Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-09-28
The New York Democracy.

The Albany Argus of Tuesday contains the
address of the Hunker Democratic State Conven-
ton. The address is pretty high toned, under the
circumstances They are the Democratic party,
and all other shades of the Democracy are FAC
tiuns." So the Hunkers say. But just so say
the Barnburners, and so the two sections are har-
monious. The Hunker address asserts, moreover,
that the Barnburners split of in lS47, that they
were then faction. and have been a faction ever
since; that the "same partisans," meaning these
incorrigibe Barnburners, raised the standard ORE
belon in lS48, and, continuing in the same ira
ternal vein, remarks:
"We encounter Row the same politicians, par
tialy discussed. with few accessions of interest
ed or ambitious individuals who, from personal OF
ects, have proved recreant to their national Dem
ocratic associations and affiliated with those lhey
denounced as apostates from the cause OF Democra-
cy and the Constitution. but the SAME IN essence
in spirit, and in design" ,.,
Some other epitheis are bestowed upon these
same partisans. and then the address enters upon
a defence of the separate Hunker Convention,
when it becomes ''uncommonly severe :"
"a numerous band of DULLES and fighting men,
chiefly from the city of New York, with some
slight additions from Albany and other places,
were brought upon the ground. Among these
were no less than three OF the mscreants VINO
were indicted and convicted for the mnrderous and
unprovoked assault made on Augustus Schell, Es'l,
while presiding as chairman of the regular demo
cratic General Committee of the city OF New York,
at Tammany Hall, in December last and one or
more of them were prominent In the New scot
land riots few years since, In which some OF The
Freesuil leaders now on the ground made such
fipure. Several of these men held appointments
under Mr.. Cochrane, the surveyor OF the port
Mr.. Fowler, the postmaster OF New York.
But the writers of the address wax sentiment
tai, almost lugubrious, over the theme OF their
wrongs:
'.Some ofus," they say, care advanced In years,
and have been at Democratic State conventions
before; nay, many, many times; but we never
met at Syracuse or elsewhere such an assemblage
as was drawn there this year to participate III the
proceedings of that body"
Is it possible? Why, then, it must have been
superlatively a tumultuous, disordery, rlotons,
discreditabe gathering; for. gentlemen. you who
are advanced in years, and have been at Demo
cratic State conventions before, have seen some
unequalled confusion; yes, "many, many times'
But read again:
at bodied no good to the Democratic party
when the Executive ofthe State, the sole dispenser
of the pardoning power, and the eroclous vlsages
of conyicts and their associates loomed in the same
gas light. But we trusted that iniquity itself
would shrink from any attempt to overawe or
silence the rightful members by brute force, and
would leave The convention to the power OF reason
and the moral strength the majority would neces-
sarily exert. In this we were disappointed.
There is much more of the same elegant sort OF
harmony, but it is not sufficiently edityng fur our
columns. Suffice it to say that this indignant out
burst of denunciatory eoquence bears the official
signatures of Minor G. Story and others.-.N. Z.
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