Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-05-12

President Pierce-The Washington I'M
ion and the washington Sentinel.

President Pierce-The Washington I'm
ion aud the Washington Sentinel.
The war of the roses does not, in the
least, remit its ferceneSs. The Washington
Sentinel, in paroxysm of honesty, such
as rarely visits Democratic journals, is d.
recting some home thrusts at President
PIERCE and his subservient lieutenant Mich
olson, of the Washington Union. The
public always learns more of the true
character of family when some crotchety-
headed member of it makes an exposure of
its secrets. While the sense or policy or
good taste of such course cannot be COM
mended, it must be confessed it is service
able to the cause of truth. The Sentinel
editor has been no unimportant parsonage
in the Democratic famiIy-his lineage is
high and pure-he is of the Jefferson,
Randolph and Tucker school of unadulter-
ated Virginia Democracy He has enjoyed
the highest opportunities for information,
and has been entrusted with the most i'm
portant and delicate secrets 1t is not for
us to inquire his motive for divulging them.
From the stern and unbending political
integrity of his school, we must judge it
is an honest and just one At all events,
for some months past he has not been chary
Of his tongue, either in exposure or denunci-
alton.
He says PIERCE and Nicholson have
''demoralzed" the Democratic party. To
us Outside barbarians" the idea of spoil
ing tainted meats seems singular and un-
ique. But the ways of Democracy like
those of Providence are mysterious, and
upon the strength of the Sentiners testi-
mOny we accept is as fact, especially as
! it is minute in the details Of the process.
He sustains every allegation that the Wing
and American press of the country have
brought against PIERCE since the hour Of
! his first blunder, but confines his attention
more especially to his acts Of deeper crimi,
nality since his first effort to force himself
upon the party as its candidate for second
term.
From late two column thunderer in
answer to the Richmond Enquirer we ex,
tract the following paragraph exhibiting
the shutting and insincerity of the Admin
istration'S course on the Nebraska bill:
The two Territories of Nebraska and Kan
sas were to be organized and bill for that
purpose was reported by Judge Douglas. The
repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the
other features of the bill met our warm ap-
, prevail, aud the Enquirer and Sentinel fought
side by side in the terrific contest that ensued.
We will not do more than allude to the course
of the President and his organ, the Washing
ton Union. The former electiuneering for the
bill as bill for freedom, while the latter would
at one time advocate the bill-at another, 0iO-
LsntLy denOunce the amendment repeating the
Missouri COnipTOmise-then making this same
amendment a test Of Democracy for the
purpose of being elected Printer to the House,
declaring the Nebraska bill 10 be no test Of De
mOcrdcy-iRdicating every reasonable Opposi-
ton to it--prOhOuncing that every Democrat
who might use his utmost power to defeat the
Nebraska bill was as good a Democrat as
Bright, Sdell, and Brown, and should be kept
in as good communion ard fellowship as those
gentlemen themselves When the bill, how
ever, passed. the President signed it, but still
continued in high and numerous offices the men
Of that fraction Of the party who SO traitorous-
ly opposed it But in the organization of
the Territories it was confidently expected
that Kansas or the southern territory would
be organized by southern officers, while the
opposite policy would be pursued towards Ne
brasks. Not so, however. The unnatural
policy was adopted by the President, which
has resulted not only in danger and trouble
oeaseless it may be-to the emigration from
the two sections of the country, but has clear-
~ endangered the admission of Kansas as a
sLGDe State Now, we ask our friend of the
Enquirer if it is prepared To justify this course
OF the "chief," or reconcile the fatal nooDsis
tencies which marked it 1t has, we admit,
Offset to all this in the special message of the
President twelve months after the damage was
done, aud eDen then not basing his removal of
Governor Reeder upon the true ground, to
wit: his hearty utilization with the Freesollers,
aud his CO cooperation with the netarious pur-
poses of the Immigrant Aid Societies