Daily American organ., 1856-05-07

haps more disappearing than approving.
| Notwithstanding the political treason of Gov.
Reeder, he was continued in once; and we allege,
most distinctly and most emphatically, that his an
tire political cotvse was unquali6edly endorsed by
| the official organ. While Reeder was In Easton,
| the Union announced his departure, or intended
departure, and took occasion 10 express its appro-
val Of his whole course, then so generally Often
sve, and went further-it endorsed fully has fa1-
tare political course Governor. OF this endorse
ment we have never seen a retraction. AJter Gov.
Reeder had been dismissed, solely for peculston,
or attempted peculation, public lands, he made
a savage speech against the administration. This
the Union censured; this was an offens Q, not
against the Democratic party, or il might have
| gone unwhpped, but II Was against the Executive;
and when this occurs the Union goes off of itself
| But Gov. Reeder had made at Easton his famous
"border rufian speech, and ii was after his that
the linton gave him the Executive endorsement.
These are damning facts.
| Again: The Nebraska bin was brought for
ward-the Union approved 1.-THE amendment
repeating the Missouri Compromise was offered
| the Union furiously denounced it--Senators ap-
| piled the lash to 1.-THE Union was in favor Of
| 1.-THE Union made the bill test of Democratic
orthodoxy. The House had to elect printer
the Executive wanted it for the Union. Tho
balance of power was held by the Van Buren Free
soilers, selfstyled mocrats There was the print
ing fee-but the Union could not get il without
| the Free-soil vote Their price was Executive
indulgence" to throttle and srangle this very test
| bill Of the Union. Alas The Union had read the
history Of Esau to initiate but not to profit by the
example. 1t sold Its birth-right for mess Of pot
tage--f that had been all, it would not have mat
tered much--but--curses on its treason--it sold
the Democratic party, and by Executive counte-
nance led on these Van Buren cohorts against the
Democratic party.
Had the Union been faithful, and the Executive
had kept these allies of the Executive true to The
| bill, it would have passed without difficulty and
without Observation-Disclosures the license to trea-
son gave rise to protraeted and rancorous con-
test almost without parallel.
| Did not the administration invite the Ostend
Conference, and then betray the parties they had
inyitedr
| We will not even touch upon mooted points,
when while many censured, some approved the
acts of the administration.
\ But we do assert, and we appeal to the heart
and consciousness of all fair, candid, and honor
able men to say, If up to this period Gen. Pierce
| had not lost the confidence and support of the
Northern Democracy, and the dstrust of the
South, and to the teeming columns of papers
| North and South we refer for evidence: His de-
sertion at the North was 30 total and absolute.
| that be had nothing to lose or to preserve--hs
only hope for consideration was with the South
by an unreserved planting of himself on tho con-
stitution, and by the principles of the Democrat
c party, and to this conclusion he came, through
| the influence of some wise and sagacous coun-
sellor; the result was first his annual message,
| written with an ability which would do any man
credit. The Sentinel gave to it cordial appro-
val; the next step was the Kansas message of
consummate ability, with truthful and luminous
exposition of the true version of the constitution
and brushing away, by its force Of reasoning, the
webs of sophistry Of the Black Republicans.
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to these most admirable papers, and we now say
in the most explicit manner, take away from Gen
eral Pierce his inaugural, his last annual, and his
| special message, and his most ardent partisans
could not scrape together and patch up record
which would bear single glance.
We challenge the Union and all of our SANDER
ers to make any record for General Pierce, exclu-
ding these three papers-and to them we assign as
high praise can any one. .
Everybody knows full well, that these last doc
uments have wrought all the favorable feelings
which exist toward Gen. Pierce We well know
it. because Senators gave that for voting for
the Union--that Gen. Pierces heart was set upon
it, and he claimed if there any merit in them,
that the appreciation should be manifested by the
election of the Union.
Senators most warmly in favor Of the Union
openly in speech stated that the record of the
Union had their condemnation, while they had
endorsed and approved that of the Sentinel and
held its editor in high personal esteem all these
facts are well known here.
Not only SO, but the President himself was told
by Senators, as we have good reason TO believe,
that the Union had yawed to and fro as If without
a rudder, while the Sentinel held an undertaking
Democratic course, and that by these papers the
President had put himself fair and square upon
the Sentinel platform, and while he remained there
they might move harmoniously together. And so
we could and probably would have done, if he had
not appeared as candidate for denomination. But
for that, it was our purpose to give him and his
administration cordial support to the end of his
| term, without referring to the past. But the ex-
perience we have had of his pilotage rendered his
continuance at the helm Of State matter Of dread
or rather that his nomination would be the inevita-
BILE forerunner of defeat disaster if his election
| were possible.
We say unhesitatingly, that until the produc-
ton of the two last messages referred to- the idea
| Of his nomination was almost universally secuted
and our libellers know it.
II we had known earlier, what we now know, to-
wit that his nomination Is scarcely within the lm-
! its of possibility, we would have en- willing to
| omit the structures have made, and confined
ourselves to commencing all that was commend
| able.
We win acknowledge that perhaps some of our
structures have been tnged with sharpness
| caused in some degree by our knowledge of the
consistent and persistent efforts of the Executive
to crush out the Ssntinel-we are willing even to
admit that it may have caused us to suspect the
motives of the Executive, and possibly in that re.
spcct to have done him injustice; but we have
never said what we did not believe, and have not
sought to misrepresent him. We have referred to
his Cabinet in this not for the purpose of censure
/ to them for really we are at a loss what acts or
! measures to attribute to them, to each of them
for we incline to the belief that the errings his
! own.
II Gen. Pierce did himself write these papers,
| they should suffice as a mantle to shield his past