Fhiml io tbmlun Timet. May 2J,
T|w Rftseut Poiilhn q( Turkish Affairs.
Tho lastintelligence which has reached
M 9 from Constantinople is less satisfactory
than that: which had preceded it, or than
tfint which w,o had renson to anticipate.—
Ttuf question of the Holy Place has, in
deed, been adjustod without any great dif
hCully ; for, ns wo have constantly assert
ed, the pretensions of the Emperor of Rus
sia not of an exclusive character,
and the French government itself admits
that the claims of the Latin Church to
certain privileges at tlicso shrines have not
been interfered wjtli, Louis Napoleon,
therefore, lays claim on very easy condi
tions to n display of firmness, when in
truth, none of his claims were directly as
sailed. But no sooner was the firman
signed which ,'vas to terminate this part of
Prince Monschikoff’s mission, than other
demands wero put forward by that ambas-
sador of a more questionable character.—
For some days previously tho Russian en
voy had withdrawn from tho society of his
colleagues under pretenco of indisposition,
and despatches had been forwarded to him
from Odessa which wero supposed to con
tain fresh instructions. Immediately nfier
wards, the Port was apprized that tho Rus
sian government required of it the conclu
sion of a separato treaty or convention, by
which the matter of tho Holy Places, and
die relations of the Emperor of Russia
with the members of tho Greek Church
throughout the Ottoman dominions, should
bo plftced under the sanction of a precise
diplomatic engagement. This demand was
mado on tho sth of May, and it was nc
coinpained by a species of threat, that if it
were not complied with in tho course of a
very few days the mission of Prince Men
schikoff would bo nt an end. Another
steamer has subsequenily arrived at Tries
te with intelligence from Constantinople
.lowiriotho Oth inst., when il scctns that
vivo Prince had given the Porto a week to
deliberate on his proposal.
It is possible that this demand is not in
itself of n very novel or aggressive char
acter, for tho Russian government has re
peatedly protdstcd that its sole object is to
maintain rights which have long been re
cognised as belonging to tho Greek Church,
and n treaty signed between Russiannd the*
Porto in 1774 contains an express promjse
of protection to tho Christian religion and
the churches of the East, especially to that
.Greek Church in tho quarter of Galata,
which the Russian government was there
by authorized to erect. But neither that
treaty, nor any other with which wo are
acquainted,contains any recognition of the
religious supremacy now contended for by
j3uss.ia over the Greek population of the
Ottoman empire, and tho Porto appears at
all times to have felt that to deal with for
eign power in reference to its Greek sub-
jects was to concede rights which no for
. «ign Slalo could exercise with impunity
over so large and important a part of its
own population. As to tho precise extent
of the pretensions now put forward by
the Russian envoy wc must wait for more
complete information; but it is probable
they amount to no moro than the rights
already enjoyed by tho other Chrisii in
communiops, and long recognised by the
Turks themselves. Tho clinngo consists
jn the admission of Russia to boa con
tracting party on aogruve a subject of in
ternal policy. Tho Porte, however, is in
po condition to offer any serious resistance,
and accordingly news was received last
nigh{ at the Russian legation in Paris that
Prince MenscliikofFg ultimatum had been
accepted.
In the midst of the doubts excited by
(lie spectacle of a great empire so ill-pre
pared to defend itself against violence or
against intrigue, one principle is at least
definite, precise, arttj secure. The great
powers may treat these questions in safety
us long as they are determined to treat them
mi common and to regulato them by the
general interest; but, when any one of
them attempts to steal a march upon the
rest of Europo, the consequences urc un
pleasant, and may become dangerous.—
franco, Austria, and Russia have succes
sively tried this mischievous game within
the last few months, and they now see the
result. The menaces of M. do Lnvaletto,
and the concessions extorted by Count Le
jningen, have furnished Russin with a
motive and pretext for a separate conven
tion with herself on a subject of peculiar
interest to the Christian subjects of the
Turkish empire. Wc huve repeatedly ex
pressed' our oppiniun that tho time will
come, and is parlmps not far distant, when
fho strength of that Christian population
will overpower the authority of a barburlc
Plate, which lias steadily declined since
its nearer contact with civilization. Wo
do not fear tho consequences of such an
event, if it arises either from exclusively
internal cmjsos, or from the united action
of tho great powers ; but it is of ossential
interest to the peace of tho world, and the
isecufity of many countries, that tho sig
nal for such a chango should not bo given
by any single State, and that this formid
able weapon should not be wielded by any
sjnglo hand. By acceding to the collective
jpolO of July, 1839, and to the treaties of
M4O and 1841, Russia appeared to have
denounced tho selfish policy w’j)ich led to
tho treaty ol Unkiar’ Skelessi ; and in all
her recent communications to the other
courts, she Iras uninformly insisted on fjer
own faithful adherence to those condition.
