The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-11

shire, the 10llOWlng Recommendation to PreSl-
dent Pierce was introduced by Mr. Edmund
Burke, Chairman Of the Committee on Resolu-
tions, to wit
5th-Resolved, Tha. We encourage ourselves with
the belief that our distinguished fellow cltlzen, now
at the head o. the government Of the United states,
will not in his appointments overlook the Old guard
of the democratic party upon whom ne must rely
for successful support in all the emergencies which
may arise in the progress OF his administration
This was the resolution as modified in COM
mttee; for it appears that as originally
drafted by Mr. Burke, the word future" was
inserted before appointments and the following
words at the end:-'Nor confer too many IA
vors on those who support the platform for one
purpose and spit upon it for another, and who
have no real sympathy with the great national
democratic party or its principles These
words have sting in them, and were therefore
judiciously stricken out. Nor could it be ex-
pected that the resolution as modified would
be adopted by the convention. Mr.. Burke,
perhaps, did not expect it; but his subsequent
election by the convention as their president,
indicates pretty satisfactorily that they were
not seriously offended at his conduct. Indeed.
his election appears to us as a sort of left
this light, we apprehend the administration
will be most likely to regard it.
We are also inclined to think that Mr.. Burke
has achieved more than he anticipated, in being
thus elected president Of the convention, after
having brought in the aforesaid obnoxious re-
solution. The two facts are upon the record
first. that the resolution was introduced in a
New Hampshire State Convention, in the vii
lage of Concord, the local headquarters of Gen.
| Pierce, in advance of any such expression Of
| opinion from any other quarter; and secondly
| that although the resolution was rejected very
| decisively the mover of it was complimented
in way substantially tantamount to the adop-
ton of the resolution itself Doubtless the
simple purpose of Mr.. Burke was to show to
the national democrats. all over the land. that
| there were some of the Old Guard' of New
Hampshire bold enough to lift up their warn
ing voice, while yet the administration seems
to be omnipotent almost, in its power to con-
troll the destinies of the party-in its power to
reward or to punish individuals or factions, as
policy or necessity may demand.
Herein lies the force and whole moral
effect of this New Hampshire movement. 1t
would be of comparatively little weight-a
milk and water affair-in New York, or
Georgia, or Ohio, OF Mississippi for in
each of those States the Old Guard"-the
Union compromise democrats, the Cass and
Dickinson branch Of the party-have tangible
and immediate cause of complaint. But in New
Hampshire, it is mainly from their sympathy
with their brethren of other States, that the
compromise men have any reasonable ground
Of displeasure. And hence the moral effect of
Mr.. Burke's resolution. True. he may have had
some personal balances to liquidate between
himself and General Pierce With such mat
tiers. however, we have nothing to do. We can
only regard this resolution in its broader and
more general bearing, as warning from News
Hampshire to the administration and as an
encouragement to the "Old Guard" every
where, to abandon their policy Of quiet submis-
sion, and to take holder and more independent
ground in reference to the division of the
spofls And there are not wanting many indi
cations, hereabouts or elsewhere. that the hard
shells will profit from the broad hint thus thrown
out By the sturdy New Hampshire democracy.
The division OF the spoils The theme is
distasteful. 1t savors of corruption. Can the
democratic party be holden up by an snwise
division Of the spoils? Can its great pro-
gramme of measures and principles be
thus defeated, by exciting discord and
mutiny among the rank and file? We
must answer in the affirmative. The spells
are the adhesive plaster Of the federal govern
ment; and in these days, where a powerful fac
ton of the dominant party ia overlooked,
trouble and disorganization may be anticipated.
But the national democrats cannot be justly
regarded as faction. They constitute, rather,
the substantial nucleus of the whole party.
They held the same position in the late Pres-
dental contest that the regular troops occupied
in the battle of Buena Vista. The brave volun-
| teers
In the gorge of Angostura,
fought with the resolution of veterans, with some
exceptions but it was Bragg's battery, to use
| the expression of Old lacks official report,
that saved the day." And so it was the plat
form-the compromise platform. of the national
democrats that saved the day" to General
| Pierce, and gave to the wings worse than
Buena Vista defeat in the November election.
| What has followed? The Washington organ
pleads the plea of the reunion of the democracy.
1t pleads that whereas the Northern free sellers
of lS4s, and the Southern secessionists of 1850,
81, united upon the Baltimore platform in the
election of Gen Pierce, therefore he could only
do what he has done in considering national
men. free sellers, and secessionists, CONSOLE
dated and homogeneous mass. The defence
would be plausible, and perhaps satisfactory
were the premises correctly laid down. But in
the cabinet. in the diplomatic appointments in
the diversified schedule Of domestic Offices, it is
charged by old hard-fsted democrats, that the
administration has been working deliberately
to overshadow and supersede the Cass and
Dickinson division of the party by a junction