New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-03

would deserve to be damned.
AN LArYRIG UING .fDytfI.YTSI'R.4IIO
This very nice and manly administration of
Mr.. Pierce's is just what was to be expected,
from a man who stole into the Presidency, be-
tween tho legs ot the loftier candidates When
one gets into power, as he did, by insignihoance
and shortness, it is too late to grow sturdy or
tall he that crept in, will continue to be
crouehing he that slid in, will be slippery
He was not the choice, but the dilemma of his
party. Knowing this, and that people always
get out Of dilemma as soon as they can, he
took it to be his business to make his Govern
ment what his nomination had beena desper-
ate compromise between the factions of his
party. Now, compromise between principles
is sometimes respectable; but man who is only
compromise never is for as, before it, he was
unregarded by either side; so, after it, he be-
comes fixed object Of aversion to both both
feel that they had, originally, right to despise
him, and have now right to hate him, for the
dishonest means by which he undermined them
He who was toe weak in reputation and char
aoter to be an original candidate, is Of course
still weaker in the position to which he still less
bears any fit proportion. If not strong enough
to be anything but make-shift for a Conven-
ton at its it's-end for q nomination. he cannot
be strong enough for the actual Presidency it
being easy to be elected, but hard to rule. Mr..
Pierce had no leading weight, even in his own
party: how, then, was he to get it over the
whole country, by merely getting himself deco
rated with an office, of which all parties knew
MIN to be unworthy and to have got it by trick
cry, besides2
He who gets into power like q fox, is not
going to turn into q lion, when he has attained
it. Mr.. Pierce knew from the first, his weak
ness not as wise. but as feeble and tricky
man knows it, or rather feels. His genius sec
onded his situation, and consigned him to in
trigue and shutting, and buying up supporters
with office, as his main and almost sole resources
for administering the Government, so as to
make him the popularity and the power which
he had not.
Hoping only, then. to govern by intrigue, he
began by calling into his eounsels only intri-
guers the most notorious; as his premier,
Marcy, of spoils infamy as his law adviser,
Gushing, the auctoneer of Tylerism; as his
fnancier, Guthrie, the most & artful dodger" of
Kentucky for the War Office and Navy, Davis
and Dobbin, good for nothing but political
legerdemain. In short, he made up Cabinet,
which looked like all the worst and most oppo-
site intrigues Of the country exhibited by sam
pie. This done, he and they fell to work, buy
ing. selling, whiting, shutting. lodging, doub-
ling, trucking, trucking, haggling and buck
stering, all over the country.
Now, what's to come of all this? Eminence
reached without honor must get itself some, OF
fall. In a sovereign station, you must sway,
not swindle men. If only intrigue has lifted
you, quit it when it has done 50. or it will pull
you down still faster Its able to get men into
power, but ruinous if they rely on it to keep
them there, on Of power, you may, if more
dexterous than able, employ all those under
hand arts that Van, and Polk and Pierce
have shone in but, once arrived at dominion,
you must command and rule, or sou will soon
come into contempt and catch tumble, as Van
and Polk did ana as Pierce will