The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-07-02

or MIR. Adams was defeated by the same
party MIR. Van Buren, was defeated by
the Wings. But each of these gentlemen
had the consolation Of having preserved
the respect and confidence of his own
party. Not so with Mr.. Pierce. lie is
repudiated by those who had exalted him.
After four years trial he is condemned
and thrown away-tbe victim of his ad.
visers. 1t is the most humiliating ter
mination of a public career that ever was
witnessed. His whole vote was some sixty
only five dozen out of near three hun
dred and If from these arc deducted The
intrusive vote which ought not to be coun-
tod-those of the Office holders, the straw
delegates, the members Of Congress, and
the complimentary votes which were bog
ged for him. to lessen the shame of the
miserable defeat-if all these were de.
Quoted, as they ought to be. he would be
left without a single vote-left TO 20 out
as he came III with the unanimous con
sent of his party. What a fate for a man
VINO came into Office upon twenty seven
States, with two-thirds of eacL. House of
Congress, and the united Democracy Of
the whole Union
Lac Old war hoi,, z IS on s.iil further
to explain how Buchanan got the nom.
nation, and in the following, contrives
to pay off some of his old grudges. lie
strikes right aud left, as il he thought
it was a free fight, and like the chap in
the Arkansaw shindy, seems to be slash
ing around some as if he was not very
particular whom lie hit.
Let it not be forgotten that the piacc
governed this nomination-the place con.
%veuiqnt to the solid men of the country
but that cannot be relied upon to save
future nominations. The old intriguers
tho permanent professional President
makcrs-will not be caught in such a
place again. They will go where the
farmers cannot ONE and there is no
safety except in the amendment of the
Constitution, aud giving to the people a
direct vote for President. Already it
is reported that they 20 next time to
Charleston, S. c., where no western far.
mors can get Mt them. If you ask how
can this be known now? I answer. very
well. Each Contention now appoints a
committco of its own body, thirty-one in
number, to sit frcm four years to four
years, md manage everything. These
committees DO the cheating in the recess
of the Conventions.
Such a fall announce the most deplor.
able Administrator which our country
has ever seen and such is the fact. At
home and abroad.-in all its acts and
policy, both foreign and domestic-ha.
grant misconduct has been the order Of
the day The field Of its bad acts is too
large to admit of a full survey on an &C.
cosion like the present; l can only seize
ard present the most prominent, taking
those which concern our home affairs
frst-the foreign afterwards; but, first,
must show who | mean by the Admin
istration, for it by no means consists Of
all whose names compose it.
DEMONS ccoUN or An INTERVIEW
WITH PIERCE.
In the fist place. then, | do not mean
Mr.. Pierce. | leave him out entirely.
lie is a kind mar, tcndcr-hearted, and
will cry for ~anybody's sorrows but he
has neither head nor nerve, and is as
helpless in the hands Of his managers as
a babe in the arms of its nurse. have
to give a signal instance of this helpless
ness which concerns yourself as well as
myself, and which admits of NJ question
because was a party to it, and know
what say. Mr.. Pierce sent for me
soon after his Inauguration, desiring me
TO call upon him the next evening at g
o'clock. | went according to the request.
He told me he wished to speak to me a.
bout the Missouri appointments. and
know if they could not be put off for a
while l answered, yes-that they we're
all four years appointments, and to be
out of themselves in the course of the
Spring aud Summer-that | despised
the business of removing men who were
doing their business well, and whose
terms would soon expire, and had rather
wait for the vacancy to come of itself.
He replied, that these were exactly his
own sentiments and it was readily
agreed that the appointments should
stand over until my return from Nilsson
!; which would be in six weeks.
On this agreement, thus volunteered
by himself, left tho city, and in two
weeks was folloSed by a list of the ap-
pointments-and you know what kind
of appointments they we:n-ali made
from my enemies, ana 10 work in the G.
lection against me-a thing which they
have faithfully done, and are sti,., doing.
Even the post'ofice in my W town vas
so filled as to render it impossible for me
to use it, and drove mo to the resource
of sending my correspondence through
Adams & Co, This is what happened
between tho President and myself, and
is one Of innumerable instances to prove
his nullity in his W administration. I
did not get angry with him for it. l
knew he was sincere at the time he spoke
with me, and pitied his inability to keep
his own word voluntarily given. | ex-
pressed no resentment, because / knew
they would not let him do as he wished;
but selfrcspect required me to avoid his
house--nnd | have not been there since.
Still we meet handsomely when accident