The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-06-04

: Iden. and assumed the duties of that exaIte
station, he found the country as peaceful an
. calm as il Was In the days that succeeded tn
{ administrations OF Madison and Monroe FIJI
: more had given no encouragement to sectional
ism and it had died away. AboIitionism wa
$ quelied and kept dormant by his infexibl
, maintenance of the laws of congress upon til
: subject Of slavery. The freesoilers were com
: posed of the Van Buren,, Butler, and few 9th
er broken down democratic leaders, who wer
without power and influence. When he trans
ferred the mighty trust that had unexpected,
devolved upon him on the death of genera
+ Taylor, be had the satisfaction of bebolding
happy, a united, prosperous and peaceful IA
ton, enjoying all the precious benefits of FL
honest and prudent administration. Our coun
try was respected by all the foreign powers 0
the globe and those who had learned to regafC
a dissolution of the Union as inevitable, were
again inspired with the firm belief that such q
dire calamity was scarcely possible. At this
auspicious time the successful candidate of the
democracy took in hand the reins of govern
ment; but how miserably has he disappointed
the expectations naturally excited in the minds
of the American people by combination of
such favorable circumstances. AS we have al
ready stated, abolitionism had been crushed
and if general Pierce had only pursued the pol
icy adopted BY bis predecessor, it would by this
time have been paralyzed for ever. But Frank
Pierce failed to remember that be was the pres
ident of a great nation, not of party, and the
result of bis suicidal policy be seen and felt
by all, and must be acknowledged by every
candid man in the country. He has imbued
the abolition faction with giants strength,
and now it threatens to sap the very founda-
ton of our institutions He appointed the fol-
lowers of Van Buren, to Office and, to gain favor
with the softshell freesoilers of New York, ex
terminated that race OF honest democratic Of
fcials Of which Bronson was noble specimen;
and what could attend such course but mis-
fortune to this country? b. means of the "aid
and comfort received from him and bis Office |
holders the black republicans were brought in
o existence, and cast upon the country to Gre
lte discord and mischief, and to destroy the !
institutions of our fathers. And .
y him that notorious agitator, governor Reed
II, was sent out as governor of Kansas, where
n his official station and as agent for the abo
tionists he has brought civil war upon the
ountry. The office holders' papers at the south
annot deny that the crime Of constructing the
lack republican party and petting and patron
ing the New York freesoilers, was commit
ID by their own president, and on his head
stribution will surely fall His patronage
re peoples money-has been used against the
,uth and its institutions, and if southern men t
esire that the good old order of things which !
-eraled before the accession of Pierce and his
.tellites shall again bless the country, they
ust rally under the American standard and r
November vote for Willard Fillmore He
Is been their tried friend; while Pierce, fol.
wing in the footsteps of another ''iliustrious
Van Buren,, has been their enemy. :
he abolitionists of the country, under the new :;
lie of black republicans" and marshaled I'M "
II the command of old leading democrats, are .
rayed in bitter hostility to The American nom ;.
ee, for they know from experience that they ',
n expect no quarter at his hands, and that
election would cause the destruction of their
pes and be death to themselves. This
ey are convinced of, and is the occasion of
the abuse now being vomitted forth by the ;,
:esoll and Office holders organs on Willard 6
llmore. Another democratic administration :.
full Of progressive'' discord and sectional
life as the one drawing 10 a close, would des- !,
~ the Union No one can gainsay it, And .
lat reason have the people of the south to
ppose, even for moment, that the man who
Il be nominated for the presidency by the de-
'cratlc convention now in session at Cincin-
ii, in the event OF his election, will not faith
ly follow in the footsteps of Van Buren,,
cree, and other distinguished democratic q
orthern men with southern princples?"- m
me whatever. We could expect nothing OF
N a democratic president, as that party is d.
W organised, but continuance of the Pierce NJ
icy of encouraging softshell freesoilers pan W
ring to the whims of the black republicans,
aiding to propagate all the isms under TIE sc SC
l. Can the south favor such policy? n
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According 10 the Delta, and it ought to be
Il posted on the subject, Forney, the great he
nder Of the democratic organ, is now wri- tn
for the Washington Sentinel, the most Bit ell
of president Pierce's opponents. The Del fe
says: dc
Politics make strange bedfellows as well as m
sery. Only short time since Forney was
ef editor of the Union, and the two journals
,ntinel and Union) were fighting like cat and tn
, for the government patronage. The con- ad
is still carried on fercely ever, but Girl clf
kin has the advantage ola valuable desert ~
from the other side. NJ
7orney has become convinced of Pierce's ap- 'r
aching downfall, and therefore resigned his IN
ce in the ktchen-cabinet, and joined the Pr