Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-09-15
Mr.. Lyons and the Northern De.
mOCracy.

The fact that Mr.. LroNs Oh Richmond, former.
ly a prominent Wing, has gone ovet to the De
mocracy, is generally known. His course, aiiei
accepting office from the late Wing State Convcn.
ton, might well subject him to the imputation Of
treachery but the Wig says, no doubt correctly
that ''whim, caprice, vanity, and painful afilic-
tiot; of the Bolts, exered far more influence ove,
him." His personal hostility to the Hon. JOIN
NJ. BORIS, is such as to prevent his acting with
him in any matter.
MIR, Lyons has recently been travelling in New
England, and after attending two political meet
mgs wrote letter in which he says 'sthe Demo
cratic party of New England is as sound Upon the
Compromise question and the Constitutional right,
of the South as the South itself" twill surprise
every one to learn that at one of those meeting:
JOHN VAN buren, was chief speaker, and in the
course of his remarks declared that his position was
not Inconsistent with his position in 4S-that 9Th,
Democrats detestcd sIavery-that they eould moi
uphold any lac TO preserve such an institaion.'-
What reliance can be placed upon Mr. LYONS as
witness after this2
AT the other meeting, in Faneuil Hall, Boston
several Southern gentlemen, including Mr. L..
were on the platform, and their Yankee friends
seem to have been cute enough eli that occasion
not to say any thing TO offend their sensbilities-
But side by side with them sat this same Mr.. Van
buren, and Mr.. BANKS, speaker of the Coalition
Legislature of Massachusetts and supporter o.
SUMNER for the United States Senate.
The idea of testifying to the "soundness" ofthe
Massachusetts Democracy is certainly rich one
Mr.. Lyons must have been flattered out of his
wits, or he would not have forgotten the recent
open and infamous coalition of that party with the
Aboiitionists, by which, as part of the bargain
SUMNER was elected-a man who few weeks
ago delivered a speech in the United States Sen
ate in favor Of the repeal Of the Fugitive Slave
Law.
The Boston Courier, remarking upon Mr.. LY-
oNs' letter says
cat the present time, as well as for more than
two years past, for all practical political purposes
the Democrats of Massachusetts and the Abolition
lists of Massachusetts have been, as party, ono
and indivsabe. There may be individual eXcep-
tions upon both Sides but the exceptions will most
pointedly confirm this rule. They have caucused
and bargained together in secret, and have voted
together in public. The Democrat has been a
good Aboltionist, and the Abolitionist has been a
good Democrat, and in the plenitude of their pow
er and the exercise of their bargain, they seized
upon Massachusetts,, and partitioned its offices a.
mong themselves, with as much GOODNESS as the
three powers of Europe divided among each other
the kingdom of Poland.
'And Mr.. Lyons, who was born near Rich
mond, sat face to face with This brood of Abolition
ists-or political allies of AboitioniSts-and pro
nounces the whole to be Sound upon the compro-
mise question: The very men, who, through them
selves or their direct political agents introduced
to the last Legislature the bill to nuly the fugl-
tive slave law of the United States, sat upon the
platform with him, but, according to the Union,
had no opportunity to deceive him. Truly, there
is no darkness like ignorance, and Mr. Lyons, be-
ing entirely ignorant of the character of the Mas
sachusetts Democracy, as a whole, is overcome by
their devotion to the Democratic candidate for the
Presidency, which he seems to adopt beforehand
as the principle of devotion to the Union. If he
had been here last winter, or the winter before,
and had seen them vote and act with their black
allies in the Legislature he could not have told the
difference between the two, any more than he
could have found the difference between two peas
in pod