Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-31
exceedingly gratifed that we are thus happily

exceedingly gratifed that we are thus happily
constituted.
If this election should result in continuing us
sojourners at this attractive retreat it will do
no more than all preceding elections have done,
and we shall bow to the popular will with the
protoundest reverence, and with the best possible
temper. We shall occasionally drop line or
two to the Examiner, Enquirer, South Side Demo
erat, Lynchburg Republican, and such other
Democratic presses as may require our services.
To each and every Know nothing in the State,
we tender our sincere coincidence and sympathy
remarking merely that they deserved success, for
they worked like beavers, and did some inn
mensely tall Dragging. We are not advised that the
Wing party was in the contest at although we
all gave what aid and comfort we could to our
friends of the American party, and shall cheer
fully do SO again whenever the conflict recurs be-
tween them and our ancient enemies.
To the world at large and the " rest of man
kind, we will merely state that we mean to bat
tie against Juntoism, and Locofocoism, and the
Turin power in this country, as long as we can
wag a tongue or WELD pen. Defeat hath no
terrors for soul.
The Mielligeneer takes pious and didactic
tone. 1t is Disguised with the bitter strifes of
party. 1t is in favor Of turning the sword into
the plough share. Its disposition is mild amiable,
lovely. 1t says
we will have it in our power to give more atten-
ton to other matters of public interest than we
have been able to do for the last several months
We have never thought that party dispositions
were very improving or valuable kind of litera-
ture, either for the few or the million. There is,
on the contrary, much in them, conducted as
they are, calculated TO vitiate the TASTE and per-
wort tho Judgment. We are enrrv therefnre
to be relieved, for a season, at least, from the
necessity of filling our columns with the heated
appeals which constitute the material of party
strife. We wish that the country could be spared
the infection upon, in almost annual political
contests, of the vast avalanches of mutual crimi-
nation, recrimination, denunciation, and vitupe-
ration which roll forth from the press, increasing
at every turn, laundering along, and burying the
sober senses Of the people beneath their pres
sure
Again, says the IntelAgencer:
g The contest being over, it is now full time to
let the acrimonious spirit, which has character
lied it in an unprecedented manner, subsde. To
our brethren Of the press of both parties, we
would say, we have all had our fauts-(none is
more conscious of his own than the writer of this
article)-we have all gone too far, and have
used language too Incorporate, indeed scurrilous
fora press which, in theory at least, is the guide
and instructor of the public, and therefore douby
responsible for the example it set. =
The Penny Post is neither moved to mirth, nor
melted to tenderness. 1t does not invoke the
aids of philosophy, nor does it seek the consola-
tons of religion. Firm, fierce and obdurate it
bowls over its disappointment. 1t grows indg-
nant and defiant. So wags the world. What
is one man 5 cure, is another mans poison.