The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-06-07

meeting this day.
Appeintmcnts Look to tho Record.
Some Of the soulhern wings. in their zeal TO make
common cause with The white and black aboliionss OF
The North have attacked the ADM nslraion for pro-
led upon broad national principles 10 elect President
Pierce. The organs OF this wing opposition make no
ns,eoce that the President and his administration
~, fuIy committed TO the policy OF peace be.
,yesn the two sections OF the country. They make
M ur.ence that the President is not amply pledged
tho faithful maintenance and execution Of the Compro-
mise as bar to all further sectional agitation. They
also utterly unable 10 specify single man appointed
nv The President to Office who is not equally ready
,.o that tatonal policy But in the face OF these we'll
koovo facts they still reera,e the utterly false
lion, that under this administration aboonists and
dsunionisls are placed in power They further aege,
in support OF this accusaton that the President in thus
recognising the union OF the democratic party upon the
Baltimore platform. has violated the pledges Of nation
ay upon which he presented to the people in the
canvass In this connexon this journal has been
pecially referred TO by the leading wing papers OF Ken
lucky and Tennessee, having put forth the nmaion
that President Pierce if elected would feel himself bound
TO proscribe all that portion OF the united democracy
which, before the union at Baltimore, had entertained
opinions conflicting with his in regard to the
,ona issues This trick resorted to against in the
canvass and then sustained by what purpored to be
citations from our editorial columns but which were in fac
mere forguies, atrbutng to US language which we had
moi, only not uttered blu, which in direct contradiction
Of the view which we bad repeatedly taken Of the
policy Of the President in the event Of his election.
In proof of this, quote the following passages
from our editorial columns OF the 7th and 10th of july
1852 showing that al that early period Of the
we announced distinctly that the President, while pledged
to national policy in the whole of his admins.
,aon would yet recognise the union OF all sections Of
the democratic party in support OF that policy and OF
himself as its representative and would mark his recog
milton of that union in the distribution OF his appoint
men,s In an editorial OF the 10Th Of July last, dis
,pc,ly made this point before the country in the follow
ing terms
The r public is trying to create impression in favor
ofGen Scott, because certain gentle who have been
TEMPORARILY SEPARATED DEMOCRATIC PARTY ON A
SINGLE .us in favor oil Franklin Pierce and vii
liam R. ng The democratic candidates for President and
Vice President This expedent Is characteristic OF that
Journal proves nothing, except that the whole dem
ocraic party is united the Baltimore democratic plat
form the bernesses OF other days have been extin-
alone and Of carefully observing and maintaining
all the rights OF all the States shall march forward TO
great and a glorious victory JOHN VAN BUREN, JOHN A.
Dix AND THgs FHiEsDs BOTH FIERCE AND THE DEMO-
CRATIC PLATFORM coNCuRRISa The SENTIMENTS OF THE
MAJORITY and uniting with their old party agsnst the
whigs whose inconsistency developed upon every great
question: and whose contest in the present canvass is Tor
against the constitution circumstances require. These
gentlemen openly prefer Pierce Scott General Pierce
ha, no enemies punish in the democratic ranks; but,
supported, he Is and scected, as he will be-
REUNION OF THE DEMOCRACY UPON NATIONAL GROUNDS
WILL TREAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WITH
THAT FRMNkss JUSTICE CONSISTENT wiTH
CHARACTER DEMOCRAT AND STATESMAN. The South Is
fully satisfied with Pierce and with the platform which lac
.and, and the North halls him OF its citizens
whose mission will be reconcile our great party, and
ndud bear il lriump phi that will make it victorious
for many years to GOMEZ s,or, Jnyl 10.
In the same SPIRIT on the 7ih OF the month We
wrote as follows;
tits urged In some quarters that Gen. Perce's position
and record the sectional ssnes commend him Tathcf TO
the South than 10 the united democracy OF the North We
reject any such conclusion. The South knows that Gen
Pierce is in best and broadcast sense oil that term, ma
uons democrat and. such, gives him its cordial sup
port. Especially does the South favor his election.
protection and escape from Sewardsm In the federal gov
eminent But IL suppose that this result Is
M desirable the view Of The South than II is In the
Of the northern democracy IL is the general desire
til. North for sectional peace which has enabled the
dsmocrsc party unite Tor the maintenance OF dem
ocnc policy and power. In past years. and in view Of
circumstances both OF public and personal character
udely different from those which exist, such a union
Of the northern democracy appeared to be impossible
Events went and circumstances changed, and the
POLICY UNION AMONG NORTHERN DEMOCRATS
rsrHtp, Bur raIusrHxD on DECLARATION PRINCIPLES
snr DELIBERATELY MADE ABoyEBoARp, GoopFAITH
A LONGER TO psasMrsR
otp EstsASGSNxsTs, AND, ALL, AND MOST TuH
POINT MADE N NATIONAL CONVENTION uros raISoI-
Pas WHICH DEMOCRACY STATES HAD soLKMSIy
AND srPrArspLY SANCTIONED
or IT'S RECENT STATE CONVENTIONS OVER
II WAS FORTUNATE Gks. PrsRcs
POSITION QUALIFYING EXTRAORDINARY
A. oScE rus DEMOCRACY rms pKcLARrp
OPINIONS In bis record
there va, nothing In his political associations
here were no enres to concilisic no quarres to
m,ge His principles known, and he was known as
man who would stand by his princples and these,
pesy In relation to the sectional issues were the prnc
pes upon which the democracy Of the country had united
and upon which alone IT could hope unite.
say that this Is state OF things to weaken General
fefee the Norihto that General Scott as against
MIN, will be strengthened by the apparent fact that
we south sees in General Sept the representative OF Sew
a'm and sectional sgiisopis to that, in taking 1t.
ouon TOT this Canvass the northern democracy did not
NOV Us own mind The truth is that with the people Of
w Noth the issue Of seoons peace to be preserved by
tnngt the good faith OF the government at this time
'"ons and as popular as 1t is at the South.
Urio~, JSiy7.
unnecessary TO multiply such citations. What
nave quoted proves abundanty that President Pierce
represented TO the people from the FIRST as the cand-
"ae OF lhe united democracy-that from the FIRST full