Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-11-24
1.-THE CAMPAIGN OF 1s5s--THE
SUCCESSION.


luaffs huge cup of wine, eats up an OK or so,
and then deliberately lays himself down to rest
and to sfumber. If his repose be disturbed by
some stealthy, prowling and insidious foe, he
raises his brawny arm, and just half opening
his eyes, so as to get glimpse of the enemy,
he brushes him away, as he would a swarm of
gnats. -. ...
Unusual effort calls for food, and demands
repose, whether the effort shall have been made
by giant or an ordinary manly an anscon-
da after swallowing an OK. or its miniature
representative, the black snake, after swallow
ing toad. 1t may be an army, after bloody
battle, or it may be political party, after
warm and active canvass whichever it be, re-
pose, rest, sumber are needed.
The democracy of the thirty-one States of
this Union have but recently finished great
fight, and achieved great victory. They
placed in the presidential chair the man of
their free spontaneous choice, Franklin Pierce.
But few months of his administration have
passedaway. The country has hardly had time
to rest from it's unwonted labors, and its more
than ordinary excitements.
What was our surprise, on taking up the
Union of yesterday, to find that there was no
rest to be allowed to the weary, to recruit their
fatigues, and renovate their strength. We were
almost thunderstruck to find an article in it
headed "The Campaign of l856.--The Sue
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ticle, under this imposing caption, announced
to the, no doubt, startled democracy of the ma
ton, that there is deep laid scheme, concocted
as far back as when "the cabinet was formed,
if indeed, it had not its origin in the result of
the Baltimore convention, which scheme
contemplates the prostration of the admins.
ton, and the elevation on its ruins of one of
their own number to the presidency"
This scheme is saddled on the national DEM
ocrats of New York and their sympathizers
throughout the country. The evidence of it
consists in an address recently put forth by the
(" Young Mems Democratic Club of New
York" This address we have read carefully,
and our Interpretation of it is very different
from that put on it by the Union. But before
we proceed to an examination of this address,
we beg leave to make few preliminary obser-
vations. -..-. s.s....
There has been studied effort to destroy the
political and moral influence of the national
democrats of New York, ever since the division
at Syracuse, by representing them as factionists
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sition. This effort became stronger and stronger
as the canvass in that State progressed. To
clinch the nail-to rivet on the public mind this
conviction, Judge Bronson was removed. Until
the very day of the election, the fury of their
enemies, both here and at home, waxed warmer
and warmer, until it amounted to absolute
frenzy. But all would not do. They beat their
freesoil enemies. By proving themselves to be
the majority of the New York democracy-the
bulk and body of them, they proved that the
softs," the Van Buren, freesoilers, were the
factionists. Then is it not simply absurd to
use the word faction, in connection with the
national democrats? We had hoped that shame,
if not sense of justice, would have induced
the softs and their aiders and abetters to aban-
don this charge.
WE'LL as we have said, the election took place
outnumbered their adversaries, the freesoil
softs-but the wings carried the State. No
sooner is the result known than the same pur-
pose to render odious and to crush out"
fhof'u ba tba po1
manifests itself in the damning charge that
they gave up-aye, betrayed-the State into
the hands of the Sewardites. Is not this abso-
lutely ridiculous? Must the majority yield to
We have shown that the national democrats
outnumbered the so-called softs; and if there is
any truth in democracy, the minority that
bolted, composed of the softs, was the faction,
and that faction gave up the State to the wings.
But these gentlemen will continue to paint the
national democrats ..-;.~ A. "a -
sand sins to answer for, and the freesoilers as
very angels, without spot or blemish Let
them hug these heretics to their hearts con-
tent if they love the faint of freesoilism for
our part we prefer the pure and the untainted.
Aswe have had occasion before to say, if this
feud has been nationalized, who nationalized it?
The national democrats did not Their friends
and sympathizers did not We did not. We.
speak but the truth-no man can deny it
when we say that the head of the Treasury de-
partment and the reputed organs of the gov.
eminent are responsible for it. They did it,
and it should not be forgotten. They may try
to throw the blame and the responsibility on
others-but on them it will stick like the shirt
of Nessus. They may writhe and twist, but
they cannot throw it Off
We come now to the address Of the Young
Mems Democratic Club. That this address
proclaims the true principles Of democracy in
all their pristine purity, we defy any man or
any press to deny. 1t breathes the very spirit
of true national democracy. The most that
can be said against it, is that it affirms not in
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