The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-11-27
HOW THEY BEAR THEIR DEFEAT.

Perhaps 1t may be interesting to our readers
to know the spirit in which the Federal papers,
(which reflect the tone of the Federal party.N
receive their late overwhelming defeat. Some
ill-humor, that we are indeed afraid that they
will die with the hydrophobia! Others bear their
defeat coolly and philosophically, There is a
wide difference between the defeat of the Dem
~ocratic and Federal parties. In 1910, when The
Democracy met with defeat, they bore it with
res ignation, because they were coptending for
principle; the SUCCESS of men was nothing to
them; they cared no more for Mr.. Van Buren, as
an individual, than any other conspicuous Dem
ocrat; they felt conscious that their defeat was
but temporary, and having principle TO contend
for, they could cheerfully buckle on their armor
anew, fight the battle DER again, and ultimately
triumph. This they have done. Not SO with
the federalists. They struggle not for principle;
they srs actuated by blind devotion TO men;
when they are defeated, they have no principle
to fall back upon; they at once dissolve, scatter
into fragments, change their name, and in a few
years afterwards they rise up again, sab obiter
dictum. The defeat of the party this year,
when they " showed their hands," and avowed
their principles, is enough, we should think, TO
satisfy them that the American people have con-
demned and repudisted their measures--tha
they have been weighed in the balance and
found wanting.
The Yew York Tribune closesa long, whining,
bitter and mslevolent article on the defeat ofthe
Kentucky gambler, in these Choice and beautiful
words:
"What If there be sadness and despair among
the thrifty, the thoughtful, the industrious-is
there not illumination, revelry and extra blue
ruin at the Five Points and in ninestenths of the
three thousand Observation-Disclosures of our
ciiyq Does not Ignorance and Vice exult, if on
y to see Intelligence and Virtue peTplexed and
afflicted? Let universal Rowdyisn strain its
throat on one more execration of Clay, and
three cheers for Polk and Dallas! The work is
done!"
The Wheeling Times, after descanting upon
the prospective losses the Federal Bankrupts of
that wonderful place would sustain, by reason Of
the election of Col. Polk, winds up in the follow
ing good-adtured styIei
"The official head of the Government will be
a tool in the hands OF wire.workers, a mere au-
tomaton, and members of Congress and public
officers, while they laugh at the people for their
Ignorance and folly, will turn legislation into a
farce and mock at those who raised them TO a po-
siion the God of nature never intended hem to
occupy. Near half their votes were obtained by
perjury, the cowardly traitor, D0rr, has become
a hero before he has served half his time IN the
penitentiaTy. Cut-throats and pick-pockets guard
, the ballot-box, and the law is made powcrless to
furnish political friends, while the pardoninp
power seeks another vote in cheating The gaIIows
3 Of IFS due. While the leaders Of a partizar
rahble bid defiance 10 tho laws, and on eternaI
adieu TO virtue, can we expect aught else than
that rows, mobs, violence, theft, murder, rapine
and arson should stalk through tie land uhwhip
pod Of iusficef No. Our moral desolation viii
be far worse than the blight Of our business and
the ignominious ignorance Of our law-givers.
Stand from under! Tho foundation Of free.
/, dom Is virtue, and the last stone has been dug
/ cut, IN The election Of MI Polk"
Tho Cadia ( Whitc-BIaek Bird edited b