Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-11-27

own sagacity and the pr0mptngs OF MS ante
cedents."
Letter from d. S. Dickinson.
BlSGHANpToS, Nov. q, 1853.
GENTLEMEN: shall be unable to attend the
mass meeting on the 23d, pursuant to your in
with those who may assemble in congratula
tons to the national democracy throughout the
Union, over one of the proudest political tri
umphs of modern times. triumph of princi.
pile over all the elements of faction which q
meretricious coalition and the drag-net Of Off
cial power combined could bring together.
The national democracy fought this great
battle unsustained save blythe conscientiousness
of rectitude, and unarmed, save by the panoply
Of truth; against feesoil leaders, fostering with
the revenge of l848, and flushed with the official
patronage of l853-against the influences Of
the federal and State treasures and their well
paid presses and e,nissares-as plenty if not as
pestilent as the plaques Of Egypt against the
official power, high and low, Of the national and
State administrations, officiously exercised, and
their legion of dependents and expectants-
against the denunciations of " freesoilers" and
"coalitionists y in other States, thrown out as
tub to the whale, that the government harpoon
might be the more surely directed against the
democracy in this-against the practical revival
of the sedition act" in the removal Of that
pure and eminent man-that elevated patriot
and faithful public officer, Green G. Bronson
and yet, in spite of the terrors inspired by the
strength of the national, and regardless of the
pity excited by the weakness Of the State admin
stration, in spite Of the hopes Of the mercenary,
the malice of the revengeful, and the fears Of
the timid, the result has indicated the integrity
Of our position and covered our opponents and
defamers, great and small, with confusion and
shame. It has proved that although according
to the proverb "An ass laden with gold may
penetrate to the heart Of the strongest city,
yet, that in q free government, he may not be
able when there, to control the sufrages Of
free people. The course ofthe national democ-
racy is now plain one. The great moral tri.
umph which they have achieved, conveys les
son repete with interest and instruction, full of
encouragement to those who stand by their
principles through oil vicissitudes, and of ad-
monition to those who falter or fly in moment
of peril. While we are forced to regret that
the State government has passed into the hands
of our hereditary opponents, it is some conso-
lation to reflect, that the exercise Of power by
them cannot well be more injurious to demo-
cratic principles, or the interest of the State,
than it has been by the present /" soft" incun-
bents. If they violate the written pledges upon
which they were elevated, touching the canals,
the democracy will not stands. Irresponsible for
their perfdy, and, if rather than endorse the
doctrines of the Presidents inaugural, the few
pronounce them "damnable' and the many
run, democracy will have no occasion to blush
for their lack of shame; and besides, it is not
the fault of the democracy that the power was
given to the wings, for had they been aided by a
1.-THE Of the official influence which was brought
into the contest against them, the party in this
State would have succeeded as it did in this
county, (Broome,) by handsome majority
over the softs, wings and freesoilers" put to-
gether.
The democracy of this State have so long
been made the subject Of studied misrepresen-
tation abroad, that it is due to their organiza-
ton, as well as to both friends and enemies,
that their position should be understood by all
who inquire for truth.
They are no recent converts to any political
faith, new or old. They are among the creators
and not the creatures of the Baltimore plat
form they have practiced the principles there
inculcated many years, through good and evil
report, and have seen many reasons since its
erection for adhering rigidly to its principles,
in letter and in spirit, in theory and in prac-
tice, and none for departing from them. They
can find no sentiments in it which degrades
them to the level Of unrepentant abolitionists
Of the half or the whole blood, nor which mi
raculously raises such political outlaws to the
elevation Of themselves. They believe that the
democratic party makes administrations, and
not that administrations make parties, and they
will regulate their conduct accordingly. They
have thus far supported, and will continue to
support, with efficiency and zeal, the doctrines
of the Presidents inaugural, not because they
were contained in that paper, but because they
are the doctrines of the party, and so far as the
administration is conducted, upon the princi-
Piles of that declaration, and upon the princi.
Piles Of the Baltimore platform and kindred
doctrines, based upon the spirit in which the
Union was formed-upon strict construction
of the Constitution, jealousy regarding and
preserving State rights-it will have their ear
nest and cheerful support, for these doctrines
are, and have long been, their own. But, re.
CARELESS and independent of the question of
will continue to condemn, the removal Of
Greene c. Bronson, as collector Of the port of
New York, under the circumstances and for
the reasons set forth in the correspondence &C.
companying the act, and will not hesitate to
characterize it, and all similar acts, as in vio
lation Of the first principles of State rights de.
mocracy, at war with the true spirit of the
Constitution, and as rolling the stone from the
door of the sepulchre Of federalism, which has
been entobmed since the days Of the elder
Adams-and the administration may yet real
ize the memorable truth that, while faithful are
the wounds Of a friend, the kisses Of an enemy
are deceitfnl.
They regard the democratic party as equal