The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-05-07

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Washington Sentinel, democratic journal es
tablished in the federal city, and edited By
: Beverly Tucker, thorough going Virginiar
J statesright democrat. The Sentinel being en-
e tirely without administration patronage, can af
q ford to be independent, though we must do Mr.
n Tucker the justice to add, that while enjoying
the lucrative post of printer to the U. S. senate
: he was as free and unshackled in the expires
3 sion of his thoughts as he is now. As the Sen
: tinel is an accredited exponent of the southern
statesrghts wing of the democracy, and of the
. New York hard shells, and national democrats
its opinions are valuable. They are undoubt
eddy the reflection of such minds as senator:
Hunter, Mason, Butler, Iverson, &c. Wha
the Sentinel thinks the present administration
of its head, its policy, and general conduct, is
: set forth in an elaborate leading article, from
: which we purpose to extract few passages
The article is comment upon letter from the
honorable P. S. Brooks, Of South Carolina, ad
vising South Carolina to send delegates to the
Cincinnati convention, and warmly endorsing
, the claims of Mr. Pierce to reelection. The
; Sentinel reviews the administration in order to
) prove it unworthy of southern support. In the
course of its article it says
"Franklin Pierce came into office nearly by
reclamation, and he had for his encouragement;
and support a senate with large democratic
majority, and but four freesoilers, all told. A
house of Representatives with an overwhelming
democratic majority, and with only small
freesoil party. By the fast and loose course
of his administration-his habitual faith break
ing with every body-his pledges ever disre-
garded, or, what is worse, evaded-his shut
fling, undecided course in our foreign relations
his abolition appointments-and thousand
and one other things we could add equally de-
moralizing in their tendency; the lower house
is in the hands of the black republicans, and in
the senate of the United States, the small nue.
leus of four freesoilers has been increased to
one-ffth of the whole body"
Most veritable, but how was it brought about?
! Why, according to the Sentinel, by president
Pierce's encouragement of freesoilers, and dis
couragement of national democrats by his fu-
tile and fatal attempts to harmonic the various
sections Of the democracy; by his unauthorized
and i'll advised interference with the New York
customhouse; by his election of honest, nation
al men, and substitution in their stead of pack
of hungry freesoilers who loved patronage, but
hated slavery. Thus, according to the Senti
mel, did aboltionism, from a gasping corpse
under the galvanic battery Of government pat
ronage, leap forth into its full stature We
quote from the Sentinel again:
1.-The constitutional democrats all over the
country lifted up their voices against this in
Justice. Instead ofrelenting or abating the out
rage, New York became great Slaughter
house for all good and true, sound and consti-
tutional democrats. At the head stood Daniel
S. Dickinson, who, by his pure patriotism had
t,l L. IL
rights and honor of the south! All the offices
of influence and profit were given to the free
sellers, and the best men in the party were
made to give place to them
Among the numerous political sins of which
president Pierce has been guilty, the Sentinel
enumerates his favorable expression in behalf
of railroad to the Pacific, to be constructed
with government means, and under the govern
ment direction; his virtual approval of the pro-
tective feature introduced into the report of the
secretary of the treasury; his organization of
the Kansas and Nebraska territories by the ap-
pointment of rabid freesoiler as governor of
Kansas-the only territory in which slavery
stood the ghost of a chance, and southerner
for Nebraska, which was cffectually excluded
by its latitude from slavery. ..:
1t is somewhat curious that we have fire.
quently charged Mr.. Pierce with identicaly
the same Shortcomings of which he stands &C
cused by the Sentinel. We have almost used
the very words penned by the editor of that
sheet; but as our paper does not profess to be
democratic, we suppose our articles were re-
garded as the mere illusions of partizan hostil-
ity The Sentinel, however, is amenable to no
such charge. Its democracy is as ndisputable
as that of any administration journal in the
land, and we believe that it fully represents the
sentiments and convictions of a majority of the
south. How any sane man in the south can
approve the course pursued by president Pierce,
is a subject Of special wonder. We are aware
that in his last message he endeavored to undo
part of the mischief he had perpetrated by stu
died defense of the south and her constitutions
al rights. Brave words we admit them to be,
but they are poor compensation for vile acts
And people will draw their own conclusions
as to the coincidence between this change of
front, and the proximity of the presidential
election. N. O. Bee. |
"A CANDID ED1roR.-The editor of the Green
vile Is. c. Patriot, one of the most uncom-
promising anti American papers in the State,
pays the following deserved compliment to Mil
Ex-PREsrDENr F1LLMoRE.-This distinguish
ed statesman and pure patriot has been nom-
mated for the presidency by the national know
nothing convention in Philadelphia. We re-
joice at the nomination, though we do not ex-
pect to support it. We rejoice on the principle
that an honorable man likes to have gentle
man for his opponent. There is another feeling
which gives us Joy, and it is, if the democratic
party should be defeated, there is not man in /
the United States We would prefer to see head
ing the defeat, and enjoying the success of such
a victory, as Willard Fillmore. He is gen
teman, and patriot and statesman of ability,
soaring above allsectional considerations in the
administration ofthe government. In his hands
we should feel that the Union, the constitution,
the rights of the States and the rights of the
south were safe. - 3 ..5. s.- N....- gil. ##
The Patriot, after expressing its determine
ton to support the democratic candidate for the
presidency, proceeds, mark its language:
IT successful we shall be proud of our sue
cess, and if defeated by president Fillmore, we
shall not mourn or prieye over our defeat n