Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-10-29
"The war, that for n space did fail,
Now trebIy laundering sweIIs the gale,
And BRONSON As the cry.

ana bflCNSON the cry
We have never known stronger feeling Of
sympathy to prevail among the masses Of the
people, than prevails at present. towards Judge
Bronson. In the absence fall complaint Of de
reelection in official duty, without min Cling active
ly in the complicated involutions of New York
politics, he has been pursued by his relentless
foes of the opposing faction, even unto death.
But as the corn that dies, and is buried, springs
up into renewed life, and changing from little
grain into green and Furnishing plant, so will
the martyr, Bronson, rise from his official grave,
renewed and exalted. In his person, if we
do not mistake the signs Of the times, there
will be exhibited a palpable resurrection from
the dead, that will be as startling and terrible
to the Buffalo platform Van Buren, party of
New York, as it will be inspiring to the national
democrats. "The blood Of the martyrs is the
seed Of the church"
Expressions Of sympathy come to us from
the north and the south, the east and the west.
1t is indeed TO be deplored, and chiefly by the
south, that Dickinson, Bronson, and O'Conor,
three of the purest and most uniinching pa
triots that the country can boast, should incur
censure, and be threaten edwith expulsion from
the democratic party, because of their zeal for
a pure party organization, and their noble vim
dication of the rights of the south.
The south, if its Wanted gallantry and chi
valry remain to it, should stand by them as
ono man II thasa ,,atr;ots baya o,n,,,;ttaa INV,
errors, any ,indscretions, land of such we are
yet to hear,) they have flowed from zeal in
their behalf. When others failed and shrank
back in the hour Of need, these men and their as
sociates, met the crisis like men, yea, like brave
men and patriots.
But yet it was no sectional ground that they
assumed. They simply stood by the Constitu-
ton, and in being true to that, they were true
alike to north and south. They did not, and
do not, like their arch foe the elder Van Blu
rem, proclaim themselves northern men with
southern feelings They scorn such hypoc-
risy. They claim to be of the north, where
they were born and reared, but they look upon
the Constitution MS the compact that binds all
sections together, and they claim that its guar
antics and projections shall cover both the
north and the south. For these views, and
constructions of that instrument and for their
fidelity in vindicatng them, demand is made
to sacrifice them. 1t is needless to attempt to
disguise it. An effort, most malignant effort,
IL now being made to sacrifice them, because
Of their fidelity to the Constitution and their
maintenance under #, of the srights of the
south
Then it we're worse than ingratitude for
southern men and southern presses, to join in
the cry that has been raised against them. 1t
smites us to the heart to hear one word of re-
proach against them from southern man.
Abuse, Willy, strike down these our defenders?
Never. Be unjust and nngratefnl to those men
of the north who stood by you in your hour of
need, and where will you find friends when
your days Of darkness and of trouble return.
We ask both the south and the north, and
conservative democrats everywhere, to speak
out still more Distinctly. We desire them to
give eloquent and vehement utterance to their
feelings and their sympathies. If we mistake
not, what we have already heard, is but the be-
ginning of the end; it is the first note Of that
trumpet, whose rising blast viii ring through
mountain and valley--through the broad sa-
vannas of the south, and the populous cities of
of the north.
The south, especially the south, should brand
the presses and the politicians who brand these
men. We hope thatthey will mark them with
marks that will not soon be efIaced They de-
serve that fate and we hope that they will get
their deserts.
We want peace and tranquility. But it is
in vain ito cry peace, peace, when there is no
peace'-nor are we of those who however
much we may desire repose, would purchase ii
at the price of chains and slavery.
Whenever any movement is made, or men.
aced, that is hostile to the Constitution and to
the interests it protestant the friends of
those interests, we win lift up our voice to de-
nounce it. We think that the best way and
the only way to preserve peace, is to sound the
alarm at the first approach of danger. Weare
" Sentinel and it peculiarly behooyes us to
see that all is WE'LL