Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-04-19
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constitutional men Of the North will 60 TO Gin
cinnati protesting against continuance ofthe
present order of things at Washington. South
ern men who may now think of New Hampshire,
should know that his denomination will lose us
two Senators from Indiana, one from PennsyI
vania, one from New Jersey, and will prevent
our electing some constitutional Senators from
| Wisconsin and Maine. The nomination Of
Presidency, but throws away Democratic
Senate, thus wantonly sacrificing the Demo
cratic Party, and probably the Union itself.
We cannot believe, and will not believe, that
any Southern State, not even South Carolina,
will vote to renominate President Pierce until
| the vote is cast:
From the New York Herald.
| The Labors OF the Pierce Missionaries in
tho North.
"We refer the reader to interesting telegraph
items touching the labors of General Pierce's
missionaries to the North. They give evidence
that the Brigadier has opened his deserted camp
and exhibited its fatal weakness to his own
officers and soldiers, and by the same token
has published the strength of his opponents.
"The President is a candidate for renomna-
ton by the democratic party. Those who
know his position and understand the tenures
| by which he holds place in that party, will
come to the conclusion at once that he is
| grossly deceived by those whom he regards as
| his friends or that he is deceving them. If the
| truth is ever known it will probably show strong
proofs of the truth Of both these propositions in
| the conduct of the President and his nominal
supporters
| the strange problems suggested above, and to
understand the present attitude and purposes
| of General Pierce, his short career should be
! divided into what may be termed his official
and personal character-his magistracy and his
| manhood; for by the former he addresses the
South, by the latter he is known to the North.
1t is easy to see from this reference that his
| weakness at home is urged by him as reason
| why he should be sustained in the South-that
his sacrifices here were incurred as penalty
| for his devotion to the constitution and the
| Union. Never was duplcity put to baser use.
Never were honest men misled by more
shallow and groundless device. Never were
the faithful adherents of the constitution in the
| free States more grossly nisrepresented. We
| concede that il, by All honest adherence to the
| spirit of the national compact true ad-
ministration of the executive office by up
| holding alike the rights of all sections of the
country, he has incurred the penalties of public
censure, it is the duty of patriots, Of whatever
party, to vndicate the right in sustaining him.
| On such basis the South, ought to support
| him. because, in doing so, she will only uphold
| the cause ofjustice and maintain her allegiance
| to that cause by rallying round and sustaining
| its representative.
HNext TO the service we owe to the country
is that of dealing fair and honestly by those
| who administer its affairs in the spirit of the
Constitution. Upon such men, under our
economical and parsimonious system rewards
cannot be too literally bestowed or public con-
| fdence too generously conferred. On the other
| hand he who is entrusted with high duties, and
is the object of exalted honors, but who fails to
meet the appreciation of the country in his
| personal and official relations to its citizens,
and forfeits, for whatever cause, the confidence
Of the people, is amenable to the severest criti
cism, and is entitled to the least possible share
of popular sympathy.
aNow we say to the South, General Pierce
| has sacrificed nothing in the North on your ac-
count His weakness here does not arise from
upholding measures which you deem vital to
the peace and harmony Of the Union. If he
has so discharged the duties Of the chief
magistracy as to satisfy you, he has so con-
Quoted his personal relations here as to sacri-
fee public confidence in his integrity as a man,
| in his wisdom as an officer, and in his patriot
| ism as citizen. His weakness in the North
has added nothing to the rights or to the Sc
curity of the South, and is in no sense due to
his advocacy Of public measures. 1t is so urged
by him, we know, TO excite sympathy in those
States where the party by which he was elected
was united and uninfuenced BY the hateful
elements of aboltionism. 1t was in dealing
with those elements, in pandering to their
caprices and yielding to their naughty demands;
it was in the vain attempt to buy them into the
support Of his administration, TO reclaim them
| by bounties and rewards from the pursuit of
| fatal sectionalism-it was in. abandoning, in
| truth, the Old Guard Of his party for the
mercenary Hessians Of abolitonism, that he
sacrificed the confidence Of the North.
"Then instead Of serving the South, he so
managed as to divide, if not annihilate, their
allies in the North. He alienated the staunch-
est men and the truest patriots of the free
States from the support Of his administration,
and in doing so, as much assailed the South
land even more dangerously than he could
have done by joining at once the side of the
Niger Worshippers.
| "h0w, tnen, can UencrhI Ilerce appear 10
Virginia and South Carolina to re-seat him in
the Executive chair2 Only BY deceiving those
States regarding the origin and true cause Of
his weakness in the North. He has few or no
friends here. Are there but few Northern men
who are ready to stand by and abide the obi
cations of the constitution to which the South
appeals for guidance in the administration Of
the government? This is precisely the test
point. Has the national spirit Of the free
States preserved its constitutional purity re-
garding measures, and lost its honest its fear.
less and its Just sentiments regarding men !?
| Does it adhear to the cause and denounce those
who uphold il? Does il swear fealty to the
compact Of union and to the equal rights of all
the States, and desert the standard of national
patriotism and trample under foot the SCARED
veterans who have borne them in the thickest
Of the fght2 No; the North is true to the
| SCULPTURE to the covenants of union-true
to the harmony Of the country-true to the
spirit and the attributes Of the republic, and
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