Washington sentinel., 1853-12-10
A sTRATAGEM EXPOSED.

A STRATAGEM EXPOSED.
In our paper Of Sunday we stated that pre-
tended friends of the President were striving to
drive out of the democratic party some Of its
truest members. We stated also that the pur
pose of the national democrats was systemati
cally misrepresented, in order to accomplish
that disreputable end, by means of assertions
and insinuations that they intended to make q
new political organization, which would require
an original support of the compromise meas
ures rs test of party fidelity.
When we made these statements we de-
nounced them, and exposed the base motives
which had induced and urged pretended demo-
Gratis to revive the antpathies growing out of
the southern rights and union organizations
We explained the cunning trick that was re-
sorted to for the purpose Of placing the State
rights men Of the south in the same position
with regard to the Baltimore platform, and the
pretended amnesty as that occupied by the
Van Buren, freesoilers of the north.
There never was any feature Of similarity be-
tween the members of the southern rights party
and the followers of Van Buren. As we have
said more than once, all the questions growing
out of the compromise measures, which agitated
the southern people, were settled and disposed
Of long before the Baltimore convention as
sembed; and when that convention assembled,
the only existing outstanding question, spring
ing out of the compromise, was the prompt
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law, which had been denounced and resist
ed BY the freesoilers and aboitionists of the
north. And it may not be unimportant to re-
mark that prominent among those who de-
nounced that law and advised its forcible re-
sistance was Mr.. John Van Buren, Of the State
Of New York, the leader of the freesoil portion
of the soft-shell and freesoil coalition in that
State.
But not only has an organized attempt been
made by pimps, panders, and unprincipled
stipendiaries to revive the slavery discussion by
ripping up the Baltimore platform; but we
learn that sedulous and industrious efforts have
been made to reopen the democratic divisions
of the south, and to couple and connect us
with them. We understand perfectly well the
object of this movement We can see plainly
enough the source from which it emanated, and
the results intended to be accomplished by it.
Indeed we exposed the whole scheme week
ago, and presented the sinister purposes Of its
authors. That purpose was, and is, to induce
the State rights men of the south to believe
that they stand in the same position with re-
gard to democratic orthodoxy as the frantic
fanatics who control the movements Of the
soft-shell and freesoil organizations of New
York. Such movement is, to the last de-
gree insulting to the good sense of the people,
and must, when it shall have been fully under
stood, be visited with deserved execration.
There is not and there never has been, the
slightest sympathy between the southern rights
men and the freesoilers. They never occupied
the same position with regard to the compromise
measures, or with regard to the Baltimore plat
form. When the Washington Union attempts
to unite them by cunning expedients and slip
perry devices, it will find its labors all in vain.
Up to recent period that journal sustained
the Union organization. Unless our memory
fails us, the editor of that journal was an ac-
tive and jealous member of the Union organi-
zation of 1850, and exerted all the ability he
had to break down the men whom he would
now, for some motive which we do. not attempt
to explain, lead to the embraces of the north
ern enemies of the compromise, and embitter
them against the national democracy of New
York, by charging that Daniel s. Dickinson
and the men who act with him, and those who
sympathise with thenl intend to make up a new
organization in company with his old associa-
ates.
We care not what others may think but for
ourselves we say frankly that the men, no mat
ter whether they were southern rights men or
Union men, who attempt to reopen the divi-
sons among the southern democrats, and re-
new the hostilities and antipathes which grew
out Of the temporary organizations in the south,
merits, and should receive the stern rebuke Of
every patriotic citizen. In 1850 and 1851
there was marked difference between the
Union men of the north and the south; for the
Union men of the north struggled to uphold
and sustain the fugittve-slave law against fac
tious agitators. 1t is unnatural therefore, that
an alliance between southern rights men and
freesoilers should be brought about BY repre-.
senting that the national Union democrats Of
the north, and those who sustain them, mean to
rip up old transactions, for tho purpose of OPP
posing their old friends on dead issues, which
made no cstrangement when they were alive
existing, and practical.
Such an unnatural alliance may be brought
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