Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-04-21
THE TWO RIVALS In POLITICAL
PROFLIGACY- MASsACHUSETTS
AND NEW YORK

iahlllcs ana radlcals, IMAM the action OF the
two Legislatures of New York and Massachu-
sets. These are two Of the oldest and most
distinguished Of the American States. They
are great III commerce, manufactures, and, in.
deed, in most Of the industrial pursuits They
also boast OF a bright array Of statesmen and of
scholars The chief city of the one State claims
to be the London, the chief city of the other
the Athens, OF the New World. By enterprise,
energy, and intelligence, they have reached an
almost unexamped condition of prosperity.
But the men of the present day seem deter
mined to undo all that their fathers did. They
have quit the plain and open paths that con-
Quoted their predecessors to success as signal
as it was deserved, and have become entangled
in an impenetrablc thcket Of errors and per-
pleXities They have embraced every conceiy-
able form OF error and heresy in both religion
and politics. If their vagaries were mere idle
lndul9ences, or the results Of an exuberant
activity that cannot endure wholesome rest,
but must needs find occupation of some kind
or other, they would be innocent But
there is bold selfconfdence and an earn.
est pracucalism in American character that
resoutely attempts to give bodily shape
to every conception. and to fit it up and
carry 1t out by means Of active machinery. The
Yankee has accomplished so much that he be.
gins to believe nothing is beyond his reach.
Were a Yankee to fall in love with the moon.
he would Immediately set to work to contrive
machinery BY which he might scale the walls
of Heaven, and spend pleasant hours with that
gentle luminary. The Yankee is an inventive
and experimenting animal. After exhausting
the fields of ordinary business and enterprise.
he is now endeavoring to make i'm improvements
III religion and politics. All New England is
filled with these WOO len nutmeg religionists
and politicators. Nor is New York far be.
hind New England. They have discovered
that the Bible is altogether wrong, and that
the Constitutions deplorable abortion. They
have found out that negroes are prosecuted
race, neglected alike by the Bible and the Con-
stitution, and they are determined to amend
both of these great codes, in order to elevate
them.
They have found ont that the creeds, the
old political creeds, known as Wing and Demo
cratic creeds, are wrong. They have thrown
them aside, and substituted an atrocious com
pound mixed of ACKNOWLEDGMENT and Abo-
htionism. They call down curses on the head.
OF white foreigners, but invoke Heavens be
benedictions in behalf Of the cherished Africa
race.
Such are the men who fill all Massachusetts,
and who have spread the horrible pestience
throughout the non-slaveholding States. Such
are the men who gave 10 that selfsufficient and
boastful State its present Legislatures Legis-
lature, not only disgracefuI to her, but to this
Union. That Legislature is the scum Of the
Anthony Burns excitement. II is the villain.
GUS decoction Of rank Abolitionism and ranker
Know.nothingism.
1t has met one day gravely to welcome
and caress Senator Summers ada Nav" il
has met another day to appoint a nunnery com.
mittee charged with the discovery of Popish
plots. This nunnery committee the scandal
of the day, has discharged its duties in the real
Abolition fashion. 1t has forcibly entered the
private school Of lady, and turned topsy.tur-
vey all the linen, crockery, and furniture in
that house. 1t frightened the innocent Young
female scholars, and insulted the unprotected
teachers. 1t then took frolic at hotel and
charged the bill to the dignified State of Mas
sachusetts
A word now about the New York Lepisla-
ture. Distinguished by temperance fanaticism,
il has, like the Maine law nunnery committee
Of the sister State Of Massachusetts taken a
drunken frolic that exposed its hypocrisy and
brought upon il the contempt Of all virtuous
people. Nor did it stop its degradation here
1t proved as affectionate to the African race as
was the grave Massachusetts Legislature to
Senator Summers "Ida May" 1t passed an
act giving to free negroes the right of suffrage.
1t put the gentlemen of New York on a po-
litical level with the ignorant and degraded
free negroes.
Such are the fruits Of the distcm pered con.
dition Of the Northern mind; such the fruits of
the unholy alliance in the North between Abo.
litionism and Know-nothingism.
Yet Know-notbingism has spread in the
South; and, according to the Boston Post, the
abolitonized Know-nothings Of Massachusetts
absolutely claim M. Beale, the Tirgiaia Knop.
nothing candidate for Lieutenant Governor. as
an Aboltionistl!
We are filed with disgust at the doings Of
these scurvy, unprincirled, and reckless legis.
lative bodies. They deserve to be hung. drawn.
and quartered. They have, and without the
incentives and .excitements attendant upon a
revolution, committed as gross enormites as
we're perpetrated by the crop cared, vulgar,
and canting hypocrites Of the great Cromwelrs
time.
They have outraged decency, abandoned re-
ligion, and insulted the intelligence Of this ma.
ton. 1t is a sad reflection that the heresies Of
this evil period will 6nd n ,looo =. A....:oo..