Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-03-07
From New-York Herald January 81.
GENERAL PIERCE'S ADMINISTRATION
ITS FATAL EFFECTS UPON
THE COUNTRY.
THE COUNTRY.


houn, during the last lingering days of his ex-
istence, as he was moved from his bed to his
chair aud from his chair to his bed, in his
boarding house on Capitol Hill, that although
he compromise sch enc pending before the Sen
ate would pass, and might be satisfactory to the
country for year or two, but no peace, no las
ting friendship, no permanent alliance between
the North and South would be secured. And
his reason for this apprehension was, that the
corrupting influences of the spois would so
far demoralize the political parties ofthe North
aad the South, that in their Squabbles for the
public plumber the government would finally be
torn to pieces. corruption and the spoils,
said the dying statesman-looking into the fu-
ture with the clear vision of prophet-"cor-
ruption and the spoils will he the ruin of this
country; and one day its effects will be felt
when grass shall grow in the deserted streets of
New York"
The developments which we have made pub
lie concerning the intrigues and fraudulent devi.
ces through which Gen. Pierce was elected, and
his administration was brought into power and
which afford the required solution to The free.
soil ana secession coalition in the Cabinet, in
Congress, and in the materials of the admins
traton party throughout The country, are al
most enough to impress the fearful prediction
of Mr.. Calhoun upon the mind as the words of
inspiration. Looking to the past, aud casting
about eve to the future, we are startled
with the fear that the worst may be realized
even before this generation shall have passed
from the stage. The prodigous accumulation
OF the spois. the universal spirit of corruption
which pervadeS all parties and cques at Wash
ington rallying around the Cabinet, among the
presS-gang, among the lobby-f0rces, and in
Congress- seem clearly to Indicate that we are
entering upon a phaze of political action and
decentralization wlch will soon carry the govern
meht and the country into the high road to dis
solution aud destruction.
Nebraska territorial bills have introduced a
new apple Of diScord into the Senate. Mexi-
can treaties have reen made which can only
tend further Ia involve and complicate the
trouble, while the disbursement ut tie sp lis
has rIpened the spirit of discord in both sec.
tieus of the Union for the most reckless and
desperate agitation. Amidst this goomy pros
pecI we lDoA IN vain for relief 10 the admins
tratiun, ur 10 he Heterogeneous elements sup
porting it in either house Of Congress. They
are banded together upon the Cohesive power
OF public pluuder;" they form in the mass, in-
Guiding patent agents, railroad agents, and all
other drummers of the lobby, IA mighty and
unscrupulous conspiracy for the spoils amount
ing 10 S500,0O0,0Jl.
The compromise OF the constitution, State
righ;s, the II shtS of the South, the principles
which hold this Union together, are all moon
SHINE with this hungry army of SpOilsmen. a
plunder, in our New-York election, has shown
that in this State there is still preponderance
of the democratic party in favor of principles.
But they are whistled down the wind by the
Cabinet organ and by Congress. If New
York national democrat rises III the House TO
plead the supremacy of those principles which
are the uniy security of the South, the abO l.
tlonistS of the North and the spoilS statesman
oi the South join in the hue aud cry to hunt
him down. He Is d-SpiSed he is avoided. he is
cut adrItl enemy of the administration,
and the outside spokesman. scan him with Sco-n
and derision. he tendency of such state Of
things can only be to unlimited corruption on
all Sides and to all the train Of evils and disas-
ters which follow in its wake. IL lcU make the
tcao!e Northern free St0LcS anti Slarery IN less
Maa t,co gears.
We believe that the present imbroglio and
confusion of affairs at Washington, resulting
from the soils coalition in the Cabinet, IN Con-
gresS and the lobby, will rapidly pr0iuce such
revival of the anti-slavery agitation as we
have never vet yeutured to dream of in our
gioomieSt antlcipatUns. The tide is rising
now, and though diSregarded by the busy
spuismen will soon starte them with the rush
OF It's heavy breakers against the irail buwarkS
of the South. Look at the facts of our polite
Il a. i.> Nh A
national convention Of the democratic party,
protesting the largest devotion to the consti-
tuton and the ri ght of the South, driven to the
last extremity from the wranglin.s among the
spDismen, pitches upon Presidential candidate
who, upon cross examination, Is proved to be
an ally OF Martin Van Buren, and his partiSans
iii all their aEti-slavery movements from 1918
To lo5l-a candidate wlt0 is precoinmiited 10
New \ v-S ree-SollerS and cannot escape. We
have made our Specifications, aud they are facts
which cannot be denied. On the other hand
the wings place their nominee upon substan-
italy the constitutional platform rs the other
sides but his more active Northern organs ride
over his platform, spit upon it and eXecrate
H." The Union sentiment of the country
come to the rescue aud the democratic candl-
date triumphs upon the principles of which he
is held to be the reliable champion But our
late disclosures show that the Baltimore CON
ventiou perpetrated a fraud upon the country in
the nomination of General Pierce, aud that i'll
his election as one of their secret partiSans, the
free soil Van Buren, dynasty has been restored
to power.
This outrage, this fraud upon public opinion,
was first betrayed III the composition OF the
present Cabinet, was more fully disclosed in the
subsequent distribution of the SpoilS and the
improved construction of the Baltimore plat
furm 10y the Cabinet organ, aud has been at
length completely established in the discovery
of The tree soil CORE pondence of Gen. Pierce,
running back to the Buffalo platform of lS4S.
With such autecedents the Cabinet spoils cOali
ton of free soilers and SecessioniStS, and spolS
alliance of the Cabient. Congress and the lob
by cease to be mystery. They are the consis
tent results of pre-eXsting causes and obhga
tions from which there was no safe method OF
escape.
Events 90 on. Time stops for nothing
Manifest destiny shapes out Its DEGREES, ram OF
shine. A revolution takes place. The
dominant party in New York breaks into pieces
Seward slips in between the fragments aud re-
gains his ascendency in the State. lie rises
upon the free soil basis Of the administration. -
! The old line democrats of the national Union
stamp are set aside. They go to Washington
they are struck down as straitors to the common