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The Administration.

menis of President Pierce have been severely
criticised, and complaints have been expressed
in terms of not unmeaning signifcancy. This
is the result, no doubt, in great measure, of
the disappointment of aspirants for office, and
it would have been strange if no result of this
kind had taken place. 1t was expected. But
the wing papers help the disaffection all IN
their power, by not only disappearing the
policy of the administration, but by eXaggera-
ted accounts of the extent of the complaints
Having nothing to catch ray Of hope from Of
themselves, the wings are hoping to be able by
tanning the flame of discomfort, wherever ap-
parent, in the end to ''divide and conquer"
In Maine there is, there can be, no complaint
Of the administration for such reasons. The
President has carried out the only policy he
could consistently pursue, fair division ofthe
Offices among the members of the democratic
party represented by the delegates of the party
at the Baltimore Convention and by the party
itself at the polls on his election. 1t is true
Maine has lost offices of trust and responsible
ty to which she has been heretofore considered
entitled from the extent of her commercial in
terests; and if there should arise any complaint
it must be on this account; but we believe the
policy of the administration in dividing the of
fees among the three great sections Of the par
ty and prescribing neither section, meets the
warm commentator of the democratic party of
this state.
But it is said that the ''Union'' men have
not received their just share Of the Offices
The wings are calculating with surprising
mathematical skill that the barnburners of the
North and the ultra state-rights men Of the
South have appropriated all the offices, and
the Union men are left out in frigid atmos
phere 1t must be recollected that good ma
nv wings have claimed to belong to the Union
party, and many of them came in for claims
for Office on that ground. There is no doubt
much of the complaint arises from this source.
But the assertion is false. The Union men of
the democratic party, facts prove, have receiv-
ed as many Offices as either of the other sec
tions of the party: and in the South the pro-
portion is, compared with the state-rights men,
as two to one In the north the division be-
tween that portion of the party and the other
extreme, is so just to both parties that no other
than a most unreasonable man or a constitu-
tional grumbler can find any ground for COM
plant
The following upon the policy of the admin
istration from the Boston Post, is a compendi-
UNI Of the only line Of action the President
could consistently adopt. He has faithfully
performed his duty thus far, to the whole party,
and we have no doubt will stick to that policy
through all report, whether good or evil
The directing thought or theory Of the APP
pointments it is impossible for any one, who is
willing to look the facts and the condition of
opinion, and of the times, calmly In the face,
to fail to apprehend; for it was the plain, OBJ
vlous, natural, necessary, unavoidable result
of events. When the democratic convention
assembled at Baltimore, the whole country
was still palpitating under the system Of ardent
political controversy, by which each party had
been more or less divided or distracted, and
thus rendered comparatively powerless for any
object of public good. The democratic party
was the first to awake to a consciousness of its
duty; and its members assembled at Baltimore
to re-unite their shattered ranks, and to place
themselves under leader whom they might
follow with common attachment and confidence
to assured victory To accomplish this they
laid aside personal preferences and personal an
imosities; they came together on the broad
platform of democratic principles; they re-de-
clared their ancient creed; they applied the
creed to the troubled questions of the day; and
upon the great question Of the reconcilement of
the rights Of the states with the integrity and
stability Of the Union, especially in the rela-
ton of the slave population of the south, they
agreed on declaration of political doctrine so
Just and true, that when, soon afterwards, the
wings assembled at the same place, all they
could do was to put forth feeble copy Of the
creed of the democratic party. In this spirit
Of united concession, for the sake of concord,
Of common oblivion of past differences, and of
catholic comprehensiveness of policy, they
nominated their candidate-not as the choice of
this or that faction, but the representative
of the whole party. In this spirit they elected
him, and in this spirit FRANKLIN PIERCE as
cended the steps Of the capitol, there in the
face Of his assembled countrymen, to iaaugu
rate the advent to power of the reunited demo-
cratic party, amid all the glorious recollections
Of the past, and the yet more glorious expecta-
tons of the future, which belonged to the
scene, to the day, and to the man.
What line Of action, in regard to appoint
ments, was President thus elevated to power
by reclamation, by the reunited democratic
party, to pursued Was he to go back into the
controversies Of the past and select the combat
ants Of one on the other side of controversy,
and confer all the trusts Of the government on
them exclusively To do so would have been
to trample under foot all the principles Of the
Baltimore convention; it would have been to
rend asunder, with his own hands, the party
whose combined suffrages had raised him to his
post of common head and arbiter; and to have
filled the country once more with the din of
existing factions, powerless for good by weak
ness of division, powerful only for evil and
that to the very EXTREMIST point Of the Union.
he has not done this foolish, this impolitic,
this insane thing; and for not doing it he is
now Unexpectedly assailed by those who little
comprehended the disastrous and suicidal con-
sequences Tor the whole country itself of what
tney would have tried to have done He has
preferred to regard as worthy of confidence All
who have, In good faith. stood a. tbo' Ral.;
more platform of 1852, and. who avon, tha;.
determination to by it in future Al -
SO doing he has judged wisely and we'll for tt
north and the south, the east and the xves, 80
But then it is charged that he has anno;n.od
to Office the dsunionists of the south and The
frce-soilers of the north; nay, it is charged he
has done this by preference as against the un-
ionists Of both north and south. This we per-