Washington sentinel., 1856-04-03

prioate conversations. Nor do we believe that
either of the others did SO.
Why, then, did this enthusiastic defender Of
Gen. Pierce, and all the diseased craft about
him, make this attack upon us? Was it re-
quired of him as necessary to hold his Office as
Collector of Petersburg? Was it made
prominent element in his application for Sar-
dinia, that he should thus gratuitously attack
US, who had never injured him? Or was it
one of the necessary conditions of his connec-
ton with the Washington Union, which, we
apprehend, win be the result of this excessive
zeal for the Administration and its hired
mouthpiece2 If either, or both, or any of the
many things, after which he has been latterly
so assidious in obtaining, we forgive him.
"The gentleman whose relations with the
make his statements in regard to their posi-
tion authoritative so speaks his new alley,)
must remember that we have rather too much
discrimination not to see that his onslaught
upon us was dictated by desire to parade
himself as the organ or mouthpiece Of the four
distinguished Senators whom he has named.
Nor was the unamable purpose of publishing
ourself to the world as utterly repudiated" by
these gentlemen, less plain to us. We have
never aspired to be the organ of any man or
set Of men, or any administration. We would
not if we could. We feel our elevation far
above such a position, in the more ennobling
maintenance Of the Constitutional principles
i of the Democratic State Rights Party
But will the gentleman who occupies the
joint relation of confidential adviser with, and
defender Of, Franklin Pierce, and the four dis
tinguished Senators, allow US, for tie sake of
their future fortunes, TO suggest to him not to
make his first service to them an instrument
Of their certain destruction. This he will most
surely accomplish BY connecting them in any
wise with the present Administration, for the
voice of the great Democratic party through
out the land is proclaiming that it will no
longer have Franklin Pierce to rule over it.
Nor is there less significant voice of utter
remuneration by the same great party of any
man who is suspected even of the Pierce taint.
We shall regret sincerely if we have been
utterly repudiated" by these Senator'S, but
not even the loss Of their confidence can drive
us from that path which we consider the path
Of duty. But we shall require other authority
than the South Side Democrat for the assertion
of this knomledge of their sentiments which he
| boasts
We have no master but our conscence-no
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time enough when we have proved recreant to
either for the South Side Democrats arrogant
interference. For the present, we think, the
political sentiments of the Sentinel will bear
a tolera6ly fair comparison with the South Side
| Democrat. Any blow at the Constitution will
| be resented by u.s. and we will strike the Van
| dal even harder if it come from ,citiin our own
| camp than from the camp Of the enemy. 1t is
because Franklin Pierce has, by his ACTS, not
sentimental messages, made the Constitution
and the true principles Of the Democratic
party, which are constructed upon it, subordi-
nate to his insane rawlings after the succession,
that we oppose him as unsparingly as we do,
and shall continue to do His excellency, the
cSholoiiai iualISllc, anu lheiE PuhTuldIl, lne
South Side Democrat, and all the rest of man
kind, to the contrary, notwithstanding. No
considerations of public patronage can weigh
with US, even if it should assume the many
shapes Of Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives, Public Printer to the same, ditto TO the
Senate, Minister to Sardinia, joint Editor and
Proprietor of the faithful onion and even the
delectable position Of Collector of the Port Of
Petersburg. and the united salaries of all in |
one. And thus we make our acknowledge |
ments to the !South Side Democrat for its unex. |
pected attentions to US.