Washington telegraph., 1849-09-19
The Convention at Rome--Farcical DenQue,
ment-What Next

The Convention at Rome--FarcicaI Denous,
ment-What Next
We'll, the "6erce democracie" have
met at Rome. They have have gone
through al! the forms and ceremonies of a
humbug political convention" Indeed,
they have had two conventions in broad
daylight, in churches-save the mark
and two or three dozen conventions be,
tween midnight and the dawn of the
morning, in the bar-rooms and grog-shops
of the village of classical name. Holy
men as they are. they have had clergy to
open their proceedings with prayer. while
Beelzebub peeped slyly in at the windows.
They have passed resolutions innumera-
BILE, and made scores of propositions, and
specialized and spouted, and shouted and
drank bad brandy and water, till the half
of them got black in the face. or were
brought to the very verge of the cholera
morbus. But they won't unite! Con-
found it they won't unite! They love
each other like brotkess, but they won't
unite.
This whole affair turned out just as we
anticipated. 1t originated in well de-
vised scheme of the "barnburners;" and
certainly, thus far, they have completely
outwitted the opposite faction. The
chief object of the '.basnburners" was to
make grand demonstration of their
strength and magnanimity. They are
well aware that they possess majority
of the party throughout the State; and
under pretence of generous effort at
union, they have taken occasion to make
formidable display of their power, and
re-establish their Buffalo platform. Two
important ends are thus achieved. In
the first place, the rank and file of the
"hunkers'' will gradually be induced to
fall into the embraces of the "barnburn-
ers;" and then, again, the whole rag-tag
and bobtail of abolitionism ia this State,
and throughout tile Northern sections of
the Union, will be merged in this free
soil party. In this State, the leaders of
the "barnburners" will thus be enabled
to gain that which they have sought, and
which has alone stimulated all their eff.
forts-the patronage and spoils of the
government of New York; for we can
hardly have O. doubt that the big guns of
the "hunkers" must hereafter be silent,
and may just as well shut up at once,
quietly resigning themselves to their evil
destiny and political damnation.
We will not shed many tears over the
fall of cold hunkerism" in the State Of
New York. 1t comprised in its day and
generation, ala immeasurable amount of
fraud and corruption. Nor is
the faction which succeeds it in dominion
over "the party" at all deficient in rascal.
ity, humbug, and selfshness. Its head
and front, Martin Van Buren,, is probably
one of the most hypocritical and corrupt
politicians that ever lived by that trade,
His whole public career, from first to last,
has been that of a low and ignoble nature.
We have known not few politicians in
our time, who were great knaves; but
they had some traits of generous char.
acter But Martin Van Buren, is the very
of selfshness and meanness,
in whose little soul if he have one-every
principle of purity or patriotism is utterly
decayed. A moral putresence ipfects his
entire political life. Such is the man
who has been chiefly instrumental in dis
the democratic party, and cre-
ating faction, which, in order to obtain
the spoils of this State, and a controlling
voice in the management of the general
government, does not scruple to strike at
the stability of the Union ITSELF
~. Y. Herald.