Washington sentinel., 1853-11-05
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BISoHAMros, Oct. 81, 1853.

| thc lclscrs VI JuuSe DrOnSOD, ana MI. " COnOr,
published in the Washington Union, over the
| signature OF Junius." Its statements in many
| respects are entirely destitute of truth; and /
desire so to say through the columns of your
| paper, over my own signature. j do not care
| to notice the coarse assaults upon Judge Bron-
| son and Mr.. O'Conor, for those gentlemen will
doubtless look TO their own vindication. But,
there are assertions made in regard to myself
and others, OF whose course / can speak from
actual knowledge, that desire to characterize
as they deserve, not behind an assumed name.
| but over my own.
/ have no knowledge in regard to the move
ments of the. freesoiiers in lS49, with reference
| to the proposed "re-union" of the party. as II
is called; but ] do know that whoever NAV
have drawn up the proposition for the I" ad.
justment of political differences in this State
! that the movement which resulted in calling
the Rome convention" was concocted by VIM.
l.. Marcy, Horatio Seymour, and others, who
are now acting, and have been since that time,
either secretly or openly, with the freesol fac
! ton in this State-and it was so concocted by
those gentlemen, with secret understanding
with the freesoil leaders. This movement,
from its incipiency, was opposed by Mr.. Dick
nson and his friends, openly; and as mem
Der of the State committee refused nv sane
ton to the call for that convention, and de.
clined to take part in any proceedings that
looked to a coalition with freesoilism or free
soilers.
| A great portion of the sound democrats of
the State at first declined to act under the call,
and when they finally determined to do so. it
was for the purpose of preventing coalition
with traitors. II was under snch circumstances.
and for such purposes, that the democrats of
this county sent Mr.. Dickinson 10 Rome, and
he it was, with others, in that convention,
| then as now, sound national democrats, who
succeeded in preventing surrender of the
democratic party to the embrace of freesoilers
And they succeeded in doing 80 against the ac-
tive exertions of Marcy, Seymour, and company,
| to accomplish such result The sound men
of the party, including the names of those men
toned BY "Junius," Beardsley, Dickinson,
Cutting, Ward, Bovine, Follett, Mitchell and
others, then, as now, sound national democrats,
were willing and anxious to unite with all who
agreed with them in principle; and they have
ever occupied that position, down to the pre-
sent moment; but they were unwilling to form
a base coalition with those holding antaeo-
nistic views, and occupying position hostile
TO the Constitution and the Union, for the sake
Of the spoils, A coalition ut Rome was pre-
| vented, and the sound men of the party be-
heyed the danger was passed But Marcy,
Seymour, and company were not thus to be
| foiled, and they again appeared at the demo-
| cratic State convention, held month later at
Syracuse, stimulated by leading reesoilers, still
the advocates Of coalition, regardless of princi
pie; and, after the most strenuous efforts. ex-
citing the hopes of Office hunters, and the fears
Of the timid, they succeeded, by bare ma.
jority, in accomplishing their unprincipled pur-
pose. JUSIus," who attended this conven-
| ton as an outsider, and knows all about its
proceedings, both open and secret where he
buttonholed delegates to his private parlor, to
give them disiate'ested advice, for his own
selfish purposes, as subsequent events have
proved, passes rapidly over this part of the his
tory Of our affairs The following short SEN
tence is all he bestows upon this important
point, when the coalition actually took place
under his auspices and for his benefit.
month later at the convention held at Syra-
cuse, composed exclusively Of delegates from,
those who supported Mr.. Cass in IS4S, the promo
sails made by Messrs. Cutting BeardsIey. ana
others, were renewed and accepted by the oppo-
site section-each section named hal. the car,di
dates, and adopted its own resolutions"
This statemen, in all its essential features. is
untrue. 1t is not true that the proposals made
| by Messrs. Cutting, Beardsley, and others, were
renewed and accepted by the opposite section.
The convention there assembled nominated a
full ticket of national democrats, and passed
strong national resolutions, as it was expected
| it would, and rs the delegates were sent there
| to do. After this was done, and many dele.
gates had left for home under the belief that
that there was no further business before the
convention, Marcy, Seymour 4 Co., who had
been in secret consultation with leading free
| soilers brought forward proposition, that the
freesoil convention, when it assembled. should
be permitted to strike off one-half the names
| from the democratic ticket, and substitute in
| their places the names of freesoilers. This
| proposition was resisted by a strong minority
OF those who remained including Judge Boards
| ley and others, but was finally carried through
the active interference of Governor Marcy, Ho-
| ratio Seymour, and others, who have since
openly joined the freesoil faction in this State
| with which they were then in secret concert.
The freesoil convention meet soon after at
Utica, and, Of course, accepted the proposition,
as "Junius Il CO.. had previously arranged it
| should, and at the same time passed the strong
est of freesoil resolutions And thus, in the
Marcy vocabulary, the party was united"
Against this base coalition the sound and
true men of the party protested. They have
ever since looked upon the whole proceeding
with loathing and disgust; though they gave
the cAPeIliHeh3 40 IcpuSHdHt us III was 10 their
feelings, a fair trial--a trial which has proved
the utter faithlessness and dishonesty of pur.
pose which actuated the freesoil faction and
their allies.
The assertion OF Junius," that Mr. Dickin.
son, Immediately after this pretended |" unon,n
or at any time, proposed to prominent sup
porter of Mr.. Van Buren, that he should be
nominated for the Office Of governor, and Mr..
Dickinson returned to the United States SEN
ate, have the best authority for saying is en-
tirely unfounded in fact, though IT is we'll known
he preferred an open to secret abolitionist.
And it is equally untrue that Mr.. Dickinson
proposed to elect John Van Buren State del.
gate to the Baltimore convention, or that he
would, under any circumstances, have con.
sented to his election, although he had no less
confidence in him than he had in Governor
Marcy.
The statement by " Junins," that, in the con-
vention of 1852, "Mr. Brdsall, the confiden.
tial friend Of Mr.. Dickinson, was known to be
cordially cooperating with Mr.. Van Buren to
procure the nomination of leading freesoler