The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-27
THE PRE- SIDENc
Col. Benton's Speech at Sc. LOuls-Birdseye
view OF the Pierce Administration and Gin
elnnatA Convention.

Otzens-I appear before you in an unexpected charac
rhat OF candidate for the Governorshp Of the State
q Missouri II was place which had not sought bu
which felt bound 10 accept the present condition Of
NE comtry-ts peace greatly endangered both az horne
and abroad and the Of all good ctsens required
70 aid in preventing The double calamity OF civil and
sreisn war
nrst oue ever approached. | went to how things
were done and 70 assist little Vt safe nomsnation.
found garrison Of once holders inside Of the Conversion
and peegng army q the same gentry on the outside
sfn Packed deiegat<s were there sent 70 betray the
people. Straw delegates there coEsng from the
Ssates which could give no deFycratc vote Members q
congress we're there although forbid sy their DUTIES
from being At such place. cohort of office hoicsrs
were there political eunucs in the federal system in
capable of v6eng for the Smallest federal office yet sent
there by the administrator to impose Preside upon
II was scarsa,ous collection excluded by the const-
tucn from being even electors of tie President and
theretovote for the 70 Sote upon
NE principle the that know-th his masters crib
upen the principle of ee thehand that
Sedeth him. Bulhes were there from the Custom House
md the Five Points New Yosx-all with tie approba
non Of the administration for the Office holders would not
be absent from their duties and drawing their paya
without the Of their employers. ttwas scan
ialous collection The members Of Congress were 81
double breach of their duties They we're negecusg
Weir Legislative Duties and doing what they had been n
Thirty years gro the nomination of Presidential canki
aAies taken from Congress on accosnt of the cop
Honwheh il engendered and given to delegates intend
ed 70 be fresh from the people and TO otey their will and
The nomination removed from Washington to Barn,ore,
% get ont of reach of President making members.
But these members followed TO Batrore getting proxies
from delegate when they couldget no Appointment
Asm people, and 10 get rid Of thcmto get entirely
beyond Their reachthe Convention itself was removed
from Baitimere To Cincinnati.
Vain effort TO escape them They followed ON TO lln-
They broke up Congress &c get to this forbidden
pace Surely the new President will be very hard
hearted If he docs not remember them when he comes
% the distribution of Office From Washington City came
new corps, before put upon such seFvice-the
sce holders in the city clerks the deparmept-heads
If hui
hoR-po,ical hybrids unable to act mans part in any
election but sent to Cincinnati as life guard V support
he administration
Such the composition OF nearly half ofthc whole
house officers posmaSters, salared
clerks, packed delegates, strsrT delegates political
eunuchs members of Congress- district attorneys, fede
raj marshals. The place in which they met ard which
had been provided by packed administration commit
tee worthy Of the meeting. 1t was sort of den,
e4ee doors each door guarded by armed DULLES with
orders toknock down person that approached with
cut ticket from the ommittee, and special order TO
be prepared with arms to repulse the Missouri deega
on which came TO vote for Buchanan-a repu,se which
Ahey attempted and got Themselves knocked DOWN and
1Eampled under foot.
This den had windows by which people could look
n see, the light Of the enter-ony q row Of
glass, like steamboat skyight, thirty five fest above
the floor the nearest representation OF the "back
hole in Calcutta, and like that hole, had well nigh be-
notorious for a similar catastrophe The Little panes
of glass above were hung pivots and turned fiat
1t in air cain came drove into the den; and 10 ex
clude it, the panes were turned up. 'sSmohering
Emothering the cry dem and the gloss had
30 be turned again Over this place small box for
SAe ADMISSION Of GATORS its approach barrceed and
guarded and enerance only obtared upon tickets from
The same packed committee, and to whom they gave
tckets was the first votes were given fer Blu
chanan, and when each State that voted for him
hssed-even Virginia and the kissing only stopped by
threat to clear the galleries Such is the pass TO which
the nomination OF Pres dent is now brought.
