Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-03-22

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NJ. Howell Cobb ID his resent Portsmouth,
speech assured tie audiepce, TIT our own oil
lustrious and Distinguished son, the President of
the United States was boldly BteppiDg in the
Footsteps q JsSsrson and jackson" 1t was
stance in public way for the news had not
yet reached New Hampshire. We had read far
enough in the history of our country to learn
that Thomas Jefferson was the reputed author Of
the Ordinance of 1887, consecrating the great
States northwest Of the Ohio into Freedom
We know that Franklin Pierce was the god-fath-
and wet nurse of the Kansas Nebraska Bill.
a bill removing the ancient landmarks and invi-'
ting into Territory, larger by far than all the
free States Of the Union put together, the blight
and curse OF Slavery. This may be boldly tread
ing in the footsteps Of JeHerson!0 If so, The toes
are turned different tcdys.
Andrew jackson was a man, a whole man and
nothing but a man. His masculine energy and
fearless independence of character, were the ter
ror of evil doors, whether corrupt money chang.
crs or South Carolina Nullifers. It was his in
domitable courage, his inHexibiity of will, which
won for him the sobriquet of cold Hickory.".-
He did not grow faint, like sick girl at 'ssmell
of villainous saltpetre." He was not the supple
tool of his cabinet, not did he stoop from his
high position to pander to the fanatiscism of q
sectional Oligarchy for the sake of securing the
nomination OF party convention. Had the cit
liens OF State invaded neghborng Territory,
during his administration, he would not have
sat like cross-legged Hndoo SILVA, but there
would have been thunder at the White House.
Border Rufiaus would have bid its diminished
head forthwith. or forthwith it would have no
head to hide, "by the Eternal 20
The admirers of Franklin Pierce before he was
elevated, in an evil day,-to the giddy height Of
the Presidency, thought with the Georgia repre-
sentative, or pretended to think, that they dis
covered in him some resemblance to the old Ro-
man OF the Hermitage, and SO they called him
s'YOung Hickory" We had supposed that re-
cent events, to say nothing of certain incidents in
the Mexican War, had dispelled this poor allu-
sion. The hero of New Orleans and the hero Of
Cherubusco, forsooth! cold Hickory'' and
"Youug Hickoryv' Yeuow ok and boiled
carrot! "~
No, no, NJ. Cobb. The people of New Hanp-
shire do not respond to your eulogy of our 'sdis-
tinguished son.'' They know him too WE'LL.
They are not bewilde: or blinded by the artificial
glare which surrounds the occupant of the
still, though perched on Alps.'' In the pompous
figure which looms up in gigantic proportions
amidst the fog at Washington, they find on close
examination, not Jefferson or a jackson, but
only Pierce-thc same intriguing partisan
whose genius found "scope and verge nough" in
planning political camp ign for a school di.-
trict in upper Coos. We think we know whereof
we affirm, when we assure the adulatory South
ron, that the President in his recent messages to
Congress, by bis mutlat;on of our political his
tory, by his suppression of the truth, by his pet
tifogginy Interpretation of the Constitution,
by the prostitution of his high place to the low
arts of the demagogue, by his narrow and Sec
tional appeals, by his efforts to kindle Southern
fanatiscsm to flame in the forlorn hope IF
riding into power in chariot of fire, by his cold
bloodrd and heartless Indifference to the fate of
the inhabitants of Kansas, belcagurcd, robbed,
m ordered, not only by ''bordcr ruiFians,' hut "a
8, by has official m,inions, by his recent cow
ardy threats that he will employ the whole mil
itary force at the disposal of the Federal Exec
utive to crush out the Unreasonable nsurrecton''
OF self government excitcs in the freencn of New
II lmpshire Other emo ions that those of the
intenseSt Indignation and disgust. We assure
Mr.. Cobb still further, that if the President in
his infatuaton, shall pr c:pitate IL evil war by
ordering United Slater troops against the brave
mon VIII" are struggling to plant the institution
| OF freedom in Kansas, men whose patriotism is
us much higher and holier than his finest conccp-
ion of that virtue us his trcacherv to Republican
Liberty is baScr than Arnoid's-thore will not be
wanting to them in the conflict descendants of
turk and Sullivan and Llng,ion and Gilman,
V hose ri les shall speak sharper and louder than
ii windy proclamations of the windy demacocue
W 20 has just blown his rams horn in the ear of
the nitiOn.