The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-23
the pREsIpENTIAL suCoEssIoN

berality and forbearance with which the claims Of differ
ent prominent democrats to presidential nomination
have been discussed by their respective friends An excep
ton to this general is furnished In letter written
from Washington, and published in the Baton Rouge Adj
yocate Of the 9th inst We quote from the letter fol-
lows:
The fact is the President with good intentions has been
unfortunate In weakening the force Of almost everything
really good in his administration by appearance indie
clsion at the moment of its execution.
To good President there needed not only elevated
principle and good Judgment but firm aud resolgte ,o
This conviction being and impressed every day
upon the public mind If Cass had possessed half the
poidness OF Douglas, he would long since have been
President. II Wise and Hunter were blended into one and
Virginia could present with the decision of the
and the real craftsmanship Of the other would be hailed
with reclamation as the for the presidency. Blu
chanan vas always tmid and ii he Of the
political arena, would stand chance. Mr. Dallas seems
to combination qualities suited to the wants
of the times His bold and decided position years ago. in
denouncing the Missouri line unconstitutional and III
judged his manly stand through all the changes the po
iea world in defence of southern rights prn
cipies of the constitution his association with Mr. Polk
his patriotic and heroic casting the when Pro
siding Officer of the Senate a these united with the fact of
his absence from all political intrigue and his beautiful pr
vae character, would appear designate him the for
The CRISIS"
We have no exception to take to the language of
commendaon in which the writer sets forth the dstn-
guished services and merits of Mr. Dallas On the con-
rary, we rejoice that have in party statesman
whose public and private character furnishes just ground
for such compliments Nor do except the abstract
truth that ITO good President there needed only
elevated principle and good Judgment but firm and
tmts ctH" To assume, however, the writer does, that
none of the distinguished named by him. except Mr..
Dallas possesses all the noble attributes of character re-
quse in "a good President unjust them it is
unnecessary for the promotion of Mr. Dallas claims We
are very that would be prompt than he
to repel such an imputaton against democrats whose
and the prosperity of the democratic party and
ready condemn the indscree zeal which seeks to ad
his interests by undertaking the merits those as
sumed to be his competitors fora presidential nomna
ton.
If it were necessary TO vndicate President Pierce Gen.
Cass Mr. Hunter Mr. Buchanan from the impuation of
rash precipancy it would be readily accomplished by
pointing to in the public Of EACH which
wholly rreconcilablc with the assumption on which
the writer for the Advocate uncercmoniously disqua
fes all of them for the presidency 1t little re-
markabe that the very ground which the enemies of
party have heretofore assaed these great champions
adopts true and sufficient establish the superiority
of his claims. How strikingly true this remark is
in regard President Pierce will readily occur to
all who have observed the persistent efforts of such
opposition journals the Herald and the Tribune
to make the impression that his administration has been
characterized by vacillaton and ndecision Notwith-
standing the fact that every public position held by Gen.
Pierce, whether in the legislature of New Hampshire in
tboc No,,y
sentatives of Congress the Senate of the United States
in the presidency alounds with evidences of the most
conclusive character that prompness decision and firm
ness have been amongst the most prominent of his
character and those to which he has owed eminent
degree his wonderful a public man yet this
writer overlooks all this and unhestatingy adopts the
thread bare falsehood of the worst enemies of Presi
dent Pierce, and palms it off on the democrats of
Louisiana proof that he is deficient in one essential re-
quise of good President" Such rank injustice as this
to President Pierce enough With like disregard
Of the weknown events in the public lives of Messrs
Cass, Buchanan Hunter and WISE which stamp the as
sumption utterly groundess he denies to them ar
butte of excellence without which it were impossible that
they could have attained respectively their present political
eminences We have no objection to frank and free dis
cusson Of the merits of several prominent statesmen
whose names are associated win presidential noinna
on but when the discussion is marked by such inscree
par zeal characterzes this whole letter. it is well
calculated to excite personal feelings which will embarrass
the harmonious action of the convention, and certainly fail
promote the prospects Of any vorte asprant who is
thus sought to be elevated by detractng from the just
claims aud merits of others 1t is our purpose to en-
gage in such discussions but
just mputations cast upon any Of democratic leaders
whose public and private characters the property of
the democratic party without repeng them with prompt
ness and frmness.
As much however, as we regret to witness this insid
effort of democrat TO diuse the poison distilled from
the malignant pens of the worst foes of democracy
graed by the fact that this solitary exception the
general Of liberal justice which marks the discus
sions preparatory to presidential nomination. and in
dulge the hope that this bad example will find no follow
AS rebuke to the partisan injustice done to the
character of President Pierce in the above we in
vito the reader peruse the following eloquent and truth
full tribute to the of his administration in perpe
Mating the principles and history of the democratic party
We copy from the Maine Free Press as follows:
may be said with Justice that the democratic party has
been the party OF the country since the days Thomas
jefferson. 1t the only party which has always had
tional instinct and national character Faterna relations
between the Satcspopular self of
the of the Decentralization of all States having gov
ernments republican in fcrmweloome the oppressed