Washington sentinel., 1853-10-16
For ths washinrton Sentinel.

For the Washington Sentinel.
MEssRs. EDIToRs: As there is evidently
evinced here, and elsewhere throughout the
country, manifest and morbid determination,
on the part of some Of the Presidents advisers
and protesting friends to impress the mind OF
the democratic masses with the idea that
the refusal Of Messrs. 0Conor, Bronson, and
others, TO sustain the settled policy OF the adj
ministration las it is called) is factious and
indeiensible the subjoined extracts, from re-
cent numbers of the Americdn Cen, on the
question at issue, will not, we hope, be oiien-
sive or deemed unworthy of the "sober second
thought" of those who think differently, and
profess to maintain the fundamental principles
Of the national democratic party.
The Cell is published in the city of New
York, edited by gentleman of acknowledged
ability and character-Thomas Darcy McGee-
and devoted to Ireland's emigrants and their
descendants on this continent.
1t is, in fact, one of the leading eXponents
of their sentiments, and consequently has no
party or sectional afnities; and as it is well
understood that ninety-nine hundredths OF that
class of citizens sustain democratic principles,
and are not the enemies Of the Constitution and
the hucksters of place and punder,) and in the
last Presidential canvass almost unanimously
voted for the democratic candidates-and also,
as the Cell, although neutral, did, with other
journals of like character ably defend General
Pierce and expose the Swiss emissaries that
conspired to SANDER him, it is at least to be
presumed that the respectful admonitions OF
such an organ and its conservative and truly
independent and national position, will have
some weight with the cautious and rejecting
advisers of the administration. BE that rs 1t
may, the opinions and convictions of the Celt
Lo ,aI h,tt tba al IF
presents: for however anxious they may be to
stand by General Pierce,s administration, hav
ing full confidence in his integrity and firmness
of purpose, Of which the result of the recent
election is unquestionable evidence, it is not to
be supposed, occupying the position they do,
that they will virtually abandon principles, and
present to their fellow citizens the humiliating
exhibition of total disregard for the sacred
obligations which every citizen owes to good
government, the perpetuity OF inestimable in
stitutions, and to posterity
CHATHAM.
From the Cet Of September 1ol
There is a faction in this and other States which
some FIVE or six wears back took the rather myste-
rious name of "reesoiers.p Some very able and
several respectable persons joined in il. They
formed agitation committees, held conventions,
nominated candidates for every State and national |
Office obtained organs among thepress, and soon
all good citizens TO ask, whether not this COM
bination is entitled to be considered "a party
Party in itself is not reprehensible thing in free
State, since il implies number of persons taking
part in some constitutional interest or principle,
and legally pursuing interpretations of law of
policy which they sincerely believe to be right
Many are of opinion that two such parties are
even healthy in free State, and we are not pre-
pared to dispute that theory. But under every
government, most Of all under federal republic,
a. 10, ..l.I
pretended parties, which are nothing but factions,
built upon sectional issues, or fabricated griev-
ances, or personal resentment. Such a pretended
party is that of the "freesoers" toward whom, we
learn with regret, degree OF patronage and con-
idence is extended by the present administration,
which they neither deserve from their past con-
duct, their avowed principles, their numerical
strength.
We admit here beforehand, the ministerial diff
culties of President elected almost without oppo-
sition by the compromise of several sections Of
politicians. To each section which concurrcd in
choosing him, Mr.. Pierce owed and owes personal
obligations of gratitude and courtesy. But when,
the 4h of March last, he took the oath of ealty
10 the Constitution on the promenade of the cap |
tai, thai became his rule OF conduct, and not per-
sonalobligatons dating from beyond that memora- |
BILE day. If that oath was not mere ceremony
if it anything of higher obligation than asking
Mr.. Fillmore TO farewell dinner, assuredly the |
present President IS much bound by it as Wash
can be. The federal patronage, so freely ex-
tended to the freeso faction, strikes as being
totally irreconcable with the aforementioned
oath of Office. He has sworn to maintain the Con-
stituton which they have to violate in one
essential part, and he maintains his oath by con-
ferring honors, empoyments, and emoluments on
them
II may indeed be argued (what snowy absurdity
has wanted such friendly sophists p that free
soil principles are not necessarily seditious. That
argument, at the proper time, we will be ready to
meet in detail. We need only allude here to their
systematic hostility TO the express guarantees
given the South by the present Constitution and
10 their fippant assertion of 'sthe higher law,
every mans conscience his own congress, and
every mans will his own supreme court Those
two counts are a sufficient Indictment and all the
sophstry of Van Buren,, all the ability of Dix and
all the poetry ofthe Erening Post cannot rebu such
conclusive evidence of the sedous essence of
their organization.
From the Celt of October 81
simultaneously with the democratic party, the
opposition TO Jackson, led by Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster and others less eminent, took the name