Daily American organ., 1856-03-07
The New Hampshire RESOLUTIONS.

\ The New Hampshire Resolutions.
The Washington linton of this morning
states that it had {" a few days ago denounced
as false, the assertion of the New York Even
ing Post that General Pierce was the author Of
certain Free-soil resolutions adopted by the
Legislature Of New Hampshire in ls47," and
which resolutions we copied into our columns
on yesterday, never having seen the denuncia-
ton of the Union above stated. We take the
denial Of the Union, that Gen Pierce wrote
the resolutions, without the usual discount
demandsble upon the statements of that press,
| leaving the question AZ to the paternity of the
resolutions to be settled between the Union
and the Post II Is quite enough for our prlr-
pose that the Legislature of New Hampshire
adopted the resolutions by a unanimous vote,
and that in 1862 General Pierce was the Sc
lected candidate Of New Hampshire for the
Presidency. a
1t is not to be supposed that the Democracy
Of New Hampshire were ignorant of the opin-
ions of General Pierce on so important and so
controverted question as that presented in
the resolutions which they had unanimously
adopted. To say the least of it, GenI Pierce
may quite as fairly be held responsible for the
sentiments of New Hampshire thus unani-
mously expressed, as Mr. Fillmore may be
held responsible for the individual sentiments
of member Of his Cabinet in 1851. And we
may add, that if the President of the United
States is to be responsible for the individual
opinions Of his Cabinet officers, we are not
quite. e.sure that General Pierce is not commit
ted to the doctrine that the United States
Government ought at once TO undertake, in its
character Of a government, the construction Of
railroad to the Pacific Ocean, as advocated
by one or more Of his Cabinet officers some
three years since
But there is more satisfactory reason to be
given why Gen. Pierce is responsible for the
sentiments contained in the New Hampshire
resolutions 1t is this, that, in the whole
course of his administration, down to the date
OF his annual message to Congress this session,
he has acted upon and sustained the views
presented in those resolutions. He changed
his tactics in his late annual message, to catch
the suffrages of the South, assuming positions
he never before had advanced Butif we look
to the manner in which he heconstituted his Cab
met; If we recur to his declarations made to
Senator Clemens on the Kansas question; IL we
look ut the appointments of Governors and
other officers for the Territories-we cannot
be mistaken as to his opinions and action hav-
ing conformed to the New Hampshire resolu-
tions.
1t would be utterly ridiculous in any man
who knows the political sympathies of Messrs
Marcy, McClelland, and Gushing, to assert,
that General Pierce, when he came into the
Presidency and formed his Cabinet, did not
stand square upon the New Hampshire reso-
lutions. If it be said that in his appoint
ment of Judge Bronson, of New York, to the
most important position in that State, he ia
vored opposite opinions, it may be readily an
swered, that this manifestation of sympathy
for that section of the Democratic party was
hypocritical from the beginning, and that he
betrayed the Hard Shell Democracy "with a
kiss"
For the last few months General Pierce has
sought to win the confidence Of the South,
having first drilled the Democracy of the North
into temporary acquiescence in his views
for the sake of victory and the spois. The
proof of this temporary acquiescence in the
fraud which he is practising may be found in
the proceedings of sundry Soft Shell meetings
in New York, and in other Northern States,
where the doctrines Of the Kansas and Ne
braska bill have been endorsed by men whose
antecedents are of the Buffalo Van Buren plat
form stripe of 1S4s, and who now put on the
livery of honest men to serve the ends of self
ishness, power, and plunder
Perhaps the most remarkable and transpa.
rent instance Of deception praatised by this
class Of politicians is found in the contrast be-
tween the resolutions Of the Democratic State
Conventions Of Ohio the one held on the 9Th
of January, 1855, and the other on the 9th of
january, 1856. The Democratic Convention
of Ohio held in 1866, declared that slavery was
an evil, and "sUsT BE ERADrcArKD.n The same
Convention of 1866, with all manner Of honey
cd phrases endorsed the Kansas n ebraska pro-
visions on this question In the former Con
vention "a year ago) the Democrats of Ohio
uttered their own sentiments-at the late Con-
vention they obeyed the orders of their Aypo.
critical ieaders,--in order that their party
might triumph, and acquire the spoils by hood
winkng the South Such is modern Dcmoc-
racy!
New York Election.
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