r -Wo have given the Emperor of Russiu
credit for good faith and voracity in mak
ing those-'declarations.’. We linvo held it
in tho higltn?tfdegreo improbable that he
'should he prepared to place tho nations of
Europo in serious danger of hostilities, in
order to pursue any visionary schcimo of
settling tho future condition of the East
without their,assent, and contrary to their
interests.- The moral contradiction which
fcadalse and;short-sightcd a line of policy
'yvould imply scorned to us to outweigh ull
the facts,’ exaggerated by fear, otfewliich
ptittid of our contemporaries have built up
conclusions different frofn our own. Tho
British government showed no disposition
I) ■ - ... -L- ■- ■ > •. : ■ I
to give car to reports that might have war
ranted suspicion, or to adopt measures
that Would have implied distrust; and the
Emperor of Russia gave his own person
al honor in n pointed and peculiar man
ner, us the pledge of that confidence to
which he aspired, and which was not with
held from him. . That is u consideration
of fur higher importojicc to a sovereign
who claims so high ft rank among, tho
rulers of'mankind than, the paltry results
ofPrinco Menschikoff’s mission. No,one
could express more forcibly than tho Rus
sian cabinet it? consciousness of tho dang
er of separate interference, by the pains
it took to disclaim such intentions; and
since those assurances were publicly accept
ed and made known to the world by the
British Foreign Ministor in his place in
Parliament, wo have a right to expect and
to require that nothing shall have been in
sisted on at Copstantinoplo whiclf docs
pot strictly fall within tho limits of Prince
Menschikoir’s mission. The statements
current in the Bast, tho alarm spread
throughout the European provinces of Tur
key, and the rumors of massacres and
risings at Constantinople and clsowhore,
have probably been disseminated by tho
artifices of one party us much as by the
lears of another. No event of serious con
sequence has occurcd, and it is but the
vague anticipation of a danger which keeps
tho world in suspense. To nvort that
danger the effectual remedy is the firm
union of tho great powers; and if that
union wero unhappily destroyed by the
selfish pretensions of any one of thum, it
would impair our hopes ofdculing on soun
der and moro equitable principles with
the emergencies which, in the present
wretched condition of Turkey, may easilv
arise.
Kiom tl»o Siicmmonio Union April 29
SACRAMENTO SALMON FISHERIES
The fishing interest in the Sacramento
at this point is increasing and expanding
with astonishing rapidity from year to year
and from month to month. Tho water of
tho river must bo alive with salmon, or
such numbers caught daily would sensibly
reduco their numbers. But experienced
fishermen inform us, while the rui lasts,
to countless is tho number that no mutter
how many are employed in the business,
or how many ape taken daily, no diminu
tion can bo perceived. Even tho “lulcs’’
between this and the coast range are re
ported to bo filled with salmon. :
Tho run this year is said to bo greater
than over before known at this season, the
heaviest runs heretofore having been ex
perienced in Juno and July. The extraor
dinary run of tho present limo is expected
to continue fur something like three weeks.
The fish seem to run in immenso schools,
with some weeks intervening between tho
nppoarancs of each school, during which
the numbers taken are'light as compared
with tho quantity taken during a timo like
tho present.
No account is keptof the numberengng
ed in fishing, or of tho amount caught,
and all statements relative thereto a re made
from estimates obtained from those who
have experience in the business, and prob
ably approximate correctness.
Theso estimates give tho number of
men employed now in taking fish in the
Sacramento nt about six hundred; the
number of fish taken daily, on an average,
at two thousand—their averngo weight!
seventeen pounds, making thirty.four
thousand pounds por day. Two cents
per pound, which is probably more than
the present nverago price by tho quan
tity, would give a daily income to those
employed of 8680—not very high pay.