No President seeking second election, has ever been
repudated before. Several seeking have beer de-
Seated by their anniversaries but has been detd
by his party. The elder Mr. Adams defeated by
The democratic party then called republican the younger
Mr.. Adams defeated by the party; Mr.. Van
Buren, defeated by wings. each OF these gen
uemen bad the consolation of having perved the reg
pect and confidence Of his party. Not with Mr..
Pierce. He repudiated b. those who had exalted him
Aer four years trial he Is condemned and thrown away
the victim Of his advisers. 1t IS the most humiatng
Termination Of public that witnessed His
whole vote sxty-oaly FIVE dozen out Of near
hree hundred and from these deducted the intrusive
votes which ought not to be corntedthose Of the office
holders The packed delegates tie straw delegates the
members Of Congress and the complimentary votes
which were begged for him TO lessen the shane Of the
miserable defeat-if all these deducted they
ought TO be, he you'd be loft wthll. single y1e-let
20 20 out as he came in with the ulanmous consent Of
his party What a fate for who into Office
upon twenty States with two thirds Of each Eouse
81 Congress and the united democracy OF the whole
Union After all the result due to .he place where
the Convention was held. II it had been in Baltimore
where the outside would have been on the other
side the Office holders would have carried .5e day.
Let not be forgotten that the place governed this
nomnahon-the place convenient TO the solid men Of the
country; but that cannot be relied upon 70 future
nominations The old intrigu rs-the permanent proies-
siona President makers-wia not be caught IN such
sacs agan Ihy VIII as 60 Were ,ns ,b
Ahe Constitution and giving to the people direct vote for
President Already is reported laat the go next time
70 Charleston s. c. where Western farmers get at
them. If you ask how this be known now2 answer,
very well. Each Convention now appoints Committee
q rs own body, thirty one in number to sit from four
years to four years and manage everything These
Committees do the cheating IN the recess OF the Conven-
tone.
Such fall announces the most deplorahe administra-
ton which country has seen; and such Is the
fact Al home and abroad-in all its acts and policy,
h<nfh
the order Of the day The field of its bad acts Is too
large to admit of full survey on an occasion like the
present. can only seize and present the most prom-
ncnt taking those which concern home affairs first
the foreign afterwards; but first, must show who ]
mean by the administration, FOR It by no means consists
Of ell whose names compose IT,
In the first place, then, do not Mr. PIERCE I
leave him out entirely He Is KIND man, tender heart
ed and will cry Tor ybodys sorrows but he has ne
ther head nerve and he Is helpless IN the hands OF
hin managers babe in the arms Of It's nurse. have
70 give signal instance Of this helpesspess which con
yourselves well myscf and which admits Of no
question because party TO IT, and know what say
Mr. Pierce sent for after his inauguration deSir
ing to call upon him the next evening at O'Clock.
went according to the request He told me he wished 70
speak to me about the Missouri appointments and know
II they could not be put OF for while9 answered,
yes-that they all four years appointments and TO
be out Of themselves in the of the spring and
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 J. was readily agreed
that the appointments should stand until my return
from Missouri which would be in six weeks
On this agreement, thus volunteered by himself left
The city, and In two weeks followed by list OF the
appointnents-and you know what kind Of appointments
they were-a made from my enemies and 70 work in |
the election against thing which they have faith
fully done, and still doing Even the Post Office N my
own town was so filed as render impossible for
To use IT, and drove to the OF sending my
correspondence through Adams Co This IS what hap
pened between the President and myself and IS one q
nnumerable instances prove his nuy in his own al
nnistration. did not get angry with him for II.
knew he was sincere at the time he spoke With me- and
pitied his inability to keep his word voluntarily
given. expressed resentment because knew they
would not let him do he wished; but self respect re-
CURED avoid his house. and have not been there
eince Still, meet handsomely when ac ident brings
together sometimes meeting in evening rides, when
The respective hats Immediately rite high IN the air
sometimes foot in evening walk, when we rush to
the sautaton and pressngy that an observer might
suppose il was q pair VI old bosom fricnds-Iamon and
Pythasus getting together again alter long and crue
separation.
In the next place do not mean Mr. Marcy He leaves