The daily union., 1854-12-23
From the Statesman and Democrat.
rup PRESIDENT AND HIS P0LICY.-SlGNIFICANCY
OF RECENT ELECTIONS.

e 10 the existing powers that we reviewed last week
s poey of the present administration, and especially Its
p policy We found in IL the evidences of patriotic
smepcanism which should put shame its revilers.
The links of that policy beginning with the inaugural in
Insng the Koszta affair the Greytown bombardment the
iprody treaty the neutrality treaties the Sonora an
ovation and the Soule affair caunot be tarnished by the
had breath of partisan raneor
umight be well to inquire more in detail, not only
beber the democracy have boen defeated these issues
INIT upon what issues they have lost the elections To aid
his inquiry would il not be well 10 look little into the
ni6cancy of recent elections In Massachusetts and
New York the assaants of the democracy in their own
1;strsctions reminded us of theyerse:
ain parts SO many were the traitors cleft,
That those dead men had no dead bodies LETT
IN the former we find usonists and republicans entire
" overwhelmed In the latter the know nothings, which
succeeded in the former, were disastrousy defeated
In Massachusetts, Gardiner the knownothing candidate
FIR governor was elected by $4,000 majority. In
New York Uman, who not only received the native but
mart of the foreign Ito wit the Hindoo) vote beaten
lsrgeIy In Illinois the democracy have gloriously sue
ceel ia spite of the most determined yndicuveness OF
ounosition In Michigan the fusion, aided by the know
nobngs have succeeded-and that too, while the Rich
mond Enquirer pretending to be the oracle for the entire
south was denouncng the senator from Michigan
for his anti-slavery proelivities.
II might be well to inquire into the sgnifcancy of
these strange results produced under strange combna
lions We should rather inquire into their insignifeane
for in these States in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylva-
mia there fair open, defined, and continuously
pressed issue between Inc democracy and its assaiants
The marvel what is decided is great the results
are astonishing That the Nebraska bill had partial in
auenee is true but why its main stay in the House
richardson of Illinois - and his friends in that State
seced while dozens of democrats who voted against the
El we're beaten Why the fusionsts of New York
an, Massachusetts beaten where the antiNebraska fever
WIS supposed rage with epidemic fatality to the democ
ay Why do find the head and tusks of the fusion
IL. Tribunegnashing with foam at the narrow-mnded
knw-nothings and in its insane fury even attacking Will
liam IL Seward for not marching more ardenty into the
canvass? Why, in Massachusetts, where even Webster
living could not restrain by his udicious moderation the
amenities of anti-savery abstractonists do find the
whole subject ignored-covered corpse with pail
sded in the clutch Of the order OF native Ameri
cans
With such ineongruous elements producing such ile-
climate resnsresuls entirely nconcusye far any
prnen question in ssucinsignicant so far ras any
ppobaon or dsnpprobation Of the foreign fiscal do
nestle policy of the present administration is concerned
results over which rejoice oeay without stulti
fying hinsefresults only significant showing the
ableness of our political temperature under the influence
certain demagogue alarms aided by certain yewless
Clements which are noxous when analyzed as they are
difficult apprehena for analy with such results may
We not hone that as out of the old material chaos light
harmony and order emanaed, out of this political
chaos democratic light harmony, and order shall ema-
nate?
We may well hope for such auspcious result; for
he opposition the democracy is not to their policy
principles but il is the result of personal malice and disap
pointed ambition prompted and sustained by schemes and
societies OF intolerance and prescription unexampled for
heir organization To the proof of this let remember
that scarcely had President Pierce made his appointments
before cohort OF chagrned oice-seekers began their Ii
ades The New York Herald, having Bennett for its edi
tor to whom President Pierce would not give the mission
France began its Justification, and continues it to the
m extent OF its malice This TO be expected from the
notorious character of the disappointed applicant
was expected however that gentlemen OF classic
hnement should engage the pages of Putnam to pour
heir detracton upon President even before he
bad given evidence of any particular course Of policy or
determination meet the factions of the country One por
lion of the New York democracy expected to have had the
other portion excluded rem Office The President no
rsons for such exclusion He recognised the whole par
whom he owed his election and refused to prescribe
hose who had had ee-soil affiliations but had united
common platform for his For this he was cen
iund
New York, which has recently made her elections
laughing stock Of the Union, undertook to preach TO
resident Rierce if she the Union and its destiny
depended upon her fiat alone Punans Magazine, which
ont of verandah in the Fifth avenue undertook to
aer Mr. Pierce into nonentity long before it had
hrly begun New York snobbcry sneercd at it. Gould
it survive Had the votes of the pampered ariso-
uas Of New York placed Franklin Pierce in power
Oh IL the hearty surages Of the hardy democracy
the country The saloons and clubs of New York the
aendered young sprigs of the FIRST families who count
Upon their pedgrees recommendations for patronage
and their echoes in the of Putnam taunted Presi-
dent fesoe vh being racreant TO the young republic
low advanced the first power of The world and destined
make itself felt the dread of tyrants the hope Of
Tie oppressed of every and These velvetpawed repre-
snatyes OF the parcians very swift to charge the
dnnis,ralon with falling in the high noble and expan
sir which is the justification and highest grace ofpros
ny and with hardening into an obdurate selishness or
aapaiy shaking into eiemnaey and weltering, like an
dragon Wantley in the filth of its corruptons
and this too before eight months had elapsedhis before
our splendid foreign policy had been developed This pre-
Judgment of the administration instantly followed by
chorus of the disappointed sweed with the voices of
Old enemies who have ever since, like the Tribune been
watching for the place where the administration would
20 down" They think they have found it, If they have,
asa have they found the whirlpool in which viii be
ad national honor constitutional adjustments and the
nights Of the States and Of the people That a-peryadng
gravity which has kept the States in their spheres, and the
general government in lis welldofned orbit-whch in
ae veto message Of the harhor bill and insane land bill
guarded seduousy the rights Of the States and restrained
zoe eaggrandizing spirit Of federal egslaonw be main
ned in tie future has been in the past by this adj
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lhs President has had rebuke for his leioos The
4e nave never denounced them for they will not de-
ounce the savior Of their own interests and hopes In
% fearless exhibitions of executive viii he has proved