The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-03-22


naDd Among the sales were 500 boxes brown
HsSaaa 10 go out of the market to Philadelphia, at
TIC, time. Freights were steady, with moderate
engagements. 10 Liverpool cotton was taken at
5 led. and grain at I'D, IN bags. Some engage
ments of cotton, &c, were made for Antwerp and
Hamburg, ct rates stated in another column. To
Havre rates were without change.
why the Cincinnati Convention Ought to
Nominate General Pierce It's Candidate
for President.
We begin to feel as the Presidential cleo
ton approaches, a little anxious about the
position we are to occupy In the confidence of
the democracy, and particularly concerning
the fortunes OF General Pierce who now stands
at the head OF the unterrifed. Conscious of
our advocacy of the purest ideas of the true
faith-vigilant seDtsnels and tireless assailants
of every species of fanaticism-like Paul be-
fore Agrippa. answering for ourselves, and
like that ancient prophet, giving "divers ex-
hoftatioDs" against Niger WORSHIP, and en-
joining upon all the NIGER WoRsHIPPERs Of
the North and East and West, that they should
adopt that glorious old Apostles morals and
address their brethren Of the South-"Without
thy mind we would do nothing, that thy bene-
at should not be as it were of necessity, but
willingly" we feel it to be due to ourselves,
to General Pierce aud the whole happy
family of the democracy, that our position
should be defined.
For reasons to be given, we are in favor OF
the denomination by the Cincinnati Conven-
ton of Franklin Pierce as the candidate of the
party for President of the United States. 1t
is not material to inquire into the antecedents
Of General Pierce-besides, it is anti-republi-
can and unconstitutional to do so. We have
nothing to do with the past in this country,
our concerns are with the future. What man
has been is nothing-ten to one he is like gold
mines, none the more valuable fer working.
The past and present are pregnant with some.
thing better to come and we regard General
Pierce as constituting no exception to the
rule. Besides he has tried hard to please
everyb body, and if he has failed, it is because
the great public is mulish, baulky old wheel
horse, which can't be satisfied His election,
all concede, was great triumph.
He was the star in the East to the political
worshippers of the whole country, and his
name was everywhere heralded as special
dispensstion looking to the asceudancy of pa
triotism in the councils of the nation, and to
the utter prescription of fanaticism of which
the people were tatigued and disguised. 1t is
true he was not very well known; but the fol-
~ of such characteristics and prerequisites in
candidate was abundantly exhibited in the
very act and speech of the Inauguration. The
heart of the whole nation was fairly electrified
and leaped with joy on that occasion. Thou
sands and tens Of thousands of good conserva-
tive wings capitulated at once, and avowed
purpose to take up and ever after bear the
democratic cross under the leadership of
Franklin Pierce, while the joy Of democracy
knew no bounds. In truth, there was but one
dark, hazy cloud in all the heavens-the fu-
sion was SO complete and SO bold of utterance
that many hardworking democrat actually
feared that the crowd OF aspirants for offices
was hopelessly enlarged. Perhaps General
Pierce himself noticed this feature-perhaps
not Be this as 1t may, he soon dispersed near
~ all his friends, and fastened to dispose of
his patronage, as it occurs to u.s. in the most
disinterested manner to the enemies of the
constitution.
1t is indeed the most commendable feature
in his whole administration that, elected By
the democratic party, he was able to rise above
all mere partisan feelings and predictions,
and distribute the hateful 'loaves and fishes"
in about equal parts amongst all the fact -ns
into which the country was divided. If IL :
was any virtue in his patronage had he not a
right and was it not his duty 60 to distribute
it as to bind the chief men of the country to
his policy? If the Van Burens had wandered
away from the true fold on questions Of Office
and under the influence of disappontments
was it not his duty, after the parable of the
prodigal son, to call them back, put rings on
their fingers and feast them at the White
House? Certainly it was J; and those who i'm
peach him for so doing sacrifice right to party
obligations. We detest party and all its ma
chinery and we uphold Gen. Pierce in so far
as he has shown a superior faith to the morals
OF his position, over its obligations. II was
his duty to unite the country in the support #
the federal constitution; and, if in the pursuit
Of this patriotic object, he could avail himself
of the public offices to buy up the Maynard
and the selfish, it was his duty to make that
use of them. 1t is an Impeachment Of the
faithful to suppose that they would complain
of such distribution of the means Of doiog
good, which were thus plac ed in his HANDS.
For these reasons we are decidedly in favor
of Gen. Pierce's nomination at Cincinnati.
The very act of organizing his Cabinet, aud
the tenacity with which he has adhered to its
members and they to him, is another recom-
mendation which cannot be overlooked. The
democracy was sadly divided as is shown in
the defeat of Gen. Cass in 1s4s. 1t had seve-
raj distinct heads, which is enough to prove
that ii had more than one tail. 1t had three
distinct platforms an extreme South, an ex-