Either the number of men engaged in I
tho business, we imagine, must be over'
estimated, or the number of fish caught
der estimated. I
It requires two men to man n boat, which
would give three hundred boats for six
hundred men. Two thousand fish a day
would give each man a fraction over threo
as his sharo. We presume few arc fish
ing who do not catch a good many more
than that number. Wc sawn boatload,
tho product of the previous night, consist
ing ofsixtyvsix salmon, weighed yesterday
morning. They averaged a fraction over
seventeen pounds, and gave thirty-three
as the number caught by each man, in
stead of threo as estimated above.
Say the six hundred fishermen man on
an average two hundred boats anight;
the average number caught by each boat
put at twenty, and tho sum total would be
lour thousand fish, instead of two thousand
as estimated. Our impression is that tho
latter comes nearer tho mark than tho
former, as a good many of the fishormen
send their fish directly to San Francisco ;
others tukc them to different points for
sailing.
Largo numbers are salted down daily ;
several firms and individuals being extens
ively engaged in this branch of the trade.
The fish nro put down in hogsheads
which average, when filled, about eight
hundred pounds. Front one to three tlious
and pounds are put down daily by those
engaged in salting. An acquaintance has
filled sixty-fivo hogsheads this season.
The most of those engaged in salting
live on tho Washington side of the riverJ
and suit their fish there. I
Including those engaged, in sailing,
catohing, and 'soiling, probably the fish
businessfurnishesemployment lorn thous
and men.
Tho salmon fish is found in no other
waters in such vast multitudes As are met
in the rivers emptying into the Pacific.—
On the Atlantic side loading tho fish feature
is tho run of shad in the spring; on Iho Pa
cific side, salmon ascend our rivers at nil
seasons, in numbers beyond all compula
tion. In California and Oregon our rivers
nro alive with them; tho great number
taken by fishortqoo aro but a drop from
the bucket. Ahovo this, on the coast side,
tribes of Indians use; no other food. I
In the. course of a few years; salmon
fishing will extend itself to all the promin- 1
ent '‘! vcrs in ,fl ° StQl °- Catching and cur- 1
ing salmon will (hen have become a sys
temized business; the fish consumption
will then have extended itself generally
over the State, and moro than likely be
corpe, in the mean time, an important ar
ticle 6fexport. '
THE REPUBLICAN.
CLEARFIELD Pa., Juiio 17, 1853.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
Canal Commissioner,
THOMAS H. FORSYTH,
Of Philadelphia County ,
Auditor General,
EPHRAIM BAN KS,
Of Mifflin County.
Surveyor General,
J. PORTER BRAWLEY,
Of Crawford County.
STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING.— The
Democratic Standing Committee of Clear
field County for the year 1853, will moot
at the Court House, nt 4 o’clock I*. M. on
the 4th day of July next. By order ofthc
Standing Committee.
The following personscompose that com
mittee:
Mnj, V. B. Holt, John ShonfT, F. G.
Miller, J. M. Cummings, G. B. Goodlan
der, J. Stites, Francis Coudriet, G.S. To
7.er, Richard Hughs, Thomas Owens,
John L. Bundy, 11. J. Hite, I. VV. Gra
ham, Philip Havener, C. Baker, VV. S.
Rey, Martin Nichols,'jr. Samuel C. Thomp
son, J. A. T. Hunter, VV. F. Johnston.
Elias Horn, G. VV. Shoaff, J. B. M’Ennl
ly, J. H. Fleming.
(KrMuch of our paper this week is ta
ken up with tho last and awful scencin the
lifo of that monster Arthur Spring. May
this bo the lust of his appearance before
the public.
fSiT An old man of somo 70 winters,
named Tekpe, was committed to our jail
tho other day, on the awful charge of hav
ing murdered his own son, some months
ago, in Brudy township. He is a German,
and cannot talk or understand a word of
English, although he has been in this
country for several years. Wc have mado
much inquiry concerning this alTair, and
have heard quite different statements; but
upon tho whole, wo tliilik there ore but
slight, very slight grounds for suspecting
that this venerable looking old man could
bo guilty of such a crime. The missing
son is the same whose absence was notic
ed in our paper last week. It was in Feb
ruary when he was last seen, and was
traced to this place, but no further. ' lie j
was of intemperate, worthless habits, and J
had only been in the country for a littlej
over a year. We hope that beforo many I
days bis whereabouts may be made known,
and thus the certain destruction of this
hitherto peaceful and apparently happy
family averted, and the excitement and
suspicion of that neighborhood put to rest.
