The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-13
THE MILWAUKEE SENTINEL.

THE MILWAUKEE SENTINEL.
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The Milwaukee Sentins printing es.
adjustment has passed into the hands of
the Milwaukee Publishing Company and
the Sentinel of Monday contains A WORD
AT PARTING, of Horace Brightman, late
publisher and proprietor and the Salu.
tatory of A. III. Thomson, Editor. Mr..
Thomson is an able and experienced
Journalist, we'll known to the public, and
needs no conmendation. After speaking
of the sentinel heretofore, Mr.. Thomson
turrs to the future, and says: ~
4 That Higher Law of journalism which
we recognize and strive to obey, will
compel strict allegiance to the highest
interests Of the people as paramount
duty, ana Will count pecuniary gain SUBJ
servient and secondary to the conscious
ness of being right and doing right, which
must bring ultimate success. Nor is it nee.
essary to say that the Sentinel, while it
remains under its present management will
be anything else tLan radical Republic
an newspaper of the straightest sect, and
II some think little too radical, thew
console themselves by remembering that
the old Conservative army lies encamped
to-day upon tho same ground which it's
Radical enemies occupied on yesterday,
and that both, whether willing or un-
willing are only obeying the great law of
progression, and will be nearer right
next year than they are this. The Re-
publican party has already performed a
work for the country and mankind that
must pass into history as one of. the
grandest political achievements that. has
been witnessed since government were
established among men. Although called
upon to administer the government in the
critical exigency of the bloodiest civil
war that misguided men ever waged
against their fellows, and forced to test
tall the unSried powers of the constitution
and to tax the patriotism and the re-
sources of the people without limit, yet it
demonstrated it's ability to govern by the
sagacity, prudence and wisdom that
characterized its policies and its acts. A
review OF its short and brilliant career,
ills us with admiration atoits wonderful
success, and to recapitulate It's marvellous
deeds in favor of humanity since it first
elected Mr.. Lincoln to the presidency,
would be to write the most glowing and
absorbing chapter in our countrys an
nails. ac5 E laAe eso ea
But the present condition of the Re-
publican party is peculiar, and the temp.
tations surrounding it have strong ten
dency to induce it to abuse the powers
| given it by the people Time was when
the two opposing parties in this country
were so evenly sbalenced that the one
served as check upon the other; but
that condition of things does not now
exist, nor is it likely soon to be true
again. The opposition is in the minority
In almost every state in the Union, and
Fin the Congress of the United States, the
scene of its former triumphs, it has
dwindled to mere faction, with scarcely
power enough left to make an objection,
or to enter protest against the action of
the dominant party. Under such cir
cumstances it devolves upon the honest
and patriotic men in our party ranks
the sincere men who have made it. what
1t is and who desire to preserve its purity
to restrain party action within proper
limits, and to sternly resist the tempta-
tions which are offered those in authority
by such almost unlimited power The
Sentinel would be an unfaithful sentinel
III it did not promptly lift its warming
voice whenever occa sion requires to re-
buke, in love, the attempts which ,ambi-
tious or corrupt men may make to de-
stroy the confidence of the people. The
party has its defects, but these defects it
will seek to eliminate, and will try to
pluck the beam from its own party's eye
with quite as much zeal as it will look
for the mote in the eye of its Democratic
brother. 1t will do this because it Is
so unchristian as to love its own party
better than it loves its brothers and
because it desires to keep up the eff
cheney and purity of the Republican or
!, anization. X H.
We trust the SENTINEL will faithfully
purs ne the course marked out, and that
caree of future usefulness and abundant
q ;a1 c11oooac awaits IL