Washington sentinel., 1853-10-19
called into the cabinet of our

None of these facts have been alluded to by
the writer for Putnam, who proclaims his in
tenton to do justice in twenty places in his es-
say, and closes it with the impudent declaration
that he "disclaims all partizan motives"
He concludes by referring to the three re-
manning members of the cabinet as follows:
"As unknown men, from parts that one does
not care to charge his mind with So that
james Campbell, of Pennsylvania, whose ad-
ministration of the Post Office Department is
universally applauded, and whose courtesy and
promptitude and sterling integrity, have united
in his favor men of all parties; James Guthrie,
of Kentucky, whose resolute reforms in the
Treasury Department, whose stern enforcement
of the independent treasury law, and whose
prompt prosecution and exposure of the frauds
Of the last administration, have been so signal
ly commended; and James e. Dobbin, of North
Carolina, the favorite son of the democracy of
his State, their champion in Congress and the
State legislature, their chosen candidate for
United States Senator, their gallant leader in
many hard-fought contest-now the able,
| urbane and efficient Secretary of the Navy, be-
loved by all who know him--are respectively
| consigned to perdition, not because of their
own acts, but because of the States in which
! they were born! 1t is circumstance worthy
of remark and remembrance, that in North Ca
rolina, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, the States
from which these gentlemen respectively hail,
there is scarcely whisper heard in disprase
of the administration of General Pierce. The
State of Pennsylvania, the second State of the
union represented by Judge Campbell, is a
memorable instance of this fact. Her democ-
racy never were so completely united as they
are now, and although Judge Campbelrs ap.
pointment was at first objected to by many,
| j.y,n RI nbo
so prudently, SO fairly, so Justly wthal, has he
discharged his duties, that not a murmur of
complaint is raised against him in any portion
of his native State.
There is class of men, of which our re-
viewer is evidently one, who can see nothing
but despair and decay in the present, as COM
pared with the past, and especially while refer
ring to the democratic party. We are tired of
| these ridiculous and baselesS lamentations. We
do not believe the coward and conservative
moan, that everything good is not new, and
everything new not good" Society in Ameri-
ca-politics in America-likc science, the arts,
education, and civilization-has not grown rot
ten, as this reviewer would have us believe,
before it is ripe. Never before was there a
period when the democratic party, tested by its
public men alone, without reference to it's vigo-
rous and vivitying measures, could look forward
to so proud and promising future. Has this
slanderer of that great organization forgotten
the old statesmen, and the new and rising men,
whose genius and whose requirements reflect
credit upon that political faith, which has shone
like a star in the victorious van of thousand
struggles against consolidation, abolitionism,
and every idea that has been invoked to excite
opposition to the democratic party? We sus-
pect that he is one of that brood of philosophers
who reap what others sow-who neither toll
nor spin--and who, in the solemn and luxuri-
Gus quiet of their libraries, revolve schemes of
mischief against their friends, or deplore the
direful condition of democratic politics. For
gotten himself, or unknown to the great world,
untelt by the masses, or estimated as a cold,
callous, complaining man, it is easy for such a
nature as that of our reviewer to believe HIM
self injured and outraged beyond example. 1t
is easy for him to look upon himself as mar.
| tyr. 1t is easy for him to dread that the
whole world is going to pieces, and that "decay
and degradation have come over the spirit of
our politics."
But while the democratic creed has such or
naments-while General Pierce has such advo-
Gates as breckenridge, of Kentucky, as Slidell,
| of Louisiana, as Thompson, of Mississippi, as
Wise, and Meade and Mason, and Hunter, of
Virginia, as Orr, Of South Carolina, as Cobb,
and Mcdonald, and Ward, of Georgia, as Ath-
erton, of New Hampshire, as Allen, and Dis
ney, and Olds, and Morgan, of Ohio, as Apple
ton, and Hamlin, and Clifford, of Maine, as
Cass, of Michigan, as Buchanan of Pennsylva-
MIA, as Douglas, of Illinois, as Thomas and
Lowe, of Maryland, as Stockton and Vroom, Of
New Jersey, with hundreds more of brilliant
minds, we may confidently rely that "he Union
is safe,' and the administration in no immedi-
ate danger of collapse.
The foreign appointments of President Pierce
constitute the main element of comment on the
part of our reviewer, and in this portion of his
criticism he commits blunders and states false
hoods of the most fragrant character His Ian
guage will bear us out:
ain the first place, (he says,) respecting for
cign appointments, we allege that, with one or
| Two exceptions, they have not been of the proper
sort ) and again: "Why are ignorant, coarse
minded, se-mannered speech-makers, and who
possess no recommendation beyond the fact that
they are boisterous and windy politicians, pre-
terred for Office to less assuming, but a thousand
| times more mertorious citizens"
And all this in reference to the foreign ap-
pointments of General Pierce! Let us look
over a portion of the list
We will begin with the veteran statesman.
at the court of ST. James, Mr.. Buchanan of
Pennsylvania. His name suggests his own best
eulogy.
Then, we have the Hon. Pierre Soule, at the
court Of Madrid-one of the first orators and
most accomplished lawyers in the southwest !;
and one of the most polished and fascinating
men Of the age.
Then, we have the Hon. Peter D. Vroom, of
New Jersey, minister to Berlin formerly SEN
rim Congress, member of the House of Rep
resentatives of the United States, governor of
his State, &C., and respected and beloved for his
virtuous and lofty character and his varied and
extensive requirements.
Next, we have the minister to the court of ST.
Petersburg, Thomas Fl. Seymour, recent gov
ernor of Connecticut, to which position in a
State that has been whig for many years he has
been elected and reelected. Connecticut is n
highly intelligent State. Her people are edu-
Gated and cultivated and the man sent by them
to Congress, or chosen to preside in their exec.
utive chair, will no more disgrace them in
Russia, than when, at the head Of his regiment,
he marched to the fatal fields of Mexico. The
American flag which he was the first to raise
on the bloody heights of Chepultepec, he will
be the last to desert in a foreign land no mat.