Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-08-31
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wEDNEsDAY, AUG. 81, 1855.
ApPoINTMENTs TO 1OFFICE s


create prejudice against President Pierce by charg
ing that he has made improper appointments to Of
fee They aege that he has preferred freesoi Demo
Gratis to the neglect of others who are sound upon
the question of slavery and in the next breath they
proceed to the opposite extreme by complaining that
he has singled out and promoted secessionsts and
Z" disunonists" 1t seems to be impossible to please
these Editors Like the who was soundly
whipped, as they last November, the ticks are
all either too high too low. If the President hap
pens to confer subordinate and nnmportant
office on formerly frecsoiler, but now on the
Baltimore PLATFORM they forthwith raise the cry that
the government is likely to pass into the hands of
abolitionists; and then if one who happens to hold
State rights ideas of secession is promoted the other
key is touched and we have doleful tune the
dangers of secession and disunion.
1t is marked fact that President Pierce has ap-
pointed one, formerly freesoer, to any Office of
the first rank while on the contrary, gentlemen who
differ with the Wings to the rights of the States
in the last resort have been called, not merely to
full missions to foreign Courts but honored with
seats in the Cabinet itself But this, instead of re-
ceivng Just commentator at the hands of these
Southern Wing Editors, is seized upon evidence
that the President is unfriendly to Southern inter
ests; in other words, President chosen from free
State rebukes reesoiism and takes to his confidence
the champions of Southern rights and for this he is
denounced by Southern Editors
The Democratic National Convention laid down
platform which, while it did full justice to the South,
at the time afforded space enough to hold all
who disposed in good faith to plant themselves
upon it. Many freeso1 Democrats atoned as far as
they could for their past misconduct by taking posi-
ton on this platform with the national Democratic
party and they contributed to extent in swell
ing the immense majority which President Pierce
ceiyed. What under the circumstances, was the
proper course to be adopted towards them? Of what
the South complaining previously to this period?
Why of the fact that freesoers were endeavorng to
infringe Southern rights; and would it have been
wise, when these reesoers seeing the error of their
way forward and expressed their regret for it
by subscribing to sound principles and to the true
reading of the Constitution the subject of slave
ry, to have repealed them and treated them still
outcasts? Would not such course have contribu-
ted, more than any thing else, not merely to keep
alive but to increase the fires of aggression and of
abolition? Most surely it would. We think the
President-and say it with full of our
possibility as Southern and Democrat-has |
adopted fortunate middle course in the NATTER
course which exalts none who were formerly free
sellers to the first places in the government, but |
which nevertheless, by admitting them in some meas
to inferior stations, does not positively reject
them and turn them over to the Wing freesoil enc
my in the free States, to isolated factions based
on opposition to domestic slavery. We know that
Gen. Pierce is not only pledged against the renewal
of the slavery agitation but that lie heart against
it.; and the policy he has adopted in this matter is
in strict keeping with the position he has always
cupicd The President, it is known, has repeatedly
declared in conversation, that Democrat who does
Akekov,
shall either receive retain Office and the Wash
ington Union, speaking no doubt what the Editor
knew to be his determination has declared that any
offce-holder who may attempt to renew the slavery
agitation will at once thereby forfeit his place What
more could Southern men ask?
But what right have Wing Editors to complain on
sucha subject? Who passed the fugitive slave law?
The friends of Pierce, Buchanan Douglas, and Cass
Northern Democrats, with no Wing in the Senate
and only three Wings in the House sustaining it.
Mr.. Webster, it is true, staked himself like man,
as he was, for the compromise ," but he de-
nounced and revied for it by Massachusetts, and New
York Wings, and the nomination for the Presidency
conferred, by their instrumentality, on Stewards
own Winfield Scott The South went by the
board in that Cenvention-its rights were "slaught-
cred" as Mr.. Clay was in the Convention of 1848;
and it was done because the Wing party North, as
party, was the great abolition party-because the
strength of the Wings there, and not in the
Southland because members of that Convention,
themselves and greedy horde of ex-
pectants determined at whatever hazard cost
to obtain the Offices and patronage which Wing
triumph would bring along with it. Mr.. Fillmore
and Mr.. Webster were set aside because they were
not available that is because they had gone for
the compromise" and lost popularity by it; and
Southern men not only acquiesced in this movement,
but they sustained it in Convention, defended it be-
fore slaveholding people, and endeavored to hum
bug them into the belief that they the exclu-
sive and most particular champions of their rights
Ind interests This is Southern WhSggery in its
alliance soith Northern anti-sLaUery Whiggery; and
yet this same Southern Whiggery has the efrontery
censnre President Pierce for his appointments and
% question his soundness the subject of slavery
We repeat what we said in recent ISSUE our con-
idence in Gen. Pierce is as strong if not stronger
han in any living statesman; and it is so because
We have him tested in the furnace of abolition
ind consolidation, and blemsh left upon his bright
'scutcheon. 1t is impossible that all his appoint
nents should give satisfaction; but, as whole, we
believe the masses have approved and will continue
o approve them The disappointed may, here and
here, set up howl and call for sympathy but this,
instead of occasoning concern to the friends of the
President will serve only to excite ridicule or