The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser., 1853-08-09
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Pierce. Objection is not raised 70 those APP
ooin,ed on account Of honesty and eaPabitity,
but because they have been what are termed
socs.sionists aud freesoilers.' Now, | would
simply ask What business it is 10 the wing par
ty. what section Of the democratic party the
official appointments are made from, if the
appointments are honest and capable This
is, in ms opinion, the extent of the night oi
the whig party, as a portion Of the people for
whom the government is administered to IN
ouire into the character Of the appointments
of Cen. Pierce. As a Union democrat, | am
constrained to think that this mode Of attack
ing the Administration is very injurious and
dangerous TO the best interests of the country
at the present time. The great crisis of so
and 81 is but just past The severe wounds
caused by the conflicts Of that gloomy period
of our history are still undergoing the only
successful mode of healing them up. Now if
those wings, who were snch warm advocates
of the Compromise measures, and such ar
dent lovers of the union Of these States
were sincere, does it look consistent i'll them TO
be throwing every obstacle in the way Of an
administration triumphantly elected upon the
compromise issues, while that administration
is doing every thing in its power to restore
harmony and win back the hearts and feelings
of those who have been aienated by the hith-
erto mismanagement of the general Govern
mentl 1t is by no means expected that the
whig party will support the democratic policy
Of Gen. Pierce; but it is expected that they
will not oppose him in endeavoring to do what
they themselves have professed to desire. 1t
is not expected they will abandon every other
ground of attack and assume that which leaves
them guilty of the charge brought against
them when they sought the corporation of
Union democrats to aid them in sustaining
the Compromise, namely, that they wished
not the welfare of the Union, but the destruc-
ton of the democratic party. WHAT'S clearly
the object of Gen. Plerce's appoint ents9 Is
it not to eradicate sectionasm and restore
harmony and good feeling to a great party,
and thereby, peace and quiet to the country ?
And is not such All object always desirable {?
Would it no! be accomplishing a great good,
so far as the Union is concerned, for the whig
party to unite upon the principles of the Bal
timore Platfom9 Was it not a subject of
deep regret to our best Statesmen when the
great Methodist and Baptist denominations
separated the North from the South?
Let all the religious and political societies
of the Union separate; and the Union itself
must part asunder. Any one, let him be whig
or democrat would be greatly wanting in
true patriotism who would throw the least OBJ
stacle in the way Of healing up such schisms.
But the direct tendency of all this whig abuse
about the appointments is to prevent the re-
union and barhfony Of the only great party
able to unite, and whose union alone is able
to preserve the union of the States. When
the two great political parties last met at Bal
tinore, the all prevailing design of both was
to constitute platform, upon which all could
stand and support the Compromise measures.
In accomplishing this design the whig party
signally failed from beginning to end, while
the democratic party gained the most signal
trinmph recorded in its history. Gen. Pierce
was elected by the almost unanimous vote Of
the States, pledged to those who elected him,
to know no South, North, East or West-to
know no barn urner, bunker, fiee-soiler or Sc
cessicnist By-gones were dismissed, and the
whole party bound by sacred Obligations to
cease the further agitation of the slave ques-
don Upon the platform all were equal
equal in rights, equai in privileges, equal in
position. Now after this anicaBe settlement
and reorganization of the party, and the elec
ton of Gen. Pierce upon the very grounds o
this settlement, what right would he have tc
use the power THUS placed in his hands, to re
open all those dangerous issuess What rlgh
would he have place the country back agair
where twas before any settlement was made
By the stipulations of the Baltimore platform
there is no such thing as a Union man, free
soiler, orscceder, and if the President shouiC
recognise such distinctions by his appoint
ments, or in any other way, he would violat
the solemn pledge he gave to support the plat
form. On the other hand, should auy demo
crat, appointed to office by this Administra
ton, prove faithless in this respect he will in
evitably be turned out Of Office.
What an immense rood will result To III