The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-07-18
From tte CINCINNATI Commercial.
From the Cincinnati Commercial
Sam Elegiac, but not Eulogistic
The Circumstances Of his
Life and Death-Desertion in
his last Moments lis the o.
MON in Danger.

1t is pretty evident that Sum is deceased.
His short, turbulent and not very iepuia-
ble existance may be said to have closed.
He expired tho day before yesterday, at
Philadelphia place to which he had re
sorted for the benefit of his health This
disastrous event has not been entirely un-
expected by his friends, though, it must
be confessed, he himself has entertain.
ed most confden! anticipat ons of lengthy
and robust existance. Those who knew
him best saw in his constitution want of
soundness, which they were aware would
lead hIm to an early grave. Nor is this
very much to he regretted. There is no
denying that among his qualities there was
decided predomina1cy of the unwhole
some. lie was pot "meas sana in corPors
sano." His body was 3 complication Of
virulent diseases, his soul nest of fero-
cious passions, and his mind jumble of
incongruous opinions. He was at once a
hypocrite and fanatic-a sticklcr for right.
eousness and an offender against every
moral precep:-a boaster and q coward
puritan and a libertine.
No one can deny that Sam died natu-
raj death, and came to an end which was
most appropriate as a termination to such an
existance. Constituted so as to be neces.
sarily the embodyment Of conflicting fanat.
icisms the tendency to intestine distur.
bance in his system has been imminent
and perpetual; and it is probable that pos.
terity will be willing to admit that the only
thing really commendable in his history is
the fact that he died. 1t has, for some
time, been more and more evident that he
had lived long enough, for he who survives
his frien dships is, of all others, the most
unhappy. As his powers decayed, it was
apparent that his friends were deserting
him. Oar contemporaries of the Cincinnati
Gazette, Ohio State Journal, Cleveland
Herald, and so forth, only few days a go
patting him upon the shoulder, sleeping
viii him, drinking his liquor, and irving
to win his monsy, have found another upon
whom they are lavishing their affection, so
that in er!rsnsis he had none to receive his
parting sigh but poor old Pap--Hone but
be to howl a melancholy reqaiem over his
cold remains. Requ sscat Reqaieseat ID
pace! t @
II is evident that the Convention al Phil
adelpha has included among its members
the extrem,s Of both Northern and South
ern fanatacisms. This is an idea that is
worthy to be borne in mind by those who
are prone to trem5e prem1turely for the
safety of the Union. Neither the average
Northern, nor the average Souhern sent-
ment is represented in that boiy. Its de-
bates are the clashing of two antagonistic
extrem 5, its platforms the cry OF two un-
compromising ultraisms. This is natural
who could have expected anything else?--
Understand that know nothing SIN is mere
ly form of relglo.poitical fanaticism, and
there is no difficulty in the solution of the
problem. We suggested soma time since,
that it would probably be found that those
who had been previously infected by other
forms Of fauatcism. would run the most
readily into this; and that experience would
demonstrate that know no;hingsm at the
North would embody a large proportion. Of
the anti.slayery, and at the South large
proportion OF the pro slavery zealots. Such
appears to be the fact, and the death Of
know nothingism, as a national political a.
gent, by the mutual repu sion of the ee.
ments. therefore, is as na.ura! as anything in
its history. az b r
We have, on several occasions, remarked
that the existence offanatscism might be de-
tected by its constant tendency to act in op-
position to its professions. This tendency is
especially observablein the doings of the
assembly at Philadelphia, This body Of
men is composed of UNION SAvEes-indi
I.Yiduals who have risen to the third 6esre
in know noth'ngism. and who have assumed
to themselves, und.r the sanction of solemn
oaths and imposing ceremonies. the sacred
and especial duty to preserve this confeder-
acy from dissolution, In view of their mis-.
sion 10 save the Union, and with the de.
clared intent to devise ways and means for
that purpose, they convene. For several
days they wrangle. they debate, they dis
cnss and they negotiate, and, in the end
unable to agree, Incapable to compromise,
incompetent to reason, with passions heated
to rage, and .bigotry stimulated to fvroeity,
they part in hate, amid "a yolley Of mutual
al threats and ordinations. So far as they
can do 1.-THE Unien is dissolved, but let God
sbe thanked the Union ---the blessed, glori-
Gus Union is not in the keeping Of these
maimen. Little is it that Know Nothing
Sam--the cmbodyment Of political idiocy--
can do to save or destroy. Let us rest con,
tent: the Union, in spite Of thousand such
Eonens, Is notin danger. II Is Sam who is
dead, and not the confeieracy. aai'.
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i EE-A Baeheler, at q recent celebration.
effsred the. following gallantaoasts Ladies
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