It appears that the absence of tho son
had not been remarked until after tho find
ing of n portion of n man’s clothing in the
woods in the vicinity. But wo linve been
credibly informed that tho clothes wore
not identified as young Torpe’s, nor do
they correspond with any that he left be
hind.
Many other circumstances have been
mentioned in connection with the atluir,
but for obvious reasons wc shall not no
tice them. Wo understand that an effort
is making to have the old man restored to
his family for tho present, on n writ of,
habeas corpus.
Our National Annavarsary.—Whilst
nclivo arrangements aro making every
where to celebrate tho approaching Anna
versary in an appropriate manner, nothing
of the kind, so far as we are informed, has
taken place here. Times are certainly
not “as they used to was,” and wo esteem
it no credit to our citizens. A few moro
years of such retrogression, and th ofourth
of July will bo undistinguished from any
other day, This must never bo. Lot
your “drums beat,” your “bells toll,” and
your “bonfires burn “as long ns there is an
unsullied star in tho flag of our country.
| An Explanation Wanted. —A pros
j pectus will bo found in our columns—and
which has been inserted regularly for sev
eral weeks—for threo Now York Journals,
to wit: —tho Musical World and Times—
which wo have been receiving for the last
year—tho llojrie Journal and tho Knick
erbocker, and by way of presenting our bill,
wc sent copies of our paper markod in the
usual way. As compensation for this la
bor on our part, wc were promised a copy
of each of these journals for- ono year—
but ns wo Jtavo not seen either of the two
latter, we respectfully ask/or an explana
tion. ... <
Laying of a Corner Stone.—The
ceremony of tho laying of a Corner Stone
of the German Reformed Church, on tho
road*ffeading from Lulhersburg to Punxsu
tawney, will take place on Saturday tho 2d
of July ne*tj commencing nt 10 o’clock,
A.. The public are respectfully invited
to atte^
AWFUL BIOT IN MONTREAL.
An Italian''called Father Gavazzi, is
now on a mission to this country preach
ling against tho Homan Catholic Church
land Religion. After delivering several
highly inflamatory and (to the Catholics,)
offensive lectures York, ho visited
Montreal. On last Thursday night, tho
9th instant, ho lectured in Zion Church
i
i in that city, and from tho demonstrations
of tho mob in the early part of tho evening,
tho authorities called out the military.—
When tho lecture closed, and the people
| wore leaving the church, an attack was
! made upon the lecturer, who was pretty
roughly handled, in tho. midst of which
sovcral guns and pistol shots were fired,
and several persons injured, and two or
threo killed. But aficr the church was
closed, and after tho people got into tho
streets, and when, as tho Herald says,
thcro was little appearance of disturbance
'any whero, tho military deliberately fired
two volleys at tho people, killing about a
dozen, and wounding some forty others, of
the innocent and unoffending citizens.—
Much excitement prevailed, and further
disturbances were expected, as a large
meeting was held on Friday night, at
which resolutions inviting Fulher Gavazzi
to continue his lectures wore adopted.
03~We aro decidedly in favor of send
ing temperance men, and none but tern-
! peranco meii, both in precopt and practice,
to the Legislature. Wo would do it now,
and always hereafter. But at tho same
time, as tempernce men solely, wc would
send no man there, and hence, wc now
tako occasion to express our dissent in the
most unequivocal terms, to tho proposi
tion of our county Temperance Society,to
hold a Convention and nominate a can
didate for the Legislature. Such a course
will produce no good fruits to any inter
est, and is much more likely to injure
than to benofit the cause of temperance.
We are ready to say much more on this
subject when ever it is necessary, and only
disire now that our Democratic friends
throughout the county may give the subject
their candid consideration.
OUR BOOK TABLE!
We are indebted to the Hon. J. Morton,
U. S. Senator, for n bound copy of the 7th
census, which is a very valuable work,
presenting a full view of tho growth and
greatness of our country in a very condens
ed form.
