The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-30
goUTHERN OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT PIERCE
- AND HIS ADMINISTRATION.


SOUTHERN OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT PIERCE
AND HIS ADMINISTRATION.
We have within a few weeks past published number
of elaborate and eloquent tributes TO the administration of
President Pierce in reply the of the opposition
The tone style and power of these articles do infinite credit
to the ability of the democratic press This morning
present an eloquent expression from the Ohio Statesman
which cannot fail to be interesting to readers
When Franklin Pierce elected President two years
ago there was one that operated in his favor which
does not seem to taken into by those able jour
naiss who are now philosophzng results This
was the support that he obtained from the dissatisfied
of other parties Many given to him. not be-
cause they intended TO endorse the democracy their
candidate but they intended sort of
rbution the enemies OF Clay and Webster This diver
sion in favor of the democratic candidate could be
called permanent addition TO the democratic party If
we the which this element has since taken
and is taking may be able to account for consd
cradle portion of the Opposition to the administration
Among those who the coolest to Scott in 1852
find those who most proscrptve of Gen. Pierce and
this is particularly the with The southern whg papers
These papers to be grieyously offended at Franklin
Pierce because he has not stood by their rights not
he has deed the northern enemies of the
suon because he has not been prompt to put down
any show of resistance to the awor all this he has done
but he has appointed certain gentlemen office Atleas
that the petext which appears the surface and
preex ra they do not hesitate to rehash and crcu
late some of the abrications of the antago
nis which the southern States have had for the last
ty years What aggravates this unworthy antagonism
moreover the fact that those who to it and feel
and know that there scarcely northern wing upon whom
they rely in the hour of peril single fact like this
pregnant and so conclusive does harm in the free
States to the interests Of the South than Is possible
innate II enables reckless parsans show that regard
for southern interests is not sincerely entertained the
South and that to southern wing constitutional demo-
crat in the North is Objectionable simply because he is
democrat
As soon as this element of hostility among the whg pa
pers of the South disclosed the abolition wings of the
North who were SO prominent ia 1859 in assailing Gen
Pierce the slave of the South, came forward to join
hands in the crusade against constitutional Executive
and that most of the whg papers of the South
do not hesitate rejoice at every defeat of the democrats
of the North word the crusade upon the adminsra
ton on the part Of souhern wing papers is reechoed by
the fanatics of the free States and those who profess to
be at extremes far the constitution is concerned ere
suddenly found be acting in against of the
6rmest friends that constitution has had There are
few exceptions to this rale in TIE South but this is the
prospect now before eyes.
There is something unnatural in this combination but
is the picture overdrawn? What renders this union
extraordinary, however, is the fact that while the
southern wing press assals the President it affects also
denounce the wings of the North We have then, the
founding paradox presented Of crusade by southern
wings upon the brayest and boldes friend the constitution
has had in years and the acit admission that the wings
the North have IN whose fidelity the country
confde when the rights Of the States in peril Justice
the people of the South requires say that " there
ngrattude in this antagonism its wicked Inconsistency
would render il nnocuous and that alhousht has const
uted chief agent ihe opposition to the present admins
ation cannot when subjected to a test of the ballot
boxes, be responded to.
To analyze this opposition Is no difficult task, when
those who make up great portion OF il occupy the po
sition we have described We imagine and can
forgive an abolition hostility TO Franklin Pierce; it is
consistent and sometimes honest hostility and, be-
Sides it is founded upon the fact that the object of this ami
mostly defes and scorns it But we pause and ponder
upon such exhibition a southern antagonism 10 the
present Executive. We not how excused-how de-
fended-how CLOSED by poor party caunnes. and
little personalities and contracted Objections
essoa 70 the .orld By all uho guilty Of that they hare
no heart in the weya7e Of the South and prefer abolition
,chg 10 a constitutional democrat