New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-28


earlier part OF IL, especially 90 far q relates TO
KaDsas.
We wish both for the sake of the country, for
the sake of Mr.. Pierce himsel-sor whom, - IN
individual and apar, from bis official delinquenc es,
we are far from chershiDg any feelings Of i'll will
we wish for the honor Of the Presidential Office
which it has been Mr.. Pierces painful destiny to
subject to q degradation hitherto unknown
would we'll wish, for all these reasons that We
could our way clear for joining our cotempora-
Iies in the snticipations of sort of Indian Sum-
mer. after q biting Winter. dry Spring, cold
Summer and barren Autumn, to close up PfsH-
dent Perce's Administration. We greatly fear,
however, that those by whom these anticiPations
are put forth are what defective in their know-
edge Of human nxture; or that they give Mr.. Pierce
credit for being much more of q man than he is
To zee ones own errors, especially 10 q matter
upon which man has staked his fortune and hu
character, requires, even after those errors have
become pslpsble to everybody else, god deal
more of intelligence than we fear, Mr.. Pierce Is
entitled to tie credit of and even after those errors
are perceived to alter ones course and to endeaVor
to retrieve them, demands both decision and
MAJ nanimity of character which it is but too GER
tain that Mr.. Pierce does not possess since II ne
did, he never would have got himself into bis pres
eht predicament.
Mr.. Pierce, by nature, and by long habit OF
action secopd only in force to nature il dough
face-that ia to say, man facle and duc'ile In the
hands Of those who have him in possession, and
-. AZ him. hit
then We must recollect that he is doughface who
has always been and now is in the hands OF the
shareholders, and who, having been nodded by
them into q shape suitable to their purposes mas
within the last three years been baked in an oven
seven times heated, whereby he has lost oil h's
original ductility, and though once soft as clay and
capable Of being shaped into anything, has now
become fixed as stone, and fit for nothing but to
serve as bottle out of which to throw the vtrlol
of Slavery at Free. State men aud over Free.State
territory. In the furnace Of Slavery in which be
has been baked Mr.. Pierce, like so many others
of our original doughtaces, has become hardened
ard petrifed-avessal Of dshonor forever apPropri-
ated to dilhonorable and disgusting purposes and
wholly incapable of ever being remolded into any
other shape.
But though thus permanently trsniformed into
Southern convenience we do not oy any means
intend to imply that Mr.. Pierce has lost the ca
pacity of persOnal and human feelings He is still,
doubtless, quite as sensitive to ipte, anger and
vexation as ever; probably under the processes to
which he has been subjected, he has become con.
sderably more so. No doubt he feels acutely bis
pretent position, and looks for ward, almost with
the despair CT man sentenced to DEATH to the short
period hence when he is to subside vanish, to pass
away, to silk into nothing. But to imagine
that any change of bis course for the better is to be
expected from those impulses, is to calculate what
is not very likely to happen. That wolld be to
ascrbe to Mr. Pierce degree Of courage which
there is not The slightest reason to suppose that he
possesses. The slave seldom dares to raise his
hand against his master, even when he feels him.
self grossly nured-snd if there be 10 these United
States one man more e2titled than all others to be
called slave, that man is Mr.. Pierce. So total,
indeed, is bis subsection that no i'll treatment,
we Suspect will ever induce him to away.
While he has time and opportunity remaining
he will still continue to labor zealOusy in the
vice of bis owners. though he knows himself to be
just dropping into his political grave. Indeed, so
thorough is his subjectcD, 90 innate his serviity,
that probably he will feel that in throwing him off
the Shareholders did exactly what to have been
expected. The master naturally looks to himself
first; and could the slave holders be expected to
risk the loss of the election merely for the sake Of
showing their gratitude to Mr. Pierce' He has
Only been reated like other sick and feeble mig
gers; being no longer of any use to his masters,
they have set him adrift to shift for himself Mr..
Pierce is too thoroughbred q slave to feel that
there is any imposition in this. His spite. anger,
and VI xatlon will all be directed, not ag ainst "pOOr
master" but against the people Of the North who
forced "poor master" to do as he did. IL is the
people of the North, it is the Northern sentiment
against the extension ofSlavery that has proved fatal
to Mr.. Pierces hopes Of continuance in Office; and
it is ogsn.t the people ofthe North 1t is against this
Northern sentiment that, during the abort continu.
ance of bis time of Office, he may be expected to
vent his fury.
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