The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-10


The Party and the Administrator.
We have not sought matter of complaint |
AGAINST President PIERCE. His inaugural ad-
dress satisfied us. and we believed that its prin-
ciples would be adhered to in good faith. Our
favorable impression was not shaken by the APP
pointment of Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS, who had
been preaching disunion ever since we have
known anything of him, to II seat in the Cabi-
net. We thought that surrender of Mr.
DAVIS rather than of President PIERCE. The
selection of Mr.. CAMPBELL for the vacant seat
on the Supreme Bench was rather strong. but
even that we were disposed to pardon in view
of the fact that the appointee was esteemed
good lawyer, and would be overruled if not cor
rected In his errors by his colleagues. The
disposition of the Louisiana patronage was the
next Objectionable feature in the policy of the
new Administration. Mr.. Senator Downs.
who had distinguished himself early in the
Union movement, who was popular on that ac-
count in his own State, and with those of both
parties, was put under the ex.inguisher of
the New Orleans Custom House, never
to De heard OF again while time lasts. His
more adroit and jesuitical colleague, Mr..
PIERRE SoULE, an apostle of dissolution
man who had abused the hospitality to
which ne owes everything by openly advo-
eating the overthrow of our existing instilu-
tons; this man was raised over the head of
Mr.. Downs, and sent upon mission for which
ne was, tor sound reasons of policy, precisely
the last person in the country who ought to
have been selected. We commented lightly
on the case of these three distinguished Fire
eaters, as they came before the country We
Were not disposed to censure the disposition Of
the offices, until we learned what the DEMO
Gratis might have to say on the subject.
Weeks have since elapsed, and most of the
foreign appointments have been made, and we
now find the Union DEMOCRATIC press up in
arms against the Administration. The cry is
that the Freesollers and the Fire-eaters. North
and South, have taken all the offices, and that
the Union men have been overslaughed
without remoTse. There is much reason in
this complaint. The truth is that the first
named classes are the more active and un-
scrupulous Of the DEMOCRATIC party, in the
two sections; and they have managed to press
themselves and their claims on the Administra
ton with vigor that could not be resisted.
Buffalo and Nashville, the Freesoilers and the
Fire-eaters, the Dlsunionsts Of the two sec
tiOnal conventions, have completely triumphed.
while the classes represented by Downs, CoBB.
Dickinson, and Cas-, have been ignominiously
defeated. We saw that these factions were
uppermOst in the Democratic party when Major
DoNELsos was driven from the Union news
paper to propitiate the Disunionists. The ex-
tremists resented the uniform and patriotic de-
vOtiOn Of that able DEMoCRArlc leader to the
school IN which ne was educated, and to the
principles which he had imbibed from President
JACKSON. They determined to eject him
from the place which he so much adorned
and when he was capable of rendering so
much service to the country. He was sacri-
heed, and those whom he represented were
sacrificed with him. 1t is a natural con-
sequence that the little knot of Disunionists
who rallied about the Southern Press-that pes
ulent organ OF treason-hays since had every
thing their own way; and in securing this re-
suit they have been obliged to cement their
alliance, offensive and defensive, with the Free
soliers. There was no warmer apologist for
the AbOlltlonists, and no more earnest advocate
for their admission to the high places under the
Administration than Mr.. PIERRE SoULE him
self-for the reason that the arguments which
told favOrably for one class of Disunionists were
equally favorable for the other
During the Presidential canvass, General
ScoTT was assailed by the PIERCE pres. in all
quarters with the allegation that if elected. he
would be under the influence Of Freesoilers,
and appoint them to the high places of the Re
public. Those who knew General Scorr
knew that he was the last man In the country
to yield to any undue influences. It was
apparent then that General PIERCE was
the candidates of the extremists. Nobody
could doubt that, when we saw SoULE and VAN
buren, traversng New England in company,
and making speeches to the people from the
same stump. With the bugbear of Seward
ISM" however, the friends of General PIERCE
managed to cry down General Scorr. Mod
crate party men throughout the country, tired
and sick of Abolitionsm and the dissensions
that it had excited, and the "Union' men,
par excellence, everywhere, thought it duty
TO throw their votes for the man who had set
up as the "Union" candidate On the pres
tigs Of this position General PIERCE marched
trlumPhantlY into the Presidency, and within
three months afterwards the Union men who
voted for him are much astonished because he
has bestowed official emoluments chiefly on the
graduates of the Nashville and Buffalo Con-
ventions
As to the complaints Of Young America,
which are raised in some of the DEMOCRATIC
journals, they are merely ludicrous. Young
America proper is very limited class of indi-
viduals, comprising SANDERS, CoRRr, MAR
SHALL, DouGLAs, and PIERRE SoULE. We
think they have been remarkably well paid off
by the appointment of SoULE MADRID, though
they have reason to quarrel with the Admin
istration because their claims to foreign appoint
ments have been postponed to those of AUGUST
BELMONT. Ii would have plea ssd US better to
see CoRRY or SANDERS in diplomatic station