Washington sentinel., 1856-04-03
THE "sOUTH SIDE DEMoCRATo AND
THE WASHINGTON UNION.o


This fusion is obvious in the Washington
Union of Saturday evening last.
We propose to attack it, and shall spare
neither pains nor terms to characterize it as
it deserves. When the conductors Of public
journals violate good faith and decorum, in
attacking contemporary, it is their fault if
they are told dsagreeable things.
want of manliness in the mode of attack
shall not protect them, for We have ever held
it to be true chivalry not to assail an adver.
sary, either in the dark, or by mischievous inu-
endo. We did not expect anything better at the
hands of paper like the Washington Union
whose columns abound daily in deception, misre-
presentations and unfairness Less than ,cesk
since Il assured us readers and the public
that the Sentinel was paper with which it
held no intercourse y MARCH THE 29TH. how.
ever it finds it convenient to its purpose to dis
regard even that long standing pledge, (the
only one of the many violated, which it was
nerer required 10 make,) to assail US over the
shoulders of the South Side Democrat, edited
complain if the editor Of the Washington
Union can sleep quietly under the manifest
disgust which fills the minds of all true men.
at course so violative of consistency and fair
ness. De gustibus non est disputaadum."
So we leave the Union to its amiable compo-
sure.
But Of the course Of the South Side Demo.
crat, we have something more to say. Of its
gratuitous attack upon US, we shall speak with
the freedom that becomes US as a man. and The
conductor Of public journal that has never
been charged with bad faith to & friend or a
principle.
The caption Of the article in the Union
Summary Rebuke'-shows quite clearly the
preconcert which was doubtless entered into bv
these respectable sheets. We congratulate the
Union on having obtained the valuable SER
vices Of the South Side Democrat to do for il
what the Union is afraid to do for itself Find
ing it impossible, as they shall continue 10 find
it impossible to crush out the Sentinel for ex.
posing the corruptions Of the Administration
Of Franklin Pierce, they have joined teens in
making an attack, the more offensive becanso
il is insidious and unmanly.
With the Souh Side Democrat. even ain
the days when it went gipsying," with the So6s
or Freesoiicrs Of New York, we endeayored 10
maintain relations Of friendly intercourse.
With its editor, we have had, not intimate. bpt
k'nd relations. II necessity in our judgment
had arisen for us TO have controverted anv
positions had taken, we would have done 40
as IN duty bound, but we should have done so
respectfully, and with sincere regret. But
when this paper travels entirely out Of i,s wav
not only to censure us, but to attempt to turn
from us the friendship Of those whom We haze
long and faithfully served, we are left be.
widered for q motive for its extraord;rorv
proceeding. When this selfconstituted az.
ponent Of senators Douglas, Hunter, Butler
and Mason, essays TO speak their sentiments,
Of the course and conduct of paper, with
whose political record they have never differed
upon single position, we are constrained TO
trace It's motive TO a source not highly credita-
Die. We have written three of these gentle
men, 70 know the authority upon which the
eo'tor OF the South Side Democrat has made
THIS assertion IN their behalf The fourth. Judge
Butter, We know, never authorized any such in
depreciation TO be placed on his publie or