Washington sentinel., 1856-05-27

editor. The writer is one Of the old line DEM
ocracy, who has never diyerged in his support
OF the Democratic party and its principles.
This letter is but one of the many indications
we receive Of the strength of Mr.. BUCHANAN
throughout the country:
SPRNGFrELD, MASS, May II, 1856.
Do not regard this hastily written letter as
intended for publication in the Sentinel say
again, that recognized as General Pierce is
as Democrat, his omissions and commissions
could be more amiably stated, than you have,
upon some occasions thought proper to do. L
know, however, that ones discretion is fire.
quently neutraiized by the character of the as
socations that surround him. 1t can we'll be
understood that when you, who have, since the
establishment of the Sentinel, maintained with
consistency and in advance, every man and
measure, who has advocated, or that has led to
the present unmistakeable platform upon which
the next election will be contested-I mean
the equality of the States and the right of the
people OF Territories to make their own form
of government without Congressional interfer-
ence. say cannot wonder, that you, who
have been true and faithful should feel sore
that others who have pursued the opposite, or
at least cowardly temporising course, should
attempt, under the wing Of an assumed Demo
cratic Administration, to doubt your orthodoxy,
and scandalize, by mean inuendos, the distin.
guisbed statesman, whose name, / am glad to
see at the head of your columns.
Let me tell you that, during the past winter,
my business has led me throughout the New
England States, with the exception of Vermont,
and | can assure you the entire Democratic
people, who are not in Office, the National
Wings who hold the Union of more value than
q few colored persons, the solid thinking man.
ufacturers and merchants, who do not make
politics a trade, but regard the Constitution as
a sacred bond, and the people Of the South and
West as brethren-all these are awaiting with
the deepest concern the nomination of JAMES
BUCHANAN, Of Pennsylvania, by the Cincinnati
Convention. 1t is q proyidential circumstance
that such man is at the call and disposition
of the great conservative party of the North;
and have no misgiving in regard to the action
Of that Convention, if it reflects truly the wants
of the people it represents, and feels intelli-
gently the necessity that calls for Old Pennsyl-
vania's favorite son. fN.sls
1t is amusing to me, who have followed Mr..
BUcHAsAN's public course for the past twenty
or twenty-five years, to read the attempts made
by the Washington Star and Union, and Mis-
sissippi paper, the name of which | have for
gotten, to throw doubts upon his orthodoxy.
If were allowed to guess, would say that the
particular article alluded to, copied in the Star,
was written in Washington, mayhap by our
friend Caleb, and mayhap telegraphed to Mis-
sissippi, as upon q former occasion, to "crush
out" Buchananism there. This mode of tactics
will not answer. The reputation of Mr.. BucH-
ANAN is too well established in the public mind
to be affected by such mendacious assaults
His nationality is recorded in every act of his
political life. His love of the Union amounts
to an enthusiasm, and is seen in every speech
and letter and act of his long and marked ca
reer. Doubt JAMES Buchanan Ask Old
Pennsylvania, the great National Keystone, if
her most distinguished son, after his long and
patriotic and Democratic service, has doubtful
reputation? You cannot imagine the general
disgust that this attempt, on the part of certain
presses, to injure Mr.. BUCHANAN at the South,
has occasioned to be expressed in this part Of
the country. The disgust is increased, when
it is known that these attacks upon Mr. BucH-
ANAN have originated with those who officiate
now with Martin and John Van Buren,, and
who but recently acknowledged Allah Mann
and b. +. Butler and Preston King, of New
York, as orthodox DemocratsI
Apropos Of Mr.. Cushing. In Greenfield the
other day heard the history of the "crushing
letter" that was telegraphed to the South to
operate upon the Mississippi election. 1t was
related by an oldfashioned Massachusetts De-
mocrat who never "fused," never coalesced,n
and never merely a @acquiesed" in the doctrines
and measures Of the Democratic party. He
said that letter was written by Mr.. Gushing to
Mr. rockingham, one Of the editors Of the
Boston Post. 1t was regarded by the recipient
not only as an important, but as letter to be
published only on his soundest discretion. 1t
seemed that, before the appointments we're
made in this State, that Colonel Greene, of the
Post, had his friends, and that Mr.. Banks, now
the Speaker, had his friends to fill the various
Offices under the General Government Mr..
Gushing took the position that Mr. ~ p. Banks
was the Representative of the Democracy of
Massachusetts. The friends Of Mr. Banks there.
fore, were, with but few exceptions, appointed to
the various places to be filed 1t was soon dis
covered that all the patronage Of the Govern.
ment had been given to Freesol Democrats
that anomalous creation--and that it was work.
ing disgust and contempt for Mr. Cushing
among the sterling Democracy of New Eng.
land, and was calculated to iniure the Admin
istration in the South. Hence this crushing
letter OF Mr.. Gushing to Mr.. rockingham. II
was shown, with great mystery TO few conf.
dental friends. 1t was whispered about and
reached the ears Of many placemen. They
looked wise, and, as had been their wont. gave
no shrek for freedom" Such letter sent
to the Boston Post gave evidence of it's strong
position with, at least, Mr.. Gushing Bot, sad
DISAPPOINTMENT Before the Post could print
IT, as the fiat Of the Administration, it came
back to Boston from the far South having been
published intermediates in all The Southern
press to prove the orthodoxy Of Mr.. Gushing.
IL answered its purpose there. Here, the only
crushing out" Of Freesolism was in the dis.
missal Of postmaster at place they call
Walpole, worth about fifteen dollars a year,
and the retention in Office Of the selections Of
Mr.. Banks. / make no mistake when I tell
you that Mr.. Gushing, with all his versatility of
talent, could not be elected constable in any
town IN New England. His laxity of principle
is proverbs false as Cushing
X Il is q singular and important fact, that not
withstanding the circumstance that quite all
the Democratic press OF the North has been
subsidized by the appointment Of editors to
pacp. lnHnpnca with the ,,ooxla e.. n-..~.I.