Washington telegraph., 1853-08-03
ltrom the Washington Rspublicl
The Party and the Adn.znistra

The Party and the Adaasnistr:s-
tEon.
We have not sought matter of complaint
against President Pierce. His inaugural
address satisfied US, aud we believed that
its principles would be adhered to in good
faith. Our favorable impressions were not
shaken by the appointment of Jefferson
Davis who had been preaching disunion
ever since We have known of him. to
seat in the Cabinet. We thought that
a surrender of Mr.. Davis rather than of
President Pierce The selection of Mr..
Campbell for the vacant seat on the Su-
preme bench was rather strong but even that
we were disposed to pardon in view Of the
fact that the appontee 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 account in his own State, and with
those Of both parties, was put under the ex-
tinguisher of the New Orleans Custom
House never to be heard of again while
time lasts His more adroit and iesuitical
colleaugue, MI Pierre Soule, an apostle
of dissolution, man who had abused the
hospitality to which he owes everything by
openly advocating the overthrow of our
existing institutions; this man was raised
over the head of Mr. Downs, and sent upon
sons of policy, precisely the last person in
the country who ought to have been select
ed We commented lightly on the case of
these three distinguished fire-eaters, as they
came before the country We were not dis
posed to censure the disposition Of the off
ces until we learned what the democrats
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 Fresolers and Fire-eaters,
North and South, have taken all the Offices,
and that the Union men have been over
slaughed without remorse The truth is
that the first named classes are the more
active and unscrupuous Of the Democratic
party, in the two sections and they have
managed to press themselves and their
claims on the Administration with vigor
that could not be resisted. Buffalo and Nash
fille the Freesoilers and the fire-eaters, the
disuionists Of the two sectional conventions,
have completely triumphed; while the class
es represented by Downs, Cobb, Dickinson
aud Cass, have been ANONYMOUSLY defeated
4 We saw that the factions were uppermost in
the democratic party when Major Donelscn
i al,
propitiate the Disunionists. The extremists
resented the uniform and patriotic devotion
Of the Democratic leader to school in which
he was educated, and to the principles which
be bad 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 sacrificed.
and those whom he represented were sacri
iced with him, It is a natural consequence
that the little knot of Disunionists who ral-
lied about the Southern Press-that pesti-
lent organ Of treason-haVc since had every
thing their own way and in securing this
result they have been obliged to cement
their alliance, offensive and defensive, with
tue Freesoilers. There was no warmer
] apoogists, and no more earnest advocate for
their admission to the highest places under
the Administration than Mr. Soule himself
for the arguments which told favorable
for one class of Disunionists were equally
4 favorable to the other.
During the Presidential canvass, Gene
raj Scott was assaied by the Pierce press
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 Republic. Those who knew
General Scott, knew that he was the last
man in the country to yield to any undue
Influences 1t was apparent then that Gen.
Pierce was the candidate for extremists
Nobody could doubt that when we saw
Soule and Van Buren traversing New Eng
land in company, and making speeches to the
j people from the samo stump With the bug
bear of ''Sewardism," however, the friends
of General Pierce managed to cry down
Gen. Scott Moderate party men through
out the country, tired and sick of Aboli-
tionism and the dissensions that 1t had ex,