The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-06

We venture she opinon that nina Of Of bis read
viii pronounes hi. faithful picture Of class Of
weIknown eesseeasrs who staining every
against the denomination Of Gen Pierce than Of the o
holders who ans striving for his denomination. Yet in the
blindness Of his patriotic zeal the reviewer seems 70 be g
nsrant that his sword has two edges.
lie entirely overooks another important feature in the
present canvass for the presidential nomination Nothing
more certain than that il President Pierce Is renomnatsd
il win be done against the unrng eHerOns not only Of
the class Of ocseeksyS graphically described above
BY the reviewer but against he OUn and aetes opposition
n many democrats pho haze rsesosa signal {oUors al ma
hands in e distribution ef his patronage We do not al
Jude to this fact to complain Of IL condemn IL but TO
show that the assumption of the reviewer that the Office
holders mere slaves bound by spuatons to do the
bidding of the Chief Magistrate without the shadow Of
reality No man las received Office from President
Pierce with any stipulation express implied that his
denomination was to be advocated by him. No APP
pointed by him is either required or expected to support
his denomination because of such appointment In every
State there apponees who openly advocating the
claims of other candidates They have perfect right
follow their preferences and complaint for SO doing
has been made.
Whilst the struggle between the and the as is be-
Ing waged there is another power greater than both Of
them which viii control the result The real people, who
lock to the promotion of democratic principles and
the enjoyment the distribution of the spos hold the
power and they will decide each successive presidential
election recurs whether their interests require the incum
bent TO give place to another 70 be reelected Until
they cease to be capable Of managing the affairs of the
government there need be alarm that the Office
holders or the oDce-seefas will trample down the lib
critics Of the citizen The people have thus far proved
their capacity to couneract the schemes and combinations
of the reebooters and the freeaers whether they APP
peared ofce-hoders oficeseekers tits worth while
to remember that in 1900 the people proved capable of
putting end to he reign oterro by refusing to reeect
the elder Adams. They did the with the younger
Adams, and with Martin Van Buren, viii the reviewer
say that any objection be made to the wise deter
mnation of the people in these cases. in which they
red out his own doctrine without the help of
eligibility plank in either the democratic whig plat
FORMS In 1904 the people thought that jefferson had
sufficiently "cushed OUT federalism, and they concluded
to reelec him. Does the reviewer think that wrong
In 1912 the people thought 1t best to give Mr.. Madison
chance to 60 through with the pending difficult
ties with Great Britain and they therefore reelected him
Does the reviewer think that wrong? In 1882 the people
successfully the dangers of the United States Bank and
they reelected him. Does the reviewer think they did
wrong? We will leave il to the fertile imagination of the
reviewer picture the people had applied
his rule Jefferson before democracy fully
crystazed Madison in the midst of the gloom of
with Great Britain to Jackson with all the powers
of the Bank combined against the government Since the
days of Jackson the people have not deemed it necessary
for their interests reeect any Presidents but inasmuch
they have failed to prove themselves capable of
compehending and subscribing their true interests
submit the reviewer that they may be safely trusted
in future without the Interpolation into the democratic
creed of the plank proposed by him. If the people
think that the great issue the Kansas question had be-
ter be settled under the lead of Franklin Pierce they will
decide but whatever may be their decision the result
will prove that their determination has not been affected
either by afreebooters" praes but by fixed regard
for their own best interests.