New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-26


WASHINGTON Monday. May ~. lssa
Your Washington Correspondents has, |
think, received an undue share Of vitaperat;e,
within the last three or four weeks from press,.
in the interest ofthc Administration. The assaalts
90 Ear as We have observed them, are 50 clumsy.
pithless, and misplaced, that they are only caeu.
lated to excite one risibes. Thus we have tls;d
to our door as serious charge, that we are very
rank and prcjudiced Free Soiler, and that We m
for Congress two years ago as an -Compronis
candidate, under Dir. SEwARD's patronage. Nov.
however pointless these charges, it yet so Ian.
pens that we never had any personal acquaintance
whatever with Senator SEWARD, until within the
last four or five months, and for aught we know 10
the contrary, he never was cognizant OF the fact
we ever had any boyish ambition to get into Cen
gress. And as to our fierce Abolitionism, we think
it hard that man cannot escape this charge who
was an original, out and out Taylor man, who was
not reckoned sound enough in 1913 TO represent
the Northern feeling, tot which Mr.. WEBSTER was
the iustrious embodiment, in the Convention Of
1881 and who has never shifted his position on
the general question Of Slavery, and the Proviso,
rom that day to this. Others have boon sxtsa
Northern and extra Southern at different times,
boxing the political compass just as the gales Of
political favor blew, While we have steadily held
our coarse without starting tack or sheet, holding
asst always to what we esteemed to be sound doc
frine, and striving for tn most practicable method
of efficiently asserting It. But upon such personal
matters we have no inclination TO waste time Or
room.
If we are disposed to be any way severe upou
the Northern men who have apostatized on the
Slavery question, and we suppose it must be the
manifestation OF this disposition that has drawn
down so many objargatory epitheth upon our hum
ble comments, il 10 because OF the strength and
depth of our convictions of the mischief that
such apostacy cannot fail to work upon the public
mind, unless it be fully exposed and increasingly
condemned. We arc constrained to regard the
course of Mr.. WEBSTER and those who have fol-
lowed him in his lamentablc desertion of princips
as pernicious in the extreme, and deserving there.
fore, of unqualified rebuke and condemnation.
When led BY distinguished men, such political tor.
giyersaton as we have witnessed debauches The
tone of public morals in all the walks oflile. Lit
srature is vitated the press is corrupted the pull.
nit is infected. What have we not seen within
the last few years. Newspapers subsidized, and
turned to the right about face as quickly a. ever
an army changed front at the word of command;
books of education, those mighty agents in FORM
ing the opinions of the rising generation, emascu-
lated Of the manly sentiments Of freedom; hoary
clergymen preaching doctrines that hardened sin
ners mentally damn on the spot for their scoundrel-
ISM and who, il heaven had no more charity than
earth would be blasted by the lghtnngs Of the
Almighty for their mpous Dissertation Of their
Office. Old Hunkerism in the pulpit is enough to
make the world infdel. The preacher who fails
to assert or, by implication, denies the supreme.
cy of the higher law" deserves to be roasted n
sulphur. Yet has the political apostacy Of the
last two years unveiled to our vision such whits
ncckerchiefed renegades.
Witnessing these things we have no honitd
words or apologize or defsrential terms to apay
to those whose example we believe has been the
primary cause of this Generalization. And here
in, we beg to be allowed to say, is to be found
the handspring of any severity ofremark we may
have INDUCED, or may hereafter indulge toward
certain gentlemen now in official station. Tho
passionate commentators upon our course, who
in the use of sxtravsgant terms Of denuncistion
have but exhibited their i'll blood to no purpose,
will see by this how far their arrows have fallen
short..o the mark, and that they might we'll there
fore, have spared themselves the pains Of dis.
charging them. J.s.r.
Yids the "Standard Speaker" recently issued In Be-
ton by Mr. EPEs SARGENT from which IL studiousy ~
cluded the writings OF such SEWARD, SUMNER ~
MANN bat which IL able nd for extracts from suss
distinguished authors apd speakers Alabama SMITH SsE'
stor CLEMENS, ct I'd genps omne.
The Delegates from EIizabethtown.