Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-04-21
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The Briradier and the Washington Sentinel.

The Brgadier aud the Washington Sentinel
We constrained to protest against the deter
mined. bitter, and savage warfare which 3ev. of
the Washington Sentinel is waging with all his might
and energy against Gen Franklin Pierce. lie lets
him have peace, day night but pitches into him
all the time fore and AT as if the Brigadier were
actually miserable federal Wing or a vile Know
Nothing We cannot for the life of us conceive why
the Sentinei should manifest such rancorous hostility
towards and a Democrat, whom the whole
Southern Democracy rallyng around with 80
much zeal and unanimity, and whom they SO ardent
ly desire to see re-nominated at Cincinnati. Ii is
positively certain from this fact that the SentiRefs
party at the South have sympathy with its assaults
upon the Brigadier President They do not agree
with in the opinion that Pierce is either dena-
gogue" or is unsound aud unreliable upon the queS-
ton of Southern rights. On the contrary, vast
majority Of them cherish the belief that he is the
very pink of political propriety-that he is ire
proachabe patriot, and statesman of the first wa
ter-and that his whole Presidential career has been
marked 10y an unbroken succession Of acts of lofty
and dSnterested service to the South and the Union
And thus believing of course is their duty TO mani
fest their Of and gratitude for these
services by striving to effect his denomination.
But Notwithstanding the almost universal prefer
mel repudateS him. and assigns for its course
which, in judgment, if not in the Judgment of
the Democracy, ample and conclusive. We trans
fer the whole Of late article in the Sentinel TO our
columns for the purpose of showing our readers
what sort of President according to high Demo
cratic authority, the Democracy have fosted upon
the country and the South. If the SeHtineTs in
dicment against Pierce is just aud true-and we are
81 - j. nd, e.. IL,
strongest and most urgent necessity for change of
administration at Washington-thcn should the peo-
pie rise in their might and hurl from power party
which has proved itself their interest
and to public duty, and put in its place party ana
All order of who, if they do better, will not
be able to do worse than the Pierce Democracy have
done, according TO the Scathing Of one of their own
number With Mr.. Fillmore at the head of the Co
ycrnment, and the array Of able and experienced
men he would bring around him, the people OF all
sections would have ample and perfect guarantee
of a WISE patriotic, and heightened administration.
And surely they can have no such guarantee with
any Democrat, nc matter who he may be-for they
have been wofully deceived and imposed upon by
every Democratic administration they have ever had
without a solitary exception. or course then il
we to judge the future by the past the country
would be subjected TO the dIsappointm mt in
the event of the election Of another Democrat The
only safe policy, therefore, is to support for the Pre-
sidency and patriot who has been tried and
who Is known to be experienced, capable, and vii.
ling to devote himself with single mindednesS and
intrepdity, to the advancement of the public veal.
In word, let the people evince their wisdom and
patriotism by discarding from power a party that
has been uniformly faithless the Democracy
have been, and let them vote for Willard Fillmore
whose administration all men look back upon with
the most complete satisfaction and pleasure
But here is the SeHtiHeFs article which suggested
the foregoing reflections, and which we commend TO
the calm and careful perusal OF Democrats and
Wings IL exposes the mbecility and corruption of
a Democratic President aud Democratic admins
traton in plain, blunt and scathing terms:
THE APFaoACIGNG CRIsIs-CINCINNArI CONVENTION
In looking the history of the Democratic party. We
struck by singular TACT viz that every promi-
nenty mentioned before the days of Presidt Pierce in
connection with democratic nomination 10 the highest
Office in the gift OF the people, presented substantial
claims to the distinguished honor which he coveted IL
s true in many instances, these claims were difficult 10
establish aud very trug when compared with rival er.
its; there nevertheless in each case some ground which
constituted basis OF action. In the otime howev.
behOd coming forward, and by the aid Of e
agents of is government, endeavOriug TO fasteu
himself for second upon the people who through
out his life has performed single worthy his are
and country emitting him. ia the slightest degree 10
prominent political station.
This il the time for mincing words we talk plainly
upon plain and address ourselves TO candid men
We challenge the production OF single instance in which
Franklin Pierce has performed dsinterestcd service To mia
country. lie belongs that tribe of the genus bo,oo
who watch the tide Of opinion and fish at the food
Had he lived at certain period in English history lac
would have been ranked with that band Opoicians sho
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