New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08

world where we were much sadder fellow than
now We can only speak Of ourselves in our
actual Incarnation: though we must be permit
ED to say, in simple Justice to ourself, that we
are unable to detect anything, in our presen,
heart or mind, that suggests to us any possibility
that we can ever, In whatever previous being,
have been any more Pierce man than now.
Nevei theless, if people go on as they are do
ing, and all i'll use Mr. Pierce so cruelty, there's
no telling what we shall do. The fact is, II ne
can stand it, we can't; and hang us If we will
Every body seems to have combined against
Mr. Pierce and Fate herself {the old hunks y to
have set her face as q flint " upon him. He
has no friends abroad he has little but enemies
At home yea. enemies of the very worst sort
enemies in the garb of friends: men to whom he
gave Offices. that they might betray others; and
Who will use them to betray ham: true, while
they needed him false from the moment that
he needs them.
But, by the oldest of all dilemmas, it is they
who alone are his firm supporters Marcy, Cush,
ing, Guthrie, Davis g. Co. whose friendship is
most fatal to him, and enlisting against him an
universal odium and contempt, is more ruinous
than direct enmity itself
ALI who do not use him, trample upon him
John Van Buren,, to destroy him, leagues with
him and laughs at him; has made him forfeit
the Hards, without getting the Softs, and alien
ate the South, without winning one man in the
North Benton thunders on his front; Douglas
plies him in the rear Cass takes him between
and ai,,So
be Judges that either will hurt him the most
u In fine, it is palpable that (save his odious
Gabinet) Mr.. Pierce has none to uphold any Of
his measures except such as, for the time being,
sac in those measures themselves the surest
means of damaging him.
1t must be confessed that the Brigadier has an
unlucky hand; everything he touches, no mat
ter how promising it before was, fails. He no
sooner let his organ declare for Russia, than
England and France began to prepare for war
against her He espoused the Nebraska bill
and he has been the death of it, He negotiated
he Gadsen treaty and it was killed. He
nominated George Saunders; and got him re-
jected. He upset Democracy in Maine; dished
it in New Hampshire killed it in Connecticut
anu ruined IL III hnOue lSlhnu. lie let MS Opp0-
sition to Miss Dix's bill be known and that
secured its passage The country was in a
/ fame about the Black Warrior case; Mr.. Pierce
came with the wet blanket Of his ZEAL and the
public conaagration was extinguished in an
instant. r,.
Barnum was badly bit in buying Phillips's
Fire Annihilator But here is an easy way to
retrieve himself Let him purchase Pierces
patent preparation for putting out all infam-
mabe matters. He must beware of his digits,
however; for the inventor always burnt his own
fingers in applying it, and scorched his assistants
There's but one human thing can save the
grog-shop party and our Irish Mayor, here in
New Orleans. It's now too late for to-day but
nad they thought of it in time, they might have
carried everything before them. They are not
yet, however, !" SO lost in loss ITSELF" but that
II they could induce MIR. Pierce to declare for
our Reform party and join the Know nothings,
the whole tide of popular feeling will turn, and
Winter resuscitated and the drowned honor OF
o'Leary plucked up by the locks, will ride back
10 triumph upon the returning wave, into per
petual authority