Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-08-12
FALsEHooD EXPOSED.

article Of the Sentinel in support of the veto
of the River and Harbor bill. 1t then saws:
ut has become justly apparent that the entire
investment made by the hards to establish the
Washington Sentinel, has been totally lost.
That paper began its career by bold and
manly defence of the national locofocos of
New York, but the actual receipt of executive
favors, or the hope Of them, has produced the
same effect we have seen in this State"
1t would appear from the foregoing that the
Rochester Democrat does not hesitate to put
forth libelous statement. It's own name is
fraud; and therefore it is ready to attribute
corrupt motives to others. The assertion, that
the hards of New.Y York, or any portion Of them,
ever made any investment either to establish
or sustain the Sentinel, is utterly and entirely
untrue. The Sentinel was established solely
by the means furnished by its publishers. The
entire investment was made by them, and by
no one else; and the whole enterprise was de-
termined on, and matured, and the material
purchased and paid for, before the Syracuse
convention assembled, and without any refer
ence whatever to the divisions among the New
York politicians.
About the time that the Sentinel commenced
its career, the New York divisions we're made
the prominent feature in political discussions.
Our sympathies were with the national democ-
racy in the struggle they waged against band
OF unprincipled spoilsmen, who had deserted
the democratic party in the hour Of battle, in
order to crafty personal spite and private re-
venge. We did all we could do to sustain such
men as Daniel s. Dickenson-all we could do
TO hold up to the country the iniquities of the
Van buren, freesolers. 1t was not task to
ns, but labor Of love and he speaks falsely
who even intimates that the hardshell organi-
2ation furnished US anything to enter into the
contest-anything whilst we were fighting the
battle, or anything since the victory was
achieved.
Hardshell meetings complimented our exer.
tons and encouraged US with expressions of
sympathy and appreciation. Individual mem
bers of that organization cheered us in our
labors and subscribed to our journal That was
all That organization never had any control
over our columns, and no right whatever to
speak through them. The Sentinel was never
Its organ, the Rochester Democrat to the con-
trary, Notwithstanding. The names of its pub,
fishers and of its editors appear in each issue,
and is their organ alone, and the exponent of
democratic principles as they understand them.
The man cannot be found, and the organiza-
ton cannot be found, that can lay any claim to
the right to influence its character, or to be
consulted even in determining its course. We
yield a willing allegiance to the democratic
party because we revere its principles, its ira.
ditions, and its usages further than that, we
owe fealty to no one, and service to no set Of
men.
We have sustained, and we sustain now, the
national democrats of New York. In the ear
lier stages Of the late controversy we censured
the foolish course Of some of them. More re-
Gently we have censured the foolish course Of
others who belong to that organization. In
both instances we believe that nineteen-twent.
sths OF the national democrats approved what
make it appear that we have shifted our posi-.
ton toward the national democrats because we
sustain the veto Of the River and Harbor Bill.
This is the first time we have ever seen it init.
mated that the question Of Internal Improve
ments had any connection with the democratic
divisions in New York. The trick Of the Ro
chester Democrat is very shallow. 1t wishes
70 help out its freesoi friends Of the Van Buren,
school now that new combinations are about to
be formed in the State Of New York; and its
attempt to throw us in antagonism to the ma.
tonal democrats, because we sustain the veto,
Is intended 10 create the belief that the national
democrats have arrayed themselves against the
President, 30 that they cannot sustain him,
even when he stands on the Baltimore plat
form. This is, indeed, shallow trick-one
which il would be hard TO fix upon any paper
which was not welded TO abolition or attached
as tender to the Albany Erening Journal.
As to Executive patronage, we have never
received dollar from that source. No petty
advertisement even has been sent us from any
Of the Executive departments. AS to the hope
of receiving such patronage, we have nothing
to base il on Our course has not been SC
shaped as TO win such favors We have sus
tanned the administration when acting in &C
cordance With true policy; but we have not
fawned, nor fastered nor "orooked the preg
nant hinges Of the knee" We have had the
courage 10 censure the administration when
we thought il wrong, and we have had the
manliness TO sustain it when we thought it
right We have done that because our service
is due to the democratic creed, and our labors
devoted TO its success.
But all this is beyond the comprehension Of
the Rochester Democrat. The thoughts Of
that journal cannot aspire higher than low par
tzanship. Having no regard for principles, il
looks only TO power, place, and patronage. il
can see no good in any one who does not help