Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-04-19
THE WoUNDED PIGEONS BEGIN TO
FLUTTER.


Some kind friend-of the Administration
!. we presume--fearing, and naturally enough
too, that we might overlook an editorial devo-
ted to us in the Raleigh Standard has en-
closed it to us in letter envelope, for which
we give him our thanks. We do not object
to this novel mode Of calling our attention to
what otherwise might have escaped Us. The
kindly elements of mans nature must some
times be excited, else it would become too har-
dened by constant contact with the political
world. The piteous wall that issues from the
q Raleiqh Standard at the havoc we have
made upon the prospects OF its immaculate
master at Washington, almost oyercame our
hardness of heart. We can even forgive the
pouting Indignation with which it vents its
spleen upon ourself for what it regards our
unreasonable" attacks upon Franklin Pierce
We were aware when we undertook the task OF
exposing the whitened sepuchre at Washing
ton, SO fair and beautiful to Southern behold
ers, to the public gaze, that we should meet
with this ungracious return from some Of the
pampered pet-sheets of the Administration.
In this we have not been disappointed. Every
now and then a beagle yelp arrests our ear, but
the cover is too heavy for their tiny frames,
and soon it is heard no more.
But we have at last, some cause to thank the
I" Standard" and all others of its stripe. heir
huttering gives US assurance that we have sped
an unerring shaft and pinioned our victim to
the wall. Their lamentations, while painful to
us, bid us hope that we have done we'll our
work, and that our mission must ultimately
and completely succeed. And what is that
mission? Is it mission of treason to the
South? Of disloyalty to the great Democra-
tic Party? Is it a mere spite suat against
Franklin Pierce No, our enemies-and we
know Of none we have but his friends-may as
crbe this motive to US, but it passes us by as
the idle wind which we regard not, for it has
no truth in it. We have higher and nobler
purposes purpose springng purely from our
love of country and our devotion to that party
whose principles we believe best calculated to
preserve the integrity and perpetuity of our
benefcent institutions.
A man has risen up in the nineteenth cen
tury who has done everything to demoralize
great party and to weaken the institutions OF q
glorious and happy country. With all the cum
ming devices, all the arts and articles, all the
spurious sentimentality which Yankee hypoc-
risy can command, this man seeks to foist HIM
self again upon the Democratic party and the
country, and he basely employs the patronage
of the Government to effect his unholy pur-
pose. It is to strike him down from the seat
of power that we have entered upon this mis-
sion In a country like ours, it is the pen and
not the sword by which we may correct the
abuses of power and visit upon their author
just and wholesome punishment Tor the
treachery. We shall continue to employ ours
in tearing the mask from Franklin Pierce and
his Administration, and exposing itsweakness,
its imbecity, its corruption, its bad faith, and
its utter rottenness. If we shall aid in accom-
plishing this end, so devoutly to be wished, we
shall feel no common consolation in the fact
that we have done something in our day and
generation for the great party with which 1t has
always been our pride to be connected.