The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-10

s-sf.. a9s, a soO845 1924 2 o3 l 81
Dem maj . a,4le Opposition maj 1853 s52
Administration loss I67 2Gs
RECArtTuLATION.
Administration loss in year. in New Hamp
shire Connecticut and Rhode Island ......... i4471
Total administration loss in Eve States in year
A loss Of one hundred and eighty odd thou
sand votes in New York and the New England
States since last fall, by an administration
elected by tic sufrages of twenty seven of the
thirty lone States of the Union is, indeed rapid
rafting down hill What are the causes for
this extraordinary falling ofl-this sudden and
accommodating disgust of the people against a
President of their own choosing? The answer
is ready at hand. Gen. Pierce was elected upon
the principles Of the Union platform, in oppo-
sitiOn to the reasonable doctrines of Northern
free sellers and Southern seceSionists. He has
betrayed these principles, betrayed the people,
abandoned his best friends, and has promoted
his worst enemies and the most dangerous be-
cause the most deliberate and insidious enc
mics Of the Union. The discoveries of his free
soil antecedents, proclivities and associations
his free soil scarlet letters and speeches from
lS4S to 1850, in showing that his nomination
was fraud, and his election an imposition
upon the country-these discoveries, in fur
nishing the key to Gen. Pierce's free soil coali-
ton Cabinet, and free soil appointments to the
highest distinctions, have done their full share
in alternating from his piebald administration
the honest national democracy of the North.
1t was the spoils system of the Marcy, Cush-
ing, and Jefferson Davis Cabinet, the free soil
and secession spells system thus put into prac-
tice, and the reputation of the national
Union platform Of 1852, which broke up
the democratic party Of New York, and
which crippled and demoralized the party
in Maine and other States. Superadd-
ed to these causes, the Juggling and shut
fling, the miserable lodges and tergiversa-
tons Of the Cabinet organ upon the Nebraska
question, declaring one day that the Missouri
compromise should not be disturbed the next
day that it is unconstitutional, and the next
that it should be and must be repealed have
contributed largely to disgust the simple demo-
cracy of New England. The damage has not
been repaired by absolving all good democrats
from the test of Nebraska in New Hampshire,
and by making it the administration Shibbo-
leth in Rhode Island and Connecticut In
word, it was simply impossible that an admins
tration elected upon fraud, and organized
upon free soil and secession conspiracy for
the spoils, could reclaim the lost confidence of
the Union democracy of the North or the South
in juggling with both sections upon the Ne
braska bill.
The free soil coalition spoils Cabinet, and its
free soil spoils policy the fecbleness and the
cility of the President, the character and the
influence of his kitchen advisers, the general
looseness of the administration upon all
important questions and measures,-espe-
cially upon all questions touching the
foreign policy of the United States,
NOTED, and the more deserving expectants
discarded. the uncertainty where the admins
traton is to-day, and the still greater uncer-
tainty of its position tomorrow upon the
slavery question, the Cuban question, or any
other great question, are among the secrets of
the late elections and their results.
We have not taken the Gadsden treaty into
the catalogue, because that seems to be pr-
vate affair between Gen. Santa Anna, Gen.
Davis and others, in which neither Gen. Pierce
nor Premier Marcy is specially interested. They
have simply endorsed it as the Clayton Cabi-
net endorsed the Galphin extortion or as Mr..
Secretary Corwin approved and paid over the
Gardner claim. Hence, at the late elections
the Gadsden treaty has been disregarded by
the people as mere trife of twenty millions
trife, indeed, compared with the great
political principles at stake.
We commend our tables of the elections in
New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut
and Rhode Island to the democratic leaders in
Congress. If they wish to avoid total break
ing up and dispersion of the party before the
year 1856 they will at once proceed to consider
the question whether it is better to sink the
administration or to sink with il.