Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-02-01
MIR. FooTE ON P.EsIDENT PIERCE.


Mr.. Foote, late U. s. Senator from Mis-
sissippi and more recently governor Of that
State---a Unioh Observation-Disclosures the
National Democrats at New York on Friday
last He concluded bis speech with the fol,
lowing remarks relative to President Pierce
His, intentions may have been good, but
oil sensible men are beginning to doubt this
most seriously. Certain it is that, Instead Of
securing the peace and quiet of the republic,
he has done precisely those things which were
best calculated to engender discord and renew
sectional collision. 1he two beaten factions
Of the republic -freesoilism in the North and
accession in the South--he has taken under
his formal patronage. The true men of the
North, for the most part, he has disregarded
altogether; and. ii be has not himself perse
cuted them. be has allowed those in his en-
ploy to do so, to their hearts content"
General Pierce was elected upon solemn
pledge that he would do all he could to carry
out the peace measures of 1850; he so pledged
himself in his inaugural, in graceful language
and flowing rhetoric He, too, said that he
held the compromise measures of 1850 to be
strictly constitutional, that the country had
been in extreme peril to which ne (the Gov
ernor) had referred. He denounced all ex.
periments whioh might be made, having in
view the obstruction OF the republic. If he
had acted up to this, he added lustre to his
character and the brightness Of bis fame. and
wonimperi sha BILE laurels; ifnot be had earned
eternal infamy. But be had dared doliber,
ately to violate those pledges and so, he was
the most disgracel man whoever held public
Office. He finished by stating, that be ven
tured to predict that, in twelve mouths from
this time, unless the President retracel his
stebs. aud discharged bis cabinet. thereby
purging the Augean stable, cries would be
heard by its members-c calling upon the noun
tains to cover them and shield them from the
just Indignation of an outraged people,
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bz2S~ The baltimore American has an arti
Gle on the inquiry-"Was the removal Of
bronson, national question r. and afhrms.
III discussing the subject, that History will
say OF the present President. that she was
elected by the combined votes Of Democrats
OF every shade of opinion That during his
administration the only Democrats condemned
by bis organs and friends. we're the Democrats
who. had advocated the Compromise measures
and sustained the Union, aud maintained tho
tuSsftuHons OK the south. mat during bis
administration men who had shouted disunion
until their voice was cboked with Federal
salary, and men pledged never to admit an.
other State into the Union unless under q
prohibition not to allow slavery within it:
limits, were appointed to important Offices
foreign and domestic. and it was published a,
the authorised exposition OF the agreement
amongst the politicians who elected Mr. Pierce
that they had only made temporary bargain
TO abstain from agitatous which were not al
that particular time 10 issue between them. =
These facts viii show that the controversy
row going onin Congress is national But
the most cogent reason 90 our mind why the
removal Of Bronson is national question. i.
ode to which We have already alluded. 1t il
an abuse Of Executive patronage