Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-07-31
THE EVIL SIGNS oE THE TIMES.


brought forth but little to CRAFTY the American
patriot 1t seems as though the firm and
steady stars that guided our destines have dis
appeared, and that wandering lights, variable as
shadows, have led us only to deceive. Can il be
that the examples and the souvenirs bequeathed
us by our ancestors forgotten Can it be that
our Constitution and our laws have become OBJ
and that patriotism has ceased TO charm' What
il is we will not undertake to say, but certain is
it that the country is cursed with political demo-
ralization.
All the signs within the range Of politics are
hideous to behold. Without and beyond that
range nothing ever looked more encouraging and
more prosperous. The crops of every description,
from potatoes up to wheat, fruits, and even vege-
tables, by which SO many humbly but comforta-
bly, live, are unusually abundant. Money is as
plentiful usual, ifnot more so. We have thus
far escaped war, famine, and pestilence. Pro-
perty is steadily rising in value. Stocks main
tain healthy tone. Improvements Of every
description going on, facilities for travelling,
for commerce, and for inter communication, are
rapidly multiplying. Our cities are increasing
in population, our towns are expanding into cities,
and villages swelling into towns. Land
steadily increases in value, and labor commands
just recompense. All these things constitute
the. business of our country, and with Yankee
ingenuity we have managed our business well
in all its departments and qualifications.
But when we turn from the business to the
politics of the country, we much to dis
turb and to depress us. That same Yankee in
genuity which SO adroitly accumulates money!
with restless impotence exercises itself in invent
ing new theories in politics, new systems of re-
ligion, and new and startling systems of morals
1t has raised up ism after ism, and folly after
folly. Each, failing to accomplish success, all,
have united against law, order, the Constitution,
and religion. As we write, grand movement is
going on in the North, the West, and the North
west, which challenges attention, from its gigan-
tic proportions, as much as it awakens horror,
by means of its most foul and unnatural pur-
poses. This movement has the sympathy and
cooperation of all the unsound and corrupt par
ties in the country. The fusion thus formed in
some places, and forming in others, arrogates to
itself the popular and time-honored name-Re-
publican. Formidable both in name and num-
beers il may not be amiss to analyze its elements
and examine into its purposes.
1t consists of Wings, of apostate and disap-
pointed Democrats, of Women Rights men, Of
higher-law advocates, of infdels, of agrarans,
of Know-nothngs, and Of Abolitionists Such
are its elements.
Its objects are to array section against section,
and class against class; its chief aim is to abolish
slavery. With that view it will first assail the
outworks of that institution; il will endeavor TO
repeal the Nebraska Kansas bill and the Fugitive
slave law, TO inhibit the admission into the Union
of any new slave State, to abolish the interstate
Slave trade, and slavery in the District of Column
bia. To gain many friends and as much strength
as possible, il is in favor of investing free negroes
with the right Of suffrage, and of promoting mar
rage between whites and blacks. But few
days have passed since two such unnatural and
abominable marriages took place in the New
England .States-marriages of fair white virgins
to big black buck negroes The bare thought Of
it makes our very gorge rise.
That so infamous a movement can accomplish
but one success, is plain to every man who under
stands the spirit and characteristics Of southern
men-indeed, who understands human nature.
That success, if success it may be called, is-the
dissolution of the Union. As things are going
on, they promise well for that most horrible ca
tasthrophe. Wo be to the men who perpetrate
such an offence. They are now prosperous and
happy. All their rights are protected by the
Constitution, and acknowledged by their southern
brethren. There is none TO modest OF make them
afraid. They live peacefully under their own
vine and fig tree. They sell and buy Just what
they please. They build palaces or cabins, as best
BELTS them. They cultivate the field or manu-.
facture wooden nutmegs, suits their fancies
They marry, at their pleasure, black or white
women. They drink rum or water, or both, as
they think fit. They sing their profane hymn,
with vile and vulgar nasal twang. They muir.
der the English language by pronouncing il in a
manner that would shock the sensitive Addison,
enrage the terrible Johnson, and throw into
alarming fits the exact and the learned Goblet
They travel by sea or by land, they fish or they
hunt, as they may prefer. They have a large
liberty, larger than any other people ever en-.
joyed. Instead of thanking God and the heroic
patriots Of the Revolution, they blaspheme God
and insult the memories Of their fathers
To carry out a miserable and a most insane
idea they imperil the Constitution under which
we live, the large Liberties they enjoy, and the
great and sacred cause Of human freedom. They
disturb the happiness Of slaves, brought to thi.
country by their o,cn fathers, by exciting discon-
tents and drawing their minds to the contempla.
ton ofa picture that would be equally delightful
TO MONKEYS political and social equality with
the whites. They send their emsasries, paid ril.
lains, into the slave States to stir up discontens
TO disseminate false ideas, and TO entice and steal
them from their aaectionste masters and their
happy homes. When they succeed in getting
them into what they falsely call the free States
they make heroes Of them for nine days, and then
leave them TO starve in cellar, or die in ditch.
They curse God, under whose laws the ins,;tpt;on
Of slavery arose, and damn the Consti,pt;o, he
cause IT protects il. They cruelty send noor
helpless white women and more helples. vo,nr