Graham's Magazine, for July, is at
hand, rich in every thing that can odd
worth to a work of the Magazine charac
ter. This is the first number of the 43d
volume, and contains 112 pages, filled
with many articles of rare merit indeed.
Tho illustrations are numerous and beau
tiful.
The School-Mate, for ihepresent month,
commences n new scries. We havo here
tofore recommended this work to public
favor. It is, in our opinion, a really valu
able production, and where read by school
boys and girls, would not fail to ho a val
uable auxiliary in the way of educating
youth. It is published in New York, by
George Pratt, at one dollar per year for a
single copy ; but a considerable reduction
made to clubs, particularly the schools.
The Pennsylvania School Journal, for
June, is also at hand, filled with highly
useful papers connected with our educa
tional system. This work should be bet
ter encouraged than wo beliovo it is, as the
editor and publisher, both deservo great
credit for tho stylo in which their work
always makes its appearance. It is pub
lished at Lancaster Pa., at 81 per annum.
TEMPERANCE MEETING,
The Washingtonians met in tho Court
House on Tuesday evening June 7lh 1853,
President, G. P. Gulich, in the chair.—
Meeting opened by prayer by the Rov.
Mr Hamilton. Tho minutes of tho pre
ceding meeting were read an adopted af
ter which, Rev. Mr. Hamilton was called
on and addressed tho meeting, and was
followed by a fow remarks by Rev. Mr.
Haughinborry.
On motion of Wm.Robortson some res
olutions were handed to the Secretary and
read, and after being amended, passed os
follows:
Resolved, That a County Convention
of tho friends of Temperance, be called to
meot in the Court House on Monday, July
4th, at 3 o’clock P. M. to deviso'measures
to secure u Temperance Candidate Tor tho
Legislature.
Resolved, That tho Crystal Fountain
bo reccomended to tho frionds of Temper
ance as dn able advocate of the cause.
Resolved, TJnit tho services of E. W.
Jackson, (State Agent) bo secured for the
Convention:
Resolved , That these proceedings be
published in the Clearfield Republican
and in tho Crystal Fountain.
Resolved, That this meeting adjourn to
meet in said Convention.
GEO. W. RHEEM.jr. Scc’y.
What a singular fancy we have in
paying the very best and the most to those
who destroy us—genernls; next, those who
cheat us—noisy politicians and quacks;
third, those who amuseus—singers, musi
cians and clowns; and last, and least of
all, those who really instruct and benefit
us—the printer. Reader, is’nt every word
of this paragraph too true ?
From iho New Fork Time*.
CUBA AND THE AFRICANS.
Cuba is tho closing seal of the great
problem of African emancipation jn North
America. Its solution is tho especial mis
sion of tho nineteenth century. It pannot
bo accomplished until Cuba is pec.-
While the* island remains under the do
minion ofßpnin, the slave trade will con
tinue, and while it is continued, tho cheap,
sturdy, ignorant slavo from tho coast of
Africa will underbid and check ofT white
labor, deaden immigration, and increase
the cumbrous weight of n population only
to be ruled by brute force. Not the least
of its evils is the diserdit of the colored
race, who, by the affinities of kind, will be
ranked with them, and dragged down to
share in tho social abasement awarded to
the Africans ns a people. This incessant
infusion of barbarous elements is wrong to
both races. To illustrate our moaning,
wo will suppose that, instead of importing
near half a million of uncivilized African
slaves, and working ono-hnlf ortwo-thirds
of them to death, under a systematic idea
that it is bettor economy to “use up negro
life and replace it by importation,” than to
prolong it by gentler usage, and accept
more enduring and more moderate gains,
it had suited the policy of Spain to foster
white immigration and stop tho slave trade
altogether. This was tho policy of the
United States, and wo see that ns the Cau
casian has prospered in the slnveholding
und in the non-slavoholding States, the
character and condition of the black has
gone on ameliorating in a corresponding
degree. The increasing ascendency of
tho ratio of white population makes eman
cipation and tho final steps of removing
and colonizing tho explelivo race, yearly
more distinctly feasible. Tho dominant
raco gains so rapidly on the dependent olio
that it loses all fear of it. The African
race here is perfectly under control, not
only becauso it is far inferior in number,
’ but bccauso it is partially so advanced in
| practical education as to submit to tho
j laws, and appreciate the luxuries of oiviliz
jution. If Spain had yielded to the solici
tations of tho most patriotic and enlighten
ed Cubans, and suppressed the slave trade
! thirty years ago, ns thoy petitioned and
as she might easily have done, at this
time the white inhabitants of the island
would have been to the colored ns two to
(one. This is without allowing for the
j impetus which the advance of wages and
the necessity of leaving all tho mechanic-1
al employments to free white laborers
would have imparted to white immigration.
