The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-06-24
GEN. PIERCE'S ADMINISTRATION

THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATS.
The New York Herald, one of the staunch.
est supporters Of Pierce to the Presidency
has lengthy article in regard to the recent
action Of the ~Old Guard" Democrats of New
Hampshire and the appointments made by
General Pierce, which latter, to use the Ian
guagc Of Edmund Burk's resolution, as in.
troduced into the recent Democratic State
Convention Of New Hampshire, are charac.
terized as "conferr!ing too many favors on
those who support the (Baltimorc) platform
for one purpose and spit upon it for another
and who have no real sympathy with the
great National Democratic party or its princi.
pies" These singing words of the resolu.
ton were stricken out, but the subsequent
election of Mr.. Burk as President Of the Con.
vention indicated that they were not dlssatis.
fled or offended by his conduct.
The New York Herald pursucs the subject
thus wise:
We can only regard this resolution in its
broader and more general bearing, as Il warn.
ing from New Hampshire to the Adminstra-
ton, and as an encouragement to the "Old
Guard" every where, TO abandon their policy
of quiet submission, and to take n boldcr and
more independent ground in reference to the
division of the spoils. And there are not
wanting many Indications, hcrcabouts or else.
where, that the hard shells will profit from
the broad hint thus thrown out by the sturdy
New Hampshire Democracy.
The division of the spois! The theme is
distastclul 1t savOrs of corruption. Can the
Democratic party be holden up by an unwise
division of the spoils! Can its great pro-
grammc of measures and principles be thus
defeated, by exciting discord and mutiny
among the rank and file! We must answer
in the Affirmative The spoils are the adhc.
sive plaster of the federal government; and in
these days, where powerful faction Of the
dominant party is overlooked, trouble and
disorganization may be anticipated.
The Washington organ pleads the plea OF
the reunion of the Democracy. 1t pleads that,
whereas the Northern free sellers of l8iS,
and the Southern scccssionists of 1850, 81,
united upon the Baltimore platform in the
election of Gen. Pierce, therefore he could
only do what he has done, in considering ma
tional men, free soilers, and seccssionists, n
consolidated and homogeneous mass. The
defence would be plausible, and perhaps sat.
isi;lctory, were the premises correctly laid
down. But in the cabinet, in the diplomatic
appointments, in the diversified schedule of
domestic offices, it is charged by old hard
listed Democrats, that the Administration has
been working deliberately to ovcrshadow and
supcrscde the Cass and Dickinson division OF
the party, by junction of the Northern and
Southern ultras. The National Democrats
are evidently impressed with this idea, that
they are to be superseded in the future coun-
ellis of the party-that they are too slow
that their platform is obsoete-that Cass
and Dickinson are obsolete, and that they and
their adhcrents must be content to play Sc
cond fiddle to new and wrong order OF
things.
This is the key to the New Hampshire
resolution, and We apprchend that this is not
the last of it.