The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-07-17
Cast Observation-Disclosures Pierce and the Demo-
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The Administration of Franklin Pierce will
long be remembered by the American people
as one marked by inability and weakness. The
inglorious career of the Democratic Admins
tration, will be closed in few months, and
the reins Of Power win be placed in better
hands Buchanan cannot fail to be an i'm
.provement upon Pierce ifby accident he should
be elected, and Fillmore has been tried. The
following from the Baltimore Patriot is worthy
ola perusal -e,sa
when theCincirnati Convention contempt
uously refused to nominate Franklin Pierce as
its candidate for re election to the Presidency,
we thought his humiliation was complete, and
that no further indignities would be imposed
upon him. We were, however, mistaken.-I
The Democratic party never does things by
halves. President Pierce had carried out the
Democratic policy but too faithfully. He had
listened too implicitly to his Democratic adj
visers, and at the twelfth hour they coolly de-
serted him. Had he been sailing over sum
ner sea, famed BY soft gales, and over canopied
by propitous skies, they would have stood
calamity by him to the last; but when the
storm rose, and the wind began to whistle
through, the cordage, they flung him over
board, in the hope of allaying the tempest
1t was painful but necessary sacrifice to the
force of public opinion, and we have no doubt
they felt it deeply, but Of course they did not
suffer tito affect their digestion, or to inter-
fere in. any way with their general heal h
Indeed, for rnourners they were the merricst
crew that ever set the tables in roar, or sang
down among the dead men, to the music
Of empty bottles. rsag -sl5.. IS
With a chosen Buchanier at the helm, and
with new planks added to the old vessel, they
scuddelabafore.t the wind until they found. one
Of the planks upon which they bad placed
their main dependence. and which, as indica
tive of the caudal support it wasintended to
give, they had huinorously christened squat
ter Sovereignty suddenly cracking beneath
them; whereupon, like prudentmen who cared
nothing for planks, but everything for them
selves, they dexterously detached it from the 1
frame work Of the platform on which it rested
and flung it into the sea. Scarcely had this
feat been accomplished before it was found
that another and far more venerable plank had
become rickety and was in danger of giving
way. Now this last plank had long been
favoritc piece of joiners work with the prinei-
pal officers son board-who were always
preaching she duty Of economy to the Grew,
and were weilaqualifed to do so, inasmuch a.
they themselves rarely practised the preeepts
they taught $50 they we're very reluctant to
part with it, ~ =
MOREOVER this plank displayed on its face
the long, high-soundings inscription OPPOSE
ton to Aterlal Improvement By the General Coz
srnment." and as its office was to keep the
fofecastle mem those who did the work
from profting by the aid of the public money |
chest, even when such assistance became i'm
peratively necessary for the advancement Of
their social and physical health, it was sedu-
iousIy guarded--secured by Democratic locks,
he'ksys of which were committed to Demo
cratic officers, with solemn injunctions never
to use them on any occasion whatever, but to
prove at all times as subservient in this respect
as Fatima waste Blue beard, and we are happy
10 say they sometimes follow the last clause of
their instructions and conveniently forget the
Arst f!seAssas.s sEnF 81 Il ssss -r-7E
I" But this plank has at length given way,
and with desperate resignation to the fate
which is impending everthem, they have COM
mitted it to the sea, that it may keep cenlpan-
ionship with Sq1atter Sovereignty and Frank
lin Pierce. IRE I g go 81 q, -
sHThey are now trying to double the "Cape
of Good Hope" but with very indifferent pros
poets of success, though they pride themselves
on their dexterity in clawing off from lee
shore" ,s.,..sf ...4-fsess- 81. t.---.
OK The New York Herald,s correspondent
st Foulon France, writing on the goth ultss
states that the Government, finding itself at
the close of the war with a stock Of American
pork on hand amounting to $1,000 barrels.
advertised a public sale of 100000 kilos, 70
take place on the 18th; but as the limited
price of 1900 francs per twenty Lots, or net
1890 kilos, with five and a half percent auc-
tien.charges, could not be realized, the sale
tlidnot come off, -at sssfss 1. z.5ssl u, sssu
Nc. FILLMoRE.- Baltimore Clipper
says, "we, have il on high authority, that
a9lnnber Of Congress from. Virginia, wLo has
es9ssys acted with the old Democratic party,
saa STATED that ten days sinte, ne had no hope
afMEs FilEmo6e's election in that. State but
atpfsseat he is slsirslig confident of his success"