Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-12

IN us ereed-and then, proposes TO give ALSO
luton to every hue and color, differ they neser
so widely on all subjects not embraced in the
party creed" Thus, slavery is not in the creed
IL is ignored, it is excluded, while all its vlest
enemies, Wilson, Giddings, Theodore Parker,
Gerrit Smith, and even Fred. Douglass, flor
negroes are allowed to vote in the Holy Land,)
are to be anointed with oil and received in full
fellowship aud communion with the Democrat
lie Party!l Though your sins be as scarlet
they shall be made white as snow. Is the De-
mocratic party, north or south, prepared to
adopt this plan, the effect of which would be in
evtably, to abolitonize it? Is the Administra-
ton ready or willing to see its organization,
whose principles are founded in eternal truths,
marred and despoiled by the hands of such
traitors? VIII Franklin Pierce, whom we do
not believe lost to sense Of his most sacred
duty and the highest and most solemn obliga
tons, by not disaro,oiag such sentiments per
NIT himself and his administration to be in
cluded in the category in which the Washington
Union has placed itself? viii not Dobbin and
Davis interfere to save us from this humiliation?
The Washington Union is the organ Of the
Administrations least it says it always re
fleets the opinions of it. If ]. is, we respect
fully ask, is it the reflector Of its opinions in
this instance? If SO, then the poor South must
turn away, as she has done often-times before,
from those whom her noble bosom warmed into
life, and hope protection from some other
source.
Such sentiments, in the Washington Union,
are even more Objectionable than those in our
memory, when it offered its egis of protection
to all Democrats who should vote against the
Nebraska Kansas bill, and assured them it was
mo test Of Democratic orthodoxy and fdelityN
This, too, before the bill passed, and AT peri
cd of its greatest jeopardy. The whole coun-
try, and the Administration too to It's credit be
it said. were SO shocked at this holding out Of
the olive branch in adra',ce, to such recreancy,
that the Union was forced to eat It's friendly as
surances, and 10 declare that it irould be con-
sidered Democratic ]" test"
" Exclude slavery from the Democratic
creed Y And this, too, the counsel Of south
ern journal, and that journal the organ of the
Administration Will not the Administration
do itself the justice to disavow through some
channel, if not through its organ, any concur
renee in such sentiments? The South who
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that the Administration shall disavow it. Vir-
ginis with a thousand honorable scars upon
her breast, in defence Of the genuine principles
of our party, calls upon it to "let this cup pass
from u.s."
Remove the barriers that have so long pre-
scented the contamination of the Democratic
party with abolitionisub and let in horde of
devils whose life, means, and talents are all ex.
erted for the purpose of overthrowing our in
institutions. Then, indeed, viii we march to
the CULTIVATE DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION
AND THE FINAL TRIUMPH OF ABoLITIoSIsM"
Where, then, shall go the noble spirits of the
North and Northwest who have stood by the
Constitution and It's guarantees2 Shall that
proud galaxy find places at the same po.
litical altar with Giddings, Gerrit Smith,
Barker, Wilson, and that set? And yet is
it any strained construction Of the article of
the Washington Union, or undue estimate Of
the consequences Of such scheme, to contem.
plate such a result? Why, what are we coming
to? Is the Administration mad q Are our
southern representatives in the cabinet-Dob.
bin, Davis, and Guthrie-asleep at their posts
In the record Of the historian Of this Admin
istration shall il be written that the two most
famous acts that marked it were "he exclusion
Of slavery from the Democratic creed and the
consequent aboltionizing of the great Demo
cratic party, and "the exclusion Of slavery
from Territory to which God, nature, and an
honest people pointed it?r Thank God, the
attempt Of the latter win surely fail, albeit
Governor Reeder himself may not be removed
by the President for the effort he has made &c
"erclude' it. Nor shall the arms purchased
by the moneyed kings Of New England to aid
him in the further attempt, avail Missourians
have seen arms before, and their stout hearts
have never quailed before them. The Presi
dent has it IN his power to prevent this col
lision. A little longer, and il may be too late
Are these not good reasons, we would ash
our Democratic brethren throughout the tohol,
country, for raiiyiny TO EACH OTHER? Ii il
the last feather that breaks the camel's back
and il may soon be laid on ours, unless W,
with timely prudence shake from it the groan
ing load it bears.