The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-03-10
AZ when the Hon. David 8. Reid was

IA When the Hon, David 8. Reid was
the first time elected Governor of North
Carolina, the Raleigh Register said that it
was disgrace to the State. The remark
disgusted and shocked the sensibilities of all
honorable and fair minded people who read
it, and was attributed to the modification
of hasty and imprudent Editor. Since
then the Register has changed hands, and
we had hoped to see an improvement in the
conduct of the reputed organ of the oppo-
sition party Of this State. But the new
editor of the organ seems to be as reckless
in his assertions as his predecessors were.
For instance that paper of the 4th inst,
speaking of the accession of Mr. Buchanan
to the Presidency and the retiring of Mr.
Pierce, says:
Neither is Franklin Pierce's administra-
ton parenthesis. 1t abOunds in striking
and memorable facts. Ignorant. incompe-
tent, and obscure, he was taken up because
of his ignorance. incOmpetency, and obscur-
ity, by an unscrupulnus party, and placed
in the seat in which Washington once sat-!
Having no principles to maintain, he neces-
Placed in power by those who knew no
principles but the immortal "seven," and
whose patriotism "knew no North, no
South, no East, no West" when office was
concerned, and believed that the end and
aim of democracy was to serve the country
'fOr a consideration" Pierce had hardly
got warm lii his seat, before he began to
prescribe the best. aye, the only good men
of the party, in order to conciliate the Free
Sellers of the North"
Just see how this know-nothing sheet
talks about Pierce's Ignorance" ..incom-
potency" and "obscurity." We venture
the opinion that not one fourth of the Reg
ister's party in North Carolina will endorse
or approve the above. Franklin Pierce
ignorant. he who by argument and clear
intellect has changed the opinions of his
opponents at home and abroad on grave
international questions. Franklin Pierce
incompetent! Can it be possible that any
man in his senses would so pronounce him
after his faithful and judicious administra-
ton of the Government in the most trying
times of sectional agitation. A man obscure
who has filled honorable positions in his
native State as we'll as in the national coun-
ellis of his country! The Register editor,
who assisted in elevating to the Presidency
such men as Harrison and Taylor, ought
never to talk about ignorance and incom-
potency.
But to cap the climax, the Register talks
about Mr. Pierce's conciliating free sellers.
Answer us Mr. Register, if concessions were
made to the free sellers by the President,
why did not that party sustain him-how is
it that he received such bitter and unrelent-
ing opposition from such men as Wilson,
Seward, Hale, Giddings, Greedy, and the
whole tribe. If he wanted to conciliate
that faction why did he, in his message to
Congress, rebuke abolitionism. and enter
into arguments to show that the North was
wrong in its aggresstons on the institutions
of the South The broad charges of the
Register cannot be sustained with facts.
When we remember the important trea-
ties made by the administration of General
Pierce-the acquisition of valuable terrific
ry-the opening of new channels of COM
merce-the reduction of the national debt
to nearly one-half the original amount, and
its efforts to put down and correct blind
fanaticIsm. we may be allowed to express
establishment at a respectable southern
newspaper charging it with ignorance and
incompetency. We expected to hear such
things from northern factionists and from
such men in the South as Kenneth Rayner
(who in one of his speeches called the Pres
ident puppy and likened his Cabinet Off
GERS to whipped spanniels) but we were not
prepared to hear the Raleigh Register, I'M
der its present management, giving vent 20
such ebullitions of hatred and animosity.
THE New Professor of Agricultural
Chemistry at Chapel Hill is thus spoken
of by correspondent of the Wilmington
Herald
.'Mr Kimberly is native of Brooklyn.
Long Island, and is now near 40 years of
age. His father had extensive business
connections with the State, and, believe,
was also connected with families in the
north eastern portion of the State by blood
or marriage.
At school and college Mr. X. stood fore
most as student, OeInS nOleu Tor his tai
entS and pleasing manners. He located in
this State about 1888, where he married.
Since which time he has been one of the
best citizens, gaining the respect and con-
fidence of all who knew him.
Judging from an intimate acquaintance
with his youth and his reputation since,
am of opinion that the University has done
we'll to secure the services of so modest and
worthy a gentleman who has capacitv and
will certainly prove himself deserving of
such reputation as will attract scholars far
and near to his teachings
AS to Mr. KS birthplace, would say
that in the entire Southern country no per
sons could be found of native birth who are
truer to the interests and rights of this their
adopted home, than those who are born in
the uiliage of Brooklyn"
AGooD SUBsTITUTE.-Thee editor of the
Columbia Times has recently been giving