Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-04-26

British conservative, who unblushingly takes
his stand upon the wrong and in defence of all
existing abuses and iniquities. We would not
confound them, because the British. Whig is
either the dupe of the false colors under which
ne sails, or paying las hypocrisy is said to be,
the homage vice pays to virtue) that much at
least of tribute to the right as to hoist the flag
of political liberality. Still less would we, in
SO far, class together incongruous things, as
to place in common category the selfish
Tory of Great Britain, who believes in the
right divine of kings, who would restore Stuart
and Bourbon, re-impose Draconic laws, Catho-
lie disabilities, protective duties on corn and
confound the practical and selfish politician,
whose sagacious head and resolute hand re-
presses every liberal tendency and aspiration,
with the explosive mailman or impractical fool
who would solder down the safety valve, burst
up the engine and blow the system that he
sought to intensity to atoms. This British
Tory is about as obsolete as a former party in
our own country, whose status we have heard
editor, who, having eschewed all violence,
joined the Church, and resolved to resent
blow on one cheek by turning the other to the
smter, was accosted by an irascible cotem-
porary with the epithet of " scoundrel," to
which the patient editor replied, "alIow me,
sir, to differ with you on that point" This
answer, SO far from modifying the objurgator,
provoked him only to brand his victim as a
coward and a liar" which again only drew
forth this Christain-like reply: "Sir, think if
you take the sense Of the community on that
subject, you will find yourself in the minority"
Disguised, if not disarmed, by this blandness,
the man of wrath was turning on his heel with
a contemptuous sheer at the "pitiful old Fede-
ralist," when, unable to stand that insinu.
alton, (which, as he remarked, was "too
Odd true,") the man of peace rode up
servative considers it personal insult to be
reminded that he was once Tory. But if the
Tory be as obsolete as the Federalist, the OBJ
solete still survives in a mummifed state
young aud vigorous republic, and though no
longer party, but rather Renaissance,
Toryism has still one or two fossil organs
Of these, the most interesting relic is the
well known "Blackwood, whose original
stamina and vigor has preserved it from ex-
tinction and enabled it to survive-in state
Of -petrefaction-both vitality and decay.
We wish our readers to note we'll that it
is avowedly Tory organize organ in
Great Britain of fervent old ladies, toothless
old Lords and plethoric pluralists. Its princi-
Piles and policy should be symbolzed by the
crab, because in as far as it has life enough at
all to move it moves undeviatingly backwards.
We transcribed from its columns to our own
the other day, an article on Nicaragua-fair in
its general statement Of facts, candid in the
avowals which escape it, and consequently il
logical in its naturally retrogressive deductions.
But our readers cannot have failed to perceive
that in this backward race which the poor old
Tory Blackwood might fairly have hoped to
crawl without competitor, it has been outstrip-
ped by the Pierce and Marcy cabinet. The
superanuated organ has the modification of see
ing itself ahead of Republican Democratic
cabinet and we have to lay down Blackwood
with the humilating reflection that there is
nothing even in the old world, which is not in
advance of the man whom, in an evil hour,
we raised, by our sufrages, to that Presidential
Chair which has been so often nobly filed, and
whose least worthy occupants will, in future,
stand out in respectable, and even lustrous re.
lief by contrast with the Lilliputan who has
been foisted intoit
"The constitution Of Nicaragua says Black.
wood, approaches more nearly to Despotism,
a mode Of government much better adapted to
a people, &c," and further " the manner in
which Nicaragua has been reduced, or IL should
rather be said, raised 10 It's present condition,
By being occupied and governed By large
body Of Americans" d.c. That is to say that
the bare recapitulation of the former state Of
the country, and the beneficial change that
Walker and his followers have introduced,
forces even Blackwood to admit, that the con-
dition Of Nicaragua has been thereby raised.
To the wisdom and moderation Of his course,
honest, if reluctant, testimony is borne, and
Blackwood establishes the fact in the first place
that Castillion, IA man Of superior education
and enlightenment" was the de jurc President
Of Nicaragua, because supported by the ma
jority Of his countrymen in his resistance to
Chamorro, who had illegally declared himself
president for four years more than the usual
term" In the second, that the government Of
Castillion was the de Jacto government because
his party chad become masters Of the entire
country with the exception Of the besieged
portion Of the city Of Granada occupied by
Chamorro." Thirdly, it testifes "that nego.
tiation had been concluded between Col. Walker
in San Francisco, through his agent in Mica
ragua, and the Democratic government" 1.-THE