Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-05-14

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journed.
"vETERANs OF WAGRAM, ADvANCEw
THE WARRINGTON UNION.
The men, women, and children of this fed
eral city were thrown into state of unusual
excitement yesterday, by an article in the Wash
ington Union, which was prefaced with these
heroic, dramatic, and tragical words:
! or ADVANCE, FOLLOW NE; IF DRAW
BACK, KILL ME; If FALL, AyENGE Me-"
That these words were full Of fearful import,
everybody supposed. All the readers Of the
Union, we doubt not, dreaded the contents of
IAN article thus fearfully prefaced. They asked
themselves, if the text be so full of horror, how
can we stand the sermon? If the rind be so
bitter, how acrid indeed must be the pulpit
We say that the good people Of this city, ac-
customed to all sorts of sights, sounds, develop
ments, and revelations, were filled with fear
with absolute CONSERVATION. Seeing this, we
dreaded the effect Of that article in the country,
where people are more supplemented than in
this very knowing city.
! After much of fearful foreboding, after much
Interpolation, we determined to peep from under
the blanket in which we had concealed our
head. Having heard the terrific Handicapped,
we dreaded the fash that should follow. But
we determined to face it. Unlocking, we found
the following, which we will give in broken
doses and accompany with running common
tary, only promising that like all oracular reve.
lations, it is wild, incoherent and disjointed.
Part the first. g." The principle upon which
levery victorious commander has acted has been
! to reward patriotism and punish treason. 1t is
as essential to eminent success in the cabinet
| as it is in the field. Without its rigid observ-
ance, there can be no efficient discipline mo
good accomplished of an important public
4 nature"
There is vague intimation here thrown ont
that somewhere or other there is victorious
commander," and that he has an army under
his supreme and absolute control. 1t also gives
us to understand that this victorious command
er intends to punish treason and to reward pa
triotism. 1t does not say in what treason con-
sists, or what constitutes patriotism. It leaves
| that to the victorious commander to say. But
| it declares that the same rule is Essential to
eminent success in the cabinet" without con-
descending to designate the particular cabinet
the meaning of which, we presume, if it has
any meaning, is, that we are under military
rule, and that the asofts" will inevitably be shot
down unless they support the Nebraska bill.
Part second, containing much Of laudation
and some little Of learning. This second part
is as follows:
General Pierce, when formally notified Of
his selection as the democratic candidate for
| the presidency, remarked to the committee de-
| legated for the purpose accept the nomi-
nation upon the platform adopted by the con-
| vention, not because this is expected of me as
a candidate, but because the principles it en-
braces command the appreciation Of my judg-
ment, and with them believe can safely say
conflict Triumphantly elected upon those
principles, the Presidents language to the de-
mocratic party, from the day Of his inaugura-
| ton, has been, in substance, that of Laroehe-
| jaquelain to his companions in arms when GO
ing into battle: IF ! ADVANCE, FOLLOW ME !;
If DRAW BACK, KILL NE IF l FALL, AvENGE
ME- He has shrunk from no responsibility in
which the perpetuity, the honor, and the glory
Of the Union, were involved. He has swerved
not line from that platform erected for him
at Baltimore. Upon it he stands nobly, proud
ly erect; and if by conspiracies, if by treason
able hands, it is to fall, he will 60 down with
it, its last surviving supporter. He conceives
its maintenance Indispensable to the preserva-
| ton of the Constitution. fit were obliterated
| by the coalition which is now so wickedly and
cratic party would be party without principles
upon which to cohere. The spirit which ami
| mated the convention by which the Constitution
was prepared would have bid adieu to Amer
| ica"
But it is necessary to pause for moment,
and take breath before climbing the immense
steep that is to be overcome. A sentence is
about to open, that looms like mountain.
An Individual fearful individual, of vast
| dimension-a giant, enters. He comes in
pomp and he has on his huge feet a pair Of
immense brogues, with great big nails in them.
He does not move as other people do; he
stalks. He does not step as other people do;
his steps are much longer. They are " from
State to State."+ His name is "Construction,"
and he has terrible swallow. He is thus de-
scribed by the Washington Union
Construction In Its broadcast sense would
stalk in majesty from State to State, swallowing
up the rights Of each, until nothing would be
left for either but to repair roads and make
bridges Consolidation would rule, and rule
SO remorselessly as to precipitate dissolution
of the Union"
Omitting portion Of the Unions very re-
markable article, we now approach the con-
Guiding sentences, which are as follows, itali-
cising such as are most striking:
Resorting to stratagems which the despe-
rate alone know how to employ, q few reckless
members are postponing result that, come it
sooner or later, will prove fatal to their mis-
chievous purposes. They may sport with the
time of the House with IMMUNITY, but an indig-
nant nation aciU giuc them a rebukc schich
,oould make the darkest nook in the Mammoth
care too ctvid an abode for them hereafter.
But il we have seen occurrences of late calcu
lated tn make our country hnah VIC hav annn