Washington sentinel., 1853-12-20

the mote out OF thine eye: and behold! beam
is in thine own eye?" "Thou hypocrite, first
cast out the beam out Of thine own eye; and
then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote
out of thy brothers eyer
Now, the Union must not complain If we
find an apt application in itself Of this very
just and divine philosophy. The Taiop must
not murmur when it charges upon us an nm.
worthy coaltion-never proved, but always
dcnied-if we shall concict IL Of one that even
makes our young blood chill TO contemplate!
| We would fain have averted the necessity of
alluding to it in our columns, but it was forced
upon US. We are forced now to repeat it, and
! we shall continue TO repeat it again and again,
until we drive from the very vocabulary of the
| Washington Union the use of such word rs
coalition! Did not he Washington Union,
achen party SPIRIT ran high, on the ere Of the
| political organizations preceding the last presi
Dental canrass, enter in,o deliberate contract
wiM The proprietors Of the Republic--a ,rhig
orgDi--to gire them one-half Of the profits Of
The public printing If they could induce lis
,rhig friends to rote for il as the public
printer for the 32d Congress? And has not
sua been brought By Gideon d. Co. for their
share Of these proftss Ofa truth, here is
coalition that is coalition. We only received
the support of the wings in the Senate, and
even two of them we did not get; while the
Washington Union, with double barrel,
brought down the whole coveyI We have
promised no such "aid and comfort to the
enemy for the support they generously con-
ferred. Thus we claim clearer democratic
subject.
/ How stands the contrast upon the recon-
mendations Of the Presidents first annual
message? It is charged by the Union, that we
are opposed to the President and to the admins
tration. The President recommended the sys-
tenn of tonnage duties, instead of the unconsti-
tutional appropriations, from the federal trea-
sury, for the improvement of rivers and har-
bors. We commended it before it was known,
at least to us, that the message would contain
such recommendation.
| Internal improvements generally, by the fede-
raj government, were condemned by the Pre-
sident. For months before, and even since we
saw the message, we did, to the utmost of our
power, the same. The tariff question, as treat
| ed by the President, we concurred in, and so
expressed that concurrence, save rs to the
manner of reducing the tariff recommended in
Mr.. Guthrie's report which we feared was not
in strict accordance with our avowed free trade
| Eith.
The Presidents views, upon our foreign
policy, are well known to be precisely those ad.
vocated in the Sentinel since its birth.
The construction Of the Pacific railroad By
| The funds Of the national treasury-that hy-
dra-headed monster, more fightful to gen,l-
me democrat than thousand national banks
the President condemned in Just and splendid
censnre. We read and re-read it with glorious
pleasure. Ereryli line oft we endorse, approve,
and admire. And we sorrow truly and as one
without hope, that our able contemporary, the
Washington Union, should have incapacitated
itself from giving Franklin Pierce its hearty
support upon this, the most important question
to our political integrity, and by consequence,
our political organization. How does this hap
pen? Which one of its variegated editorial
corps has done this thing? Give us peep
into your editorial kaleidoscope.
1 Which, then, we ask our readers, especially
our southern readers, is entitled to be called
the true organ Of the democratic party-of
your principles? The Washington Union,
which has labored day and night to build up
the fallen fortunes of the Buffalo traitors
which threatens democratic Senators-which,
to secure the public printing, agrees to give
| large portion of the profits to whig paper to
secure whig votes, upon the ere Of the presi-
Dental lcdnrass-which advocates so earnestly
and zealously the latitudinous construction of
the power of Congress, under the Constitution,
to create, out of the federal treasury, a nam
moth corporation like the proposed Pacific
railroad, whose articles upon this question SO
enthused our esteemed contemporary of the
National h,teligcncer, that he could only de-
scribe his JOY by imagining himself reading one
of Mr.. Clay's splendid effusions on internal
Improvements? or the Washington Sentinel,
which has been laboring, with unceasing in
dustry, to purify the democratic party--which
nerer threatens democratic Senators-which, to
secure the public printing did not agree to
give large portion Of the profits to whig
! paper to secure whig votes-which nerer advo-
Gated the power Of Congress, under the Con.
stitution, to create out Of the federal treasury
mammoth corporation like the proposed
Pacific railroad, which has never deviated
from the true faith, except to permit the
| Senate Of the United States to have the ser.
vices Of its proprietor, as public printer, for
the thirty-third Congress? With this sum.
ming up, we feel half inclined to leave it
to the Union to decide. Surely just and
discriminating public must give US the YER
dict; and having only sinned towards the