Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-24

WOulu DC alike pToteCteu, unueT tne auInln1S-
tration of Willard Fillmore as they have before
been protected under his administration, which
gave peace and quiet to the whole country.
Standing, then, as the American candidates
now stand, free from all alliances with the other
parties, it is our Judgment that, il the people
of the United States desire tic restoration of
harmony and the cessation of sectional wrang-
! ling-il they wish return of the halcyon days
of peace, concord and prosperity, they will cast
their sufrages for Fillmore and Donelson
The Pierce AdministratiOn--W What will the
People Say Of ite
The Union of the ed inst, under the above
head, regales its readers with an elaborate and
inflated laudation of the administration of Pre-
silent Pierce and affirns with an efirontery
that must excite the envy of its junior coadju-
tor, Dalgetty of the Phantom, that the verdict
which the people are already rendering upon
his administration is" Well done, good and
| faithful servant"
Now, if it be true that such is the verdict
which the people" are rendering upon Mr..
Pierce, why did not the delegates from the
people" to the Cincinnati Convention, have
the courage to present this "good and faithful
servant" to their constituents as q candidate
for the Presidency? Had they done this, the
people" would have had direct opportunity
to render verdict" according to the merits
of the case, as they understood it, and without
being compelled to express their high sense of
| the excellence of his administration through
such channel as the Union
| They refused to present him as candidate,
and not only refused, but allowed him to be
disgraced by running down from lao to 8
votes. Is this the way Democrats reward
"good and faithful seryantsq'' If so, what
verdict ought the "people" to render upon
| them-p a
The Union claims, among other "glories''
/ for this administration, the " crowning glory
that "by its firmness and good conduct, a
dangerous and treacherous scheme to destroy
the Union, through the agitation Of the slavery
question and appeals to sectional feeling, came
to head and was crushed"
This is decidedly cool The authors of sec
tionalism and the most culpable agitators OF
the slavery question claiming the credit Of
crushing it As well might Lord North or
George Granville have claimed the credit Of
establishing American independence; or the
French Bourbons the glory which was conse-
quent upon the accession Of Napoleon to the
throne of France.
| When President Fillmore delivered the rens
Of office to franklin Pierce in 1853, the whole
country enjoyed a condition of harmony and
peace unparalleled since the close Of the adj
ministration of General jackson. The Com
promise measures of 1850, bitterly opposed as
they had been at the outset both at the North
and the South, met with universal acquies-
cence From no quarter, even the most noted
for rebellion or insignifcance, did there come
up the faintest breathing Of disafcction. Par
ty spirit was allayed The voice of faction
was hushed Thousands of lifelong opponents
of the Democratic party rejoiced over the
election of Pierce because they sincerely be-
lieved that he would administer the govern
ment honestly and impartially, and in accord
ance with the repeated professions he made
during the canvass.
The very first acts of the new administra-
ton dispclled forever the delusion under which
they labored, and drove from its support the
great mass Of honest, old line, Union-loying
Democrats In the Cabinet and diplomatic
appointments and the dispcnsation Of official
| patronage, nullifers and sectionalists were pre-
fered at the South--Abolitionist and Free
sellers at the North " as1 E9~g g ~
Men who could not for the previous ter
years. have commanded corporal's guard o
voters in their own districts, 10 dstestable wer'
they for their reasonable and unpatriotic con
duct, were elevated by Franklin Pierce to tn,
highest places IN the Cabinet, on the bench
Of the Supreme Court, and in the diplomatic
corps.