The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-01-05
Prexident pierce.

tits rather amusing to read the severe no.
tees President Pierce occasionally receives
from his own party press. Bot couple
years ago, there was no such warrior, states
man or Christian, as Gen. franklin PIERCE.
He was placed in power by mighty party
right over the head of man whose whole
life had been devoted to his country. The
hosannas of his party rose high in the poiit-
ical heavens, and Gen. Pierce himself was
no doubt asionished TO find himself elevated
from obscurity to the position of very fair
political god. with a great tribe of We y dir
~ but enthusiastic worshippers. But the
"divinity which surrounded him" became
penetrable TO mortal gaze. Yea, blind Loco
focoism finally saw through the flimsy web
of divinity manufactured by its own poor
machinery. They could no longer make
themselves believe that Pierce divinity was
anything but very common sham. Conse-
quently those precious fellows known as Lo.
cofoco editors, have been exceedingly re-
freshing at various times in telling patrons
their opinions of the divinity which had so
long been shaping their ends, while the hon
est of the party, witnessing the faltering if
not direct running away Of their leaders,
scarcely knew what to think or how to act.
Probably, it was because they were thus so
perplexed, that in the late State elections
they wheeled plump around to Gen. Pierce's
face, and told him by their acts that his pol
icy and administration deserved their earnest
condemnation.
However all this may be, President Pierce
has been condemned even by bis own party
and none are so poor now TO do him honor,
except those directly bound 10 the admins
tration by the golden links of office or off
cial patronage. We do not think President
cillating. weak and utterly untitled for the
position he occupies. He has not in hi:
composition the first element of the states
man. He was never born to rule, even wher
placed in the chair of the ruler. The New
York Herald, his former warm supporter
very correctly alludes to him whenit says. al
private gentleman in a small village h,
would have no responsibility, and it mad
no difference whether he changed his min
fifty times day, or had no mind at all; h.
would get along splenddIy, and when h,
died, would be entitled to a marble monu
ment, if any one chose to get it. But a
President of the United States, he is pain
fully below his position, the kndest crit
eism his friends can indulge in, being that
is his head and not his heart which errs!
No man believes the administration LA
been successful, while the very leaders Z
the party. at Washington. have openly ex
pressed themselves as-ut'v'y anu hopeless
" disappointed in Mr.. Pierce. They doubt
la.----tmpatientiy waiting the time whe
he shall sink back into the obscurity frol
which they 30 rashly drew him forth. tn
country prays for the speedy approach
that blessed time. Let bu. the incubus
President Pierce be removed, and the cour
try will spring up again to its late eles atioI
and the Ia boring and manufacturing and bu
mess interests of all kinds, now crushed
the earth, will smile again beneath brigl
sky of prosperity.