Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14
A Political Portrait.

The following from the New York Econo-
mist, an independent, but not a partizan pa
per, will do. Its daguerreotype of Massa-
chusetts fanaticism and Of the Black Repub-
lican candidate for President, both on the
sam plate, is about as good as can be "got
up" during the heat of "dog days." and
with such a "nasty stir among outsiders.
The sitting must have been a patient one, else
the portrait could not have been so striking
and life-like. Any one, with half an eye,
who looks at it, will have NO need to ask
"who's hit" The type" is "taken," and
all will recognize it:
Mr.. Van Buren, has been known i'm the poll
teal history Of the country as the Northern
man with Southern principles and Mr.. FIRE.
mont, If he should ever come to be known to
political history at all, might reverse the posi-
ton, since he, an ultra Southern man, now
stands before the party as the exponent of ex-
IRENE Northern principles nor does that posi-
ton limit his antithetical character, since it is
eminently paradoxical. Massachusetts, and
South Carolina have during more than a quar-
ter Of a century maintained a sort of political
duel. which has waxed fercer since the failure
of Mr.. Hoar's mission many years since. The
affair OF Sumner and Brooks is but a phase in
that duel. Mr.. Sumner INDUCED in that vitu-
~peration of South Carolina which has been pom
ular in Massachusetts, since the repulse of Mr..
Hoar this Mr.. Brooks resented, on behalf OF
his State, in his own manner. The excitement
Of this strife has aided in developing a fanati-
cal Massachusetts, party in The North, which
curiously enough has chosen a South Carolina
man for its leaderi The Massachusetts party
are mostly Presbyterians in religious belief,
with treat adherence of Romanism, vet their
candidate is a Catholic The same party are
abolitionists, yet all the votes of their candi.
date have been ultra pro-slaveryl 1t embraces
the leading protectionists of the North, vet
supports a free trade pTotege Of Calhoun The
party is composed mostly of ardent Wings, yet
their voices are for a radical Democrat They
profess horror of corruption, yet they adhere
to the most gigantic Speculation in public lands
with public monoy the world has ever known
They avow a desire for a man OF energy and
decision. yet they rally around the supple in
strument of Palmer, Cook d Co, in the perfec.
ton Of claims, of which they retain the profit
and leave him the SHELF They desire a leader
of men in times of emergency, and they take uT
the humble follower of Kit Carson through the
wilderness. They seek a statesman and the,
only take up the son-in-law of a statesman
ihcy nohOT q W'llldly ieduer, anu rally upon I
casbiered insubordinate. They demand a Skill
full fuancier. and take up a public defaulter.-
They admire the man of steadily developed
character, and put forth a naval officer trans
formed from a pedagogue into a surveyor
ther &c into The army TO be cashiered into a lant
speculator. to become a politician with protested
paper. There seems to he no end to the para
dox which the case presents, yet, nevertheless
it marks the progress of disunion, since the sol
bond between this man Of contradictions ant
his antithetical party is sectionalism."