The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-13
Tnc Recent EiectiOn--What Will the Pre-.
SldeNf Do Z

One Of the most important results Of the re-
cent election in this State is beginning now to
exhibit itself in very prominent characteristics.
We allude, not to the general contest between
the wings. revived under VIM. FL. Stewards
direction, and the opposing factions of the de-
mocracy, but to the subsidiary contest for
supremacy between the different factions of the
democracy, the one headed by Dickinson, and
in favor OF the great compromise measures of
1850. and Of the principles involved in them,
and the other faction headed by the Van Buren,
family with a lew renegades from former asso-
citation called the softs-and they must be very
soft indeed somewhere about the region of the
head.
| AS far az yet ascertained, this contest be.
| tween the Dickinson, or national democrats, and
the Van Buren,, or free soil faction, is Of much
moro important character out of the State Of
| New York and III the halls Of Congress than it
even q lin these regions. General Pierce in the
first selection Of his Cabinet, and il the policy
| OF his appointments had made false interpre-
tati0n Of the contest which placed him in
power, and had supposed that the coalition
Of Office seekers ut the Baltimore Con-
yentou had elected him President of the
United States, when in fact and in trnth
it was the great feeling generated by the
compromise law Of 1850 in Congress which
produced the movement in bis favor The
wing convention Of Office holders in Baltimore
adopted much the same platform as the demo-
Gratis did; but that platform did not elect Gen.
Scott. Neither did the Baltimore platform,
which Is q hnmbug, elect General Pierce The
true sources Of his triumph and Of the tremen-
dous majority by which he was carried into
power must be discovered in the contests In
Congress in layor Of the compromise measures;
and the error which General Pierce committed
was TO misinterpret his election, and to place
power and Office in the hands Of those men, in
his Cabinet and out Of his Cabinet, who had OPP
posed those compromise measures and had de-
nounced them az unconstitutional and repeal
able. Such men az Jefferson Davis, Marcy,
Soule, the Van Parens, Fowler and Cochraue,
should never have been appointed TO any Office
by General Pierce, for they were all opposed
to the compromise measures Of 1850, and 80 far
belonged to thai faction Of men who are gradu-
ally forming IN inc NORTH hnu SCUM platform
which can only lead 70 division between South
and North, and 10 the ultimate separation Of
the Union.
The election, therefore, in this State, was q
contest for the correct Interpretation Of the
general election ofls52; and tho triumph OF the
Dickinson democracy thus Ear ought to speak
in tone. ol thunder 10 General Pierce, and tell
him what his duty now is Immediately on as
ccrtaining what that Interpretation is. What
should he do Tie should at once dismiss
those iutcrneddlng inaolont and unprincipled
members Of his Cabinet. who have produced
all the difficulties which have thus far disturbed
his administration. Let him IL lie choose re-
tain the quiet mon Gor while In order to sec
what they may bring forth. Such men az DOH
bin, McClellsnd aud Campbell, seem to he
quiet and harmless, ard attentive to their du
ties and might be kept; but such instigators Of
mischief such unprincipled politicians, az
Marcy, DAVIS, Gushing. and Guthrie, ought IT
once 10 Jc swept from the coaasels q his