The Nevada journal., 1857-01-09
G9t Nebaoa yournal.
THE LAST OF PIERCE.

n0blest political structure in the world,
TO which the accidents of partisan life
had raised him = he has issued his last
official address to his eeuntrymen. A
few more weeks and he will have fallen
down, down to bis proper position in So
ciety; aye, he will have gone beneath the
point in the social grade for which God
and Nature originally designed him; for
the weight of the fall will carry him
below where he stood before his ascen-
sion. Now, he is still the President of
the United States, and the great dignity
of the office gives sore little dignity to
! the man; then, he wal be plain cery
plain Franklin Pteree, and who will be
$50 poor as to do him reverence -?
/ His administration has been a COM
plete and uninterrupted failure. There
is not one single event to redeem it from
total disgrace not one single oasis in
this vast desert Of imbeeihty and error,
at which the future historical pilgrim
can ever pause sor refreshment. Frank
lin Pierce, from the commencement of
his Presidential term TO the present mo-
ment-from the first injudicious selec-
ton of his incongruous cabinet, to this
last feeble attempt at defending his in
defensible career-has shown nothing
but weakness, and want of every thing
necessary to his high office. He is at
the head of a great people, without hav-
ing any of the elements of a great char
acter, and is occupying the highest pc
sition on earth, with abilities that but
little more than qualify him for the
lowest. Usually, ga dwarf upon gi-
ants shoulders can see further than the
giant himself,' but this moral and intel
lectual pigmy has been entirely blinded
by the height to which he has been
raised. His title-deed to Httleness is
now full, perfect, and complete, signed
by the truthful pen of history, sealed
with the blood of his own countrymen,
shed, through his own folly, on the
plains of Kansas, and witnessed by all
mankind. oh! that the annals of
American history could escape such a
pitiable record.
His message with the exception of
the usual statistical information) is ta-
ken up, almost entirely, with a labored
discussion of the policy which he and
his party pursued in the organization Of
the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
That policy was the fruitful source OF
the present dangerous condition of party
politics, and the infamous cause of all
the blood that has been shed in Kansas
And what does this high perpe.rator Of
blunders, and outrages, say about the
mischief which his own folly has cre-
ated, and allowed ! Does he express
any deep feelings of regret at the mel
ancholy occurrences that have taken
place on the devoted soil of Kansas
Does he say anything to soothe the bit
ter feelings of two great hostile sections
of our common country 3 anything to
harmonic the discordant elements - to
"pour oil on the troubled waters p
Does he say anything that might serve
as partial reparation for all the evils
he has brought upon usl No. On the
contrary, he seems to have resolved
that his presidential course shall be a
consistent one uniformly downward
and that it should end in the lowest
depths.
Instead of giving an impartial state
ment of the unhappy sectional animosi
ties existing amongst us, or attempting
to suggest plan of restoring the broth
erly feelings which once moved us. he
takes one side of the unfortunate con
troversy, with all the vehemence of q
fierce partisan, and rails like a Soutl
Carolina nullifier at one whole half o.
fair exposition of the civil war in Kan
sas, and laying the blame, as far al
each deserved it, on both the contendins
parties, he can see nothing wrong oil
that side which be and the democracy
have espoused, and nothing h~t wrong
on that side which he and the demoera
cy oppose. All the wrongs, all the out
RACES, all the enormities, were perpetra
ted by those "northern hordes," VIII,
went down, like barbarian host, from
their far-off Businesses, where democra
cy is weak; while those who went from
the strong-holds of his own politica
clansmen, if they resorted to force at all
they did it under circumstances whicl
rendered resistance justifable.
This message, instead of tending to