Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-10-19
WHO DID IT,

WHO DID 1T,
tits instructive TO consider the manner in
which the various parties to the combination
which defeated the Democracy in Pepnsylva-
\ MIA, Ohio, and Indiana, speak Of the victory
they have achieved. The manner in which
they speak Of it goes far TO show that their
union cannot last, and that the seeds of de-
struction, which we have often mentioned as
inherent in all coalitions, are beginning to ger
inmate even now.
In the first place, the Knownothings claim
the result in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana,
as their cork. In all quarters Of the country
where they exist at all, they are shouting
themselves hoarse over the election returns.
They are becoming rampant and furious, as if
the whole country belonged to them. They
do not even condescend to mention the fact,
4 that the Wings and Abolitionists raised a hand
against the Democracy, or performed any task
worth mentioning, during the struggles which
have taken place. They ignore the services Of
the Wings, and they ignore the services of the
Abolitionists, and insist upon it that they-the
Knowqothings- have performed all the work
and are entitled to all the credit.
Ia he second place, the Wing journals Of the
North insist upon it that the defeat Of the
I, Democracy in Pennsylvania, Ohio. and Indi-
ana is Wing rictoyy, accomplished by Wing
principles and Wing votes. They are unwill-
ing to share the glory or the profit with the
Abolitionists and the Know-nothings; or to adj
nit even that their allies are entitled to any
thing in the distribution Of honors or emolu-
/. ments. They insist that it is a Whig ricto,y;
and they can point to the number of Wings
elected by the combined forces in support of
their declaration. And, to tell the truth, the
game seems to be in their hands, for the Wings
have succeeded in placing their men in power;
and even the staid, sober, starched and de-
iiberate organ Of the Wing party--the Ma
fional Iafelligenccr-ca conceal, entirely,
the fact that it is immensely pleased at what it
wishes to represent as Wing victory.
In tie tsird place the Abolitionists come for
ward, and asseverate with strong lungs, that
the result in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana,
is an d,,ti-sIarcry t,i,mph. They would not
only exclude the Know-nothings from all honor,
profit, or emolnment, but they assail the Wings
for their impotence and insolence in claiming
anything---even the crumbs which may fall
from the feast with which the Abolitionists
celebrate the day when the Democracy re-
ceived severe check. Happears, indeed, that
the Abolitionists mean to steal, even from the
Know-nothings, all credit whatever. But for
fear that VIC may be accused Of misrepresent-
ing, in this behalf, the actual condition of things,
we submit the following extract from the Ma
sio,al Era, the Abolition organ in this city.
That journal says, in its issue Of yesterday:
aThc Nafional ateliigencer, with serene
sesEassurance, puts down oil the congressman
elect, in Ohio as Whigs--such men, for exam
Die. AS Timothy Day, Edward Wade, Joshua
h. Gidiisgs, Mr.. Nichols &C.! Our venerable
neirhbor his not yet heard, we presume, Of the
fusion movements in the west by which re-
publican party has been substituted for the
Wing, Democratic, and Independent Demo
cratic parties. There are but two parties IN
Ohio and Indians slavery party and re-
publican party. 1t is the victories OF the latter
which our intelligent cotemporary Is recording
as Wing triumphsl"
This is the language in which the dbolit'on
organ chooses to couch its pointed rebuke TO the
National intelligence, the Wing orgsy', and to
all others who undertake 10 claim for the Thig
party any share Of the glory, or any fragment
of the laurels won in the late contest in the
three States we have mentioned. But the abo-
ltion organ is not content with hagsllating Tie
Whigs. 1t applies the birch rods to the shout
ders and posteriors Of the Knop-nottings after
this fashion--saying
az wiseacre, through the telegraphic wires,
announces in several papers the complete tn
umph of the Independent american ticket in
Ohio, by iifiy or sixty thousand majority; in
tending 70 convey the impression that il is
Kuow-nothing triumph. There was no such
ticket Ia the field. The candidates elected
were nominated by an anti-Nebraska eonyen-
tion, as Republican candidates, and elected as
auckland the majority for this ticket is nearer
ninety than sixty thousand"
The medicine begins 10 work already. Let
Il work. let the various corrupt elements Of
a corrnpt combination ferment fume, fame
and Sight. A spectacle will be presented
which win amuse sensible men and instruct
and warn honest youths. Inthe dead Of night
thieves have stolen treasure, and At daybreak
they have brought the officers Of justice upon
them by their loud wrangling whilst distrbut
ing fhe spoils. There are snalogies in this
world, and they teach the Democracy TO remain
firm, honest, and true, by promising success as
the sure reward Of frmness, honesty, and
truth. 5,piar ,s
rraE ELEc TON or MR. MOTT AND