The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-10-26

tered bid books before can De aSceraneu winch are
the highest Every exertion will be made 10 decide this
at the earliest possible moment when notice will be given
to those whose bids shall have been accepted 1t proba
Bile that sales Of all the advertised property have been made
If So the Solicitor may congratulate himself upon entire
success in his plan of sale.
1t is altogether idle for the Albany Atlas and the New
York Evening Post to assert that this journal has ex-
hibted any form or degree of opposition to that por-
ton of the New York democracy which they claim to
represent prior TO this most i'll advised and unusfable
Herkimer secession N some of lis leaders Up to the
time of this movement if we can have any difficulty in
making out our entire neutralty between the two
ons that difficulty will lie solely in defending ourselves
from the charge of an inclination in favor of those
claiming to be the peculiar friends of the amented Wright
Yet the Atlas abiding to disclaimer Of any desire
the part of the administration TO interfere in the dcngs OF
the Syracuse convention, has the following remarks
'Hut for any practical purpose these disclaimers come
too late. They after the consummaton of the out
lages which timely rebuke might have prevented
been the misfortune of the government paper to be
all ardy in its intervention in regard to New York
When on the of the election of 1916, it out with
leader marked with great force and SKILL deny that the
administration Washington sought the defeat OF Silas
Wright had been alleged, and to dsclam the rumored
declarations of members of the cabinet to that effect its
election; ana was not copied by single paper in the
State which claimed have intimate relations with the
administration, nor by any paper but our own"
When Mr. Wright was nominated for reelection as
governor OF New York. neither the Post nor the Atlas
sincerely DESTROYS than that he should sue
coed Every thing then conspred to produce this feeling
in minds. He great and good mana most
llusirious statesman who had done the democracy Of
the whole country noble service He was moreover the
regular nominee of regular democratic State con-
vention No considerable attempt had then been made
to commit him personally to the ultra Proviso doc
tne We confidently trusted that the democracy OF
New York would triumph in his election AS soon as
felt there any serious doubt OF this, did what
little we could TO aid him and his friends We depreca-
led and denounced loudly and repeatedly any purpose in
any section of the party to refuse him their votes We
are free to say that as we remember did think
there was at that time appearance of hardship in
the of the contestng Albany delegates TO the nom
mating convention, whose claims were summarily
rejected by the vote of the majority But that was,
in our view, no affair of ours, and then
exhorted all the New York democracy to stand by
and sustain the regular nominations. If any OF our
remarks late to reach all parts OF the State be-
fore the election it so happened through no design OF
We spoke out just soon we supposed that
any aid OF ours needed
We have taken part in the discussions of the New
York democrats, in so far they arise out OF personal
preferences or State questions We have censured
the proposed Provso schsm only because its bearings
entirely and cminenty national Whenever we have
commented on the politics OF New York, it has been
with the sincere desire the harmony, not to TO-
men the dssensons, of the democratic party.
MEssRs. BUCHANAN, DALLAS, AND WooDBURY.--ln an
article the subject of the national convention, and the
question of the Wimot Proviso, involved in the nomna
ton the Jacksonville (Florda) News (Which advises
the southern democracy with groundess fears we think,
10 stand alooi. trusting TO migh 10 vote for