The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-04
The d. mocracy OF Vermont and Georgia.
unden;ably there are some curious things in

when Botts and Tyler slep. together and then
quarrelled, never more to be surprised at any
thing, must certainly feel, in the present aspect
Of affairs, that he acted hastily.
Vermont, STEPPED 10 abolitiou-ths mos t ilt-
every protective and pfohibitive tariff, every
bank, every project OF Improvement ey she Sc
neral government, every Wilmot proviso Id.
vancing every possible scheme for agitation
losing NO opportunity to foment discord be-
tween the North and South-proscribing, with
an unctuous bitterness, her very ablest aud
most conscientious representative in Congress,
because he voted for the Fugitive Slave lava
aw under which his unworthy State is com
PEELED to discharge its constitutional obiiga.
tiols to its Co partners-the democracy OF Yer
mont resolves to sustain the administration
As many foolish things Us have been done by
the Green Mountain State, we Of course would
not do its people the injustice to suppose they
actually approve the conduct Of Franklin
Pierce. A handful of ceholders-patriotc
souls--dO approve the administration. They
are called the democracy of Vermont, aud they
bear testimony to the wisdom and statesman
ship of Franklin Pierce. The noble democracy
Of Georgia. little farther off from the capital,
and little nearer by the constitution--had
done the same thing few days before.
Gov. Johnson The gubernatorial candidate
in the latter State is a kiad Of STedenoor-
gian philosopher, who believes in affiaisies and
spheres Thus Illuminated, and, for aught we
know, intermitted into the sublime mysteries
of General Pierce's political arcana, including
the negro worshippers Of the Vermont depart
ment, finds brilliant prospect of SUCCESS and
eaters Of Georgia and the abolitionists of the
Green Mountain State. They both approve
the administration.
But there Is nothing. extraordinary in all this.
The Albany .atlas--the organ of the Van Bu-
rens, the very soul Of the abolition movement
in the Northern branch Of the democracy-is the
authorized exponent Of the Cabinet. The .d.las
is a bitter, Seward-iike opponent Of the Kansas
bill, q calumniator of the people Of that Terri
tory habitualy ridicules the doctrines Of po-
pular sovereignty, an ally OF the Emigrant
Aid Society, and has grown hoarse and stupid
in its appeals to the negro worshippers to CON-
bine and put down the ''dough faces" who
"conspired" to repeal the Missouri compromise
That paper has never uttered word from which
it could be inferred that the President at all
approved the Kansas act 1t conducts the New
York wing Of the democracy on the bases of
abolitionism and of fraternal union with the
administration and the democracy Of Virginia
and Georgia.
The Atlas is the ascendant power as part
OF the existing government and its policy,
while Dickinson, Cooley, Bronson, Beardsley,
and others who have never failed in their allie
glance to the constitution who have fought
the battles Of the South In conjunction with
Webster, Clay and Ca Stare the subjects of
denunciation alike by the democracy OF Yer
mont and Georgia, and by the administration.
All this may excite surprise. Blu. why should
it? It is quite in harmony with the policy that
brought into the Cabinet Davis, the fire eater,
and Marcy, the treesoiler; Guthrie, the rigid
SOutherner, and Cushing, the supple Northern-
er Dobbin, the ultra man of slavery, quiet
and respectable, and McClelland, polite al
man Of fasbion-that sent Soule to Madrid
with splendid programme, and left Marry
in the State Department to checkm,te him
at every turn--tbat banished Buchanan to
London, and withdrew from that lega-
CATION every important subject Of con-
troyersy in order to give the amplest time
to the ambassador for the Ostend Conference
that clothed Mr.. Mason with suffi ,ent power to
attend to Americans at the great Exposition
that fixed our diplom atic character abroad By
securing the services of Borland, O'Snllivaa,
Robert Dale Owen, Daniels and Others and es-
tablisbed the national rrowess by the feats of
Greytown aud the blockade Of the Kinney ex.
petition at the loot of Eighth street. These
latter brilliant exploits were performed with
out the loss of man, and without the an
nouncement for moment, by Lloyds and other
underwriters, Of an intention to insert the war
clause in Insurance Of American bottoms.
1t is not, perhaps, very strange that an ad-
miDistration thus marked by signals OF success
at every trial Of its powers, should elicit the
approval Of the democracy OF Vermont, New
York Virginia and Georgia These are SER
vices so great as to overshadow all such minor
differences as sometimes exist ia this country
- 49, i'@NNaoA " Fi"'N'J' 1LC appointments
at home are sufficient of themselves to Justify
a claim by the President to the support of the
entire democratic fiicehoders; and it would
be folly, indeed, to suppose that th zee Office.
holders could not hold public meetings and
vote approvals of the administration in Geor-
gia and in Vermont. They have perfect
right to do so. The appointment of Governor
Reeder was master stroke OF policy, aud his
removal in the face of the elections in the South
shows clearly enough that General Pierce re.
lies with equal confidence upon that element Of
his administration at the present time. Strong
men rely upon the operation OF principles, and
prefer their power to that Of mere policy.
General Pierce is not one OF that class. Reared
in New Hampshire, and early taught that %.
iitics was game like brag, to be played sue