The Increased value of his slaves would
compol the selfishness of the planter to
| take part with humanity. He must depend
I upon the slaves already on tho island, or
| upon those bo might draw from the main
: land, for his work ; and where they wore
deficient, look to European labor. The
restriction of the slave supply would have
opened the door to the pauper laborers of
Europe, who would hasten to fill the work
shops with better mechanical skill, to cul
tivate wasto patches in little farifis and
market gardens—now so few aod miser-
I able on that islund—and to muke up a re
j spectable class of carmen and coachmen,
from all of which the island blacfcs have
excluded the whites. In the southorn
States of the Union, European emigrants
are gradually occupying their places, to
their own and the country’s advantage.—
With such a policy, Cuba would at this
timo possess so great a preponderance of
white population, and her colored people
would as a whole be so much more famili
ar with the comforts and duties of civiliz
ation, that she could be quito tranquil, andj
prepared to keep step with the United
States in tho progress of emancipation.—
But these savage importations from Africa
are too profitable to Spanish cupidity, and
too convenient to Spanish despotism, to bo
discontinued while Spain owns the island,
and until it escapes from her yoko there
is no prospect of its cessation.
The blacks crowd the whites out of all
those branches of industry to the incalcul
able discouragement of immigration, as
must happen in every community where
they have a. sufficient numerical prepon
derance to fill the present demand. In
such communities, productive progress is
weakened beenuso industry is dishonored
by the vicious ignorance of tho industrial
masses, and tho cultivated white, overlook
ing the dignity of tho work in the degra
dation of the worker, associates labor with
want and mental stupidity, and unless he
is of a rare intellectual strength, disdains
to bo useful. The Cubans have tho right
| and the will to share in tho moral advance
of the ago, but tho Spanish slave trade
holds them back and bears down upon
their country by a constant and overpow
ering infusion of barbarous and unman
ageable olements from Africa.
Spain abuses tho mutual interests of civ
ilized nations and forfeits every claim to
the allegiance of her wronged colony by
this obstinate system of deterioration. She
has imported in thirty yours more Africans
into Cuba than was brought into tho terri
tory now comprised by the republics of
the United States and Mexico during their
entire history, going back to the first dates
of settlement. Of these it is computed by
her own officials that one-third are delib
erately .worked to doatli; and we know
the presence of such a class of laborers,
and tho inevitable severity of their man
agement, is a moral death to the entire
working-class of which Spain thus consti
lutes thorn the representatives. Until this
importation, of .heterogeneous elements
shall cease, and tho African race in Cuba
shall be brought under the steady and reli
able.,influence of civilized contact and
the pressure of emigrant competition, tho
great work of their restoration cannot have
■a clear field. When the limitsare fixed
when wo can see the extent of the ueces
sity—-when we can compute the exadt.cos't
and convenience of the movement-r-then,
and not before, the African exodus wili.be
near at hand. V
The proposal of ' England to sot loose
tips snvogo force, and raise it to equal cit
izenship with the whit§s, js not the just
and politic course. White it is a decree
of industrial ruin and cWfic, demoralization
nguinst tho native inhabitants, it does not
improve in tfco slightest the eventual pros
poets of the black race. The la\V9 of tho
island provide for their instruction in tho
means of life, and insure them, an early
emancipation. But it is requisite that the
execution of those laws be taken from tho
slavetrailing Spanish officials, and left to
tho islanders, who have every interest in
tho just administration of tho law, and in
tho creation of an intelligent and produc
live population. The Cubans haye repeat
edly disclosed their wish to exclude these
savage hordes from Africa, and encourage
European emigration to their island, and
tho inevitable results of that system will
bo the schooling of the African to habits of
self-support and self-government, and the
ultimate colonization in the boundless and
congenial domain of his ancestors.
Frmn llio Washington Union.
DISTRIBUTION OF PATRONAGE.
