New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-03
EPIsToLARY LITERATURE OF 10.

EPISTOLARY LITERATURE OF LO-
CoFoCoIsAf, CONTINUED.
Wisdom is not to be got without WEAKNESS
and happy are we, when we get 1t at no greater
price. If, then, Secretary Guthrie's sapiency
seem, with its necessary calculation where OBJ
scure, somewhat tedious, let the reader consider
how worthy he (the Secretary is of study, and
arm himself, accordingly, with an invincible
patience.
In his (the secetary's) golden sentences al
ready cited he only opens, as it were, the mat
ter of that great, honest and most harmonious
bargain for the securing and distribution Of the
spoils las Mr.. Marcy the Public Plumber las
philosoper Calhoun styles them) which the De-
mocracy, by way of reconciliation with itself
at the country's expense, has been driving In
his (the said Secretary's) next paragraph, he
becomes quite explicit, and informs us distinctly
enough of the terms of this most patriotic
compact of partition, between the separated
factions that were to be reunited by this &C.
ment of salaries and stealings, this glue of a
dishonest understanding. The rogues had fallen
out, and consequently honest men were in danger
las the proverb promises) of coming by their
own again: which not suiting the quarrelers at
all, they resolved to be stuck and soldered to-
gether again, by the said Calhoun and Marcy
cement, and, instead of falling out, to fall in,
lest honest folks should come by their own, as
the adage threatens. All this, Mr.. Guthrie he
Of the Treasury loayes and fshes-proceeds to
set forth, in his very matter-of-fact style, as
follows:
As the President understands the principles avowed as
joined In unfolding and carrying out the same were en-
titled to be recognized worthy of the confidence OF the
united party and consequently eligible to official station
That ali could not obtain Office was manifest and that
the distribution could not be exactly equal amongst the
different sections Of the party was equally certain Yet
the distribution intended to be made to give
just cause of complaint to section and is believed
that this intention has been carried out not only by the
President himself but by most of his appointees in re-
spect to TIE offices under the latter.
General Jackson announced that he was re-
solved to execute the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, !" as he understood them
that is, as nobody else did and very queer,
very unintelligible understanding was it,
when his own peculiar one. Mr.. Pierce--a
general Of rather different grist--announces
through his hopper boy and toll-taker, Mr..
Guthrie, that he will execute neither law nor
Constitution, but the lawless and uuprincipled
bargains Of his party, ''as he understands
them" " Principles" to be sure, he styles
them; but mere bargain they evidently are
For what principle do they establish or contain I;
None but that of the spoils since nothing else,
even according to Mr.. Guthriss statement, was
provided for, by the Baltimore Platform, or is
now to be enforced under it.
Certainly, show, pretence of principle
now however, almost abandoned--was to be
kept up That was, attachment and fidelity to
the compromise. But this was to be, accord
ing 10 the Presidents understanding of it,
only the show; while, clearly, the substance
was to be- a judiciOus partition of the plumber
among the three great locofoco factions tha
hards, or Dickinson men; the softs on W.
Buren, men and the disunionists, or Dav;. NO.,
We need hardly say that of these faction.
the hards alone had been the friends Of th'
Compromise the other two had been its bite,
enemies
1t is SO far from being possible to say tina
Collector Bronson and the hards, now place
under the Presidential ban, have not bee
faithful as from the first to the Compromise
that the fact undeniably is, that they hav
been but too true to it and are to be made tn
victims, the political martyrs Of That fidelity
They, too, like the President, had their owl
&c understanding of the party bargain. I'm
like the President, however, they took it to b
an honest one In this, the primitive sincerity
and simplicity Of their democratic souls, they