Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-15

Since the delivery nj President PiercB's lnauQu-
raj the Union has devoted column or two, daily.
to commentators extracted from other papers
MANY of these were VIII editorials. But sud-
denly the Union percsives that praise flows upon
the President in such unstinted streams from all
quarters, that although HE Executive is ia no
danger of drowning locotocoism,-of which it is
still the shrieking observation-disclosures the seri-
Gus risk of being utterly submerged and going to
the muddy bottom 20 which it properly belong
On the 10th March it says:
"The Administration has had the good fortune
thus far to win the almost universal applause and
support of the country They who were most
jealous and most violent in opposing the election
Of President Pierce are now either fervent in
professions of appreciation, or else are silent in
their discomfort. There are those who augur
from this unusual condition of things the extinc-
ton of party spirit and the dawn of another .era
of good feeling This is delusion. Presi-
dent Pierce has achieved victory, but he has
made peace"
On the 11th the "Union' becomes still more
testy. The Richmond Times, it seems, has
ventured to assail the Presidents Inaugural; and
this contents the Union quite as little as the
praise of other gazeites:
"Convulsed with rage, and breathing hate,
the Times, says the Union--''hurls its point
less spear at the Presidents Inaugural without
perceiving that each blow is turned aside by
leading Wing journals. The most influential
portion ofthe Wing press-those journals which
have been esteemed the organs Of the Wing par
ty--do not attempt to assai the Inaugural
Now, it strikes US that the leader of party
must be in sad political plight, when it is nei
Their satisfied with the .good fortunes which has
won the President of this Union s'the almost
universal applause aud support Of the country,'
nor pleased with the hatred that has "hure its
pointIess spear at the Inaugural" of the same
parsonage.
Yet it is lucky that the Union" mistakes
when it nourishes the infatuaton IL at i. is the
Executive, and informs us that president Pierce
has achieved victory. but he has not made a
peace" la old times, anterior to the 4th of March,
1858, when Mr.. Fillmore was President, we admi,
that the "Union' might have Justly supposed it
was the head of party which, as yet, had no
head. But since that epoch, we believe that
the might of our U Union has passed into certain
Franklin Pierce,-a man evidently with heart
as well as ead,-who, happening to re our
Constitutional Executive, we shall regard as the
only individual whose opinions on national SUBJ
jects now to be considered, approved, or dis
| countenanced. 1t may tie very difficult for such
a partzan as the Union to believe in the pos
sibility of honest commentator upon an inaugu
raj from the Wings, That gazette has so long
studied to see fault in every one who was not the
Sii'o vi I'u ~ ioHR oAiStou NY
the cohesive cement which kept the elements OF
opposition arrayed against the Whigs,-has SO
long added and bewidersd its brain with the
malicel of scandaous partisanship,- it
cannot believe there is any such thing as
patriotism, or any virtue in a public man
that does not bend to the behests of eau
Gus before it yields to the constitution. Accord
ingly, the Union looks askance at every one who
praises the President. my dear sir you are
surely not in earnest! The Inaugural. good?-
You like it? You approve its principles? You
don't abuse it? You can't even criticise its
style Isn't there something about it you can af-
ford to blame,-to dislike,--to regard with dis
courtesy Do, for the sake of the Democracy.
make martyr Of the President, in some way
! We had no idea he was 50 excellent patriot
that the whole country would laud him the mo-
ment he opened his lips on the steps of the CAPT
| toll. If he is to have no one to oppose him, what
is to become OF the party?' IF Gen. Pierce, the
incarnation of Democracy, is to be unassaiIed, how
| is he to be enabled to discriminate between
| friends and foes? How ia fact, my dear sir, is
he to have friends to reward and enemies to pun
ish7 You the difficulty of our position, at
glance. Abuse u.s. for the sake of mercy, and
bestow the aims of invectye, in order to raise US
! to the dignity of meritorous victims -
| We do appreciate the dilemma of the Union,
but alas we cannot revoke our commentator of
the Inaugural and able only to refer it for
solace to the President himself.
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