Washington sentinel., 1854-03-28

nation that he had been rejected by the Senate
as consul at London. We have known Mr.
Sanders long, and have always entertained a
high regard for him, and we were panied by
the action of the Senate towards hin, without
knowing anything of the reason Of that action.
Mr.. Sanders, in his letter, alludes to an alleged
attack on lady through the columns of the
Democratic Rerie,c. We had been informed
| of this matter before, and we remember very
distinctly the article which has been cited as
| containing that attack, Mr.. Sanders's defence
on that point is most conclusive but in our
| judgment, he needed no defence, for we never
supposed that any such construction rs that
which has been given to the paragraph from
| the Democratic Revieo could have been given
to it by an unprecedented mind
From the New York Herald
Letter Of George N. Sanders upon his Re-
lection by the Senate.
To my County,nen at Home and A6road
| In the absence of any instructions from the
| department, either for or against my addressing
| the public upon such matters as might think
Of interest to the people, selected the New
York Herald as the medium of communication.
Without any remonstrance from the depart
ment or any indication Of disapproval from the
administration in any form, | continued to
write. The papers generally agree in these
letters being the cause Of my rejection. A cor
respondent of the Herald, however, gives, as
| additional cause, that senator charged me
before the Senate with having made an attack
in the Democratic Rerie,c on the wife of dis
tingushed politician. The only instance at all
in which a lady has been alluded to politically
in the Rerier was the following, which is, there
fore, suppose, the case referred to; and, be-
fore, discussing my letters to the Herald, viii
dispose oft:
DEMOCRATIC REvIEw.-The Democratic Re
rieao of 1852 set its If decidedly, as among other
pernicious heresies, against all disorganizing
pretensons of what are misnamed women's
rights, and against the ill-judged intrusion of
women in public affairs. In biography Of
Lynn Boyd, speaker of the House of Represen.
tatives, written by Judge Thompson, then mem
Der Of Congress from the Wheeling district,
| Virginia, for the purpose of exhibiting Mr..
Boyds pretensions to the Presidency, some re-
| lationship between his ancestors and Robert
Burns, and several similar arguments, are ad-
vanced, among which are placed the merits of
Mr.. Boyd's wife,
ulous memoir, merely quotes a sentence Of the
biography, (which is itself the delinquent in
bringing the lady's name unbecomingly before
the public,) and laughs at the suggestion-not
the lady, whose merits are not in anywise al
luded to--and at the idea of advocating a man
as presidential candidate on the ground that
his wife is a suitable person for the White
House. Without touching any further on the
improperly Of such an introduction in politi.
cal campaign paper, will remark, in passing,
that the citizens of the United States have al
ways happily had right to look with pride and
respect to the wives of our presidents, and that
it would be the first time if any lady should
now reach that high position wanting in the
qualities which command the love and admira.
ton Of mankind. The estimable woman is in
our country the rule, the contrary the excep-
| ton. The pages of the Rerier, under nv direc.
ton, may be safely offered to scrutiny against
the charge OF the slightest indecorum towards
any lady. IL however, woman should elect for
herself to enter the political arena, am very
Tar rom admitting that her tactics would not
become legitimate subject Of discussion.
| In common discretion this matter should
have remained among the past things Of a no.
litical contest But it seems that the same
diseased judgment which prompted Mr. Boyd's
aspiring and ill-advised biography has seen fit
to bring the subject prominently before the
public in this absurd manner. As Mr. Boyd is
evidently incapable of approaching the gener.
osity with which / have acted in his case.
will now let the public see how exceptonable
was the conduct Of himself and friend
About the time Of the last presidential can
yass, the Washington city campaign biopra.
phies, advancing all sorts Of pretensions to the
presidency, had become such serious evil as
needed decided check. Heroes were manu-.
tactured out of paper and ink, with such as
founding rapidity and Of such magnificent
proportions, that it was impossible for the peo.
pie to dlsungulsa between the real merit and
the fictitious. Against these "Iivesn the
Reriew stood forth as firm and severe exe.
cutioner. The senator who is reported as
bringing this matter before the Senate to kill
my nomination nay possibly (it is a mere
guess, have no knowledge on the suniect\ be
himself somewhat sensitive on the biographical
score, as numerous carefully prepared ambi.
| tious memoirs became "untimelv leaves in
! In the biting breath" of the Rerier The
mails, ] have no doubt, we're relieved some
hundreds Of tons by its action. ! put such a
brand upon the practice that the authors Of
| these publications we're glad to convert them
into fuel before they should be handled like
those which had already appeared.
Of the biography in question, will now,
for the first time give brief history.
After the celebrated January number Of the
Reriep had made its appearance, and when the
object Of the Rerie,c, that of uniting the demo-
cratic party, by putting aside all the prominent
candidates who had not strength enough, as /
} believed, under the then existing sectional
stripes to cement the party, and 70 bring for
wara a m new man, was perfectly well understood,
Judge Thompson wrote a letter to the Rerie,c
approving its course, and admiring its ability,
stating that he and his friends had candidate
present who exactly filled the description in
the Rec'e'o OF the man required by the time !;
and this vas 70 less person than the distin-
guished Speaker Of the House Of Representa-.
tiyes, Lynn Boyd. The judge said that he had