Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-09


attempts to kill off Buchanan-and left the
trimmers without the merit of saving him.
But they could not give up the chance for
the spoils, and shouted loudest and were
the first to run into the streets and pro-
claim his nomination.; and will be among
The first to demand reward. The defeat
of the Administration has been complete
and overwhelming, and of the most morti-
fying kind. 1t is defeat by his own par
ty, a reputation by his own friends. No
Presideat seeking second election, has
ever been so repudiated before. Several,
so seeking, have been defeated by their ad-
versaries, but no one has been defeated by
his own party. The elder Mr.. Adams was
defeated by the Democrrtic party, then
called Republican; the younger Mr.. Adams
was defeated by the same party; Mr.. Van
Buren was defeated by the Wings. But
each. ofthese gentlemen had the consolation
of having preserved the respect and conf
dence of his own party. Notso with Mr..
Pierce. He is repudiared by those who
had exalted him. After four years trial,
he is condemned and thrown away-the
victim of his advisers. 1t is the most hu-
initiating termsnation of public career that
ever was witnessed. His whole vote was
some sixty-only five dozen out Of nearly
three hundred; and if from these are de-
Quoted the intrusive votes which ought not
to be counted-those of the ofice-holders,
the packed delegates, the straw delegates,
the members of Congress, and the compli-
mentary votes which were begged for him
to lessen the shame of the miserable defeat
If all these were deducted, as they ought
to be, he would be left without single
vote-left to go out as he came in; with
the unanimous consent ofhis party. What
a fate for man who came into office upon
twenty y-seven States, with two-thirds of
each House of Congress, and the united
Democracy of the whole Union. After all,
the result was due to the place where the
Convention was held. If it had been in
Baltimore, where the outstanding pressure
would have been on the other side, the of
fice-holders would have carried the day.
Let it not be forgotten that the place gov
.erned the nomination-the place convenient
to the solid men of the country; but that
cannot be relied upon to save future nomi-
nations. The old intrigures-the perma-
nent professional President-makers- will
not be caught in such place again. They
will 90 where the farmers cannot come and
thereis no safety except in the amendment
of the Constitution, and giving to the peo-
pie direct vote for President. Already it
is reported that they go next time 10
/ Charleston, S. c., where no western farmers
can get at them. fyou ask how can this
be known now! answer, very WE'LL
Each Convention now appoints commit
tee of its own body, thirty-one in number,
to sit from four years to four years, and man
age everything. These committees do the
cheating in the recess of the conventions.
Such fall announces the most deplorable
administration which our country has ever
seen; and such is the fact. At home and
abroad-in all its acts and policy, both for
eign and domestic fragrant misconduct
has been the order of the day. The felt
of its bad acts is too large to admit of "a
full survey on an oceasionlike the present: !:
1 can only size and present the most prom
inent, taking those which concern our home
affairs first-the foreign afterwards; but,
first, must show who | mean by the adj
minsstration, for it by no means consists of
all whose names compose it. In the first
place, then, I do not mean Mr.. Pierce. 1
leave him out entirely. He is a kind man,
tender-hearted, and will cry for anybody's
sorrows; but he has neither head nor nerve,
and is as helpless in the hands of his mana
gers as a babe in the arms of its nurse. l
have to give single instance of this help
lessness, which concerns yourselves as well
as myself and which admits Of no question,
because / was party to it and know what l
say. Mr.. Pierce sent for me soon after his
Inauguration, desiring me to call upon him
the next evening at O'Clock. Iwent accor-
ding to request. He told me he wished to
speak to me about the Missouri appoint
ments, and know if they could not be put off
for while. l answered yes-that they
were all four years appointments, and to be
out of themselves in the course of the Spring
and Summer-that 1 despised the business
of removing men who were doing their bus
iness well, and whose terms would soon ex-
pire, and had rather wait for the vacancy to
come of itself He replied that these were
exactly his own sentiments; and it was read
lily 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 L
left the city, and in two weeks was followed
by list of the appointments-an 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 inmy own town was
so filed as TO render it impossible for me to
use it, and drove me to the resource of send
ing my correspondence through Adams d
Co. This is what happened between the
President and myself, and is one of innum-
erable instances to prove his nullito in his
own administration. i did not get angry
with him for it. / knew he was sincere at
the time he spoke with me, and pitied his
inability to keep his own word, voluntarily
given. l expressed no resentment because
l knew they would not let him do as he
wished; but self-respect required me to
avoid his house, and have not been there
since. Still we meet handsomely when
accident brings us together--sometimes
meeting in evening rides, when the res
pective hats Immediately raised high in
the air-sometimes on foot, in an evening
walk, when we rushed to the salution, and
so pressingly that an observer might sup