lt is at any time dangerous exper-
iment to desert friends and undertake to
buy ones enemies; but at General Pierce's
time ofiife, with .fred social habits, so per-
aicious and Objectionable as has, it cannot
prove otherwise than every way disas-
trous and fatal to him.
" While the true friends Of General
Pierce look with sorrow on his dOuca.
arard course, and PRESENT PIrIFUL POSITION,
they have for themselves, their families
andTtheir country, high responsibilities
and important duties to perform, which
preclude the possibility of their indulging
the slightest sympathy with his repre-
hensible conduct, or with that of the free
soil companions, whom he has chosen to
accompany him along his inglorious pre-
Sldential career.
If IN occasional lucid moments. should
such happen to occur, General Pierce re-
turns to the lofty summit of his country
regard, which by HIS sTUPENDoUs TREACH-
ERY he has justly forfeited, and looks
down into the g. lower deep" of DEGRADE
ton and CONTEMPT, to which he has fool
ishly descended, no one will envy him the
wretchedness of the contemplation and
in commiseration his misery, one might
almost in mercy pray FOR THE RETURN OF
HIS DELIRIUM, to detirer him FROM THE
OF A CONSCIOUSLY CONyIC-
T1oN of the perniciOus evils his madness
is likely to inf1ict upon the institutions of
the Union and the cause of religious and
political freedom. We, national demo-
Gratis of the North, do not, we cannot, we
will not believe that the chivalric and
men of the South, the
national Democrats of the genial South,
with whom and us, hitherto, there has
existed SO much sympathy, and so much
cordality of cooperation, will now turn
cause, when delirious and misguided
executive officer of the government,
threatens to lay his treacherous hands
On our dearest rights, and bring the whole
force of his power and patronage to crush
us beneath his bestial feet