WHITE HOUSE GALLERY VINTAGE PHOTOGRAVURE OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN PIERCE

OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE GALLERY VINTAGE PHOTOGRAVURE OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN PIERCE

WITH WRITTEN DEDICATION TO PRESIDENT PIERCE BY JOHN T. MORGAN, V. S. Senator from Alabama

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Pierce

ROM the birth of Franklin Pierce on the 23d of November, 1804, to his election as President in November, 1853, a half century of American history was recorded, from which has been developed another half century of growth in unforeseen movements that are a natural and logical result of our institutions of government, and of the genius of our people. Mr. Pierce's Administration marked the turning point in this National progress. In the main, the discussion of the sovereignty of the several States was the engrossing political topic of the era that closed with his Administration of the Presidency.

That discussion had two results. The sovereign rights of the States brought the Southern States under arms, as independent States, to

defend the rights of the people, relating to slavery, under the Constitution, and the Northern States into battle array, to sustain the principles stated in the Declaration of Independence.

There was congruity in these opposing doctrines, and the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence won the battle.

The sovereign States were in full exercise of their powers when the war ended, and they re-established the National Republic.

Mr. Pierce was defeated by Mr. Buchanan for renomination by the Democratic party, for the Presidency, and disappeared from public life, leaving to his successor the task of avoiding, it possible, the conflict that then appeared to be unavoidable, between the Northern and Southern States.

The door that led to the new era in American history stood ready to be opened.

Conservatism, which meant resistance to the progress for which Congress is sponsor, was the party shiboleth of the Democracy and the creed of the silver-grey Whigs, but the pressure of Democratic party lato warring factions!

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except the Constitution and the sovereignty of the States.

Pierce opposed the fiscal bank bill, but the Civil War has substituted a National

banking system for all the State banks of issue, and the Supreme Court has, virtually, decreed the perpetuity of the system, and no Democratic convention now disputes the necessity for National banks.

Mr.

Pierce favored the annexation of Texas, against a powerful opposition in his native

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hese are some of the points of outlook from the old era that have been reached in the new periods, without any deviation from lines of National policy that were established by Mr.

Jefferson in the year that Mr. Pierce was born.

Other interesting initiatives of our present wise and worthy policies in the Pacific ocean were planted during Mr. Pierce's Administration, as Democratic measures on Jefferson's plan.

Through his great Secretary of State, William S. Marcy, he conducted the first commercial treaty with

. Japan, negotiated by Commodore Perry.

That treaty opened the door of real

civilization to Japan, through which a light has entered a darkened nation, and within the life a generation, has lifted that people into recognized equality with the great powers of the world.

And the same broad and sagacious statesmanship has aided in civilizing and Americanizing the Hawaiian Islands, and has gathered that people into the nurturing bosom of our Great Republic.

A still broader and more generous policy was ordained in that Administration as to Cuba, in the Ostend conference, which has ripened into the noblest results of National benevolence. through the redemption of that fair island from the oppressions of the last and worst form of Bourbon despotism.

These events were fixed in the wise councils of Mr. Pierce and his great Cabinet, and time has brought all of them into speedy realization. Such men were never afraid that our Government would be weakened by honest and generous efforts to extend the blessings of its influence and protection to oppressed peoples.

In the second halt of this century, the consummation ot the work laid out in the first has been accomplished on the true lines of American policy, without any deviation from the strictest

Democratic construction of the Constitution of the United States.

A notable incident to illustrate the spirit of that Administration, was the dismissal of the British minister and the British consuls at New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, because of their complicity in the illegal enlistment of recruits in the British army for the Crimean war.

Mr. Pierce's life was fashioned in the company of excellent people, from his youth, and their influence was manifest in all his history.

His college mates at Bowdoin College, where

he graduated third in his class, were such men as John P. Hale, Prof. Calvin Stone, Sergeant Prentiss, Henry W. Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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