Washington sentinel., 1856-03-20
From the Washington Union OF March
"a, Isss-Its "sTRICT NEUTRALITY. :.
uTuE pRESIDENnV0

Ia, Isse-Its "sTRICT NEUTRALITY
"THE PRESIDENCY.o
1T is proper for us to remind
our readers that we have adopted
the policy Of abstaining from all
discussion in the UNION of the
relative claims of the several De-
mocrats whose names are spoken
Of in connection with Presiden-
tial nomination. We allude to our
policy on this subject that the nu-
merous friends who have address
ed to us communications advoca-
ting the nomination of different
gentlemen as candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President may un-
derstand why we have been una
able to insert their favors. When
the nominations are made we shall
be prepared to sustain them with
our best exertions. Until that
time, the UNION will adhere to its
past course of strict neutrality as
to men, looking alone to the main
tenance Of the great Democratic
principles on which the next battle
is to be fought"
aResolved, That the Democratic
party, being consistently a national
organization-knowing no North,
no South, no East, no West, it
discountenances all suggestions
that would seek to give to one can
didate preference over another,
upon the ground that he is from
this or from that section Of the
Union-AND THAT WHILST THE
Hon. JAMES BUCHANAN OF PEN
NsYLvANIA is DECIDEDLY OUR
CHOICE FOR THE PRESIDENCY, we
stand pledged to give our warm
and cordial support to the nomi-
nees of the Cincinnati Convention,
we care not from what State they
may be selected, requiring how
ever Of them, that they shall be
true to the Constitution "IN ALL
ITS ToTALITY"'-faithful to ALL
its guarantees, as well those which
secure freedom of religion and
equality of citizenship, as those
which protect our own property
from the plunderer and the robber.
I" Resolved, That we have an
ABIDING confidence in the admins
tration Of Franklin Pierce; that
his course upon all national ques-
tons has been truly patriotic, sus-
tanning and carrying out the doc
trine of State sovereignty as laid
down and approved by Jefferson,
Madison, and the immortal Jack
son, and their compatriots."
nR~ Having waited even longer than we
promised upon our neighbor to publish the
misloid Berkeley county resolution, we fee
constrained to expose it, by its insertion to-day
under the head Of its "STRICT NEUTRAL.
ITY" manifesto! Indeed, we have received
several letters from friends who had not seen
the resolution and who have urged us to de
lish that htfle stU small lonesome coice from
Macon county, Tennessee, seized upon with
such avidity by our neghbor, under the same
head OF "STRICT NEUTRALITY"
Now, we appeal to the Union's Lord and mas
ter-we appeal TO the Washington Unio,
itself-we appeal TO its senior-to its lately re
turned Junior, and to all lis editorial contribu
tors, if there is really anything so MON
STROUS in an assemblage OF honest Demo
Gratis, expressing a simple preference for
James Buchanan, Of Pennsylvania, for the
Presidency that II should clip the resou
tons from the proceedings Of the meeting, and
deem it unworthy Of being placed by the side
of an equally complimentary resolution "a
General Pierce! Has it come to this, that the
President Of the United Staies-a Democratic
President, should insist upon his moutb-piece
doing such gross, inhuman injustice to a states
man like Mr.. Buchanan Who is he? The
accredited Ambassador to the Court Of St.
James, entrusted with the first mission in our
country, and entrusted with that mission by
Franklin Pierce himsef What was the harm
in a meeting of good and true Democrats, Of
paying him such n tribute. Shame ,rhere is
thy blush?
what Is the Matter with Mainei