The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-31
WASHINGTON CITY,
wEDN EsDAY MORNING. OCT. 81. 1855.

WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCT. 81. 1855.
THE CHARGE OF WANT OF PERSONAL INDIE
PESDENCE AGAINST PRESIDENT PIERCE AN
SWERED.
The New York Evening Post labors through an article
of more than column and half in fruitess effort to
controvert the principle of nonnerventon which Pres
dent Pierce in his letter Mr. Taylor in August 1854,
laid down as the test democratic orthodoxy and closes
with The following batch Of personal caumnes
ole General Piercel would rcent and stay
his decree could consult his disposition But he is in
the hands Gushing, renegade sboltons turned NULL
fer sordd motives; Of Secretary Davis secesontj
Nicholson and Forney who subject him through the nnu
ence of Cass and Buchanan Of Douga with whom he has
succession of Atchson the arch-nuiiher
to Mr. Calhoun left his mantle As kelies to revenge
its dgraces Benton, who put 1t in the mire 1t to
these gentlemen indebted for the tet of democ
racy."
We have already disposed Of the objections to the prn-
cplo of nonnervention contained in the article from
which the foregoing is quoted and now proceed to notice
the personal charges made by the Post 1t is not pur
pose to yndicate the several friends Of General Pierce spec
fed against the false and malignant charges with which
the Post has associated their The real assault Is
aimed General Pierce, whilst the calumny upon his
friends is resored by way Of giving more effect to
the blow aimed his reputation. The gst Of the attack
is that the President, being kindly welldsposed man.,
as the Post says another part Of the article has
lacked the Independence Of character to resist the
pressure brought to bear upon him by the gentlemen
named Ii will be observed at that the editor Of the
Post only taken up thrown missile which has been
hurled almost daily by the New York Herald and Tribune
for than years. 1t has been the constant habit
of these latter journals when tho and sentiments
of the President have been found unassaab has been
the case in regard his whole administrative career, to
indulge assaults-sometmes by way of abuse and at
Others by way Of rdiculeupon his personal character
The Herald is known have kept Of its hireling
at Washington with scarcely any other object
than to abrcae asehoods against the President and his
cabinet The Post is guilty of the offence Of being
a the bad example Of the two journals whose
habits ought to have proved warning rather than pre-
cedent.
But is due the truth Of history to acquit all three of
the journals OF the crime of originality in this mode po
ica warfare Since the days Of President Monroe demo-
cratic President has filled the executive chair whose
character has had assaans similar in all respects the
three who have distinguished themselves in their warfare
upon the personal character of General Pierce. 1t is
worthy special remark too that these assaans have
generally selected for attack those traits in the characters
of the democratic Presidents which they the
assaabe During the first three years Of Gen. Jacksons
administration he habitualy represented by the pro-
totypes of the Herald Tribune and Post only de-
void Of intellect and information but totally deficient
will of his that he daily and hourly ridicued
being automaton that moved at the bidding of
the aLtte Magician" or kitchen cabinet" When great
inaugurated by him, great principle pro-
claimed which could not be successfully combaed by
and argument resort constantly had the charge
that he controlled and influenced either by some nd-
vidual Of his political family who supposed to be
specially obnoxious to popular prejudice by friends
joyng his confidence, whom the vampires Of that day
sought to make odious by characterizing them his
kitchen cabinet 1t conceded by them that Gen. Jack
honest and that he disposed to be patriotic
but he represented unfortunately deficient in per-
sona intelligence and independence and had submitted
be moulded like nose Of wax by the bad men who had
womed themselves into his confidence Those who knew
General Jackson well asonshed at the bold eronery
of the assailants in attacking of his iron will
the very point of his character which he was most i'm
pregnable And yet 1t is the truth of history that for
three whole years those opposition journals whose
pies followed by the Herald, Tribune and POST
persisted in placing the under the dominion of
the Arch Magician ofthosc friends Of Gen. jackson who
constituting his kitchen cabinet When
anoutaged vindcate personal
character of the Old Hero the cowardy sssaans
turned short corner and then warred upon him self
wied tyran and dictator who crushing the liberties
of his country under hs iron heel The opposition journals
which tread in the footsteps of Gen. Jacksons caum
niaor have language strong enough to express their
admiration of the patriotic devotion his country Of the
Old Roman They painfully exercised by the contrast
which they pretend to discover between what they al
most worship the moral heroism Of Old Hickory and the
plant subserviency Of Franklin Pierce
What we have said in regard to the attacks upon the
personal character Of Gen. Jackson illustrative of the
mode political warfare which has characterized the OPP
ponens Of democracy il true though perhaps not in
striking to every oher democratic President
Without taking the time to refer to the facts in respect
each successive administration it will be sufficient to d.
rect attention to the striking parallel between the attacks
Gen Jackson and those which have besn continually
made upon General Pierce II any impartial friend
asked specify the traits in the personal character of Gen.
era Pierce which made most prominent in the dis
cushions Of the presidential Of 1852 he would
hesatngy designate those Of his Independence of udg
and frmness Of purpose and Of action 1t upon
this feature in his character that his rapid elevation to po
tcal prominence in hs State, connected with his
jealous devotion to democratic principles explained
His history furnished abundant evidence Of that prompt