Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-16
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menting upon the Nebraska Bill, says:
aThere is no denying it, we feel humiliated
The honest confidence we once had in Frank
Pierce is entirely gone. He has either dece'y-
ed the people, or they have deceived themselves;
and hence our deep modification and chagrin.
We supported him for President, honestly,
faithfully He has betrayed, not only his
friends, but the whole North. We mourn for
the degeneracy Of the man and the trcachery
of the President
II is too late for the Democrat to complain,
unless, indeed, it has made up its mind to re-
sist all further compromise with Slavery. Gen.
eral Pierce has not deceived the People-has
not betrayed the North. His course since h's
election has been in entire harmony with all
his antecedents During his entire public Ca
reer before his nomination, he was never
known to have offended the Slave Power by
word or deed--and since his election, his 10y
atty to that Interest has been absolute and
unimpeachable.
week after he was nominated by the
Baltimore Convention, we prepared an au-
thentic record of his political life, to show that
on the Slavery Question he had always, with
out single exception, acted with the South.
The correctness Of the record was admitted IN
MI quarters, and the document was seized with
avidity, and industriously circulated through
out the South to secure him Southern votes
Had he pursued different course since his
election, from that for which the Democrat
dcnounces him, he would have deceived the
South. He has been true to his antecedents,
and kept strict faith with Slavery. The Dem
ocrat had no right to expect anything else.
It's editor and the Party with which it has
acted, were selfdcceived
In July, 1852, while the Free Soil Democrats
were using every effort to elect General Pierce,
we warned them that his inauguration would
be the beginning Of new era OF Slavery prop.
agandism, and in alluson to the troubles with
Mexico, out Of which has sprung the late
Gadsden Treaty. speaking Of the policy Of the
Slave Power, we wrote:
cit ia because we understand its necessities,
are familiar with it's tactios, have watched the
growth of the troubles on the Rio Grande, and
detected there the National appetite for new
territory, that we cannot look without profound
apprehension on the present subjugation of the
Democratic Party by the Slave Power. The
Free Soil Democrats having disarmed them
selves are about to place power In the hands
of the clear.sighted champions of Slavery tx
tension, and there is nothing in the antecedents
of Mr.. Pierce, nothing in his character, prin-
ciples, or relations, which can authorize the
faintcst hope that he will oppose the slightest
obstacle to their schemes. Our Free Sol
friends may find this out when too late to re-
pair the mischief"
We have nothing to learn on the Slavery
Question The nature, necessities aims policy
and instrumentalities Of the Slave Power, were
just as clearly understood by Aboitionists fifteen
years ago, as they are now; and much more
clearly than they are yet understood by those
who have for the first time been aroused by the
Nebraska outrage. aMen do not gather
grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles" Could
you expect the owners Of slaves to promote the
propagation Of free-labor institutions? Could
you expect the organizations controlled by the
owners Of slaves to work for the extension and
increase of the political power of the non.
shareholders? Could you expect politician,
who all his life long had been subject to Slave
ry, to become suddenly transformed into an
apostle Of Liberty?