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The following letter from Ex- President Pierce is in the same misleading strain:
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When President Pierce was inaugurated, on the fourth of March, their flood.
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But the events of President Pierce's administration threatened to be its undoing.
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President Pierce had now become intensely hostile towards the free-state inhabitants of Kansas.
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Accordingly, President Pierce, in December, 1854, offered the governorship to Lieutenant Colonel Steptoe.
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President Pierce, seconded by Secretary Marcy, made his foreign appointments with great care.
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President Pierce was the most popular man personally that ever occupied the Presidential chair.
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This, I think, was particularly so in New Hampshire, from whence President Pierce came.
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President Pierce and Senator Douglas each made a persistent effort.
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President Pierce, who was running again, met a wavering fortune.
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President Pierce was absent from the capital in all during his Presidential term fifty-seven days.
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In March, 1855, President Pierce appointed Mr. Willson judge of the District Court just authorized.
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The commissioners were to be appointed by President Pierce.
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The administration of President Pierce committed itself at the first in support of the proslavery party.
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Caleb Cushing, with whom he had been four years associated in the Cabinet of President Pierce.
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President Pierce could do nothing under the circumstances.