The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-08-19
From the .4merican Sentinel
THE PENNSYLVANIA.

II is extremely unpleasant to Us TO be engaged in a
controversy that has the appearance of being per-
sonal, with any OF our contemporsries-much more
SO with editors with whom we have acted as mem
bers " the same political party. 1t has always been
our aim TO treat public journal imperso
and think 1t cannot be shown that in nearly thirty
years the Sentinel has devated from that course
unless when provoked by attacks from Others and in
>slf-deience We are aware that this repugnance TO
personal controversy has frequently been attributed
10 tlmidity and TO most any other cause than the
true ona-a ia.a Of pence.
We have long, perhaps too long, borne in silence
the sneers and iDslnuatons of the nnsyvanan we
have seen our political Embellishments Of thirty
years siandng-rudely excluded from the pale Of the
Democratic party, SO far they could be excluded
for some deviation from what the editors of that pa
per were pleased 10 regard the principles of the
,arty, and told hat their votes or influence were not
ranted. In these circumstances, have thought il
10 ourselves, well many old and res pecta-
de Democrats, such as Judge Blythe, Col. McCara-
Ter, Judge Sutherland, and Others show that these
s,llconsutuied judges Of the political orthodoxy of
oilers, had themselves than one occasion
bcksdden, if they had not utterly fallen away from
tie true faith The accusation they make against us
and Others is that we dsapproved Of the removal of
the deposites by General Jackson and of the Sub
Treasury bill. Well, suppose these charges were
tr,e, do they constitute greater political sins than
th'se Of which the publishers Of the PepnsyIyanan
haze been guilty Ii is not, and cannot be denied
JON q Adams IN opposition 10 General Jackson
AMI openly electioneered for him at the polls in this
| CITY.
! II will not be denied, that he established a paper.
tn, weekly P,nnsyranan, to advocate the claims of
Judge Mclean to the Presidency, and to push aside
General Jackson, whose views had begun TO be dew
loped and which were at that time not concurred in
by the publisher Of the Pennsylvania Now, with
out saying word about coffin handbiIls, the original
Uaysn' OF It's editor, or any other matter, about
which there might he question raised, we contend
tat these are greater political faults than any with
which Judge Blythe, Colonel McCaraher Judge Su-
thersnd, or the Sentne can justly be charged; and
that, therefore, 1t does not become the PENNSYLVANIA
or As managers, to assume dictatorial tone or 10
presume to read such men out of the Democratic par
ty. Some Of the recent elections in the South and
Southwest, indicate but too plainly tla at the next
Presidential election, the Democratic candidate who
ever ae may be, will require all the votes that he can
get TO insure his success. II is, therefore as unwisc
IN policy, as II IS unsound in principle, 10 drive away
from the Republican ranks any man who is willing 10
support the regularly nominated candidate of the par
ty even though he should, on some former occasion.
like the editor and publisher Of the Pennsulranian.
have committed political mistake.