Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-10-29
POLITICS IN NEW YORK.

portance given to the New York feud ty the Gov.
eminent having already dipped US SO far into the
controversy between the Hards and Softs, we have
concluded to let our readers have the benefit of the
Committees Addresses also, and therefore subjoin
them.
address Of dc Democratic State Committee OF Ne,c
York 10 de Democracy Of that State
/ FELLow-DEMocRATs Allow to address you few
words or earnest truth the of this most important
political contest.
The events of the past month all before you. The
high and urgent grounds of duty and of fidelity the
Democratic cause, which impeled the severance of a
false and deusve coalition have been fully presented by
the Democratic State Convention and YOU are familiar
with them. by all true Democrats-a who prefer to
stand upon the old PLATFORM and to abide by the ancient
and wcdefned landmarksthe appeals of the delegated
Democracy Of the State have been heard with emotion
and will be responded to with fervor high and right
spirit abroad earnest and fearless tone pervades
ranks the true of the National Democracy have
rallied they rally at the call of duty and the ap-
peas of patriotism and they have only do to act
to insure proud and victorious result
The Democratic party party of glorious nationality
At all times, and under all the agiatons and trials of
the past it has maintained that high and distinctive
ground 1t has asserted it always and proved and es
tabished it, That party now this State
the same leaders and the ruan conductors has
met and foied in past times. The apostle ag
ator from the Wing and Freesoil camp the chief an
agonist leader and orator Except few interested
leaders, and few seeking or holding Office in various To-
caities the factions and the arrayed
against it. 1t and its unchanged friends receive now the
same obloquy and aspersion at the same hands The
theme and the preachers the same the polite
omission OF the denuncaon of the compromise acts the
declaration of against the fugitive slave law its
serted unconsutionaty and the demand for its instant
and unconditional repeal the eulogy the Buffalo
movement and the rejoicing the triumph gave
to the Wing National and State candidates the proclaim
ed dissolution of the National Democratic party and the
shiveripg of the Baltimore platform into fragments. If
these topicswth which the speeches of the same part
sans were garnished scarcely than twelvemonh
sincearc avoided now it is the silence Of calculating
political menaacity which hopes conceal the past
the designs of the present, and to render the mpos
ture and the aims of its chief actors and agents the
effective. But doubt that the spirit and the
object, not less than the actors the same Every
tegent judge of the aspirations, the designs and the
sentiments of men must that under the specous pre-
tence of harmony, and the disguise Of sudden
version to the principles and platform they recently de-
rded and opposed, 1t IS the identical Freeso leadership
with reversed banners and devices perhaps but the
Standard bearers and the clan far the
latter can be rallied to the support of positions which
convict them Of political dishonesty then or insincerty
now. We desire, elow-democrats, to distinguish be-
tween the leaders of the Feeso party and the sincere
but think mistaken rank and file of that faith who
have heretofore followed and conded in them The latter
must perceive that the position of their leaders, after
ayowing deathess devotion to a pretended great prin
cipe of human freedom" " free SOIL free speech
and free every thing and the easy virtue with which
they suddenly abandon their past position and all their
past professions under preexs which one credits but
really because they hope minister their personal ag
grandzement and more efectuay TO official favor
and political rewards crafty and insincere then or
is hypocrtcal and that whether be one or the
other ought to deprive them of the confidence and leave
them to the just scorn of all parties.
Look back through the past years. from 1917 to the
present moment and tell when this fell spirit Of ha-
tired and desire of dominion has been manifested
Tell us which OF your eminent friends whose lives
record Of consistent devotion TO the principles of the
tonal Democracy has escaped the caumny and person
atty Of the Freeso leaders and presses Tell when
t'harmony' unon' however honeyed the iraccents
have failed TO denounce and prescribe every Democrat
who hesitaed to minister to their ambition their ma
lice. Tell when 'harmony" has meant perhdy to
the old cause and its friends and when union has not
been sgnazed by yindictiveness of assault that has
rendered utilization intolerable.
| All know, who know any thing Of political history,
that the which led last to separation of the
national Democrats Of the State from these mock harmo-
nists have been operative and active during all the Pc
Rod of pretended union That they were exhibited at
the late State Convention in rendered fur
Their association nadmssibe only natural sequence
of acts and events 1t would have been sufficient rea-
son for renouncng the coalition that a minority of the
fairly chosen delegates had resolved to control the orgau
cation and action of the Convention through the machin
cry of spurious delegates and the official influence by in
midation promises Of their allies in the State Govern
ment The extraordinary and unprecedented appearance
of the Executive at Syracuse with three of the chief Off
of State and Ave prominent officers of the Federal
Government all throwing the weight of their official
tons and the power of official rewards into the scale of
the Freesoi effort to obtain the in the Conven
on through contested seats and the detection
of delegates from those by whom they had been cho
SEN would have afforded ample for separation But
when to these exhibitions Of the and spirit with
which harmony" invoked and .'union" enforced
added the determination carry the Convention by
force artfce, intimidation the persuasive power Of
the "spols should prove unequal to the task the act
which has sgnazed the high resolve the year
the years in which associated opposites have been
tolerated. and harmonious persecution and oboquy
dured, became imperative duty How this scheme of
forcble control was attempted with what violence its
nsgators and agents burst into the convention how
the delegates surrounded by body of armed bull
es what were the Of uproar and obviously in
tended intimidation, have been already described But
present you with additional facts and statements
of these in the certificates of residents Of the
city Of New York of crediby character aud well known
responsibility which accompany this paper
1t is notorious fact that thirty persons well
known in the bully and shorboy circles in the cities Of
New York and Albany, picked from the several
wards chiefly in the former city, and employed to go to
Syracuse that they teegraphed to come, and that
they went that passing from New York Syracuse
in bsdy, Of the railroad trains, their conduct
was dcntve of their character and object that while
Syracuse they not only enjoyed the association of the
Freeso from the city Of New York. the Sur
yeyor and Postmast'- and their friends but
panied by of the prominent Freeso leaders when
they rushed into the Convention and were evidently net
ing under their direction during the excited in
cursion of those who known to act only from sim
gle impulse-the impulse of violence and forceat the
nsgnton of their employers, were engaged in the
morable outrage in the Albany County Convention and
in the murderous assault upon the chairman and
bers of the regular Democratic General Committee in