Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-03-29
HEREAFTER-RE AND
POLITICAL.


Men tremble at the thought of it. 1t applies
to two things-religion and politics. We will
not be so irreverent as to treat of it in its re-
atioa to religion. We leave that to the three
thousand and thirty New England, Abolition,
anti-Nebraska, Know-nothing parsons who in
famed the people and besieged Congress when
State-rights, constitutional bill was pending
the Nebraska Kansas bill.
We will here speak only of the political
hereafter. When is old, infrm, and
tottering on the brink of the grave, we can I'M
derstand how, if ambitious, he may avail him
self of any temporary excitement to rise into
power, in order to CRAFTY vanity and cheat fate.
His race is nearly run. 1t is, with him, now,
or never. He has but one chance, and it is
easy to understand how he will avail himself
of that chance. He will quit the Wing party
he will quit the Democratic party, he will quit
any party and all his former associations, to
promote his ambitious and mercenary views
he wants his last breath to be proud breath
"a triumphal gasp, and as his time is short,
he will seize hold of any occasion, any excite
ment, and any party, that will enable him to
make a grand, glorious, and imposing exit.
There are still other men who will endeavor
to profit by temporary excitements and COM
motions. They are men who know that they
can never rise, in ordinary times, when reason,
common sense and virtue prevail. When the
political waters are agitated they float like
cork on the top of the waves, for they have not
the weight to sink them.
Such men know that they have nothing to
expect in the political hereafter. The first are
as good as dead the last as good as damned.
So that, not being able to get anything in the
future, they are bent on compelling tribute
from the present.
LITIoAL HEREAFTER. They are confined to no
section and to no creed. They are the men Of
strong thoughts and robust ideas They are
the men who are not too bold to dwell upon
tons. Even in the North, there are Adolf
transformations political Abolitionists--
who despite their fanaticism, have sagacity
enough to perceive that they cannot, like the
StatesrigAts" American, Know-nothing Or
gan, of this city, agree to suspend to "ignore,'
to "stae the slavery question" with safety to
their future prospects. True, there are not
many who have such sagacity--for MOST
NEARLY ALL OF THE NORTHERN ABoLIrroSIsrs
BELONG TO THE KNow-NorHNG ORDER, which,
at this time, is the great excitement. The few
who do not belong to that Order, are such
long headed, calculating men as Senator Seward
and Horace Greedy, whose wisdom and expe'
rience assure them that they will best con.
ciate the Know.nothing Abolitionists HERE.
AFTER, by opposing them NOW.
| But there is an opposite class with which we
now have to deal-for extremes meet. This
class is composed of the Southern Know-noth-
ings. That most of the Southern Wings be-
long to this Order, or in other words, that this
Order in the South as in the North, is mainly
composed of Wings, no candid man will deny.
1t is spasmodic effort of Whiggery to regain
power 1t is the "extreme medicine" of party.
ism. 1t is the very castor oil of politics. Be-
ing desperate remedy, none but desperate
men, in the South, will go into it. Such are
the in6rm and aged Wings who do not expect to
live long enough to profit by Whig ascendancy,
| if Wing ascendancy should ever be brought
about again in this uncertain world. Such are
the men who, neglected by Whiggery, when in
power, because Of their unscrupulousness, in
capacity or obscurity, are now seeking, by means
Of an INSCRIPTIONS, incapable, and obscure
union Of blind Wings and efete Democrats, to
get into the constabulary, the legislature, con-
gress, or the executive.
This organization, by which they hope to
rise, pretends TO be national organization.
1t numbers among its members men Of the
North and men Of the South-Abotionist and
Shareholders. We have already attempted to
show that the Northern Abolitionists who join
it will have no hereafter, because Of their asso
citation and utilization with slavehoders-ALI
OF BOTH PARTIES AND SECTIONS according 10
The Know.nothing Organ agreeing to ignore
-"stife" and "suppressth question Of slaveryl'
| If such be the case with the Abolition Know.
nothings Of the North, how much worse will il
be with the slareholding Know-nothings of the
South, who have, for fleeing spoils and tempo.
rary advancement, met, mingled and affiliated
in loving brotherhood, with the Aboltionists
of the North2
Some such men may mount on the swelling
waves. They may rise from the bottom to the
| top. They may succeed in becoming some
thing from nothing. They may be elected
constables, magistrates, members of the legis
latures, of congress, Of the senate. But to
such-even to the mighty constables may be
applied the lines of the poet
Who would rise TO solar height
To set in such starless night"
The "hand Of resurrection will not reach"
such men. IL Wings, they will be damned. II
Democrats, they will be doubly damned, and
they will richly merit their doom.
THE OBJECT OF THE KNOw-NO-
THINGS.
We find the following in the Abingdon, Vir.
rinia Deuoc,1f.