Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-30
GROUND AND LOFTY TUMBLING-THE
ALBANY STATE REGISTER.


ALBANY STATE REGISTER.
The Albany State Register, which if we re-
member arght--and we do not think our mem
DRY at fault-frst came out for the Saratoga
Fusion. Convention, and then against it, thus
speaks Of the late Gubernatorial election in
New York: "The contest is decided, and Ny
ron III. Clark is the Governor elect. We re-
gard this result as great moral as well as
political triumph, the consequences of which
are to tell with great force upon the future"
Now, who is this Myron H. Clark but Flu
sonist? The Saratoga Conyention-the pecu-
liar Fusion onyention---which adjourned to
Auburn, nominated him. Besides this, FIVE
other separate conventions united most low
ingly in his support. They melted like SO
many Jumps of sugar into most delectable
fusion, aud Mr.. Myron II. Clark swims like a
duck in the dissolved sweetness Happy Mr..
Myron II. Clark, but unhappy Albany State
Register. Why Mr. Myron H. Clark is happy,
it is needless to say, but why the Albany State
Register should be unhappy, we viii briefly
tell.
1t first went for the Fusion, but suddenly re-
canted. 1t expressed due penitence for its
error, and with signal promptitude, facile dex-
terity, and diabolical bitterness, denounced the
Fusion. A few weeks rolled by, conventions
were held, and six Of these conventions fused
into Clark's support. If this was not Fusion,
nothing is Fusion. How, then, did the Regis
ter IA journal, by the way, well and courteously
conducted) do? What did it say2 1t had
been for Fusion and against Fusion, and what
it but SO lately denounced was uppermost in
New York. 1t would not be cramped by scru-
pies, it would not be embarrassed by trihes,
and so it threw up its hat and hurrad Justify
for Clark, the Fusion nominee It's newborn
zeal has risen into ecstacy, and with the ardor
of new convert it thus speaks of the cleo
ton Of Mr.. Myron II. Clark, the Fusion candi-
date:
g 1t will save hundreds Of thousands from O
life of shame, and grave of dishonor; it will
save hundreds Of thousands of children from
beggary; it will give hope to thousands upon
thousands of hearts, now borne down by DESC
ation and sorrow-bring competence and COM
fort to thousands of firesides; it will save the
long future from degradation, and retrieve the
character Of the State, and that of the people
of the State, to great extent, from the stain
of vice and crime which has rested upon them"
Nor was "this great triumph says the
Register, achieved by dishonest or dishonor.
able means" The Register forgets, in its de-
lirium of absorbing Joy, that these means were
what SO lately it denounced big
Fusion--a Fusion of six conventions!
As an offset to the Registers article, we will
give the view taken by the Charleston Mercury
of Mr.. Myron Fl. Clarks election:
"In the election of Myron Fl. Clark two
points are clearly discernable. The first is, OF
course, the tremendous stride towards domina-
ton by Abolition, and the consequent increased
danger TO the South. And the second is, the
triumph Of that wild social tyranny, that mad
spirit of reform which would legislate virtue,
and enact morality, by such measures as the
Maine liquor lava law which was adjudged
by the Crown officers Of England, to be incon-
sistent with the rights Of the British subject
but which is held to be perfectly compatible
with the rights of an American citizen. Upon
these two issues has Clark been elected Gov
ernor OF New York. II is Fusion not merely
Of political ideas, but the alliance Of social and
moralisms in deadly war both upon the South
and upon society itself"
Which is the true picture we leave our read
ers to judge.