The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-03-12

For Tao GAsssss.
yAs late President
The long wished for period has arrived.
The administrator OF franklin Pierce IL
10 more We have Al least n change
which though ii may not be for the better,
can hardly be for the worse. Il is cad
TACT that large majority OF the citizens Of
The United S'a,es have witnessed the exit
OF our late President from public lite, not
only without, regret, but with real sasistae'
zion; but /, a. fact nevertheless. For th,s
there 10 abundant reason!
The <lh OF March, 1854, found our coun.
Try at peace At home aud abroad. Pres
dent had been elected with almost unpfe.
cedentsd unanimiy. The yexed question
Of slavery wassettled, The South had as
sented TO the admission OF California As 4
ree State, and in return for the concession
had among other advantages secured the
passage Of law for the rendition OF fugi
tive slaves. A law which though violating
the drst principles Of humanity. and utterly
At variance with the fselings Of : majority
Of tbs sitigens Of the free States; WAS &C
suisscsd 10 aiter brief struggle only be-
cause Il was declared to be q fasl settle
aent Of subject which had long agisased
the nation.
The defender OF the constitution--Web.
ster--hsd declared that there was mot a
loot Of territory belonging to the United
States the condition Of which Ia regard to
slavery was n,t dxed BY aasltefAsie law"
Wa,gs add D.mocrsts united 10 declar.
ing the set,lement a.dasli,y." Franklin
| Pierce himself solemnly promised not 10
ii.,u,b the extssing reposs. The violation
u that 'rcpsss" without single reques'
from hi, constituents, and In direct OPPOSE
ton to their wishes a. expressed BY rcnon'
STRANGE and petition, must ever remain 9
foul blot on the memory o. Kiln Pierce
10 the repeal oil the Missouri Compounds
| and 10 no other Cause, is to be sttr.ost cd
those evils which have cursed 10 for the
last Two and half years. Il was unloos-
ing the pent up catarscti the uaahaining
Of all the bad passions Of human nsture.-
| [, brought the siavehollsr with HE love o
unholy gain and his lus, Of powsri and the
sturdy son Of New England, with HE IN
qlenchable love Of Liberty and h tired o.
slavery, face to face and bid them graPple,
But for active executive support that repesI
could never have been consummated. Bu,
Tor tina, support the fair plains Of Kansas
had never been opened TO slavery, and but
for that support slavery had long ere this
| been driven to IT. own soil.
| On The head Of Franklin Pierce rests
the guilt Of blood. From the graves o.
Dow and Barbour, from the maniac widow
OF Phillips. from the berssved heart Of the
widow Of Hops, and from the essola,e
| hsarths Of Ksnsas Gomez the cry OF our
brothers blood. History viii si,h shsmr
record the f1c' that he who nFssed war
with Austria 0 rescue Martin Kosts, stead
| iy refused 10 interfere in behalf OF those
who on their own coil, under the shsios Of
ina, Gag for which their sires had sacrificed
time, wealth, yea, life Itself, were being dis
pulled Of their properly and robbed Of shsl'
Liberty.
Had he been born in the South. he N 9ht
have pleaded early Prejadces or ss!f.inlsr
est 10 extenustion. But he was Graded
among the hills Of New Hampshire the
liberty loving breezes Of New England had
tanned bis brow from childhood to manhoo %,
and he had ever enjoyed those blessings
which are inssparaste from free labor aud
ree sell He had too. solemn.y declared
aimself opposed 20 the extension of slsver,-
But alas, in the mad race for power he for
90, his early training and bis formor vows.
Not the isass OF the evils indicted on our
nation, 10 the oninous encouragement
which hss been gwen TO the dlsunionists --
| Every careful observer must see that those
who have openly svowed themselves sdyo.
Gates of disunion, are numerically stronger
than they we're four year, since, They
nave been carressed and warmed into life
BY the late administration. The Keits'
Brooks, Q1itpsn's, &c, &c, Of the South,
nave been projected, while those who have
ever defended the Constitution and tie
Union, and have always declared and mani.
tested their dev-iiou to il, have been sIig
matissd and lbeied.
Blu. with Ftanxln Pierce We have no
more 10 do. He has gone to thu, obseuriry
which he ought never TO have left. We
have, however, TO do with those who sus
tanned him in all the successive stages OF
bis course; lie, il no, be forgotten that III y
TOO are accountable for the "aid and con-
tort" they have rendered. Let the people
resolve to support those and those only
.ho have proved faithful to the cause Of
freedom, and that cause will ye, triumph
over all it. foes. AGRIcOLA