Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-07-30

was The fanic that you crenteu, lalueu by u
few Wings in Cougress) by holding up tho
name of only one man of that party. who, it
was said, would be appointed to Office. and ex
ert on influence over Gen. Scott.that very many
Thousand Wings were kept from the polls,
and refused 10 give their support TO a candi.
date protesting their own prIncipies.and agree
ing with them on all questions OF foreign and
domestic policy, and many were induced lsome
from honest distrus; created by your efforts.
and others from selfish aud degrading consid
eraiions.) to vote for Gen. Pierce, who was
voucbed for as thoroughly Southern IN all his
feelIngs;s as a par ercefleace." Union and
Compromise man, who would lend no coun
tensDce 10 the enemies of the compromise,
vino bad. by their unpatriolic hostility 10 those
great healing measures, brought the Union 10
the very verge of dissolution. These were
the Secessioni.t of TIE South and the Free Soil
ers of the North. embracing the entire aboli-
ton parry of the country, for they untedly
formed the party in opposition during the
whole strugge that was made for their dcfeat)
You succeeded Gen Scott was defeated and
Mr.. Pierce, an unknown, untried and eompar-
atively obscure man, was elected by a trium-
plant majority. ask you. gentlemen, if his
election was not everyw here hailed as
triumph of the Union putty of the country
over the disorganzers ard agitators, both North
and South, and at that time did not Wing and
Democrat alike, have reason to hope that bis
success would tell. with Overwhelming and
crushing effect, on each wing of the faction
istsY
To what was his election due Gen. Pierce
was himself not ignorant of the cause,for "hen
The eyes of twenty thousand of his fellow citl-
a tho ate nor
TIC of the capitol on the 4h of March, and
lerverish anxiety prevailed all classes and par
ties to catch the first words that might fall
from the lips of the man they had taken upon
faih, (Which rested upon the pledges Of his
Northern friends be did not hesitate to give
the most unqualified assurances Of his devotion
TO the Union, and his recognition oil, and devo-
ton to those measures known as the Compro-
mise acts. While not word was said throughout
his inaugural address, on any other SUI ect
connected with the domestic interest, and in
ternal policy of this vast country, this was
subject he did not feel himself at liberty TO
treat with silence it had attained an impOr
lance above and beyond all other questions
and the unequivocal assurances he then gave
hushed the country into silence, aud struck
his enemies with admiration for his decision,
his fort,ude and patriotism; tie press Of both
paIties sung praises to his name, all breahed
free, and seemed to feel, that in whatever else
they might be disappointed, the country was
at least safe for four years from the machna
lions oGthe dsunonisIs Of the South, and the
fanatics Of the North; but it is one thing "to
hold Tie tsord Of promise TO Ms ear" and quite
another thing 80 break al The hope How long
this sense OF security lasted let the sequel show.
Immediately after the delivery of the lnau.
gural, it devoyed on Mr.. Pierce to select his
constitutional advisers from the great mass of
those who had supported Transportation
was on tptoe, and speculation was running
high-lhe city of Washington was crow ded to
It's utmost capacity; all sections and factions of
parties that had contributed to his success,
were fully represented, and all most urgent and
imperious in their demands, to share in the
spolls, and participate in the administration OF
rhe government-and strange enough to say,
all succeeded but one and that one was the
uniOn party that party for whom the tri.
umph had been claimed, that party to which
Mr.. Pierce, in his inaugural had pledged his
devotion; that party thathad just struggled with
and overthro~n the secession party in every
Southern State, and had turned back the rsin
tide Of free sosm in the North yes that par
| ~ dloUcb was uOOineu 10 mOTtlnCatlOn ana de-
feat, it was turned adrift to take care OF itself
while the Democratic, Union locing, compyo
mise abiding President ell ect. took 10 his arms
and espoused as his confidential advisers, those
men who were most hostile to the compro-
mise and most obnoxious to the friends OF the
Union in both sections ofthe country
For his prime minister he selected Mr. Mar
cy-who was the very head and front of what
is termed in his own state the "soft she'll" par.
ty; gentleman who was by all odds more Oh
noxious 10 those who had stood unhlnchingy
10y the rights of the South, than any other in
the State of New York; gentleman whose en-
tire sympathies were known, as his subsequent
appointments in the free states have since
shown 10 be altogether with the free soil par.
ty.
For his Minister of war on the other hand,
he selected gentleman who had acquired an
unr9ralled notoriety for his inveterate hostility
to the compromise, who had just been run and
beaten as the anti compromise, secession, can,
didate for Governor OF Mississippi; who was