Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-03-11
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The Register and the ssIdes of March,

The Register and the ssIdes of March,
The "ides ofAlarch' have brought trouble to
contemporary of the Register. He speaks g'oomily
of the past and the resent,-he reviews John Ty
ler who he says, though "a good hearted man, full
of benevolence and kindly impulses" was "wrecked
on the rock of his vanity and he insists that Gen.
Pierce was Ignorant incompetent, and obscure"
and was taken up on that account, and made Pres
dent sby an unscrupulous party" These grave
charges Are they true? John Tyler, true to his
recorded opinions, vetoed the national bank scheme,
and saved the country. That was enough for WhlS-
gerry. Al! was "vanity" after. that act Whigsery,
baffled as in the days of Jackson, made one more
effort under Mr.. Clay, and then dwindled until it
shed its skin and became-"Sam." The Taylor
and Scott contests but the throes that attend
j ed it's death.s,ruggle and our contemporary, who
,couM not support Scott and who nevertheless did
support him. was by and in at the death. So much
for TYLER and Taylor, and Scott and Sam"
Though Gen. Pierce was this Ignorant, incom-
pctent and obscure" man, yet, says our contcmPo-
rary of the Register, his administration was no pa
renthesis-"it a6ounds in striking and memorable
facts" Ah!-this ignorance" this ''incompeten
cy," this "obscury," blazcd out did TIT struck
''memorable?" How? Who did all this? Not
Gen. PIERCE insists cotemporary, for "having
no principles maintain, he necessarily didn't carry
out any principles" Sage conclusion IAN unprin-
ciplcd administration, headed by an Ignorant, in
competent, and obscure" man, Astounding in strk-
ing and memorable facts" Thank you for that,
venerable cotemporary. We begin to understand
4 your style of writing, and shall wait patiently,
1 as Oliver did, looking if not taking for more"
d The tree is known by its fruits. We content,
as an American citizen to leave the administration
of Franklin Pierce to be judged by it's acts and by
the great results it has accomplished. Our cotem-
porary is not ignorant of these acts and results,
though he affects to nothing but ire-swalowing
q friends, blood and vengeance" and the bom6ard-
ment of Greytown.
q The old Wing spirit looks up drowsily from its
s leaden couch, where it tendery laid by Sam"
3 in 1854, and turns its eyes Washington City.
= grand and exciting pageant is going forward there.
6 1t remembers what it has been, and it thinks of
what it might have achieved but for its surrender
q to "Sam" Never will its choice, never will
'Sam's" choice ascend the ''capolinc h' to take
those oahs which Mr.. Buchanan took on Wcdnes-
day. These touching certainties. They throw
their sombre shadows the pages of our cotem-
porary,-they affect him, insomuch that he writes
bitterly of Tyler who dealt Whiggcry sad blow
in 1841, and of Pierce, who defeated his tacorite,
8 Scott, in 1852 One thing alone remains to console
Il our worthy cotemporary, and that is, the hope he
n entertains of getting, day other, his heer
"a of the public lands.''
Hope springs eternal in the human breast
Man never is, but always to be blest"
p s. Fetch along the lands Let every one
have at least section, and let US egslate ourselves
rich. Why not? We have only to will it, and we
shall have governments without taxes, railroads
without number, and vast empires towards the set
ting sun. Let US dress the commonwealth, and
turn it, and set new nap upon it." Let the good
time come, and then "there shall be in England
4 seven alfpenny loaves sold for penny, and it
shall be felony to drink small beer. All the realm
shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my pal
frey 60 to grass"