The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-08-21


File du REGIMENT. and Robert lie DiabIe, but
also to see the heroines of those pieces por-
trayed by the nightingale. However, as Mr.
Dick Swiyeller remarked to q the Marchioness
when she first tasted London porter: '.moderate
your transports"
The harmony of the Wig party of this State,
and especially of this City, is sadly out OF JOINT
As the time draws near for hunting up some
available candidate for the next Presidency,
both factions of the Wings see the necessity OF
harmony. But they hate each other heartily;
and worse than all, the Seward men have the
most supreme contempt for the opinions, intel
lect, and general capacity of the Silver Grays
This, quite naturally, engenders feelings adverse
to concord, on any measure that does not obvi-
ously interest both sections of the party. Luck
ily, however, for the Wings, there is one vital
point upon which the leading men of the party
have but one opinion. This point, which is the
only present real bond of union between the
Wings of this City, is their determination that
Daniel Webster shall not be the Presidential
nominee of the Wing National Convention.
Mr.. Webster is trusted by neither section Of
the Wing party. His intellect is admired by
both sections-indeed, by the country-but, his
moral organization is conceded, by his friends,
and even by his nearest relatives, to be far in
ferior to that of many person whose head has
been shaved at the expense of the State The
North cannot trust Mir. Webster, the South Will
not, the West dares not, the East does not His
head is looked upon, now, as q ponderous, COM
plicated, but exquisitely built and finished ma
chine, owned by Daniel Webster, and to be hired
out by him, to the highest bidder, for the per-
formance of any labor that may be required of
it, without any absurd seruples as to the right
and wrong of the service. He is thought and
known to treat great questions of State, and
politics generally, in precisely the same way
that, as lawyer, he treats the case of a client
right or wrong, he does his best to defend the
party view of it. That, however, merely con-
stitutes him ga good Whig," as those partisans
are euphoniously designated who are devoid of
moral rectitude, but who, respecting the motto,
Fhonor among thieves" never sin against ''the
Party"
But the great difficulty with Mr.. Webster is
that he has no stability of character. He fails
TO stick to the atrocities of the Party" with
the usual tenacIty OF "a good Mhlg; not that
he has any scruples, but that better offer from
his opponents never fails to secure his services
against those whom he has but recently de-
Tended. Having thus made the principal argu-
ments on the one side, no one, of course, is
better fitted to expose their fallacy and take the
leadership of an opposite party.
Mr.. Webster's course on the Slavery question,
for the last ten years, is Of itself, a sufficient
illustration Of the looseness Of his moral organ
ization, as above described. l find that 1 have
made mistake in the Immediately preceding
sentence, which 1 beg you to correct. said
90 Mr.. Webster's course on the Slavery question, "
should have said his ''courses on the Slavery
question: or better perhaps, his E'many courses
on the Slavery question. Yours truly,
FITZROY.