Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-09-22
Failure of the Pierce Administratio

ence oil nall year mas zone ts work, ana
now the editor draws portrait that will be
admitted to be faithful and true, by every
intelligent and honest American citizen:
at was once said by great commander
Prince Eugene Of Sovoy-that the most
successful generals have commonly been
raised to command, without ever having
been employed in the petty calculations and
maneuvres which engage the attention of
an inferior officer. We suspect that the
same principle holds true in American poll
tics. The great tactics of craftsmanship
will, in general, be best understood by those
who have not had much pratioe in drilling
party squads.
Franklin Pierce was, for twenty years
previous 10 his election to the Presidency Of
the United States, by general consent, the
best party manager in New Hampshire. He
had an agility, an adroitness, and an address
that peculiarly fitted him for the training Of
the political militia of small State; and it
was he, more than any other man, that kept
New Hampshire steadily to the Democratic
party every successive year through five ad-
ministrations. But, in the caprcous vicis-
STUDIES of fortune, Franklin awoke one
morning last March, and found himself at
the head Of the nation; and from that day
success has forsaken him..
The man who could wheel his little regi-
ment with such pretty effect upon the banks
Of the Merrimac, is no sooner promoted to
the chief command, than without single de-
monstration upon the part of his enemies,
he maneuvres himself and his whole party
out of every inch of fighting ground. His
very first act was TO renounce all principle
| in the selection of his Cabinet officers, by
choosing them with special reference to
diversity of their principles, thus construct
ing his administration upon the idea of a
systematic discord His next was to inaug-
urate himself with q sonorous address,
which no two men in the country under
stood alike. His next was to appoint his
subalterns, down to the lowest grade, from
men who were the most bitterly opposed to
the Baltimore manifesto, which elected him
His next was to play tantalizing game oil
fast and loose with certain important offices
like the ministry 10 France, the envoyshiI
to China, and the consulship TO London
His next was TO make an expedition &c
New York, in company with the two mos
brilliant of his staff, and on the way suffer
! one of them 10 trumpet forth the extremes
doctrine of free trade, and the other to make
| proclamation of robber policy towards
: friendly nations that had to go back Il
pagan Rome for precedent. His next wal
to issue, through his organ at Washington
rose-water bulletin, that all this mean
t nothing. His next was to Join those whc
$ are in favor of liberal construction of tn
0 constitution, and make a show in favor G
the greatest national enterprise of the da,
the Pacific Railroad. His next was I
l wheel about, and turn his back upon tn
whole project. From the very first day c
General Pierce's rule, nothing but divisio
; and vacillation have prevailed in the con
: duct of our national affairs. Not singl
new policy has been marked out. Not
p single negotiation of importance has bee
h brought to an end, or even, SO far as w
know, materially forwarded. There
v nothing to denote that this administratio
v has not fallen into absolute lethargy, exceI
4 the "rueful throes" of its own factions.
n Washington has proved to Gen. Perc
f the Cherubusco of his political career. Hi
r management of party interests in Ne,
q Hampshire, had won him considerable cred
$ it-credit, much the same both in kind an
!, degree, as that gained by him in carrying
r the New England regiments through frol
: Vera Cruz TO Puebla. But in a wide
O field and higher command, where things ar
done by sweep and not by detail, where ar
required the comprehensive glance, tn
n quick, strong grasp of judgment, the fertil
r. ty of resource, the power Of combination
N energy, boldness, determination, suprem
It presence of mind, self-reliance, invincib
5. constsncy-all those high qualities out
r which nature makes msster-spirits, whic
IS no art can acquire and no EXPERIENCES couI
terfeit-Franklin Pierce falls and founder
. Who dares deny the truth of this? WI
! does not know, who does not see as vivid
as he sees any object in The natural worl
- that Franklin Pierce is not the same sort
III man as the Andrew Jackson whom he pr
> fesses to follow?-that there is as much di
10 ference between the two as between Gel
u eral Tom Thumb and the Napoleon BON
&c parte whom General Tom Thumb person
u ates.
~ We do not willingly write in this strai,