The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-14

gest that public opinion should be suspended
until the documentary history of the difference
shall be published.
Complaint of the Bounty System not Con-
fined to the wings.
We have not hesitAted to criticise snch q;
the appointments made BY the Administration
as are obnoxious to the objection urged by
Democrats IS well as Wings The Union
reproaches US as being guilty of entertaining a
disposition to embarrass the Administration
and for an alleged Inconsistency with the posi-
lion taken by US in regard to the inaugural of
PRESIDENT PIERCE. In addition to the protest
OF MIR. BURKE, We publish extracts from the
New York Herald, to show, If we REQUIRED
any justification, that paper which claims to
have exercised powerful influence in achiev-
ing the election of Mr.. PIERCE, and which
has therefore right to speak, EMPLOYS the
same language that is used by ourselves:
''The division of the spoils The tbeme i Al,
tasteful 1t savors Of corruption. Can tho Demo
cratic party be holden up by an unwise division Of
the epoils' Can it's great programme If ,n.o,n,os
and principles be thus defeated. by exciting dis
cord and mutiny among the rank and 6Iep We
must answer in the affirmative. The sno;s ar. ~.
adhesive plaster of the Federal Government. and
IN these days, where powerful faction of tho do.
minant party is overlooked, trouble and d,sorga
nization may be anticipated But the National
Democrats cannot Be justly regarded as a faction.
fhe- constitute, rather, the substantial nucleus of
The whole party. They held the same position in
the late Presidential contest that the regular troops
occupied in the battle of Buena Vista The brave
volunteers, in the gorge of Angostnra, ou ght with
the resolution of veterans, with some executions.
but 1t was Bragg's battery, to use the expression
OF Old lacks os4cial report that saved the day
And &c it was the platform-the Compromise plat
Iorm-of the National Democ rats that saved the
DAY to General Pierce, and gave to the Whigs 4
worse than Buena Vista defeat IN the November
election
what has followed The Washington organ
pleads the plea of the reunion of the Democracy
II Pesde that, whereas the Northern Freesoiler, of
ioio and the Southern Secessionists of ls5O-5l
united upon the Baltimore platform in the election
OF General Pierce, therefore he could only do what
be has done, in considering national men, Free
eoiiers, and Secessionists a consolidated and bo-
mogeneous mass. The defence would be plausi-
Ole, and perhaps satisfactory, were the Or emises
correctly laid down. Bot in the Cabinet in the
diplomatic appoin tments, in the diversified SEIZED
uie OF domestic offices, is charged by old hard
nsted Democrats that the Administration has been
WORKING deliberately to overshadow and super.ede
the Cass and Dickinson division of the party bv
Junction oil the northern and southern ultras The
Nauonai Democr ts are evidently impressed with
'his loea' That they are to be superseded in the
future councils of the party; that they are too
SLOW; that their platform il obsolete; that Cas- and
DICKINSON are obsolete, and that they and their
adherents must DC content to play second fiddle to
a new and wrong order Of things
II his Is the key to the New Hampshire resoIu-
ton, and we apprchend that this ia not the last of
IT. But can the President retrsce bis stems. and
reclaim and restore the National Democrat,-the
Hard Shells. the Old Hunkers the Old Fopies. II
yon please-to their rightful position? They do
not regard themselves an inferior branch of the
party-ss a make weight in the late election-bnt
rather as the head and front and grand central
column of the Democracy. And there ia detection.
In consequence, still dormant TO a great extent
but brooding upon revenge. There il a Demo-
cratic rupture fomenting in the rank and file of
the party. Can harmony be restoredl Can all the
diverse elements uniting in the late election be
held together by all that has been done, NAV be
done, or can be donei Can the great Democ ratio
party be kept in tact by the spoils of Office alone,
Can any administration succeed on the scohe sye
power OF public plumber and nothing else
Exceedingly doubtful, if not absolutely impos-
sible.
zinc part OF wisdom, then, is to have strong
anchor TO the windward. Can General Pierce
maintain his position any other principle, than
the distinct and comprehensive Union principles
OF the National Democrats, laid down in the
Baltimore PLATFORM Do not principles and men
invariably go together' And in the abstract, dis
gushing as 10 this dirty business of the spos, il
becomes an important game, where their dispen
salon conveys an endorsement or reputation Of
this or that particular faction division of the
party. The popular apprehension that General
Scotty elected, too'id gice the supremacy his ad
minisration 10 Seuard and the Freesoilers had erfrs
thing TO do toth hi, terrible defeat The popular be-
lief, on the other hand, that General Pierce would
uphold the principles of the Constitution, as EN-
bodied in the Compromise platform, in his appoint.
ments not less than in his measures of public
policy, had everything to do with his triumphant
| election We are responsible, to some extent, fol-
this direction of public opinion; and the history
the last twenty years so will vindicate the con
slstency OF this journal upon the great fundamen
| tai Issues OF the last Presidential canvass We
| therefore, feel the greater soicitude concerning
the success or failure of this Administration w
desire its success, but zoe fear 4at it is drifting
the breakers But it is, perhaps, enough for tn,
| present to recommend (aside from all persona
considerations in connection With this New Hamp
shire movement) careful study OF the scope ans
drift of Mr.. Burke's resolution by the Presiden
and his Cabinet. The batteries of sycophants ant
courtiers may be agreeable, but they are delusve
The timely warnings Of independent men canno
be, with equal safety, disregarded. Will there b,