Washington sentinel., 1853-10-19

once brought the American character into con-
tempt in the old world. Nor are these the men
who leave their own shores to sympathize with
the republican population of Europe. But
again--there is still another qualification for
diplomatic station.
After base and cowardly insinuaton
against one Of the appointments of the Pres;.
dent-which insinuation we shall presently no.
tice-our reviewer adds:
"At the same time, when such nominations
were made, there We're before the President, as
we have been informed 10y good authority, the
| names OF young men OF the highest deserts young
men of old and honorable families" &c, &c. "yet
they We're overlooked"
SO that this pretender, who clamors against
the President through ten Of the closely-printed
broad pages of Putnam--who vaunts his pro-
gressive democracy-who avows his devotion
to the struggling nations Of the old worlds a
mere jackdaw, after all General Pierce has
disappointed him because he passed over cer
tain young men of !" old and honorable fami-
lies" We have now in our eye several of these
scions Of democratic nobility who have asked
and did not obtain station from the present
President of the United States. They are an
exemplary and interesting class, these young
princes of the blood royal; useful members Of
society they are; good citizens, and superiine
democrats, too! These fast boys live abroad
about fourffths of their time, and occasionally
manage to get position from the government to
pay expenses, and to keep up the old family
pride! When u presidential election is about
to take place, they return and condescend to
vote; and it matters little to them which party
succeeds, as they are sufficiently neutral to
serve either the democrats or the wings. Among
the first to besiege every new President are
these genteel harpies. They come strongly
backed with recommendations from the great
cities, and they press their claims with becom-
ing avidity. All these young noblemen talk
French, Italian, and German all dance the
polka and scottische all are well acquainted
with foreign gossip and scandal; but scarcely
one in twenty knows anything of the United
States. They generally fail at Washington,
and the next steamer carries them back to Lon
don or Paris, there to abuse the administration
who would not recognize the claims of our
i" old and honorable families
Burning under the neglect Of these hopeful
offspring Of the New York aristocracy, our re.
viewer allows himselfto be guilty of the fol-
lowing dastardly and dishonorable allusion:
"Indeed, it has been asserted, without contra.
dicton, by responsible press, that in one case a
place was bought but by whom or by what inter-
mediate, does not appear"
This is malignant re.vamping of the story
against Mr. Belmont, charge d'affares at the
Hague, which originated in the shameless col.
umns of the Ne'o York Tribune, and was dis.
tinctly and positively refuted by twenty of the
democratic papers Of the country. What rem.
ders the repetition of this exploded falsehood
more amazing is the fact that it is not doubted
that the writer of the article in Putnam knows
Mr. Belmont well, if not intimately; that he is
himself aware of the wicked malignity and falsi-
ty of the very scandal he has iterated; and that
he has enjoyed the refined and generous hos
pitalities of Mr.. Belmont and his educated and
agreeable family. More than this. The writer
in Putnam knew what influences suggested
the appointment Of Mr.. Belmont to President
Pierce; some Of the first men in both parties
uniting in his recommendation and some of
the first presses in the opposition warmly en-.
dorsing it, He knew ALSO and he knows, that
the position OF Mr.. Belmont in Wall street.
where to preserve untainted credit and popu.
larity requires unusual tact and talents that
of an intelligent, respected, and heightened
gentleman; and that, before he left the shores
of his adopted country the first merchants Of
New York paid him the uncommon tribute
uncommon from such Inen--of offering to him
public dinner, as n mark of their confidence
and esteem. So perishes another calumny,
which our courteous critic has not hesitated to
re-echo in his general onslaught upon the ad-
ministration.
1t might readily be supposed that an admin.
istration thus baselv traduced from the moment
it started into being, without ntermission or
pause, should, in some degree, become obiec.
tionable to the people. But this expectation,
It 1t has been entertained, and that it has been
entertained no man pretendstod doubt, has been
overwhelmingly disappointed. Every election
that has taken place since General Pierce has
been President. has resulted in u triumphant
vlnt'ication Of his policy, after the most exciting
discussions of his pledges and his practices.
In no single State has the democratic party gone
backwards, tried by the standard of the ballot
boxes, since the 18th of March of the present
year. laundiced journalism has poured its
complaints upon the public ear-eloquent ora
tors have prognostcated calamitous catastro-
phies-disappoint men have threatened the
gravest disasters--and all have been stimulated
by the supposed mal-administration of the
President and his counsellors. But the popular
heart had no single answering impulse for these
discordant manifestations. North Carolina re.
pronounced her confidence in the principles of
the President, though the disappointed editor
of the New York Herald ravcd with insane
violence; Tennessee elected democratic COVER
nor and majority Of her congressional dele
CATION, though Jones grew angry and Henry
desperate; Louisiana proclaimed anew her faith
in democratic principles, even while her R,Hc.
tRS Diundered and her Crescents clamored: AL.
ALBANIA spoke louder and bolder for democracy,
in the midst of whig hopes and domestic dis.
sensions; Georgia gave her verdict once more
to Pierce, though Stephens denounced and
Toombs declaimcd: Virginia outdazzed her
own bright past and Mr.. Bolts predicted and the
Richmond Wig calumniated all in vain Even
Kentucky returned Breckinridge to the disap.
pontment OF Prentice, and Texas added her
own malorities as q new tribute that her vote
OF 1852 had neither been forgotten or regretted.
New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
and Maine remembered in their late contests
none of the calumnies that had been hurled
against the President they had aided to elect.
Even as we write, the majestic column of dem
ocratic triumph is crowned with the trophies Of
victorious Pennsylvania and Ohio as if to add
the only element necessary to complete the vim.
dication of Franklin Pierce and his policy. The
writer for Putnam requires no more significant
and unanswerable retorts to his vile ISLANDERS
thon hoe. II