Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-10-02


their names will be,stricken from the list
Our REsPEcTaBLE CONTENDER AIRY
THE NATIONAL INTELLiGENCER.
The UNIVERSAL GENIUS is seldom never found
in nature. Like the GRIFFIN or the PHOENIX il is
fabulous creation. Our respectable contemporary
is no exception to tie general rule.
The Inieligencer has recently entered the lists
as a wit, but not being universal genius has not
been successful.
The style Of the IaieHiSencer is welghty il is
digniied, indeed pondrous, but not witty.
The fictitious Miss judy MacCawB, (person-
atod by Frank Wcbber,) when asked 10 ,caH=
Ivy Fred Power, burst into tears, and Indignantly
asked . he saw anything light about hen !"
and it may be that grave and dignifed con
temporary upon being charged with mirthfulness,
or indeed with sprightliness of any kind may
excaim, 9 Do You see anything light about us?''
Yet indignant as the mieIiigescer may be al
the accusation, true il is that our respectable
neighbor, not content with the universally ac-
knowedged fame il has acquired for serious Dig
nifty and righteousness Of style, must forsooth
launch ont into frisky mirthfulncss, Ga quality
not in its line,) and might have been expected
not with the same success it usually achieves in
more elevated composition.
To charge the hteiligeneer with waggery, as
to charge Miss MacCawn with Waiting, is too
serousan accusation to Represented without proof
Therefore We proceed TO make out our case.
In IFS leader Of the 18th Of July last, the Intel
iigencer, if in sober seriousness, spoke of the
ever-changing Democratic platform Of principles;
and Of the never changing Wing PLATFORM !!
g the glorious old Wing PLATFORM" without
plank missing, or nail rusted-the same yester-
terday, to-day, and forever. Hear our neighbor:
"A WORD UPON PLATFoRHs.-The reader
will not, we trust be startled by an apprehension
that we about TO give i dissertation upon me-
chancs 1t is not of the platforms manufactured
by carpenters, out of boards and scantling, that
would speak; but Of those, nova days much
more common, put together with much more la
Dor, if not much less useful purposes, by poiiii-
clans. There was a time when there were but
two platforms, upon one or the other of which
all the great statesmen and orators stood TO rally
their respective parties. There was the great
jhig Platform, made Of materials which have
stood the storms and vicissitudes Of all political
weather for forty years, without losing single
plank a single nail by decay or rust every
thing about it being as fresh and as firm, and as
likely to last as when il originally erected.
And there was the great Democratic Platform,
which has been annually undergoing many
and important repairs, that, like the old man 5
knife, scarcely u fraction Of the original material
is left. But the latter has advantage over
its rival; at every repair opportunity was
afforded Of extending its area, so that greater
number Of people could stand upon il, and swear
fealty TO the sovereignty of our great country:
and, as this popular homage was essential TO the
success Of any platform, the consequence was
the temporary ascendancy Of that which promis-
ed accommodation to the greatest number
"Thus did the democratic Platform by the
multlfarious qualities Of its materials and its
ceptiblity Of extension to suit all corners, acquire
and for time retain its towering superiority.
But the builders Of IL, too secure in their own
tistic ingenuity, soon became careless; the wear
and tear Of the fabric escaped their notice, until,
unable longer TO support it, own weight, il fell
TO the ground. It's scattered and heterogeneous
materials have since been worked into a thou
sand new and minor platforms, not one of which
Is able TO sustain even the proportionate weight
which il bore before the dilapidation. And the
great Wing Platform, standing, az IL did from the
beginning upon the solid basis Of unalterabe
principles, is once more becoming the ralying
point-the safe and sure refuge Of all who love
law and order and peace and prosperity more
than the wild and reckless promptings Of liccn-
tious ayaricc.
1--WE think we can sec in tho present sectional
meetings and gatherings Of clques and clans, and
press strong indications that the great principles
which this journal has been aboring for nearly
half century 10 nculcatc and enforce, and
from which IT has never for instant turned
aside for any temporary advantages, are about
once more to assume their influence in the minds
of our countrymcn, and that VIC may yet live 10
hail their prevalence in the councils Of the
Union
With 50 much gravity was this put forth, that,
lest readers might be deceived by il, we
thought il best 10 answer seriously what il is not
evident was intended as a lest.
Perhaps before the editors Of the InteEiigencer
had stopped laughing at their own joke, they, il
may have been inadvertently, let out the follow
ing:
"THE Wines or MAssAcHusETrs.-We are
happy 10 perceive, by tic following call for a
State Convention and comments thereon by the
Boston Courier, that the Wings Of Massachusetts.
taking fresh heart apparently from the important
result OF hasty rally by the Wings Of Maine,
arc determined TO be in the field under their own
rRnrER NINE at the ensuing election for State
officers vi Massachusetts. BY this course If they
accomplish nothing more consequential, they will
NJ least have maintained their own self-rcspect
We do not doubt that they will, in the end, have
Just reason 70 congratulate themselves at this de-
termination"
Upon reading that al the ensuing election the
Wing party will take the field under its oica pro-
per name, one naturally inquiries, under what
name did the WING party appear al the preceding
elections Into which Of the rampant fanaticisms
of Massachusetts did the Wing party merge itself
at the preceding election
MI po.,or n.;g, gdre,I,e,r &c 1atI,