Washington sentinel., 1853-10-18

ly the effect that any recognition of them by
the national democratic party of our country
is clearly to give them an importance and con-
sequence at once dangerous to our princi-
Piles and encouraging the revival of their own
wicked purposes.
"To repent and believe" is doctrine taught
by one, the latchet of whose shoes we are not
worthy TO unloose. 1t was one which, without
sacrilege, we may claim to apply, as we believe
all those divine maxims were intended to our
transactions in this life, whether individual poll.
tical, or social. We cannot repent until We have
believed-and we cannot believe until we have
repented. The prodigal son was not met by a
fathers embraces until he had said, II have
sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and
am no more worthy to be called thy son.
What evidence, then, have we that such a
spirit has moved or actuated the freesoil faction
in New York? Has Prince John, who seems to
hold his eminent position among them by his
indomitable energy and attic wit-who is the
more dangerous because he is smart and agree
able eren his political enemies-has he given
the least indication that his opinions have un-
dergone any change? Look to Syracuse. His
speech was made BEFORE the resolutions of his
mobocratic faction were brought in. II was
made to entertain his brethren during the alb.
sence of the committee to draft them, and to
this day he stands pledged only to the resolu-
tons which he had not seen, but which, with his
wonted and hereditary non-con,,mitalisn,, he said
he had no doubt he acould endorse.
Will this do for staunch northern allies--the
true friends and defenders Of the Constitution?
Is the south willing to take this as a valid and
sure guarantee from this chip of the old block :?
viii John Van Buren, say publicly or privately,
to any responsible man-authorized to re-
port it-that he is in favor of the resolution of
his own faction upon the fugitive-slave law 2
Will he say he renounces the devil and all his
works. for himself and his distinguished father
all his heresies-and that he seeks honest affili-
alton with the stanch and sturdy national dem
ocrats in his own State, who have stood by the
Constitution and the Union? Would not he
lies and ruffians-that band whose rufianism we
witnessed-have passed resolutions even to es-
tablish slavery in their own State, were such
thing necessaryto nationalize them in the present
contest, and to hold them fast in the confidence
of our administration. We believe there could
have been nothing too strong for their stomachs.
But our object is to prove the insincerity
of this sinful and truly wicked banditti; and
to do SO, we must draw little further
upon their dramatis personR. We will pass
by Isaac V. Fowler and Mr.. Cochrane, the
first government appointee, and reputed tele
grapher or instigator of the dispatch which
brought the organized bullies to disturb and
break up a calm deliberation of the differences
of the two parties; and which, had it been
calm, might have produced the result which
had become nations wish, to witt the union
and harmony of the democratic party. Our
distinguished chief magistrate has placed under
the ban, long, long ago, all Office holders who
even modestly to interfere in political de!ibera.
tons. And we pass by Mr.. Cocllrane, too
whose sins were the same, but whose head and
whose influence did not give him the same
prominence enjoyed by his brother Vandal.
We pass by them, We say, (hoping that they
will obtain their reward through executive
Justice, and not executive clemency,) to come
to the result of the nomination of their ticket.
Va have 81 L,4
one of these hypocritcs, and We shall do him
up summarily and without stint. We have Sc
lected him for our shaft, for two rcasons--frst,
because he is, in a national rie,c, the most i'm
portant; second, because we have little ac-
count to settle with him, which he must dis
charge by "note, payment, or othercise."
He is the endorsed candidate Of the sefts for
attorney General Of the Empire aate. God
save the mark! An Office, the conduct and
character of which may require him to have to
do with every case coming under the fugitive
slave law, which the sotfs so enthusiastically
and with such rare uuanimity endorsed and ap-
prored.
We now before the world make this charge
upon him, which he has not the effrontery to
deny or the manliness to admit We dare him
to do either.
Did you not, Mr.. Grover, after the meeting
of your friends, before your nomination only a
few hours, when taunted by gentleman that
the maintenance Of the fugitive-slave law had
been applauded by your party, Indignantly disa-
VOW and deny any participation in that manifes-
tation? Answer truly, and you shall have JUS
tice, though it may be the Irishman's justice, in
either case. How do you, sir, intend to kiss the
holy Bible to defend and maintain the Constitu-
tion and laws Of your country, while you are in
sentiment, at least, in the open and sacriligious
violation Of it every hour of the day. The
truth is hard to tell, but much harder to stick
to; take care.
But we turn from this infamous and revolving
combination to strike down the good and true,
to consider in few words the Selects" Of the