Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-10-01
The Hard Shells.

~ +beticket put in nomination at Syracuse, in oppo-
sition to that of the 'Soft Shells" which, held +
their ratification meeting on the previous FRIDAY
evening in Tammany Hall.
The Tribune says the "'Hards' % meeeting was
s large and very noisy. There firing of cannon.
cleaning Of rockets, fancy FIRE pieces Of patriotic
import and last but not least the platform broke
down. severely, if not dangerously, niuring Mike
Walsh and number more of the big guns-pre-
maturely exploding them-perhnps. There were
about four thousand persons present. Augustus
s, Schell presided. The speakers were D. s. Dick
- inson, Geo. w. Clifton, James II. Brady and Mr..
~ horton Of Georgia. etC.Ti ho
The contest between these two factions, take it
altogether, presents what Bowery boy would call
abeautiful muss, and although Mr. Dickinson did
say that he stood "upon platform which would
flourish in eternal youth when matters terrestrial
should be no more.' the breaking down of the
platform on which he stood lew moments after
wards with tremendous crash, hurting all the
different colors and factions into one ndstnguish-
able mass, looked rather emnous of the fate of the
'simperishable Democracy"
Greeley's sympathes rather with the''Soits,"
but lie thinks John Van Buren, & Co., are hypo-
critics and that nobody believes that they really
a apnroye of the Fugitive Slave Law and its concom-
mittants; on the contrary, all know that they hate
the whole batch, and would make deal better
speeches against them than they ever will or can
in their favor. Hence, he says, their oratory lacks
ferVoI and body; II does nos eleclnly ana calhUI
really move. Let it be given out tomorrow that
John Van Buren, & Co. were to address an old
fashioned Free Soil Meeting in the Park and they
would have crowds to hear them, and old-iashion-
ed, hearty laundering cheers to inspire them but
now, when they utter sentiments directly in con-
fict with those they formerly upheld, their audi
tors are in doubt whether to applaud hiss and
by the time they settled the point 10 their own
satisfaction the time for cheering is psst. Even
the Jokes have faded from the lips of the recusant
BarnburneIs and Yorick's skull grnned never
more chastity than Prince Johns grief respecting
the axes that brought to Syracuse to be ground
and not 10 be used is the very last scinillaton of
57s IS wit from the entire faction.
The following extract from the preamble and
resolutions passed by the meeting is not only
full confession of the "damnabe coalition which
defeated the Wings of New York, but is
morkably savage dissection Of the 'Softs" and
the Free Sellers generally;
s-That admitting that the vote of the Free
Soil party in 1s4s, aided by Seward Wings and
Abotionist, respectablein number, yet it Is
we'll know tfat every succeeding day which de-
veoped otis misguided adherents the fearful con
sequences of its pernicous doctrines witnessed the
sa daily withdrawal of their rank and file from their
treason and their party, so that in 1880 few
rE unined 10 uphold their fog the bold bad men
who had raised the standard OF revolt at Buffalo.
Unfortunately for The cause of good principles and
the honor of the Democratic party, yielding TO the
. influence OF honored and trusted leaders, we were
then compelled, under the plea of union and
nevertheless continued their anti slavery agitation,
and their hostility to the Canals. Then, admitted
into our organization, the small body OF Free Soil
leaders soon endeavored to control and direct it,
and, falling in support from the people, determined
TO accomplish their purpose by brute force. An
alliance was then formed between the hiIeling
rowdy party with which this City is infested and
@ the remnant of the Free Soil party, which was first
manifested by a brutal attack upon peaceable cti
.t zens, assembled in Tanmny Hall, in February,
1880 for the single P45pSss Hs9F bs W ne,
Proviso, which was then bringing the Union 10
the verge of dissolution. Those citizens were
violently driven from their accustomed hall, at
the mminent danger of life and limb. Passing
over their minor exhibitions of brute force, they
next signalZed their courage and their purpose by
an attack in December, 1852, upon the General
Committee at Tammany Hall, then under the Presi-
dency of iheir1espected chairman, Augustus Schell
Esq. the details Of which rendered familiar 10
the people by the public persecution which con-
signed the dhpes' who were PAID ior the outrage,
their fast exhibition, occurred at the Il te Conven
aEa tion in the peaceful town Of Syracuse, where,
freed from the terror of the police, they were ready
10 do the bidding Of their free soil leaders. We
proclaim to you, fellow citizens, the fact that the
rufians and convcts who broke up with violence
the anti. Wilmot meeting Of 1880, the General
Committee of 1852, and the Convention oil 1885,
save only and excepting those who are not yet re-
leased from penitentary, are the same persons,
and have been hired and led by the aame Free Soil
leaders, on all those occasions; Let this TACT SINK
deeply into your minds, aud ask yourselves wheth-
er 6'union and harmony" with such men has not
proved failure and a disgrace
There's something for the ''Sour Saints to put
in their pipes and smoke. 1t IS question that
may materially effect the next election, which fac
ton will bid the highest for those 'r.Fans aud
eonUietsP when they are released from the peni-
teutiary,s will it be the "Hards,'' the 'Sons'
the "short Boys,' the "Sour Saints" or the quill
backs?" la
Scripture Dick,'' whomade speechat Buffa
10 the other day, grew quite funny. He walks in
to his Democratic brethren in the following style:
t'But these men the short-boysl, regret to
say it, were not the only ones present at that
[Syracusel Convention, who should not have been
there. The Governor of the Etae-I alIude to it
with soIrow-the Governor of the State of New
York was there. Perhaps he was there merely 10
himself by making augur holes with GIN
let-but there he Wds. Itwas the first time that
ever Governor of the State of New York
found in Convention, lobbying and bargaining
with Ifs members, and believe it will be the
last. kno1, indeed, that it aOiube the last time
that GOUernOr mill be gully Of such an imPrepre-
IN, and / do not think could readily find an
other who awonld. emulate his example. Other
a State ohcels there also. The Controller and
Others went up from the Capitol probably to
Preaent their otoH nomination am pery hGypytO
say they entirely sReeessfuL. But in spite
of all these appliances Union and Harmony
.' after all, defeated It is singular fact, but
it's The members of the Convention had the
Gouernorof the St1te tempting them NTH the SpOLs
'front.' and the Short BOysof NetD York prickng
them mp 1Oith botOie k1ItDes IN tie rear, and yet
they failed TO harmonize. They had everything