Washington sentinel., 1856-05-17
From the Bellas, (Me.) Journal.
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The alleged Martyrdom OF President
Pierce--A Word for the south and the
WashingtOn Union.

| t1 from Inc Dcllast lMoD Journal
Ths alleged Martyrdom OF President
| Pierce--A Word for the south and the
| Warrington Union.
The student in theological history has long
since deduced from its impartial records the
true and not unfamiliar maxim, "the blood Of
the martyr is the seed of the church" The
| fall Of private citizen or public officer in the
able and disinterested advocacy of great prin-
ciple in politics, morals, or religion, strength
ems the cause he is engaged IN, and often
secures for his memory q species OF hero-w0r-
ship not far removed from idolatry. In an
enlightened government selfcorrected public
judgment not unfrequently bestows the need Of
praise upon such during their life time. Among
the American people especially, public sympa-
thy is readily awakened in behalf of the mar
tyrs to great principles.
Awaiting themselves of this principle of hui
man sympathy, the very disinierested journals,
exclusively devoted to the advocacy Of Presi-
exercised upon the subject Of his pretended
martyrdom to the cause of national Democra-
cy. They charge his unpopularity at the North
to his support of the Nebraska bill, and his
hostility to Nothingism. Satisfied that
he cannot receive denomination at the hands
of the national Democracy OF the North, they
appeal to the South to rally to his support at
Cincinnati. Under this pretext they appeal
from the national Democracy of the North to
the national Democracy of the South. As if the
principles of national Democracy vary with pa
ralels Of latitude As if the national Democ-
racy Of the North are not suitable judges in
this matter, and need their Southern brethren
as a sort of court Of appeals to correct their
errors.
These journals see nothing in the eminent
ahiitias and FORTY vaara' carvicpa IF Mr. Ru-
cHANAN in the cause of constitutional Democ-
racy,-nothing in the selfsacri6cing devotion
of Gen. Cass to the same cause, and nothing in
Judge Douglas herculean efforts upon the
Nebraska bill, to command their admiration, or
elicit their sympathy. Even the incorruptible
Dickinson, the great apostle of the doctrine of
popular sovereignty, as applied to our terrific
ries,-who supported the compromise measures
of 1850 at the cost of his seat in the United
States Senate, has been grossly illuminated by
some of those journals, and together with the
hundred thousand national Democrats of New
York, and thousands of their brethren in other
States, has been ignored by them all. Whence
do this aduation and pretext of maryrdom
arise? Is it in disinterested regard Tor the
welfare of the Democratic party, or is it to be
found in custom houses and post Offices, fat
contracts and ."by authority" advertising?
1t is notorious that in the North, at least, it
does not exist outside Of the latter.
1t is time that this alusion was dspelled;
for there never was greater error than that
thus sought to be imposed upon the South, to
wit, that the opposition Of the national De-
mocracy of the North to the denomination Of
President Pierce, is owing to his alleged sup
port of the constitutional rights of the South,
and the Nebraska bill. Far from it. No truer
men to the constitutional rights of every Sec
ton of the Union are to be found, than the ma
tional Democrats of the North, who oppose his
denomination. They acknowledge no suPeriors
in the matter Of fidelity to our glorious Union.
Their opposition to Mr.. Pierce's denomination
has its origin anterior to, and independent of,
his early conduct upon the Nebraska bill. II
is rather for the alleged rant Of President
Pierce's adhesion to the fundamental idea to
which he was indebted for his election that ma
tional Democrats Of the North favor the nomi.
nation of a new man.
The Washington Union Of the 26th ult, has
well said that
"Whatever is calculated to detract from the
Just appreciation OF our faithful, sound, and en-
inent public men, must necessarily diminish the
power of the Democratic party. In times like
the present, with an important convention near
Mt hand, in which the Democratic opinion of
the country is to be concentrated and expressed,
no man who cares more for the cause Of Democ-
racy than any matter of personal preferment
will withhold justice from any OF our tried
friends
Never were words more 6tly spoken, or the
grounds Of the commencement of the opposi-
ton of the national Democracy of the North to
President Pierce's denomination more clearly,
though inadvertently, stated Who, more than
President Pierce, has been guilty Of want Of
this 'just appreciation of our faithful, sound,
and eminent men?"
What, but want Of such Gust appreciation"
and the reward Of free soilers, not only "neces-
sarily diminished the power" but imperilled the
principles, and broke down and disheartened
the national Democracy of the Union during
the first half year Of his administration How
long is il since the Washington Union both
failed ito appreciate" and, in no measured
terms, denounced ''the faithful sound, and en-
inent public men" of New York? Whence this
new born zeal upon this subject of 'just appre-
citation" of political fidelity? Even the Stem
perate and Just article" copied into the Union,
to which the remarks above quoted we're intro
ductory, was written, as we shall show, by one
who for six years prior to his appointment to
office by President Pierce was an unmitigated
freesoiler and defamer Of "our faithful, sound,
and eminent public men," and that the organ
through which he speaks was established two
years since by means drawn from the United
States Treasury, and is now supported by the
avails Of sinecure Office created for that pur
pose, with the sole view ito crush out the ma
tional Democrats who had from the beginning
opposed his abolition heresies, and sustained
the constitutional rights of the South.
This same writer, within the last few weeks,
in this same custom house organ, violently AS
sailed the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, and
even shamelessly cast suspicion upon the virtue
OF the ladies Of Baltimore for showering their
boquets upon him in token of their appreciation
Of his magnanmity in declining the nomination
so generously rendered him by the delegates
from Virginia. Where then was the Unions
zeal for "just appreciation Of our faithful,
sound, and eminent public men7r Have GUS
tom house journals an immunity falsely to as