Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-06-30
The Patronage Policy aud Is cfleeI.

IA the tone Of the leading administration or
gsns. within two or three months. Instead &
lamusiug their readers win boasts that tn
Wig party Is dead. they have now as muc
fbusiness as they can well attend TO, IN def..n
: ding The administration from The charges pre-
iere against II from members of their
party. The Was ington Union leads Of. an,
The Concord Petriot addresses itself to th'
same pressing work Of necessity. The Patfio
of June 18th, has the lollosing emphatic Ian
guage:
"Whar are the charges constantly made by
these faeiious NEIL against the President =
They assert that he has filled large portion oi
The Offices with northern sboliflonists and
southern Northumberland he has forfeited his
pledge and betrayed the party by comforting
Offices upon the enemies of the democratic
| patform-lhat he has sacrificed the interests OF
the democratic parry to promote his own am
bilious views. These are the charges made
against Franklin Pierce, by men calling them
selves New Hampshire democrats"
Such, according 10 the Patriot,are the char.
ges urged against the President by his own
party. in his own Stately men who know him
best. In New York, the discomfort aid com
plants nre sill greater Every here, the fer.
menl Of deep dissatisfaction is seen. A dc.
moc,at, wiring to The New York Express
from Cleveland, Ohio, expresses himself in
these terms
While he has almost every instance at the
North, appointed men TO Office from the rank
Of those who "spit upon the platform" he has
IN the South appointed them from the ranks oil
nullfers ,secessonists &c. who have comprised
heaven and earth TO hurst asunder the ties
which bind US together as one people, and
which cement this glorious Union. Such a
course of policy is extraordinary, and II has
been The cause of much astonishment aud dis
saiisfaction-nav of modification 10 those who
have been instrumental in eecring him. Ii was
not hat was expected Of Franklin Pierce by
The Democracy of the Union. It was not
" hal was expected by the democracy oil a sin.
gle State that cast its vote for him at the re-
cent election. They have been sorely dsap-
pointed N the man.
The President does not seem TO have con-
sidered that his plan for buying up the allie.
eiance of party rebels aud factlonists was it.
self a premium for disloy ally in others. He
has made the road to official favor poss through
The gate of party deserlion and recusancy, and
in short time we shall see the way crowded
with hurrying and hungry mob, pressing on
Tor the land of promise beyond. The impolicy
of such course is as certain and obvious as
It's injustice. Both are strikingly exposed in
the remarks which We subjoin from the New
York Express
The Union" in apologizing for these Free
Soil and Secession appointments, - composing.
We suppose four fiiths of the Pierce non ina
tions-says, in substancethese appointees have
changed their principles, and are now pledged
TO tho Baltimore tUnion) platform. We have
no proof " hatsoevcr of this allegation but if
II were the fact, it only amounts to this. that
Pierce gives his offices to traitors to the prin.
cples of his northumberland TO the pledges ofhis
Inaugural, and his dependents In Office are to
he men at heart against the principles and
pledges that made him President To honor
and reward new converts at the expense Of
old friends is unnatural as ii is unj ust, but
this is nothing To us.
What however, as Wings, we have partic.
ularlv to comment upon, is The very important
iactthal the Secessionists South and Abolition
, lists North can brng,hy their coursr,the Union
and the Constitution TO the very borders OF
perdltion, and then, when they are beaten BY
, a combined people OF all partles, receive the
highest honors of the Government If the Fed
| eral Government will take up and reward sncl
men,aiterthey have done allthev could to over
throw that Government, ofcourse it is patronag,
in advance for such disloyalty and treason in al
time hereafter. Gen. Pierce was nominated
upon the express ground that he was faithful
rot only to the Compromise Bills but TO tn,
men OF those Bills, lin his own party at least,
and what Is more 10 the great leading, and ev
er-to be leading principles more or less involv
ed in them all; principles ever to arise urde
our Constitution, and ever be maintained if tn,
Union is to stand as il is,in defiance OF the yer,
men TO whom Gen. Pierce has been giving the
highest Offices.
: PuTNAM's MONTHLY. .tor July, we'll main
f tain the elevated reputation acquired by tn,
previous numbers. Amor gsi its contribution