Washington sentinel., 1856-07-24
BLACK REPUBLICAN, MINsrRELsY


Whether this great foe to the Democracy
will seek to defeat it by an appeal to passion,
reason, or sentiment seems no longer to be in
doubt
By a recent expose in the New York Herald,
it appears that an appeal to song is to be one,
at least, if not the most important, element in
the canvass which Black Republicanism has
commenced. The Herald is the medium
through which it is introduced to the public.
That paper, the handspring of whose opinion
is the chance of success, and whose editor has,
within short time, claimed Fremont's nomi-
nation as its own meritorious offering to the
new party, because resulting from its sugges-
ton, seeing as he says, that in all probability
he would become a successful candidate for
the Presidency, has published upon one side of
its sheet string of poetic gems the like of
which have not been seen since the notorious
Yello,c Kiuer' went out of vogue.
Think of Black Republican melodies set to
Ethiopian music, sung by the ngger-worship-
ping followers of the chiyalrous discoverer of
the Rocky Mountain Pass" or the gallant
rider of tie Woolly Horsel Quere2 Is it not
the "WooIy Head" Horse. Think of this
stave for instance Air, however. not Ethio-
plan, but Scotch.)
"lf young Johnny 90 sweet Jessie
From old Tommy eye, &c,
Win his Jessie, wed his Jessie,
Need old Tommy cry ?"
How delicate How refined it would be
How well adapted to the party, whose only
sense of harmony is manifested in the discord
it engenders, the peace ofa people destroyed
the hopes of a world extinguisbed.
Or turn from the love passages between the
Candidate and Candidates for the Presidency,
to the song Of Jessie, the sweetest flower of
o. the landl
Or, if your taste should revolt from the sight
of fair woman's name being the catchword Of
chorus in the mouths of Ethiopian serena
ders, regale yourself with the political ballads,
in which the Hon. p. s. Brooks is made TO
flourish gutta percha cane, and the bleeding
carcass Of the lamenting Sumner, cast for a
moment a shade of darkness over the merri.
ment Of the song Of "Rally whigsIv
Has il come to this? Are the glories of the
Union to be sunk from the heroic author of
national song TO the low street chorus Of mob
Of traitors? is the refinement of woman to be
forgotten in the attempt to rally squad of
enthusiasts around the person Of an unworthy
aspirant for the first Office in the world2 To
make Johnny" President must the shrinking
form of "Jessie" be dragged before mob Of
vagabonds, insulting her character and dis
honoring her position, by connecting them with
the powers Of liquor, and the name of the
candidate Of party whose purpose is treason,
whose object is disunion2
This is new phase in political contests. 1t
has been bad enough to open all the avenues
to the personal history Of the unhappy choice
of party for the Presidency. Bat it is a
novel and fearful omen Of the future that the
sacredness of the domestic relation is violated
20 give eclat TO candidate, or lend romance
10 o canvass How long will it be after this
faction shall have inaugurated its new regime,
before we shall see in the court paper (quere,
l~ill it be the Herald y how her hghness Lady,
Jessie, rode through the Park, in company with
his Excellency and his Highpess Johnny"
with the little highnesses and the Right Hon.
Fred. Douglass, mounted upon that splendid
charger-tbe Woolly Horsel
If John c. Fremont be man Of merit,
show hmi We accord to his wife all that
chivalry will ever render to woman. But she