Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-02-22

Il pttdllOn. luFeal SENSATION.
4 Why, sir an individual as humble as myself
could not escape the lank jaws OF this hyena
! press that fattens on the blood of character.
have been assailed in the most indecent man
I ner, and my occupation has been sneerngly al
4 luded to. Well, sir, what matters II If am a
| hotelkeeper: does that place me rfhom the
4 pale of Congress? Does that Danish me from
4 the company OF honorable men? Does Il de-
bar the expression of opinions, for which en-
4 terrain honest reasons? Sir,
;. j had rather be toad
II And live upon the vapor OF a dungeon,
than be the editor or proprietor of paper SO
entirely void Of respect, and whose somersaults
on great public questions are as astounding as
s the sudden eyolutions Of travelling mounte-
banks. | had always been under the impress
sion that the vocation OF bookkeeping was an
honest calling, quite as necessary to the com
4 fort and necessity of society rs to be the or-
gan OF an administration . that runs with the
hare and holds with the hounds" Hotel-keep.
ers must stand up to their advertisements (;
they must treat their guests like gentlemen;
they must not tell them they are grocers, law
yers, or tape-sellers; they must give them
bread and meat, and that of the best kind or
they will change their quarters Great and
renewed laughter.
Not so with that political hotel at the other
end OF the avenue, called the White House"
| Gentlemen know from experience they must put
MP with what they choose to give them there, or
leave the house and have all out of doors for
their comfort. A voice: "That's fac"
/ Now. sir, | am one OF those who would prefer
| like Lazarus Of old, TO sit outside and wait fer
| Gods mercy, rather than be indoors and have
crammed down my throat what | could not
keep on my stomach. Tremendous explosions
| Of laughter. Ii mistake not, the father of
that organs master one Colonel Benjamin
PIERCE once kept a tavern. / am told that
when he made his hotel-inaugural, he stood up
! to his advertisement; the entertainment to
which he invited his guests was what they ex-
pected and found. His meats were said to have
been served upon separate dishes, and not in
discriminatory hashed together. Commissions
of laughter. But a truce, sir, to this plea
santry.
Ny freesoil colleague (Mr HUGHEs) has had
| the hardwood TO insult the one hundred thou
sand national men of New York, by asserting
on this floor that at the next election in than
| State a fife and drum would draw together but
corporas guard.
| Prophecy does not always turn out to be
history, and it may be so with the prediction OF
my colleague. We are to have State election
in New York in November next, and the ma
tional democrats will not fail to have their
ticket in the field. That the wing party will
make their nomination no one doubts and if
the freesoilers acih or lcnhom the cooperation
of this administration, dare to put forth their
candidates, the result will show where the
strength of the democratic party of New York
lies. shall not aim to vie with my colleague
in the character of a prophet, but will leave The
result to show whether we have four votes to
their one or not.
/ NV, Mr.. Chairman, this slur is worthy of
/ being cast by one who boasts on this floor that
| he voted for Van Buren, and Adams. and under
| like circumstances would do it again. This i'm
! pertinent assault could only come from one who
hides himself and his duty to the country be-
hind the burly forms of his constituency. Sir,
let me say to that gentleman that possibly the
hour of his reckoning is coming-nay, is close
at hand-when that fife and drum will be used
| for the legitimate purpose of drumming from
the ranks, to certain notorious tune, these
| camp-followers and peculiar friends of the ad-
ministration-those who make bargains to
| break them. Such men, stripped of their Dor
rowed plumage, will hereafter 80 forth bearing
| the brand of the letter 8 d. as an evidence of
| their second political apostacy. Sensation.
Now, sir, | desire to trace the progress of this
4 administration from its inauguration into power
\ up to this present time, and see if it has not
proved faithless to the trust the democracy of
the country reposed in it. | recoect with graft
fcation the inaugural of General Pierce. The
doctrines it contains commend themselves to
the heart Of every patriot. But sir, it is one
thing to preach and quite another to practice.
The !" Union was to be preserved inviolate;'
and how has it been done? By the appoint
ment of men to the cabinet who fought the bat
tie of the Union and the Constitution? By the
choice Of men who all their lives long had la
bored for the success of democratic principles
| No; no, sir. The national men of the party
have been overslaughed, and a man made the
chief adviser of the President who for a quarter
of century warred against the democratic
party. They have taken to their bosoms and
confidence men who possess to such an extent
the elements of fanaticism ruthless and mer-
CHESS, that they would strike down the Consti-
tuition and sing pRans of rejoicing over torn
and dismembered Union. Can the tongue be
silent when the eve witnesses such outrages
committed in the honored name Of democracy?
''The Union was to be preserved inviolate, :
and how ? By resting upon the strong arm of
that Jefersonian creed that despiSed alliance
} with traitors /? No, sir: that was too antigua
ted; too old togyish. In order to preserve in
: violate the Union, it was thought necessary to
bargain and huckster with the freesoilers Of
1913, with fer receptions men of no consisten-
cy, Of no principle, and whose capacious NAV
can digest all the spoils treacherous admins
tration can cram it with, and then impudently
ask for more But, sir, not only was the Union
to be preserved inyiolate, bm the rights Of the
States to be held sacred. How was this pledge
carried out? Go to my own State, and ask
the 100000 honest principle-loving national
democrats, what they were fighting for in No
vember last, and they viii tell you that they
were resisting the encroachments Of the federal
| executive; and they did it successfully.
They fought for the rights of their State
against the impudent and tyrannical power Of
an administration that had, Shamele$Siy coal
1 esced with the enemies of the Constitution, and
i the Union, and sent its own officers, heading
| bands of hired ruffians, to convention Of the
people, to speak by authority. | say bands Of
I hired ruffians armed and Of the most desperate
! character, led on by two officers of the federal
government, who overawed and controlled its
action and when my " soft" colleague Mr.
/ WEsTBRooK made the assertion that this was