Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-12

principles of the Baltimore Platform still cordially
concur in the elevated doctrines of the Presidents
inaugural Address; 2 and while they declare their
opinion that, some of his appointments and reno
vals he has been badly advised by his incongru-
Gus cabinet they still have an abiding confidence
that the President is sincerely attached the prin
cples upon which he was elected" 1t is, however,
deeply to be amented that in the selection of their
State ticket they had not chosen all their candidates
from among those who harmonized with them in sem
ment. Mr.. Cooley, their candidate for Comptroller,
has lately made speech which abounds in the vlest
vtuperations of President Pierce. In a late speech
at Syracuse, Mr.. Cooley stgmatized Mr. Pierce's
Inaugural as noisy, pompous, stump speech, de-
nominated the Presidents Inaugural" The Presi-
dent himself he calls g fifth-rate county court,
treacherous pettfogger of New Hampshire, who, by
accident simply happened to reach exalted posi-
tion only to disgrace it. and himself with in
fanny &c sort of Punch and Judy conductor of
the freesoil performances with wire in his back,
by which he is twitched backwards and forwards,
and made to kick up his heels here and dance there,
to just such kind of music the organgrinders of
his cabinet take fancy to sing in his deuded ears"
Mr. Cooley speaks of " the low dead level of pro-
family and drunkenness, requisite in Washing
ton to conform to the fashionable standard in vogue
at the White House," and thus fires broadsde
of calunny upon the Democratic President of the
Union:
General Pierce opened the performance of his
Presidency on the Baltimore Platform; but having
previous engagement with the freeso managers, the
curtain fell IN pronounclng his inaugural prologue
there and he has ever since been miseraby playing
to thin houses of l-fame on the Buffalo platform.
1t is at any time dangerous experiment to desert
friends and undertake to buy ones enemies but at
General Pierces time of life, with fixed social habits
so Objectionable and pernicious as his, it cannot
prove otherwise than every way disastrous and fatal
eff in occasional lucid moments, should such hap
pen to occur, General Pierce returns to the lofty
summit of his country's regard, which, by his stu
pendous treachery he has so justly forfeited, and
looks down into the flower deep of degradation and
onT1fot, lk has aa
one will envy him the wretchedness of the contem-
plation, and in commiseraton of his misery, one
might almost in mercy pray for the return OF his de-
lrium, to deliver him from the horrors of a con-
sccnce-smitten conviction of the perncious evils his
madness is likely to nf1ict upon the institutions of
the Union and the Of religious and political
freedom"
All good men must reprobate such miserable and
slanderous assaults However Democrats may dis
sent from the action of the Administration in
of its appointments and in the removal of Mr. Bron-
son they cannot quietly see man vilfied who,
like Gen. Pierce, has borne himself so properly in
Washington, and has shown the most decided reso-
luton to PROSTATE the abotonists that would de-
stroy the South and the Union Upon this point the
Alexandria Sentinel has the following just remark:
The Albany Argus (Har0) contains very long
speech of Cooley, with editorial endorsement in
which President Pierce and his advisers assailed
in the coarsest manner. The vilest ISLANDERS of the
late campaign repeated. We are astonished and
mortified beyond expression at this. We have re-
grctted the connection of the Administration with
New York politics, but did it friends and in
the language of friends. If for disagreement on
petty and transient matter the Administration is
to be denounced and the great principles of the par
ty put to hazard, have wholly misunderstood the
duty of those who brought it into power, and concur
with it in principle. The Hards of New York owe |
it to their party and to their professions of 10y
atty to the Administration to denounce Cooley Any
Democrat who shall array himself in opposition, that
moment losses all hold on the sympathies of his po
itcal brethren"
The Alexandria Standard, which heartily disap-
of the action towards Mr. Bronson, speaks out
emphatcally and eloquently against Cooleys speech
which "not only disgraces its author but far as it
represents public sentiment in New York. if it does
so at ALL disgraces the State We have dssentcd from
me President and his Cabinet in regard to the re-
noEal of Judge Bronson but we have not thought it
to resort to Bngsgate to express dis
sent. We despise the low flung yulgarity and coarse
lbuse with which. the extract abounds. We feel as
ured that there is not Southern of any party
Who will not hold in utter contempt, and deny all
sympathy with the man who has given utterance to
t. In the late Presidential campaign, we frequently
net in public discussion violent partizans from the
anks of our political opponents, men whose bust
less it was to canvass and deny if they could the
claims of President Pierce to the Presidency. Not
me 1.-THE of the abuse, not thousandth part of
he vulgar invective, which Mr.. Cooley has thought
proper to heap upon the head of the President of the
United States fell from the lips of the bitter
st Wing in Virginia. And yet this man calls
himself Democrat. We know very well that this
attachment to men evidence of devotion to prin
Just condemnation of men involves no de-
erton of principle. But when we see resort
o utilization of the President, in terms which would
sgrace the ish-rnarket, and that man claiming to
gree in principle with the object of his envenorned
lander, come to but one concusion-that
principles have little hold upon his affection that
is willing to sacrifice them to the qualification of
rivate spleen, the ayenging of what he may con-
ider personal wrong. Away with all such, say we
Sc they g. ards or softs . we have no confidence
a them-we feel no sympathy with them.
/" Their love is lust their friendship all a cheat,
Their smiles hypocrisy, their words deceit"
Franklin Pierceis the chosen representative of the
Democratic party, as well as President of the United
tates. His talents and virtues have served to mark
i'm for thesnext four years the exponent of Dem
cratic principles He has yet done nothing to show
hat he viii be faithless to his high trust-until he
oes he merits not the opposition certainly not
he embittercd denunciaton of those who pretend to
hink with him. We can find no apology whatever
or this unjust attack of Mr.. Cooley upon the Presi
ent. We shall be as quick to condemn his acts
hen we think them wrong as any friend of the adj
Illustration can be-but we shall always, if the
ainful necessity should arise, do so in respectful
erms; in sorrow, not in anger. Duty to our party,
uty to the country and own selfrespect, require
he obscrvances of this course and of none other"
Richmond Enquirer.
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