Year: 1859

This i an able paper, and its tspolitical articie'


are SO worthy Of reading, and its doctrines oi


acceptation, that we are in the habit OF making


frequent drafts upon its columns. But 1t Is


due to candor to inform it, that it will destroy


its influence in the South if it does not cease


its vituperative, malignant, and unwarranteo


assaults upon ex-President Pierce Inc


Southern Democracy will reject as false ana


hypocritical ally Northern journal which al
fects great concern for her interests. and yet
deals out wholesale calumny against the man
to whom above all her other Northern states
men her affections cling. This attachment
grows out of his firm and self-sacrifcing main
tenance OF her rights throughout all his public
Life, and amid all the temptations of adverse
sectional influences which have surrounded
him.


AS Senator in Congress, his course admitted
of but one Interpretation; and that was fear
less and undisguised opposition to political an
ti-slaEeryism in all its forms. And subse-
quentIy when he was elected to the Presiden-
cy upon nomination unsolicited by him, and
over the heads of intriguing politicians, his
lofty patriotism, sound craftsmanship, and in.
flexible devotion to the principles upon which
he was elevated to power, confirmed the good
opinion which his previous course had won,
and ripened into lasting maturity the conf
dence which had been freely bestowed upon
him He called around his council board a
Cabinet scarcely riyalled for its ability, and
composed of statesmen whose respective ca
reers at once gave assurance to the whole
country that the Government would be con-.
Quoted according to the letter and spirit of the
Constitution.


Such President, and such Cabinet, could
not but call down upon their heads the widest
storm of ofAbolition rage but they were men
who did not fear to meet it.


Having administered the Government upon
the purest principles of State Sovereignty, and
placed upon enduring record in his Messages
to Congress- the clearest and most powerful de-
fence of the constitutional rights of the South
which has ever yet emanated from the Execu-
tive of the Republic defence which will
stand through all time as her vindication,
whatever ills abolitionism may bring upon the
Union, Mr.. Pierce has retired from public
life, with the repeated declaration that his de-
termination is irrevocable not to be drawn in
to it again. His friends, however deeply they
have regretted that the manifest proprieties of
his career, have rendered this resolve proper,
have accepted it; and no wish is now anywhere
expressed even by the warmest of them, that
he should enter the lists of political aspirants.
They would not have career which has been
signalized throughout by so much wisdom,
blotted by an improperly at its close. At the
same time, they intend to protect his reputa-
ton; and to keep green in their hearts re-
collection of his efficient services. The malev-
olent assaults of the Standard but serve to
quicken their sense of the gratitude that is
due him; and to destroy, by casting doubts
over its sincerity, whatever influence it might
otherwise cxort in the propagation of whole
some political doctrines. -5EE-hcscach it to
confine itself to the legitimate issues before
the country, and arraign the guilty actors of
the present day for trial at the Lar Of public
oninion