Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-07
From the Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
The Conteudfnx Parties.

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The Contending Parties.
The country is awaiting with breathless sus
pense the announcement of the result of the
Cincinnati Convention The character of the
nomination made by that body may so greatly
influence the whole course of the Presidential
contest, that all parties are awaiting its de-
cision ere they finally decide upon their plans
for the campaign.
upon desperate effort to attract to itself an
undue share of public sympathy and attention.
If we were to take the professions of the cum
ming political schemers who officer this organi-
cation, for what on their face they purport to
be worth, they are the most patriotic, disinte-
rested, and liberty-loving individuals ever
vouchsafed to wicked world. If we give
credence to their pretensions, we must rank
them high up among the noble galaxies OF
martyrs, heroes, and immortal patriots. Truly,
they are most meek and holy saints in their
injuries;" but we are by no means yet satisfied
that they are not devils in their kitchens"
Their potent leaders have played so many
fantastic tricks upon the political stage, have
fshed up so many marvellous Morgans from
the depths of politics have manufactured SO
many cunning devices. to play upon the pas
sions Of the public, and have shown themselves
such mere selfish, hollow-hearted, insincere ac-
tors in them all, that an odor of humbug sur
rounds their every action, and an emotion Of
contempt for their buffoonery is the legitimate
reward for their sublimest pretended transports
Of virtuous Indignation.
But whatever may have been the character
of any former political expedient of the Repub-
lican leaders to foist themselves into power
however base or false their maneuvers in
former years-howeyer contemplate their pro-
totype, the archscheemer, Seward, may appear
as we trace him in his course Of pettifogging
political trickery, now as an anti Mason hoist
ing raw head and bloody bones banner to
brighten the cowardly, and seduce the waver-
ing then as director of the log-cabin and hard
cider campaign of 1910, followed up his mount
ing the temperance hobby, to say nothing of
anti-rentism, &C., &c. Never before has that
lust of power, which is the predominant charac-
teristic of the Black Republican generals, led
them to adopt means half SO dangerous or de.
testable to crafty their Unsuitable ambition, as
those they are now resorting to.
In every country, and geographical or politi-
cal division of inhabitable territory, more or
less of a feeling of sectional jealousy and ami
mostly naturally exists. We see it constantly
between rival countries, between rival States of
one nation, between rival counties of one
State, between rival townships of one county,
and even between rival wards and districts of
one town or city. Wherever the union by
which these rival interests are connected is
really a desirable and advantageous one, it is
the province of all good and patriotic citizens
to endeavor to preserve its existence and to Sc
cure the exercise pitts power in a manner con-
elusive to the general welfare of all interested
yet 1T nearly always occurs in all political di-
visions whether large or small, that small
minded but desperate demagogues are con
stantly seeking occasion to infame sectional
animosities and to arouse State against State,
or section against section, when no better
method OF attaining their selfish ends presents
ITSELF This policy, the Black Republican de-
magogues, true to the instincts of their class,
have firmly resolved upon. Torrents of vitu-
perahon are heaped against those they antag-
onize,--every incident calculated to awaken
bitter feelings of animosty is viewed by them
with feeling of as great JOY as if they had
discovered some brilliant jewel, an army of
preachers is enlisted in their behalf, the basest
faisehoods are boldly uttered, and all that clap
trap sophistry and diabolical ingenuity can do
is done to destroy every tie that rivets this glo
rious Union together, to pull down the pillars
OF the Constitution and destroy the fabric left
us as sacred Inheritance by our patriotic an
cestors, to defy the warnings of Washington
against the formation of sectional parties, and
to blast forever the bright prospects which as
a united people await us.
!, The other organization in antagonism to the
Democratic party, Know nothingism, seems to
be growing smaller by degrees and beautifully
less" and we trust if any of the spiritrappers
receive an intimation of the whereabouts of the
spirit of Sam, they will PROFOUND to him the
interrogatory: "Oh shade of the mighty, where
now are thy legions?"
But the other day their last stronghold
Washington, was rescued from their foul en-
brace, and thus from all the cities which they
had captured like thieves, in the night, they
have been driven by the just Indignation of the
insulted communities they had plundered and
disgraced. II is true that here and there some
wandering disciples of the order are occasionally
to be met with, who, amid the great rout that
has overtaken their party, have not yet had
time to dof their old uniforms, and who from
mere force of habit, still chaunt the soul
inspiring watchward of the party:
"Fe, ia, 70, f, fun,
smell the blood of an ,Engshman
And dead or alive, / will have some;"
but "the last of the Know. nothings" will soon
descend to his political tomb, the few affairs of
Sam-worship yet remaining will crumble TO the
dust, and nought remain as souvenir of the
existence of this once proud organization but
its black record of injustice and nfamy.
As to the oldline Wing party, many of its
noblest members are now actively enlisted IN.
der the Democratic banner, and still more, we
trust, will speedily seek shelter under its bright
folds.
Alas, How FalIcni
Mr.. Sumner in late speech in the Senate,
likened Mr.. Douglas, Of Illinois, to a certain
nameless animal which emitted noisome odor.
The United States Senate was once as dgnified
and decorous a body as the British House Of
Lords. How has it fallen Upon what times
have we come, when a man can be elected
from sovereign State to a seat in the United
States Senate, capable Of employing language
in debate towards another Senator such as was