Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-06-22

appointments TO Office, mas exciteu al anOuht OF
Sseling sslong Union men which can no longer be
suppressed. Already we hear the muttering Of
distant thunder, premonitory of an approaching
storm. The .Ne,c York Herald, an able and in
fluential advocate of Gen. PIERcE's election, has
been speaking out. for some time past, and now
there are-symptoms of discomfort in quarter from
which nothing Of the kind was anticipated. The
Democratic State Contention of New Hampshire,
met at Concord, on Thursday before last, and Mr.
EDMUND BURKE, at one time Commissioner OF
Patents and afterwards editor Of the Washington
Union, offered the following resolution:
t 9th. Resolved, That we encourage ourselves
with the belief that our distinguished felow-citi
zen, now al the head OF the government Of the u
nited States will not in his appointments overlook
the old guard ofthe Democratic party, upon whom
he must rely for successful support in all the e.
mergencies which may arise in the progress Of his
administration.
This was the resolution as modified in COM
mittee; for i appears that as originally drafted by
Mr.. Burke, the word future was inserted before
appointments, and the following words at the end ::
Nor confer too many farors on those ,cho support
the PLATFORM for one purpose and spa upon II tor
another, and ,cho hare real sympathy with the
great national Democratic party or ITS principles
These words have sting in them, and were
therefore judiciously stricken out. Nor could it
be expected that the resolution modified would
DO adopted By the convention. Mr.. Burke per-
haps. did not expect it; but his subsequent cleo
ton BY the convention as their President indicates
pretty satisfactorily that they were not seriously
offended at his conduct. Indeed, his election APP
pears to US as sort of LETT handed aequiescence in
the resolution and in this light we apprehend the
administration will be most likely to regard it.
1--WE are also inclined to think that MIR. Burke
has achieved more than he anticipated, in being
thus elected president ofthe convention, after hav
ing brought in the aforesaid obnoxious resolution.
The two facts are upon the record-frst that the
resolution was introduced in the New Hampshire
State Convention, in the village of Concord, the
local head quarters of Gen. Pierce, in advance Of
any such expression of opinion from any other
quarter; and secondly, that although the resolution
was rejected very decisvely, the mover of it was
complmented in a way substantially tantamount
to the adoption of the resolution ITSELF Doubtless
the simple purpose of Mr.. Burke was to show 10
the national democrats all over the land, that there
| were some of 'the Old Guard of New Hampshire
bold enough to lift up their warning voice, while
vet the administration seems to be omnipotent al
most, in its power to control the destnies OF the
party-in it's power to reward or to punish ind-
yduals or factions, as policy or necessity may de-
mand."
These are the views of the .Ne,u York Herald,
confessedly the most wide-awake paper in the
country and friendly to the administration at that.
This paper says, moreover, "Thereis demo-
cratic rupture tomenting in the rank and file OF the
party. Can harmony be restored? Can all the
diverse elements uniting in the late election be
held together by all that has been done, may be
done, or can be done? Can the great democratic
party be kept intact by the spois Of office alone
Can any administration succeed on the cohesive
power of public plunder' and nothing else? Ex-
ceedingly doubtful, if not absolutely impossible"
The Herald further expresses great soicitude con-
eerning the success or failure Of the administra-
tion-desires its success, fears 'that 1t is drift
ing to the breakers" and concludes by asking the
question, "Will there be war?"
We shall know in short time, or before the
close Of the next session of Congress, at farhest
1t will then appear whether the men who, during
the Presidential canvass, expressed their fears so
DANGEROUSLY that Gen. SoorT, if elected, would
give the supremacy in his administration to Sew
ARD and the freesoers, were sincere and patriotic,
or merely desired to elect one of their own part-
zans so that they might have chance at the
public spoils. The question must be decided soon
Gen. Pierce must change his course and assert
his independence of the Northern and Southern
factonists who now have him in keeping, or shame
itself will compel the Union men of the party to
desert him. The evil, however, has been accom-
plished in great measurement of the appoint
ments to office have been mado--the past cannot
be recalled, and how the President is to extrl-
cate himself from the difficulties which surround
him, or how the "Old Guard" can forgive him, is
more than we are able to divine.
The whole policy of the President, so far as his
Executive appointments exhibit it, seems to be to
encourage hostility to the Union. The elevation
of DAVIS to a seat in the Cabinet, and of CAMP
BELL, rampant secessionst, to the bench OF the
Supreme Court was bad enough, not to speak OF
SoULE, DIX, BoURLAND and others; but what
shall be said of the appointment to lucrative
place of DE LEON, late editor of the Southern
Press-"that pestlent organ Of treason," as it has
been appropriately styled