Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-01
WHOLE NO. 5l3.

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'uii survey on an occasion like the present. !. can
only seize and present the most prominent I. kin~
tnose Hhch concern our home affairs 6r.f ths Sor.
eign afterwards but, fret, ! must shor who 7
mean by the administration, for it by M neans
consists OF all whose names compose Il
10 the trst place, then, do not mean NJ
fierce, leave him out entirely. He is a hind
man, tender-hearted, and will cry for anybodys
sorrows; but he has neither head nor nerve ana
he is as helpless in the hands of his managers =, :
babe in the arms Of It's nurse. have 10 give
signal instance Of this heplessness which concerns
yourselves as well as myself, and which admits of
no question, because was 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 eight o'clock. went according
to The request, He told me he wished to speak
to to me about the Missouri appointments, and know
II they could not be put of for awhiles I an
swered yes--that they were all four wears, an.
poEitments, and to be out of themselves in the
course OF the spring and summer--thst 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 10
come OF ITSELF He replied that these were exact-
ly his own sentiments, and ID was readily agreed
that the appointments should stand over 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 was followed by
a list OF the appontments-and you know what
kind OF appointments they were--all made from
my enemies, and to work in the election against
me-a thing which they have faithfully done. and
are still doing. Even the post office in my ewn
town was so filled as to render II impossible for me
to use II, and drove TO the resource of sending
my correspondence through Adams & CO. This IL
what happened between the President and myself
and is one OF the innumerable instances to prove
his nullity in his own administration. l did not
get angry with him for il. knew he was sincere
at he time he spoke with me, and ptied his ina.
bi'ity to keep his own word voluntarily given. I
expressed no resentment because | knew thew
would not let him do az he he wished; bnt self re-
spect required me to avoid his house, ard have
not been there since. Still, we meet hsndsorrsly
shen accident brings us together; sometimes meet.
ing Ia evening rides, when the respective hats i'm.
medately rise high in the air sometimes on foot
in an evening walk, when we rush to the saluta
tion, and so pressingly that an observer might
euppose 1t was pair of old bosom friends--Damon
ana fythias-ust getting together again after a
long and cruel separation.
In the next place, | do not mean Mr.. Marcy
He leaves himself out by permitting others to uon
mate In his department., and by publicly agreeing
TO what he privately condemns. leave out also
the Secretaries of the Treasury OF the Interior. of
the Navy and the Postmaster General and onlv
condemn them for remaining In Cabinet In which
they are without influence, and sharing the odum
OF measures cf which they have no part in the pa.
ternlty. This brings me To the Secretary at War
an the Attorney General. who, with an outaide
force OF determined nullifers, are the whole ad.
ministration. But little need be said Of the Sac
retary OF War. He is martinez, puffed up with
West Point science, dogmatical and praemati,.al
within his circle; but that circle is narrow one
and he moves uncontrolled with IT, He Il an
avowed secessionist
VI the outside force of nufiers still less remains
TO be said They govern when they please, and
always in the same stye--by presenting a mena-
cling front. OF all these the Attorney General Ia
the master spirit. He is man of talent, of learn
ing, Of industry pnscrupulous, double-sexed
double-gendered, and hermaphIoditic in politics
with hinge in his knee, which he often crooks
that thrift may follow fawning." He governs by
suhservicncy; and to him is deferred the masters
place in Mr. Pierce's Cabinet. When heard that
he was to come into the Cabinet l set down Mr.
Pierce for doorsed man, and foresaw the swift
and full destruction which was to fall upon him. /
had known Mr.. Gushing as an Abolitionist, voting
against Arkansas because she was slave State,
and backing Slade, OF Vermont, in the attempt to
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia had
known him as Wbig, attacking the Democracy
and all their measures; and as Tylerite, auction
eering offices for Tyler as long as he had an office
to go to the hammer. could have no faith In an
administration 40 led, and foretold it calamtous
fate from the moment il was seen who was to be
in il.
Now for their acts
l. The violation of the Texas and Missouri Com
promises. With the facts Of this violat on its
wicked and corrupt intent, and the foul means Of
getting il done and its disastrous and bloody con-
Sequences you are all sufficiently acquainted; and
only name it to give it its place at the head and
front of all the evil measures of this administra.
ton.
2. Prostitution Of the whole appointing power
to cloctioneering purposes. This was openly done
from the first moment of its existence. Appoint
ments were wholly made with view to affect the
elections, State anu Federal and to operate for or
against particular men and for this purpose unfit
characters would be taken in preference to the
best You know how IL was in this State, and az
IL was here, 30 II was everywhere. Nullifers and
Free-soiler5 apostates and renegades, all we're fish
in their net. One single qualification requisite,
that of working in the elections and the only pre-
ference seemed TO be shown was in favor Of those
who had been most violent against the Union. On
that principle an editor was taken and sent into
Egypt--not into bondage, as better men have been
sent there--but az Consult General of the United
States, which editor had published daily paper in
Washington city for three years, wholly devoted TO
tic separation Of the slave from the free States.
2. Unfit appointments on foreign missions. This
is mortifying head of accusation against the pres
ent administ alton Never were such men seLt
abroad to represent our country-men without a
particle Of the knowledge which diplomacy re-
ouires, and even without manners--without know
ing how to behave in company-mere political
demagoeues, TO reward them for services past,
and services TO conc at the Federal and State
elections They send such abroad in order to give
them indemnity for pact services at the polls, and
10 enable them to come back and recommence
their partisan labors. Formerly, the United States
ministers we're the pride Of our country, and the
admiration Of the courts TO which they were sent.
Talented, educated, replete with knowledge, pol
ished in manners, modest virtuous; such were
formerly our ministers abroad.