The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-04-22

Pierce aud Mr.. Marcy, complains that the ad-
ministration is asssiled, especially in the
North, snd cesselessiy by the HERALD, and ar
triontes this hostility wholly to personal die.
resulting from the President
and HE Cabinet. For once and we hasten to
svow tive concur with the Union. Every
body, friend and foe, officeholder ard expsc.
tant, citizen and politician, merchant and re
chanic, lawyer, priest aud artisan, has been
disappointed. Il is the cnly solid triumph
Of the adminissration-the only point upen
which Gen. Pierce and Gov Marcy can be said to
have produced universal sentiment or feeling
they have indeed disappointed everybody.
They assumed Office in the nidHs Of per-
vading expressive patriotism, which was
almost without limit; and the occasion wss
seized by nearly all parties, to send down from
the people to their government strong, de-
cided, and even fervent tokens of popular ap-
prevail and sympathy. 1t was the browning
glory Of the democratic party, which had cub
minated in the nearly unanimous choice of its
candidate, and had inaUgErated its President
amidst expressions of universal appreciation.
AH4OO SHuAt yC0lc U0SC psSsCu, 0AO tuc d1-
ministration is by-word end reproach upon
the democracy, and ccnfeesedly the weakest
point in its organization. Tie cause still ad
dresses itself to the people, and commands and
receives tokens of public sympathy aud ap
prevail, while it's acts-the conduct Of its re-
sponsible chiefs-rest like night mare upon
its character and energies
There are none GO obtuse, even amongst the
abject dependents Of the government--sven
amongst the men whose judgments are stSlti-
fed, whose tongues are tied, aad who are
compelled to play the triple part Of traitors to
the constitution, to their own freedom and 70
the party which endures and maintains them
at the expense and sacrifice CT its prospects-as
not to gee that the administration Of Franklin
Pierce has utterly demoralized the democratic
organization IS q distinct body in this country.
Its domestic and foreign policy has been Sc
ries ct blunders and Inconsistencies, mistakes
and wrongs, personal and official receptions
and tricks, unredeemed by single act wor-
thy Of the government OF q great people. No
man or Cabinet has ever SO ruined the reputa-
ton Of perty-has ever sacrificed go much of
good nane-has ever SO damaged and demo
rallied It's character and driven away support
and sympathy; no man or Cabinet has ever
before so successfully recruited the ranks of
its enemies and built up the cause of section
slism, as Franklin Pierce-aided and abet
ted and controlled by William L. Marcy.
No error has been too insignificant to be
embraced, no blunder too great to be commit
ted. A fatal blight seems to have rested upon
only to acts of self-destruction and political
perdition.
In this spirit Of littleness first came the cos
tune bulletin to inaugurate the foreign policy
Of the administration, and to give token of its
character to the States of the world. That
petty scheme by which the nation was made to
play the fool in Europe, and the demagogue
in America-that little farce, 30 ridiculous, so
contemplate in the eyes of all honorable
men, has nevertheless a historical mean
ing and expression-it evinces at once
the tone and temper and character OF
the Pierce and Marcy dynasty. 1t was part
of that wise management which gave no
weight to principles, and sought to conduc.
the affairs of government by tricks and trading
1t was the second act in the drama, the first of
which drove from the army Of the democra-
cy its soldiers of hundred battles, and intro
duced in their place the msrcenary troops
their enemies.
Next came reciprocity with Canada, without
bringing with it e single equivalent. That
was graceless concession to Power whi,a
has never failed to annoy and perplex US, ard
whose foreign policy seems based on the maxim
of exacting In all cases Of negotiation and
bargain two for one. With the weapon in the
the hands of the American Cabinet with the
British possessions in North America to plead
our cause and back our pretensions --re,ipro-
city was an instrument, properly welded, By
which England might have been compelled to
close all other controversies with us.
The enlistment affair, which was made a
matter of international dispute, and permitted
to disturb the commerce Of the two nations,
was wholly an error Of the government Had
our Cabinet at once applied the only remedy
which was consistent with the dignity of the
State-the dismissal Of the parties who VIC
lated our laws-there the case would have
ended. The people Of the United States cared
little for the offence, or how it might be settled
short of making it a subject of serious differ
ence between the two governments. The
whole case was one of pure legal and diplo.
matte technically, involving in the acts com
planned of no feeling of resentment, and de.
handing at most its disavowal by the govern
ment of her Majesty. 1t was prolonged into
controversy, and magnifed into serious ques-
ton Of difference, solely for Interior purposes,
by the Pierce-Marcy Cabinet
The Koezta affair afforded the Secretary Of
State congenial opportunity to steal from
Captain Ingraham the glory he had won; and
afterwards to abandon the principle upon
which that gallant commander based his action.
General Pierce came into Office the acknow.