The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-03-29
WHAT is THOUGHT OF P1EHICr's mAueuaAt

WHAT is THOUGHT OF P1EHIcr' mAueuaAt.
The opinions expressed by our Wing cotemr
porarics show great diversity in their habits Of
thought They present, indeed, as fair an IL
lustration as can be had Of the different concur
sions which can bc honestly formed by looking
at the Same object from different points, and
through different media. go
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, which
during the election, treated the President with
moro respect than most Whig, newspapers, hne
the following shdrpcdtdmeht on his lirst Official
acts. iI3 lon afsIs rastHps .,li
"teheral Pierce's Address is not the kind df
paper which tho people expected from Pros
ident who had borne himself 90 credtable in
the canvass, and whose subsequent department
suggested hopes of a sensible, practical, unam-
bilious exposition of his views upon the ho3o
in which the executive branch of the govern
ment should be conducted. II is a stiIted, So
phomorical production, containing little elso
than commonpIaces and generalities, couched
in inflated language unbecomhgtho executive
Office and the occasion. He seems to have made
a prodigious effort at fine writing, and IL he
had been preparing a Fourth of July oration.
10 be delivered before tho younger students Of
a New England acadamy, there would nave
boon nothing to complain of in the Style"
Tho Columbus Journal is also disposed 10
crticse its style, and disposss of it in the fol-
lowing language:
"T6e first remark we heard made upon it vys
by prominent business man, on the street. Vito
cares little for politics in any party sense. He
thought it cut rather too many fourishes about
glory, and flags, and that sort of things, to in
dicate good, hard sense. 1t does "hYfatutc'
pretty well and no mistake" .a.-
The Scioto Gazette finds the same fault
''The paper itself is much such an one as ws
would look for from Whg President-barr-
ing, of course, the, jejune, style and Fourth OF
July 'hyfalutin.' If the Inaugural be q f.ir
touch of President Piorce's quality, he win VT
terly fail to please all the ism0tics of his party.
and plant himself upon ground which will bravo
tho assaults Of fillibusterism and orthodox
Locofocoism combined. But-we shall see!-
We are disposed to Judge of the tree by ID
fruits"
The Albany Journal. too, is of tho opinion
that the style might have been more sppropri-
ate. 1t says:-
'sWe should have liked Gen. Pierce's Inau-
gural better if he had draped his thoughts N
Simpler language. His style is too h6kery 5F
the occasion. The address contains many good
sentiments, often very beautifully expressed.
But it would have been more appropriate had
it been less ambitious
On the other hand, there are not few ipur-
~
power to applaud the style most heartily. The
New York Herald, the Court Journal of the
new Administration, very naturally bestows its
unqualified laudation upon it. 1t says:]
In its patriotic tone-in its f1anfal exprebs-
ion Of opitionsAin It's reflections ON the past,
its perceptions of the present, and ahtuciati6h
Of the future--it is emphatically up TO the occa-
sion the times, the persen, and the great coun-
try to which it is addressed-not 40 much in
the nature of a speech as of an act-the OPEN
ing of another Of the seals of the esentful book
of nations destiny.
mwilP De Touhf 10 90 n clear, wen wrWreu,
frank and manly document.
Much of it will not fail receive the hearty con.
currence of all classes of our fellow citizens,
whatever may be their political preferences
and predictions. We cannot, of course, be
expected to coincide with the President in ma
ny of his views of public policy. Candor COM
pels us to admit however. that we find much
less i'm this address from which we must dissent
then we anticipated from the well known pAr-
ty bias of its author. It's open, honest and
frank exposition of his views is worthy Of high
commentator. 1t has no tinge of non-conh-
mittalism. but is manly and above board. No
one can fail to understand the Presidents views
and sentiments. The document is also Of, "a.
tonal and moderate length. No one need DO
deferred from its perusal by its length. In 2
literary point of view il is document that will
be we'll received both at home and abroad.
The Boston Advertiser praises at as fol-
lows:-
1t is written in vigorous and perspicuous
style, indicative Of q clear habit Of thought,
and announcing as distinctly as we deemed ex-
pedient the principles designed to be expedieht
the principles designed TO be expounded. III
these are confined for the most part to axioms
understood and admitted. 1t was dOu-
btless because this was deemed the most judi
cious, if not the necessary policy of tho Preei-
dent. in the position in which he is placed. AZ
to what might be called system Of policy, r
could hardly be expected, that in the present
state of our country, and Of the Democratic
parry, the President should undertake to de-
velope one, at least upon the very entrance uT-
on his administration.
As matter of taste, one would have prefer
cd that the address had something less Of what
is called abroad, the national chara cteristic W
American popular addresses, in its illusions to
the past history, and. future destinies of the
Yet considering what is without
question the actual national taste, in this mat
ter, it would be perhaps unreasonable to hnd
any fault on this score.
The New York Mirror, Union saving sheet.
finds in the Address great many ideas which
have heretofore appeared in its own columns.
and is greatly felicitated Herewith. Wehave
seen mono of its editorials, how much soevef
we may have disliked their sentimentt, that
were written with such a questionable taste a.
Mr.. Pierce's inaugural; but that perhaps, 10
no reason why it should not "heartily accept
the Message" With its pro-slavery pclitA-
tons, il is not at all surprising, that the Mirror
should find in its cordial endorsement of the
Compromise, enough virtue to neutralize all Of
its blemishes 1t thinks cit is bold, plain, pat
riotic, dignifed document, and cannot see how
any reasonable person can pick flaw in IL, ex-
cept Dsuniopists, whose treason It indirectly,
but severely rebukes."
The Tribune looks at the Inaugural from On
opposite stand point, and criticises Il snspsts
ingly. We give its article entiro: