The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-19
MORE IMPORTANT POLITICAL DOCUMENTS.
The War Of the National Democrats
upon the Free Sellers.
ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE
Ne 10 10.

To the Democrnsy OF the State OF New York
FELLOW DEMoCRArs-Aloy Us to address you {
few words Of earnesi truth on the eve Of this mos
important political contest
The events of the past month are all before you
The high and urgent grounds Of duty and OF fidelity
to the democratic cause, which impelled the sever
ance Of a false and ceusive coalition, have been
fully presented by the Demo ratio State Convention,
and you are familiar win then. BY all true demo
cratsLall who prefer 10 stand upon the old plat
FORM and TO abide 10y the ancient and well-de.
fined landmarks the appeals of the delegated de-
mocracy OF the State ho y been heard with emotion
and will be responded to with fervor. A high and
right spirit is abrosd-s Earnest and fearless tone
pervades our ranks-the true men of the national
democracy have rallied they ever rally at the call
Of duty and the appeals of patriotism and they
have only to do and 10 act TO insure a proud and
victorious result.
The Democratic Party is party of glorious ma
tionality. At all times aud under all the sgitations
and trials Of the pasr, it has maintained that high
and distinctive ground II has asserted il always,
ard proved and established it. That party encoun-
ters low, In this STATE, the same leaders and the
same rufan ccadjutors it has met and foied in past
times The same apostle and agita.,r from the whig
and free soil camp, l. the ch.e antagonist leader and
orator now. Except few interested leaders, aud
few seeking or holding office, in various localities
tine same factions and the same men are arrayed
against it. 1t and its unchanged friends receive now
the same obloquy aud aspersion at the same hands.
The theme and the preachers are the same, save
the polite omission OF the denunciation Of the COM
promise acts, the declaration of war against the
fugitive slave law, its asserted unconstitutionaty
and the demand for it's Instant and uncondit ,nai
repeal, the euogy over the Buffalo movement" a1d
the rejoicing over the triumph it gave to the whig
nd i1nIe m Qd digQ0-
luton Of the national de mocratc party and the shiv
exng OF the Baltimore platform into fragments.
IL these topics-w,sh which the speeches OF the
same partizans were garnlshed scarcely more
than q twelvemonth since-are avoided now, it
is the silence of lcuiatng political mendscty,
which hopes to conceal the past for the designs
Of the present, and to render the imposture, and
the aims Of its chief actors and agents, the more
effective. But no can doubt that the spirit
and the object, not less than the actors, are the
Same. Every ntelbgeet adge of the aspirations the
designs and the TesentmentS Of men, must see that
under the spe lious ptetence of harmony" and the
disguise Of sudden conversion to the princio pies
and platform they so recently derided and
opposed, it is the ideEtical free soil leadership
with reversed banners and devices, perhaps but
the same standard bearers aud the clan, far
the later be rallied to the support Of positions
which convict the II political dishonesty then or
insincerity now. We cesue, fellow democrats, to
distinguish between the leaders of the free soil party
and tho sincere, but, we think, mistaken rank
and file OF that faith, who have heretssore followed
the position Of their ea6ers after avowing DEATH
less devotion to pretended great prin cpe Of "hu.
man freedom, "ffee soil, free speech" and free
everything; and the easy virtue with which they
suddenly abandon their past position and ali their
past professions, der prstexts which one ere.
dts but really because they hope TO minister to their
personal aggrandlzement and more efectually to
secure official favor and political rewards, crafty
and insiacere then, is bypocrtcal now; and that,
whether it be one or the other, ought to deprive
them of the confdeHcs, and leave them to the just
scorn, of all parties.
Look back through the past years from 1s47 to
The present moment, and tell Us when this fell spirit
hatred and desire Of dominion, have not been maa-
Tested. Tell which Of your eminent fre nds whose
Ives record o consistent devotion TO the princi
lles Of the national democracy, has escaped the CAL
lmny and personality of the free soil leaders and
presses Tell us when "harnonyn or "uuion," how
Sver honied their accents, have failed to denounce
and prescribe every democrat who hcsitated TO min
lister 70 their ambition or their malice. Tell US when
harmony has not meant peridy to the old cause and
its friends, and when union has not been signazed
by vindctiveness of assault that has rendered az
fliaton int0erable.
Ali know, who know anything OF eur political his
tory that the which led at last to separation
of the national democrats Of the State from these
mock harmonists, have been operative and active
during all the erod Of pretended union. That they
were exhibited at the late State convention, in q
manner that rendered further association inadmssa-
Die was only natural sequence OF acts and events.
II would have been sufficient reason for renouncing
the coalition that minority Of the fairly chosen
delegates had resolved to control the organization
and action of the convention through the achinery
of Spurious delegates, aud the official influence
BY intimidation or promises, OF their allies
in the State government. The extraordinary
and unprecedented appearance OF the Execu-
tive at Syracuse, with three OF the chief ott-
GERS Of State and five prominent officers OF the fede
raj government all throwing the weight OF their
official stations and the power OF official reWards into
the scale Of the free soil effort to obtain the mastery
in the convention through contested seats and the
procured detection OF delegates from those by whom
they had been chosen, would have afforded ample
cause for separation But when TO these exhibitions
of the temper and spirit With which harmony
was invoked, and {" union" enforced, was ad ted the
determination to carry the convention by force, II
artce intimidation, or the persuasive power OF the
"spoils should prove unequal to the task, the act
which has sgnalzed the high resolve of The present
year over the years in which associated opposites
have been tolerated, and harmonious persecution and
obloquy endured became an imperative duty. How
this scheme OF forcible control attempted; with
what violence its nstgators and agents burst into the
convention; nov the delegates were surrounded by
q body of armed DULLES; what were the scenes OF
uproar and obviously intended intimidation, have
been already described. But present yon now with
additional facts and statements OF these occurrences,
q the certificates OF residents OF the city OF New
fork of credibliiy, character, and well known re-
Donaibility which accompany this paper.
1t is notorious fact that some thirty persons, well
nown in the bully and short boy circles in the cities
New York aud Albany, were picked from the
everal wards, chiefly in the former city, and EN-.
oyed to 20 to Syracuse; that they were teegraphed
to come, and that they went; that in passing from
New York to Syracuse in a body, on one OF
the railroad trains, their conduct was indicative
of their character and object. That while in SYRIA
cuse they not only enjoyed the association OF the
free soil contestants from the city OF New York. the
Surveyor and Postmaster and their friends, but
were accompanied by some Of the prominent free
coil leaders when they rushed into the convention,
and were evidently acting under their direction
during the excited scenes in that body. The fact,
ALSO that the principals in this incursion OF those
who are known TO act only from single impulse
the impulse Of violence and force, at the instigaton
Of their employers engaged in the memorable
outrage in the Albany County Convention, and in
the murderous assault upon the chairman and MEM
beers Of the regular Democratic General Committee
in Tammany Hall, and that several OF them were
fresh from their conviction for the latter outrage
left no doubt Of the purpose for which they we're
brought to Syracuse, or the service they were ex-
pected to perform.
or the chiefs in the "short boy force were Isaac