The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-08-31

%brother's keeper" lie seems to fancy
that he has prescriptive right to ex-
ercise sort of censorious supervision
over our columns, aud hence employs a
large portion OF his editorial space in
chrohicliug what the ADVOCATE has
said, or in ehidiug i, for what il has
said 10 manner not 10 accordance
with his tastes. He has taken it upon
himself especially to establish the AID.
vocArRs 'inconsisteucy, and he labors
over il with zeal equal to that once
employed to discover Simms' Hole, or
to solve the forty seventh problem Of
Euclid. What his object is, or what
good purpose he expects to accomplish
BY il, We are not advised, neither can
We divine. Week after week, and mouth
after mouth, has he presented to his
readers COLLATION. Of extracts from the
ADyocATE, with editorial comments Of
his own designed to prejudice the source
whence these extracts we're taken. In
other words, it seems to be his peculiar
idiosynerasy to pick out every item from
his neighboring contemporary ia which
he thinks he diseerns flaw, or which
will afford him text for editorial com.
ment. We trust we properly appreciate
these attentions of the .Seatiaei, though
we have not always reciprocated them
in kind; for we have not thought it
important to note what it has said or
what it has not said, except occasionally,
when it has chosen TO make personal
reference to US. An obseryant writer
has said;-" 1t is a note of obtrusive little
ness to observe and watch for those
poor trihes which nobler minis neglect
and seorn." 1t also indicates a poverty
Of resource which one would think the
editor would wish, for his own credit
sake, to keep out of view, instead Of
parading it, from week to week, before
the eyes Of his readers. What if the
ADVOCATE is Inconsistent, or the Sen.
tiaei the pink of consistency and pro
prietys What boots it to the world
around them The sun will not 90
back a single degree, but rise aud set,
as usual. Nor will the great polit-
zeal issues of the day be materially
affected, one way or the other. The
Sentinel is wrong. if not wantonly
so, in persisting that the ADvo-
CATE is ''inconsistent" and reereant to
"integri'y'' in supporting Horace Gree
ley, who was the advocate of measures
which it earnestly condemned Il as
earnestly condemns, to day, all those
measures, as it ever did, aud retracts
not one word it ever uttered in refer
euce to them. 1t is still utterly opposed
to mixed schools, aud the many abomi.
nations Of Summers civil rights bill, as
we'll as all the partizan legislation of
an abandoned Congressional cabal,
which has enabled one half Of this
country to rob, outrage aud trample
upon the other; aud all il wants is the
opportunity to sweep such legislation
from the statute. books. It opposed
Horace Greeley to the last, until the
alternative Of Grant or Greeley was
forced upon it, much against its will, by
the politicians Of the country; when,
notwithstanding all its opposition to
Greeley, it regarded him as infinitely
preferable to Grant, and his election
the only practicable way left open to
overthrow the present corrupt Admin
istration. Is there any Inconsistency"
or abandonment of political integrity"
10 that No fair minded man, capable
of doing a political opponent justice,
will assert it.
Two weeks ago, at the close Of several
extracts from the columns Of the Adso-
cate, the editor Of the Aentinel wound
up BY an exhibition of mock magnanim-
Ity, saying, I'VE could give other ex-
tracts, but We forbear." That il was a
false pretence Of forbearance is evinced
by the fact that he resumed his extracts
10 his subsequent issues. He may as
well understand that we crave not his
forbearance in any sense. While we
have refrained from noticing his weekly
assaults upon our position, from an
aversion to personalities which he seems
to think may be legitimately employed
towards an opponent, we recognize the
duty Of self-defence, and shall not be
slow to undertake that duty whenever
assailed; and if we should step beyond
the strict line of that duty, the persis
tent provoeation to do SO will be our
sufficient Justification.
The Ner York Evening Express