Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-05-01
THY WISH, HARRY, WAS FATHER To
THE THOUGAT--COME NOW AND
LET Us REASON TOGETHER.


upon our structures upon the Executive. Very
many Of them have chosen to do so for the pur.
pose Of condemning them, and then to throw
upon Mr. BUCHANAN the entire responsibility
Of our course towards the Executive They par.
port to depreciate our course, because they re.
gret that the inevitable result will be-that be
cause the Sentinel has censured that portion of
the Executive career which has never had
Democratic endorsement, that, therefore, as a
consequence inevitable, every one who may
have any regard for Gen. Pierce must abandon
and oppose Mr.. BUCHANAN.
If the wish were not father to the thought,
such illogical logic could never have found en-
trance into honest hearts having companionship
Of intelligent heads.
Our life upon tin every instance this pre-.
tended regard for Mr.. BUCHANAN comes from
parties who have other first choice. No genu-
inc friend of Mr.. BUCHANAN would seek to
saddle him with our sins, if sin we have com
mitted-bnt with one accord deprecate and dis.
avow in toto the attributing to him any portion
Of our error, if error we have committed.
Mark the result--mark where these com
mentators, pseudo friends Of Mr.. BUCHANAN,
will be found this stabbing under the fifth
rib, while with smiling countenance he is ad.
dressed-"We hope it is well with thee,
brother"
If they were the friends Of Mr.. BUcnANAN
they would say with one voice and one accord
that Mr.. BUCHANAN is in no manner response
BILE, and that there was no truer test Of who is
his enemy, than thus most unjustly and most
wickedly to attribute to him a responsibility
which can by no honest construction be attach
ed TO him.
But let us turn the tables on these hypocrit
cal gentlemen, and apply their own reasoning
to themselves.
We all know that for years the Washington
Union has been the selected organ, the author
lied channel of Executive purpose, Of Execu
cutive defence-publicly and privately so ac-
knowledged.
Now, then, BY parity Of reasoning, but ap-
plying with UNNECESSARILY more force to the
Union as the organ Of the Executive, than
the Sentinel, an humble, though jealous advo
cate Of Mr.. BUcHANAN-in what category will
our lecturers be found2
The Executive, through his organ seeks to
narrow all claim to notice by the Cincinnati
Convention to the single point" Did he take
official part by vote or signature Of the Nebras
ka BILL il he did neither then was he 10 be
ruled Off the course. The Union and its con.
freres thus sought summary to exclude Mr.
BUCHANAN, BY seeking 10 have adopted rule
which would completely ignore him before the
Convention-and yet these same parties who
seek by this mode to certainly exclude him
even from consideration at Cincinnati. profess
TO be Mortified at the danger to which we sub
ject him, by censures on 50 much Of the Exc
cutive's conduct as has never received Demo
cratic endorsement. Why, if the rule urged
by the commentators on our structures be adopt.
ed Mr. BUCHANAN is nowhere, and our stric-
lures, if ever 50 unjust, and properly attributed
10 Mr.. BUCHANAN, would do him no harm, be.
cause the rule adopted or sought to be enforced
by these commentators, had already cffectually
cut him off even from consideration These
remarks would show the hollowness Of this
pretended solcitude about Mr.. BUCHANAN's be.
ing rejected by the Cincinnati Convention be
cause the Washington Sentinel has criticised
General Pierce's course.
Is it possible--have the structures of the
Sentinel this potential effect7 Or is It that
wish which is father to the thought, that SO
it because u ,could so hare ap Be
cause the Washington Sentinel prefers Mr.. BIZ
to General Pierce, and disapproves OF
much Of General Pierce's course, therefore
Mr.. BUCHANAN must be rejected by the Cincin-
natl Convention That is the sum and sub
stance Of the argument-its alpha and omega.
Well, carry out this reasoning. The Sentinel
prefers Mr.. Hunter TO General Pierce, and
censures General Pierces course, therefore Mr..
Hunter must be ruled of. The Sentinel pre-.
fers Judge Douglas prefers Governor Wise,
prefers Senator Rusk, prefers General Cass,
and prefers others to General Pierce, and will
advocate their selection in preference, when.
ever it shall be between any one Of them and
General Pierce. Each or any one would be
equally responsible for our structures as is Mr.
BCcnANAN; they, then, also must be ruled off
he course Truly, then, we are the only real |
.6icjcat friend General Pierce has, because It
will on1v no nv the adoDtion of this rnla Ia ~
Jude whoever the Sentinel prefers to General
Pierce, that he can approach success in nomi
ration.
But again: the Executive and the Union
rave sought to make fidelity to the Kansas
Nebraska bill the test for a nomination. If the