The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-12-04

game Of self abasement and national reproach
for Southern votes at the Cincinnati Convention.
He has played the libeller in his pettifcgging
Misrepresentation Of the facts of hstcry-he has
played the traitor in his violation Of the consti
tuition and the organic law Of Kansas, and in
that border rufhan policy Of military subjugation
which "stinks in the nostriis'' of an offended peo-
pie. He has played the sneak in lacking the
moral courage to do right where his timely in
terposition ia behalf Of the consultation and the
organic law would have saved the people of
Kansas from fire and sword, the government
from the disgrace which those scenes have en-
tailed upon it, and the President from the re-
sponsibiiity of the innocent blood which
cries to heaven from the wasted plains
of Kansas for justice. Last of all, after
being cast out by the North, and repudiated
by the South, this unhappy man rejoices in the
works Of &be falsifer, the egotist and the toady.
He would have US believe that there never was
such model Of justice, wisdom, irmness, sagaci-
ty and patriotism as this New Hampshire Arts
tides-that there never has been Q more glorious
or patriotic administration-th it has done eve
rything for US that could be done, and has done
all things well-that Mr.. Buchanan has been
the way to everlasting glory is poor Pierce's
downhill road to ruin.
Grant that the man may be excused for all THE
grant that he really believes his administration
has been glorious without parrallel-grant that
he feels it in his boots that his splendid domestic
and foreign policy have elected Buchanan, we
cannot for the life of US, conjecture why the man
should still play the toady and the spaniel to the
Southern disunion faction. What can this fac
ton do for him now? Does he expect, from the
seed Of this Message, to reap crop that will pay
expenses in the democratic convention of 1860
Can this be his game? There is no limit to the in
fatuation of man with fixed ideain his head and
it may be that Pierce considers himself in 1856
Just as good for a second term as Martin Van
Buren, held himself to be after his crushing de-
feat in ls4O. Or it may be that Mr.. Pierce has
hit upon nice little expedient of revenge
in writing his own official history and thrusting
it upon his party while yet he has the power.
Whatever may have been the motives and OBJ
jects of the ialsifcations perversions, suppress
siDs, false Issues and false pretences of poor
Pierce's Message, he is welcome to the thanks of
Mr.. Brown. We predict that Mr.. Buchanan will
pay about as much attention to these instructions
Of Mr.. Pierce as Mr.. Polk paid to the farewell
address of Captain Tyler. The President elect
would enter upon more inviting Office had
Pierce been half Tyler. We still thank Mr..
Brown for calling our attention to Messrs.
Seward and Wilson. Their innocence Of sec
tional war upon the slavery question was fifty
pronounced gpon Pierce's Message. 1t is good
document for all such sectional agitators to
swear by. The hypocrisy of Seward and Wilson
is cool; but the e'rontery Of poor Pierce is posi-
lively sublime. 1.-THE lion and the lamb shall
lie down together" What lamb is Seward
and what a lion is poor Pierce!