Show I 1 I I IJ Just lISt By Albert F F. Philip Philips Men do opt not learn to swim o ota on v ta table lc They must go into deep Vattel Vat w ter tel and buffet the waves an old maxim that always and j it Is added that hardship isi native e soil of ot manhood and of JI ii reliance lelance for trials are rough te tej- tej ers but rugged schoolmasters mata mak rugged pupils So it was in thu UM days When Franklin Pierce four fourteenth fourteenth fourteenth president of the Uni United States when lie he made his at the bar for he br brown lo down own completely Mortified bd bat not OPt discouraged he said sald I am n discouraged and will try the expert ment 9 times and then If It I stil fail fall will ill rf eat it for he the th thou ij u tine tl He was a dad and nd a n statesman jM In the campaign of 1852 1862 the ei sla slavery 1 very question was believed to boit longer desirable indeed the relegation tion of or the question was the ke note of the campaign The in national convention fel solved that they would resist JaK W It attempts at renewing It In or 01 ou of congress and that the agitation ag of ot the question under whatever whatever- shape or color It came fo forward nvard I would be squelched The Whig expressed acquiescence In tn the c com compromise promise acts promised to enforce them and deprecated further agi ag tion of the slavery question as danl n din di However the question would nol down It wa was the paramount is Iss e and as stated by James Russell Lowell To be told that one ought not to agitate the question of or sl sli sli very when it Is that which Is tor for ever ever agitating agitating us is like tellin li man with the fever Cever and ague on hl hire him to stop shaking and he will be b bet t ter The issue would not down Then in the spring of 1852 earn cain the most powerful protest again t the whole system of ot sla slavery ery that thai was ever presented It was in tin thi shape shapo h po of or a novel and the first ye yea after its publication in the spring sprin of 1852 more than copies cople were sold and It influenced pu opinion in a most profound man man That novel was vas Uncle pUI Tu To Cabin which has been read o millions of people as those million have seen It portrayed on the stage stag The Influence of or the book ip if th campaign of 1852 was great but in the campaign that fol lowed in 1856 it was a great factor The Clay compromise measures which included the admission o Utah territory without any rest restrict c as to slavery had united the th Democrat party The Democrat Democrat- na a al convention convened In I more on June 1 1852 John wI VI W Davis of or Indiana was selected chaiman chai I man of the convention The two tw thirds rule was adopted as In othe Democrat conventions It wasfi wasll I session for tor six days das the most pro prom protracted convention held up to th tha t tI I time Louis Cass OP of Michigan ane an James Buchanan ot or pennsYl were the leading candidates for tor forthe th the nomination for president and aud them eight others were voted for tor nine Forty-nine ballots were Yere had be before bej fore a a. nomination was wa made Whet When the thirty-fifth thirty ballot was Caned called called fo foi Viginia which had become tired the protracted struggle cast east he nei solid vote for tor Franklin New Hampshire antS antt this thiS' was th beginning ot of the end of the str g gle On that ballot Cass receive his highest vote B Buchanan ch nan ha rea hed his highest vote on the third ballot with There were desper ate efforts made to rally the con convention con to Cass but without a avail 11 and on on the ninth forty ballot Pierce received votes and an the nomination Two delegates the end for tor their candidates Cass Douglas and Butler Two balI ballots ballot t were taken for br vice president with will William WilHam R. R King of Alabama re ie on the first and o on the thi second he was given the unanimous moue vote of the convention jOi jOithe the first ballot banot two votes were c cas cast sl for Jefferson Davis 0 The platform adopted was the Qt cm e of 1848 with two new resolutions I ns on the on-the the subject of slavery added added One declaring that the Democrat paY party would adhere to a faithful exe 1 i iBon tion Bon of or the acts known as the the- com corn compromise promise measures adopted by the tIie pevious pe congress the other declaring declaring r ing that the party would ali attempts to renew the slavery ques Clues tion lion Other additions related to I other national issues jl The Whig convention which which met me reel I In Baltimore on June 16 nominated ted General Winfield Scott after a al long g struggle Pierce was elected Ve re receiving in the popular vote votes and in the electoral col lege as against votes cas cast for tor Scott and in the col college college col- col l lege 42 Pierce was Inaugurated March l 1853 During his administration 11 the boundary line with Mexico was taS and resulted in the tion io 0 o Arizona of the territory so south tb of the Gila river known as the Gad G sen purchase the exploration Q a a route for a railroad and telegraph line to the Pacific coast was bej bei gun the fishing question wit Great was ts-as settled by treaty ty made Juno 6 5 6 1854 the Missouri compromise was abrogated by the passage of the Kansas Nebraska bill and a bill creating the te tei t tories of Kansas and Nebraska WItS waa approved the famous festo was Issued under which th American ministers to Spain Franc and England met in Ostend Be Bel glum to negotiate with Spain Spain- Spain f tor 1 the purchase of Cuba Tuba by the Unites States but the advice was not ac act cd eel on as s it provided ded that 10 lO be paid for the island ill gIlt first treaty with Japan was WS signed Pierce lied died October 8 1869 His wl wife preceded hip him in 1863 They had haa three sons a B |