The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-16


his looks most remarkably He is also extremely affected BY
the attacks made and kept up him in the public papers
think he feels those things than any person ever vet
met with am sincerely sorry to tbeu.p
II Il we're necessary we could SPREAD columns Of
extracts from the journals Of the revolutionary pc
Rod that prosecuted and slandered Washington; but
his own language have quoted it. Is the best evil
dencc of the baseness and Of his enemies This
Is the whom look up TO almost as to a god
whose character is the Embodiment Of elevated patriotism
sublime virtue and universal worship and whose example
fills the minds and inspires the actions Of millions Of human
beings all over the globe. what lesson Of human
degradation TO the past when this great man was
attacked like ieon by the very who enjoying
the fruits Of his memorable services in the field and in the
cabineti
We intended, when we commenced this article to follow
the subject through the administrations which succeeded to
that Of Washington but leave the task to another oc
con The spirit of hatred that aroused against JEFF
erson, Madison, Monroe Jackson aud Polk dscloses If
possible an advance upon the cruelty and magnity
listed against the beloved Washington The whole record
is alike saddening and il does how
purest public receiving the hostility
the worst how disappointed ambition sacrifices honor and
manhood achieve its revenge yet how in the una
aated and away and the pure gold rescued from the
filth which surrounds and obscures H. Corrupted as the
vile hearts of the assaants these distinguished and be-
loved statesmen may have been il is solemn and impress
i've spectacle that before the mausoeum of nations graf
tude personal enmes forgotten and the whole people
pay affections tribute the grave those who served
them well remembering only the deeds which made
them illustrious and recalling the caunnes Of the past
4 a.. a.
| the slanderers of the good and the great
Wonder as may at the unprovoked and persevering
caumnes heaped upon public Of the present day
we have only to look past history show that the
spirit which did spare Washington viii hesitate
defame integrity and honor in every age Take the pres
administration instance Devoted the inter-
of the country with zeal and consistency that
know pause; vigant in enforcing the laws; firm
in the assertion of the nations honor; economical and
imparalso that friend expect to be favored at
the expense of the right and foe hindeed in the
ton of his just demandsit defes assault and cha
enges investigation And yet the personal waged
upon President Pierce and his constitutional advisers
far some abandoned presses and politicians
cerned is violent and indscrimnate if they
the notorious traitors Take contrast to this Under
recent administration several Of the departments Of the
government openly and agranty perverted TO
rupt purposes The public money squandered with
and lavish hand and the national character lowered
by the disregard of duty o. the part Of high public func
tionares But those who denouncing the present
Executive and his administration silent the grave
in the face of such wrongs else attempted to and
palate them! Such is the injustice of party
public officer who stcrny discharges his duty, dscrds
all low expedent and adheres firmly to principle cannot
be expected pass without the of the corrupt and
the prosecutions of the disappointed He must await the
Judgment that to follow the assertion of great
truths and their application to government In the
of Andrew jackson, faction sought forgiveness for its in
justice him long before he passed from the stage of pub
lie affairs and had the upright and inexible President
Polk lived few years longer he would have found many
his ssaants converted by the action of time and trial
upon his policy as Chief Magistrate into his warmest
friends The debased and INSCRIPTIONS who assal
President Pierce aprove muchH however Their
Lightly is exaggerated to become ridiculous, and
those who might be disposed to aid them in their
SADIE upon him shrink from being made the echoes of
hoods There is no groundwork for their inventions no
for their vituperatons probability in their
misses Their stories are detected counterfeis which no
| honest man can touch without conagon circulate
without dishonor The President mhappily for these
men, gives chance to their eager and searching and
reckless aniosities He pnrsues his career quietly firm
ly and sncerelyopposing honest and vgilant admin
staon Of the to the and the
of captious and abandoned foes What they truly say
of him all the world know and he would be proud of
the result What they falsely say short time will
| pose to the contempt Of all mea,