The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-02-13
Our Triumph.


Charleston Mercury, sends the following sin
gular admission Of the substantial victory
obtained by the Free Labor party, to that
paper: .
President Pierce is an illustration Of the
utter inability Of any one man to establish
any policy in this country against The riH Of
The people as mass. He has brought all tho
power Of his Administration TO bear in u
strictly constitutional direction against the
Anti-Slayery element. What are the re-
suits? On the one side, we have the Presi-
dent 5 earnest and patriotic remonstnnccs,
his yetoes, his messages, his patronage, his
official and private influence; ererything, IN
fact, he could command uithin himself. On
the other hand, wo see the public will, de-
yeloping itself throughout the country, in
spite of all these restraints. The Presidents
Cabinet Is divided in its policy. The PreSi-
dents own appointments in the North turn
against him. lie fails to receive the vote Of
his own party IN convention. His messages
and appeals to his countrymen only add fuel
10 the flame. His yetOes are set aside in the
Senate and House. He goes out Of power
private fortune. Why? Simply because
he attempted TO stem the tide of anti-slayery.
II was too strong for him, too strong for the
Democratic party, and too strong for the
Constitution. Mr.. Buchanan isa prudent
man. He has felt very recently the danger
Of the enemy he must expect 10 encounter.
In the appointment of his Cabinet, and in
the line OF his general policy, he may seek
to flank the opposition. One thing is owl
dent here in Washington, that this ami Stare
ry element, reflected through the Black Re-
publican organization, has already Effected
The construction Of The nac Cabinet"
There is truth in the above, such as we
hardly expected from that quarter. At the
North, the Buchaneer Press has been at
tempting to conceal just the facts which the
Mercury admits, and to create the impress
sion that the sham.Democratic party natu-
rally and voluntarily assumed the champion.
ship of the Free Soil interests. Thus, when
the verdict Of the North compelled Mr. Pierce
to change his Kansas policy, the Custom
House papers, which had never before recog-
niIed tho existence Of any official Irregular
ltics in Kansas, began to praise the deter
minatiOn Of the President to punish the Of
fcials whose outrges had been the most
enormous. Papers which laudcd the drunk
en- Governor Shannon in his wicked pcrsc-
cutiOns of the Free State settlers, were full
OF eneoniums upon Governor Geary for pur,
suing an entirely different line Of policy
and instead of recognizinsa triumph OF the
Free Labor party in the change which was
absolutely forced upon the Administration
by the sentiment Of the North, they pretend
that it is merely the natural result of the
Pierce policy. Inconsistency is nothing to
thOm. They rejoice equally over the muir
der of Barber, and the dismissal from Office of
the man who murdered him. They justify
tho arrest Of Governor Robinson and others
on manufactured charge of a manufacture
ed crime, and then praise Pierce for turning
out the Judge who manufactured the crime,
tho charges and tho arrests.
Bnt tho Southern Democrats are more
honest. They recognize the absolute over
throw of Pierce, Douglass, and ToucOy. and
their policy, by the public opinion of the
North they admit that they arc defeated.
and that we are triumphant. The reason
of the difference is that the Southerners are
honest in their advocacy Of incorrect prln-
ciples. They want slavnry to crush out
freedom, and they use the Democratic party
to that end, while their northern Democrat
ic leaders are mere mercenarics, serving the
South for pay-corrcctly described as Bu-
caneers-careless about principles, and al
ways ready to serve any master who will
distensc officers to them. When the Free
labor party establishes itself in the control
of the Government, rs il certainly will, these
same men will be begging to be received in
to it, and the only condition oftheir enlist
ment will be-thc officers. We can respect
the South in its honest, but ill-advised at
tempt to strengthen slavery, but we have
nothing but contempt for the yenal dough-
faces who care for nothing but to hold to-
gcther, at any expense of principles, an or
ganiz.tion which pays them for their servi-
ces.
Let our friends therefore take courage
from the confessed defeat OF the South, and
, let them show in the future the same unan-
unity and stern determination which has
marked the late campaign, and this coming
administration will not complete its term
without being forced to recognize and adopt
as sound policy all thatwc have contcndcd
for.