Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-11-29

impeachable political integrity--its type pros
tituted to the vile purposes of slander-and its
sheets blackened with the foulest calumny.
Why it seemed as if its editors had taken out
license to run q political muck, stabbing on
the right and left whom they chose. One day
they would bespatter Dickinson, and the next
laud John, the prince of traitors. In one issue
they made all the leaders of the national party
originally freesoilers; and in the next they pour
the precious ointment of praise on the head Of
John Van Buren,, because natural strangula
ton did not ensue when calling for three cheers
for General Cass. But what awaited all their
abuse, though uttered with the appreciation"
of him who held the thunderbolt and let it fall
on the unoffending head of Greene C. Bronson?
Did it intimidate the national democracy? Did
they quail before a "fallen power?" Nay
more--were they moved when the attempt was
made to turn the press Of Pennsylvania against
them, and the answer was given, it is impossi-
ble-Pennsylvania is national to the core? No !
All was of no avail before the awakened power
of truth AND justice-ther base attacks and in
famous SANDERS were as flax before the flames.
The day of battle came and the national de-
mocracy triumphed in defiance Of the Union.
Thrice is he armd who hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
--(Applause.) This contest teaches another
lesson-that when an administration prostitutes
its power to secure the success of faction,
and that faction is made up of traitors to the
democratic party-it must fail, and fail inglo-
riously. In the inaugural of General Pierce
appears the following striking passage: Elk
perience has shown that the harmony and hap
piness Of our people must depend upon just
discrimination between the separate rights and
responsibilities of the States, and your common
rights and obligations under the general gov
ernment" Yet with this on record, we have
the lamentable picture of the administration
interfering in the dearest of State rights-the
elective Misunderstanding all its influence in
favor of the traitors who struck down Lewis
Cass in '4S. They forget their high position
at Washington, and NEEDLE in the local politics
of New York and in so doing Guthrie and
dent, and are entitled to their dismissal. Tire
mendous applause.) The administration hav-
ing expressed its approval of John Van Buren,
n Co., what do we next see? Blush, Ameri-
cans, to hear it The government patronage
is hawked about the streets, and sold to the
highest bidderl-to the man who can secure
the most votes for the freesoilers. Nay, more |;
we behold John Van Buren,, the modern Cata
line, who has been scourged again and again
by James L. Brady, your modern Cicero,
uniting with his motley crew in the Dissertation
of old Tammany Hall. At their meeting prior
to the election they displayed a banner bearing
these words: The Union and the democracy,
must and shall be preserved" One would
suppose, after their treason to the Union in AZ,
they would hide their diminished heads but
not so "with the little foxes that destroy the
vines" With an impudence that knows no
parallel, they displayed that banner in solemn
mockery of their past course. Verify, the
lights in the hall did pale, and emit only a
sickly glare. "The Union and democracy
must and shall be preserved" Talk to me Of
the Union and freesoilersl With sacrilegious
indifference they would cleave it down and
tear it limb from limb. Talk to me Of
democracy and John Van Buren,! Like the
"base Judean, he threw away pearl richer
than all his triben Talk to me Of the Consti-
tuition and traitors They would "freight the
bubble with the diamond, and launch it forth
npon the boiling waters of the cataract" There
is no Union between the Constitution and free
sellers; there is no union between democracy
and John Van Buren,; there is no union be-
tween national men and traitors. Great cheer
ihg.) In spite, then, of the fulminations of the
cabinet letter-writers- the influence of the
general and State administrations against you
you were nothing daunted. Promises could not
allure you, or place make you forget your faith.
You had a duty to perform, and you performed
it nobly; you routed the Union-the general
and State administrations, and the freesoilers,
'shorse, foot, and dragons" Avictory against
such odds has no parallel in the history OF civil
lization. (Applause.) Having achieved this
great moral victory, where does the national
party stand? It stands where it has always
stood-it stands with General Pierce upon the
platforms of '4s and 80 and the doctrines as
contained in his inaugural; and we ask him to
cast aside traitors that are surrounding him.
We have faith in him-we believe he was
elected on national grounds, and national
grounds only, and we call on him to fulfil the
pledges that election imposed. had the honor
Of speaking over thirty times for General Pierce
in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. had the
pleasure of hearing FIVE times as many other
speeches. and the burden of all was General
Pierce's nationality in opposition to freesoil
traitors. 1t was Mirabeau, believe, who said,
'frst be Just, and then generous" Brutus was
Just, though able to be generous; he gave his
sons to the lictors. We ask of the present
administration justice before generosity. We
believe "that involuntary servitude, as it exists
in the different States of this confederacy, is
recognized by the Constitution" and we want
mourning III cOIHIflUIi Will tlt SOCuuHco ai,u
the Fowlers, who defame the Constitution. We
"hold that the laws Of 1850, commonly called
the compromise measures are strictly consti-
tutional, and to be unhesitatngly carried into
effects" but we will not herd with men who
opposed them, and appealed to laws higher
than the Constitution. And believing this, we
ask General Pierce, standing, as he does, al
most within view of the green slopes Of Monti
cello, and, as it were, within reach ofthe tomb of
Washington, with all the memories of the past
gathering around him like so many eloquent
voices Of exhortation from heaven, why, oh,
why can you take to your bosom and conf
dence the reckless patricde, who, without a
tremor could lift the dagger and plunge it
into the heart of his country? tremendous
: applause.) go
A victory such as you have achieved is not
without its fruits. 1t gives to the people of the
country guarantee Of future security against
the Vaccinations of the enemies of the Consti-
tuition, while to the Old World it gives assn.
rance that the faith pledged by our fathers will