Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-10-29
The Parry Question in Baltimore.


theme. The Sun is sometimes accused
of partisan feeling and designs; it is ga
masked battery" ga disguised foe," to
all with whom it does not agree, while
other more opprobrious than delicate
epithets are layishly bestowed upon it.
rather for the qualification of malice and
they can be SUPPOSED opToduce. ToSaiI
this we are accustomed; but unsustained
by The consciousness that they are mere
vulgatities. without application to us.
they would be zrathera4unpleasan and
"hard to take; But to some sort of
partisanhip we confess judgment" The
Sun has been ard always be identified
with party. It is with that party now
the party of right against wrong. In re-
lation to national measures, as ,professed
and advocated by democrats. Amer
leans. republicans or any +, other par.
ty. clique or faction we have our own
opinionsi and the independence" of The
Sun consists and is manifested in speak.
ing them frankly and distinctly. whenev>
er occasion seems in our judgment to re.
quire it. But whenever great public
wrong exists; whenever lawlessnes assails
the rights of any portion of the people;
whenever violence is tolerated by author
i;y. or connived at by political ambition,
The Sun will, most assurdly, be found in
incorporating hostility thereto. We
do not mean that anybody shall misun-
derstand or misrepresent us upon this
point, whatever may be done on others.
We are opposed to public wrong; and
though nominal majorities may be swollen
to score Of thousands. apparently ia par
ticipation, defense, or in mere palliation
OF such wrong, we Just as strenuously and
unquaiifedly denounce it When such
majorities are thrust upon our intelligence
as the evidence of popular assent to infa.
nous fraud, and the vindicatism Of noto-
rious delinquency. we reject it, in behalf
OF an indignant people, with equal indig-
nation and contempt.
10 allthe empty, trumpery imputation
of Fartisanship which are flung at the
Sun, we respond with the avowal that
our partisanship is that Of right against
wrong. With this sort of partisanship
we shall never be required to affect the
Insolence of the bully. the adulation of the
sycophant. the flippant mendacity Of the
apologlst, or the concliatory sputterings
at an i'll disguised shame. We can look
upon lawlessness and outrage as it is; ex-
hIbited it in its deformity, and, without
respect to party or persons, denounce it
FOR the accursed thing it is. And in do
ing this, it is with the utmost confidence
in popular intelligence and public integ-
rity.
Now, we ask; where is the man who
does not belong to this party :? We can
point them out TO you in squads and
groups upon election days. They sur
rounded the polls with bilies and pistols
on Wednesday last; they rolled about the
streets in hacks and omnibuses, display
ing firearms of all sorts, and uttering
threats and executing deeds Of violence
upon helpless and unarmed men; they
strolIed along the pavements, from ward
to ward. shouting their ralIying signals,
and vociferating the de!ectable names
with which as banded ruffians they have
distinguished themselves. We can point
TO men who do not belong to this party,
and they are engaged in beating legal vo-
tiers from the polls; in intimidatiug all who
would approach them to vote against their
candidate; while at the same time thew
themselves vote over and over again, and
thus stuff the ballot boxes 10 such excess
that every decent man in the community
gazes with disgust or shame upon The
avowed result. We can point men who
do not belong to this party. and they arc
hunting down peaceful and unoffending
citizens whenever q raid is resolved upon
for an hours sport by day or night. They
sack houses; beat men; insult women: rob
stores. and defy all authority-while the
sembiances of authority stand by paIaly-
sed. or willfully blind to the hideous
transactions. Now. we ask again, where
is the man who will declare himself in
opposition to the partisanship we avow-
the partisanship of right against wrong ?
But of all monstrous things that the
audacity of man could well conceive, we
are coolly hidden to Yield quiet, uncom-
planning assent to the nominal results
produced by such men and means as
these. We are deliberately told that
from such things the city may felicitate
itself with the assurance Of model mays
or and model administration. In def
ance OF all human experience, Of all the
accepted principles ofmorality and reli-
gion, we are enjoined to believe that from
fountain, reeking with putrescence, we
shall pr esently drink the very nectar of
the gods But the positive qualification
which could alone give utterance to such
sentiments is certainly surpassed by the
cool audacity which insists upon the sur.
render OF every emotion of wrouged and
outraged citizenship upon the altar of in
cense which this eliminated villany has
erected to the glori6cation of It's idol. It's
doll Verify. 50. And the priests OF
Juggernaut never so much presumed, up
on the besotted ignorance Of the misera
BILE Hindoo. as does that man nresnme