HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
Mr. Tenney continued to edit and publish 
the Sentinel until August, 1860, when the paper 
passed into the hands of James Bintliff and E. 
E. Bryant. Mr. Bryant retired from the Senti- 
nelin May, 1861, to enter the army in the War 
for the Union. Mr. Bintliff continued the 
paper until the 6th of November following, 
when he sold a half interest to E. E. Carr, as 
appears by the following announcement of Mr. 
Bintliff on that day, in the Sentinel: 
"We have sold a one-half interest in the Sen- 
ti'nel office to Egbert E. Carr, of Shullsburg, 
who becomes jointly interested with us in the 
publication of theSentinel with the present issue, 
and who we expect will, about the 1st of Decem- 
ber next, introduce himself to its readers as one 
of its editors. Mr. Carr is a thorough practical 
printer of more than twenty years' experience, 
and come to us with the best recommendations 
of his integrity as a man, and his qualifications 
to conduct a printing office. 
"Our only object in making this change is to 
relieve us of the responsibility of managing a 
business we do not understand, and to give us 
more time to devote to our editorial duties. We 
hope by this arrangement to improve the Sen- 
tinel, and make it still more worthy of the sup- 
port of this county. It is now fifteen months 
since we became connected with the Sentinel, 
and during that time it has received the hearty 
support of a very large class of the best citizens 
of the county. 
"Our subscription list is as a whole as prompt 
pay as any in the State, but there are a few who 
have not paid one cent since we took possession 
of the office. To such we take this opportunity 
to say that we cannot afford to send you a paper 
longer than one year unless we get pay for it, 
All the expenses of a printing office are cash, 
and no man can publish a newspaper and do 
justice to himself and those who pay him, and 
give credit to any man longer than one year. 
Come friends, pay up." 
Mr. Bintliff entered the Union army, but 
continued still as co-editor of the Sentiuel, and 
 
retained his interest therein. On the 28th of 
July, 1865, the paper was sold to A. J. High 
and Charles A. Booth. Their announcement 
upon assuming control was as follows: 
TO THE PATRONS OF THE-SENTINEL. 
"In accordance with the announcement of 
Messrs. Bintliff & Carr last week, the under- 
signed to-day assume the editorial management 
of the Sentinel. In entering upon the arduous 
duties before us, we do so with a degree of dif- 
fidence proportionate to the great responsibili- 
ties devolving upon us; and, while we do not 
lay down any extended programme of future ac- 
tion, a due regard for the customs of the times 
and the opinions of our readers seems to de- 
mand a declaration of the political faith that 
will govern us in our new relation. 
"Politically, the Sentinel will remain un- 
changed. As in the past it has been the bold 
and earnest defender of moral and constitutional 
right, so in the future, while under our control, 
it will support those principles and measures 
best calculated to secure the liberties of the 
people and maintain the integrity of the govern- 
ment. We march with the great Union army. 
Whether in the field or in the sanctum, we are 
fighting in the same good cause. In the field 
we stood opposed to treason in high places, 
boldly proclaimed and defended, while now, in 
the sanctum, it is only necessary to 'change 
front' in order to meet that more contemptible, 
sneaking, cowardly treason which skulks in 
darkness and stabs in the rear. 
"In these eventful days of progress and re- 
form, party creeds are very brief. The great 
questions which once agitated the public mind 
now stand recorded in the political catechisms 
only as a part of our past history. Slavery, 
once the all-absorbing topic, the cause of bitter 
party strife, the moral and political curse of the 
Nation, has been wiped out of existence. 
"Banks, tariffs, sub-treasuries, public lands, 
internal improvements, compromises and pro- 
visos 'no more divide our choice' or gender 
strife. These questions, if not obsolete, have 
 
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