Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-07-29

honor Of Fred. Douglas, Theodore Parker,
Wendell Phillips, &C., &c. Grateful patriots
may avail themselves Of the occasion to hand
down to posterity the memories Of the vendors
of patent medicines. The Washington monu-
ment will thus become but great collection Of
signs and advertisements. II win lose its char
acter, and be perverted from its purpose.
Let obscure men perish from the earth. No
body will be harmed by it. If any man has
done anything to entitle him to monument,
such monument will certainly rise after he is
dead and gone. If there be any man impatient
to snatch and enjoy posthumous honors, let him
90 quietly and commit suicide, trusting to a
kind tombstone with touching epitaph, to bear
him down to an admiring posterity. But IT
unwilling to die, let him invest reasonable
sum of money in block Of marble with an in
scription in his honor and put it either in his
graveyard or his garden. This is the best
thing he can do. We would be sorry indeed
to see the great monument to the Father ofhis
Country, marred, disfgured, abused and desc
Grated, by being converted into mere recepta-
Gle for signs or for tombstones. This would
certainly be a cheap and an expeditions way OF
building the monument. Blocks OF marble
would come from all quarters inscribed with all
manner of names, from the commonest to the
most uncommon. a.a.gass
Rut. monument thus reared would be
poor compliment to Washington. Instead OF
being the monument of q nations gratitude, 1t
would be humiliating monument OF vanity
and folly sa 1f g
For one we protest against this insidious
effort of obscure and vain men to save them
selves from oblivion by hanging on TO the skirts
of Washington. VI y srs1 "a.
STRANGE NOTION OF WHAT IS RIGHT
BOSTON ATLAS.
Under the caption Of The Wing Press
Right the Boston Atlas, of the 26th Instant
has the following: s
1THg WHIG Press RIGHT.--We see from all
parts of the commonwealth strong DISPOSE
ton to oppose by the most efficient means the
| Entertainments Of the slave power. Our friends
who are intent upon this, are fully sensible that
done through the whig organization. The
Greenfield Gazette and Courier contains the
following, which we commend to the considera-
ton of our readers:
0sOuR PLATFoRM.-As the papers in the
different parts of the State are putting down
their political platforms, we give ours. Here
tis: SO ,aaas,
"'The repeal Of the Nebraska bill and the
reinstatement of the Missouri compromise.
"sOpposition to the admission of any more
slave States from territory now owned or may
hereafter be acquired by the United States.
"sThe repeal of the fugitive slave law, or at
least a modification of ii, giving the right OF
trial by jury.
asPofitical death to all northern dough-
faces"
a The above is what we intend to advocate
We see no reason for breaking up the whig or
ganization in this State. The wing party of
Massachusetts have always opposed the extern
sion of slavery, and it is since the repeal OF the
Missouri com promise, more united than ever
in its opposition to it. Nothing can, therefore,
be gained by disorganizing our party, while
much may be lost to the cause OF freedom. II
NAV not suit the leaders Of the freesoil orgapi-
! xation, but we believe the mass of the people
will feel disposed to go with the wings in their
opposition to the aggression of the slave power.
The advocacy, by the whig press of Massa-
chusetts, of the above platform, I've omit what
refers to State elections,) EFFORTS from the AT,
las the joyous exclamation-"The wing press
right" seya ,gia
Now, we cannot imagine how the "whig
press Of Massachusetts, could be more wrong.
| IL the wing press advocates all the enormities
embodied in the above platform, and the alias
saws II does, we cannot understand how its
position could be more revolving to men OF
sound political principles.
Afraid to lose the support and cooperation
of the southern wings, many Of the northern
\ wings have been frightened Of from the pro
posed amalgation and fusion party. They have
determined to retain their organization and
their name.
They give the southern wings but little credit
for sagacity, II they suppose that they can thus
cheat and bamboozle them. They are not
kept out of the amalgamation because Of any
adherence or disgust Of the principles and
ends Of the fusion party-by no means. They
themselves boldly avow the same principles
and objects; but they think that notwitbstand
ing these avowals, the retention of the name
of wing will satisfy the wings Of the south
Again, they hope, by retaining their organiza
ton, to attract the amalgamationists TO them
and, thus, in the event Of victory, they will Sc
cure the disposition Of the spoils.
There is one very ridiculous thing in thu
foregoing extract from the Alias; 1t is the dis
tinction It makes between the Massachusetts
wings and the afreesoilers.n This Is truly
distinction without difference. II freesoi
principles make freesoilers, then are the whig
Of Massachusetts, rank freesoiers Of the deep
est dye.