Wo are surprised that any misappre
hension should exist in any quarter as to
the policy of the administration in respect
to the distribution of public patronage.—
Tho President must have been totally blind
if he had failed to see in the organization
of tho convention which nominated hitja
the policy which it was his duty to pursue.
In regard to questions outside of tho car
dinal principles of the democratic pArty,
that convention was composed of tho dis
cordant elements, and its prominent suc
cess was achieved in' excluding issues
which had been forced into some of its sec
tional organizations, and of securing unity
and harmony on a great national platform,
In somo of the local organizations the har
mony of tho parly had been destroyed by
tho introduction of issues connected with
slavery. These were absolutely repudia
ted by the National Convention, and a
faithful acquiescence in tho compromise
measures as a final settlement of those is
sues was adopted as a fundamental feature
in the national democratic organization.—
Acquiescence in this final settlement was
made the lest of national democracy by
the action of the convention, and its nom
inee placed himself cheerfully and firmly
on this' ground. His election, therefore,
was tatamount to instructions, that ip the
distribution of pntronage ho should regard
jail as national democrats who freely and
faithfully adopt tho platform. The prac
tice of the President has been in strict con
formity to this policy. No man has been
appointed to offico by him who does not
stand upon tho pledge of a Mthful adhe
rence to the compromise measures as a fi
nal adjustment of the slavery issues. It
may be that the distribution of the offices
amongst the different divisions of the party
has not been in exact proportion to their
relativo numbers—such n result was ne
cessarily impracticable. But that tho great
principle of recognising none as democrats
but those who stand upon the platform has
been adhered to, we confidently assert. —
The President has had no hesitancy :u
avowing this policy on all occasions, a;:>:
in declaring, with emphatic dislinctne-..-,
that he would unhesitatingly removo r. ~y
man from office who should denv tli-. f.
nality of the adjustment made by tho c.
promise measures. The unity and !;
mony of the party were secured by :i,
udoption of this policy in the States an.l I
tho Nutional Convention, and the Pi \
dent could have pursued no other cou, . j
for its preservation. How unreasonable,
then, the complaints wnich are occasion
ally made when tljo Executive lias found
it necessary, in executing tho policy so
distinctly marked out by the party, to ap
point men whoso positions previous to tho
convention had been objectionable ! We
are not surprised that whigs should seek
to produco distractions by such assaults,
but we era surprised that any democrats
should give countenance to their olTorts to
“divide and conquer.” ,
It would bo wise in those democrats who
aro inclined to indulgo in a feeling of
plaint because tho President is alleged to •
have favored the wings rather than tho
centre column of tho party, to pause and
deliberate upon the injustice of such an in
timation. General Pierce has never be
longed to eithor wing, but
centre of tho centre column. IlWympn/J
thies and his inclinations would naturally |
carry him to that column to find objects of I
his favoritism, but his duty to tho party f
required him to sacrifice this inclination, i
and to recognise as democrats all who J
have united upon the cardinal doctrines of
tho platform. Surely, thon, it would bp ; i
wise in our friends to exerciso forbearance, }
and bo a little backward in indulging in a
censorious spirit. They'should at least
bo thoroughly satisfied that injustice has
been dono before they give encouragement
to the whigs by venting their complaints.
It would be well, too, for democrats to con
sider whether tho standard of their parly
patriotism may not bo suspected to be too
low, if tho matter of distributing the offices
should be mado too ready a ground for
censure. We glory in the democraticpar
ty bpcause it is a party of principles; but
if its members allow it to sink to a mere
“spoils party,” it will cease to deserve any
higher respect than the whig party enjoys.
Tho President has given office to no origi-'
nal enemy of tho Compromise as a rpward
[for his services; but in appointing such ho
has intended only to recognise them, whilst
adhering to the plntform. as democrats.—
Let borno always in miqd that so I
soon ns such cease tQ adhere to national - I
principles they cease to be'regarded as I
democrats. If the strength ofour party is I
to be preserved at nlj, it can only be done ' I
by cultivating a spirit of conciliation, for- I
bearance, apd liberality amongst its mem- rM
bers toward each other. The Presiden I
has every motiv.e to; encourage this spiritr B
and he has a right'to export that his el- «
forts shall be regarded at least with justice K
if not with forbearance. t”'*