The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-19

OF gunpowder. This trouble, how !, or. might
have beea accommodated but for an unfor-
tunate circumstance which attracted the aspira-
tons and sympathies Of poor Pierce in an OPP
posite direction.
Mr.. Senator Douglas had discovered that the
weak point in his case at Baltimore in 1852 was
his weakness in the South. He wanted strength
OF Mr.. Senator Dixon, of Kentucky, gave to Nj.
Douglas his cue. The result was that apple of
democratic discord, the Kansas-N ebraska bill
celebrating that Missouri line of demarcation
beyond which Congress had decreed in 1920
that slavery should never pass. This bold and
however, attracted at the outset the keen eye
of an ambitious member of poor Pierce's Cabi
net whose personal schemes were not exactly
identical with those of Mr.. Douglas We alludc
to Jefferson Davis. His plan. at once. was to
" head OFF, Mr.. Douglas, as Mr.. Bolts attempted
to head of Captain Tyler. Accordingly Mr..
Davis made the repeal Of the Missouri compro
mise . 1nc qaa non with poor Pierce, unless he
had concluded to give Mr.. Douglas the inside
track for the succession. Poor Pierce snapped
at the giittering bait as foolish trout snaps at
an artificial fly and from that unlucky hour.
with the hook in his gills, he houndered and
tapped about upon the waves of the Kansas
agitation, until, utterly exhausted. be was drawn
ashore and put IN the same basket with Mr..
Douglas for the feast of the fire-eaters at the
Cincinnati Convention.
Thus, between the conflicting aspirations of
Jefferson Davis as Southern fire eater and of
Mr.. Senator Douglas as the Little Giant" of the
Northwest, the administration of poor Pierce,
and the great democratic party of that day,
were demoralized and broken 10 pieces. And
now we find that the same two arch-agitators
have been busy at their work again. With the
announcement Of the conservative and consis-
tent Cabinet Of Mr.. Buchanan, Jefferson Davis
and his hre-eating confederates and organs.
from Richmond to New Orleans, commenced
their war upon the administration. The pro-
ceedings of Governor Walker in Kansas afforded
them pretext for special point of attack, and
for nine months they have been pouring their
broadsides and cross-!res at the President and
his Kansas Governor, regardless Of decorum,
decency and truth. But the fre-eaiers have at
length discovered that Mr.. Buchanan is not so
easily TO be cajoled or cufred into submission as
poor Pierce tina. Mr.. Buchanan, in fact, is not
the man to be frightened or bullicd from the
course which he has resolved upon; but that,
firmly and calmly. he pursucs "thc even tenor
of his way regardless alike of the clamor
of secession conspira.ors and abolition disorgan-
izers. Hence the capitulation of the fire-eaters,
or the humiiating armistice to which they have
been reduced by the folly of Davis and his aids
and organs of the secessionisi camp. They have
suspended their useless hostilities because the
administration has proved too strong for them.
No sooner. however. is the Kansas growing
and bowling among the Southern fire-eaters
slackened into comparative calm than for
midable rebellion breaks out in the Northern
camp of the democracy, under the lead OF Mr..
Douglas. lie has had enough of the fine PRO-
misses and slippery performances OF the fire.
eaters-he has no particular object to gain in
strengthening the popularity of an administra-
ton which may stand in his way in 1s60-he
remembers that it was Fillmore, and not the
democratic party, that secured the election of
Mr.. Buchanan in 1s56-he knows that few
small additions here and there to the republican
forces would give them every Northern State.
and he believes that he can bring these rein
forcements to their camp and put himself at
their head, and thus wipe out at single blow
all his old scores against the fre-eaters and
against Mr.. Buchanan.
We apprehend, however, that in this hazard
Gus movement Mr.. Douglas is running ahead Of
the hounds and that before the chase is over he
will he reduced to the same level as Jefferson
Davis and his fre-eating clique-the dead level
of defeated conspirator. The silencing Of
Davis, the tyrant master of poor Pierce, is an
ominous indication, for it indicates that the cool
and temperate, but firm and decisive policy
OF Mr.. Buchanan. which has reduced the
most belligerent wing OF the party camp TO
submission will be sufficient to cope with all
other rebellious conspirators against his admin
istrstiou. If it il not too late, we would adj
monisll Mr.. Douglas and his confederate North
ern democratic dirt-eaters to be warned by the
humiliation of Jefferson Davis and his clustering
but impotent ireeaters. A just and honestly
disposed administration will weather the storm
against Southern or Northern conspirators.
GOVERNOR WAKER's KANSAS PRoSUNC1ANTN-
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