Daily American organ., 1856-05-01

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OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ANDREW JACKSON DONELSON,
OF TENNESSEE
Anti-American Candidates. and their
Platforms.
1t seems now generally understood that the
contest for the nomination at Cincinnati is
narrowed down to the Hon. James Buchanan
Of Pennsylvania, commonly called Old Buck, a
very clever gentleman, and Franklin Pierce,
Esq, Of New Hampshire, Of the late firm of
Fornoy Pierce, who have recently done .
large business In this city, but whose firm was
dissolved few days since, and the dissolution
duly announced in the columns Of the Wash
ington Union. This Mr. Pierce is commonly
known ~ Hanb Pierce, very neat-dressing
sort Of man, and who, but for the company
he keeps in the losoer parlor, would pass for
man Of gentility. He is very good looking
Whilst, for reasons which we have frequently
assigned, our sympathies are on the side Of
Old Buck, We are obliged, as faithful chroni-
clers of passing events, to say, that at present,
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PIERCE has most decided advantage over his
worthy competitor, Old Buck In the first
place, Frank Pierce has the good Wiu of the
late Arm of Forney & Pierce, though the re-
tired partner ais 1ndsrstood to prefer another
candidate for the succession at least 80 says
the Washington Union; whereas the truth of
the matter is, he went out of this firm and into
the confidence Of his original friend, Old Buck,
to get the control of his affairs, and make him
bankrupt, for the benefit Of his late partner,
with whom he is again to be, in the language
of the Union, associated in the administra-
ton of the government" prooided alscays,
that Frank Pierce should be electedl
In the second place, Frank Pierce has the
advantage of Old Buck, in having had . ma
jority Of the members of the Cincinnati Con-
vention selected from the employees and cor
respondents Of the late firm Of Forney and
Pierce, with promise of continuation Of the
relations between them and the late firm, If
Frank Pierce shall be elected.
In the third place, Frank Pierce has pri-
vately made q platform, on which to run, which
will please the antics both in the North and
the South. Therankest Republican of the North
will find in it precisely what he wants, and the
fre-eaters Of the South will be equally fortu-
nate in finding just what they desire This
platform of Frank Pierce is most ingenious
piece of political mechanism well worthy of a
patent, and is said to have been invented by
COL Forney, the inventor Of several other i'm
provements in political machinery, and the
same gentleman who concocted an exceedingly
ingenious epistle to one George Roberts, not
many years ago, and known by the designa-
ton Of the Jameson letter, written express
ly to protect the fair fame of lady, of some
distinction
But to the platform. This platform Of Frank
Pierce is copied from either one of two sides
Of beautifully prepared and ingcniously en-
graved plate, (the work is done by an eminent
foreign artist and thousands of them have
already been executed, ready to be sent through
out the country, North and South and the
work is still going on at the rate Of thousands
per day, so that before the meeting of the Con-
vention, every man, woman, and child in the
country, will possess one of the copies and it
will be an ornament in the parlors of the anti
Americans from Maine to California. Copies
have already been forwarded to the delegates
elect, as far as known. Those copies sent to
the South read rs follows: !" Kansas Nebraska
and slavery extension I" Each copy is adorned
with life-like representation of Frank Pierce
himself, at one end, and cotton plantation,
with slaves picking cotton, on the other end.
Those copies intended for the North read as
follows: Nebraska Kansas and no more
slape Statss" Each of these copies too, has
a life-Gke representation of Frank Pierce at one
end, and at the other end copy Of the New
Hampshire resolutions of 1847 against slavery
extension, whilst, in the centre, is observed
New England clergyman shrisking for FREQ
dom
Those copies intended for the North, are
carefully packed up and forwarded to Messrs.
Cochrane, Fowler, and Van Buren, and win be
distributed amongst the Republicans just in
time to arrest the Republican nominations, and
to turn that current in the right direction
Those copies intended for the South, are
forwarded to the South Side Democrat, and
by that concern will be judiciously and
timely distributed. Now as we were only
favored with an examination of these works
Of art, by the kindness of friend, whose inn
prudence we would not expose, we trust that
our readers win not speak Of those things to
any body We intend however, at the first
convenient opportunity, to inform Old Buck of
all that is going on, to his prejudice, by those
treacherous fellows who have assumed his
guardianship, only to betray him