Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-12-01
Who were the Disorganizers in New
York?


the democratic party In New York were dis
organizers,i in the recent election, and who are
responsible for putting that State in position
of hostility to President Pierce's administra-
ton. The article Is brief and to the point, -
u shows, too, that in the South the admins
tration has sure and steady support--that there
it is considered true to its pledges, and has
hold upon public confidence that no disorgani-
zing or WING cry of free soil can in the least
impair -. r Il I'll
q The actual effect of the divisions in the
party in New York, is, in the first place, to
put the Seward party in the ascendancy IN
that state !; and, in the second, to secure the
continuance of Mr.. Seward himself IN the
United States senate. This is the grand re-
suit Of the split in the democratic party, and
which every section Of it is responsible for that
split, has to answer for these consequences
We shall not attempt to sift the arguments by
which each party threw the blame on the 9th
er. There was great DEAL speciOus enough,
on both sides. But what is certain, is that
Gen. Pierce's administration sought earnestly
and continually to keep the peace between
these elements, and to induce them to act to-
gether in the support, as they had in the cleo
ton of the democratic president. Inc COM
mon bond was the Baltimore platform-the
declaration of faith by the convention, which
nominated Pierce and King. af
We cannot, for ourselves, conceive what
other standard the administration could adopt,
or on what other ground they could consider
themselves as filling the pledge of their can
didacy. In regard to the great sectional
question of slavery, it was pledge for peace
in regard to financial questions, second only to
that it was pledge fer economy and re-
duction of the tariff. Which of these condi-
tons has the administration broken! 1t is
important to solve this question, because it is
well known that the efforts of the admlnlstra-
ton to keep the New York faction from sepa-
rating, were the pretext for the open schism
between them, and foremost among these eff
forts, confessedly, was that of preventing the
slavery agitation from being revived. 1t is
not, therefore, in this quarter that the admin
istration has been untrue to the pledges on
which it was brought into office. 1t is only
by gross perversion of the truth that there can
he found any preteXt for assaillng 1t In this re-
spect. We know President Pierce. His po-
litical life has been singularly direct, consis-
tent and firm, in the support of the constitu-
tional rights Of the south. He stands with the
word or deed been faithless to us. 1t was for
this reason that he received the almost unani-
nous vote Of this state. AS we believe, he
has done nothing to forfeit this confidence.
In regard to the other great points of do
nestle policy, we find the administration equal
ly clear. The surplus in the treasury has to
the utmost possible extent been absorbed in
the redemption of the public debt; while the
materials for the comprehensive adjustment of
the tariff of the future wants of the treasury
are known to have been assiduously collected.
The popularity of the administration is now
the only assurance of the south that free trade
principles will be advanced, and the burdens
of commerce alleviated In the great matters
of public economy and equal taxation, the ad-
ministration have, therefore, thus far been true
to their pledges We believe they will con-
tinue true. They have broken faith with no
one, and the accusation is 7reteXt to cover
faithless desertion by others.
1t was impossible to omit this general dis
cussion in noticing the character of the New
York schism. The administration is mixed
up with the whole quarrel From the very
commencement the so-called hards indi-
rectly attacked it, and at every stage of the
contest their position became more and more
distinctly one Of hostility. And this not mere
ly in the consequences, but also in the feeling.
The New York Express (whig) in summing
up the results Of the election, puts the follow
ing significant intimation in italics -
Whatever be the results in detail, the hum
kers show their teeth to the federal admins
tration, with such power TO bite, that if
Pierce holds on TO Marcy & Co. the admins
ton will soon be without the least power in
this great state t
Their organization is here declared to have
for its purpose either war upon the President,
or the dictation of his cabinet. We have long
seen this. We have felt it our plain duty not
only to give the movement no help, but to OPP
pose it. The fruits it has borne already are
specimens Of what might be expected from its
full triumph. 1t has secured the continuance
of VIM. H. Seward in the United States SEN
ate. 1t has put New York in a position Of di-
rect hostility to President Pierce's administra-
ton, and has thus thrown itself in the way of
all the reforms to be looked for from that ad-
mlnstration.
| 1t is in vain to say the hards have not
done this. The whole course Of the contest
shows that they were the disorganizers, and
that the distraction of the party was thing
on which they were determined. They set
up standard which rendered division nevita-
ble--a standard founded On the Interchangeable
past. The bad faith of this proceeding is
shown from the fact, that by extending their
test little further back in time, their own
leaders were foundlno freer from blame than
those they accused. 1t was still more strik-
ingly shown by the fact, that they did not even
denounce the original barnburners SO bitterly
as they did those Of their own party who adj
hered to the reconciliation between the two
factions. Mr.. Marcy has been the target of
their incessant practice. Yet in regard to the
slavery question, it would be hard to find a
man more unassailable. The most ingenious
malice has been unable, during all this bitter
controversy, to fasten upon him an expression
calculated to impair the confidence of the
south. If there was, then, any heart in their
professed devotion to the south, why have they
assaulted him, and in such way as to make
it apparent that he was the first and main OBJ
ject of their hostility! But we have said
enough for the present"
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