Washington sentinel., 1856-04-05

sB- We gladly publish the following extract
of a letter froma distinguished and uncompro-
missing Hard" of Pennsylvania to a Southern
friend:
u do not pretend to say that the approach
ing Presidential canvass is battle .fos the
rights Of the South. We cannot admit that
our attachment to the Constitution is less than
yours and we have even a deeper interest in
the perpetuity of the Union. But the first
fruit OF the victory (if we win one) will be the
execution OF justice upon your enemies, and
the immediate consequence of our defeat will
be an insolent triumph of the Abolitionists
| over you in your own local affairs. We will,
all in the long run, share the danger of the one
result and participate in the benefits of the
other. But It IS at your hearts that these fan
attic savages are taking their direct and avowed
| aim. Under these circumstances, your policy
or your magnanimity, or both combined, has
| induced you not to put forward candidate Of
your own. Then you ought to give US the one
we desire-ihat one whose strength will make
our success the surest.
South is not sufficiently impressed. The first
is, that we are in great danger of losing the
| next election; and the second ia that if we do
lose it, the Government will fall into the hands
| of men who will send the country headlong to
| destruction.
"Give us Buchanan and we are safe-safe
| in November next, and safe for at least four
years afterwards, if he lives He is at this
| moment incomparably the strongest man that
the North ever had Besides that, he is calm,
| judicious, far-sighted, honest, and able. What
earthly objection can be urged against him
| We cannot afford to lose the eight or ten thou
sand votes which he can get more than any
other candidete in each of the great middle
States. To do so would be to throw away the
electoral votes Of those States, and that will
undo us wholly. say nothing against Gen.
Pierce's Administration. But / speak the
words Of sincerity, truth and soberness, land
| speak them more in sorrow than in anger,)
when say that we cannot get along with him
at all-indeed we cannot. He is too weak to
carry US, and too heavy to be carried by us.
His nomination will bring disaster and ruin
| upon us.
am sure that your judgment will concur
in these views. But generally your brethren
in the South do not see the subject in its true
| light They think Buchanan is a little stronger
than Pierce, but the difference is not enough
| to change the result. Let them nominate
| Pierce at Cincinnati, and then let them see
what they will see in November. Such nomi-
nation would equal the wisdom of the Trogans
when they took the wooden horse inside of their
walls. Whenever it happens, you may begin
TO sing Fua Ilium! as soon as you please.
Is there not some way left to get these
| truths before the men of the South? or is ii
too late? Cannot you and those who agree
with you make some appeal to their reason
which will wake them up from their delusion
DO not misunderstand me. | have not
said that Gen. Pierces nomination will pro-
duce anything like muitny in the party here.
Our Democracy generally is of kind that
goes through foul weather as well as fair. No
matter what candidate may be forced upon us,
the mass of US are resolved to stand over the
Constitution and shield it. and save it, or per-
ish there, too" But it is hard that we should
perish merely for want of leader that can
rally US. The bitterest thought of an Irish
man is, that the battle of the Boyne was lost
because Sars6eld was not allowed to command
them. Let us not follow the Jacobite policy of
rejecting the only man that can save us"