Washington sentinel., 1853-10-07
FREE-sOIL PRESS AND THEIR
STRATAGEMS.

A strong effort is made by the free-soi press
TO convince the people Of the United States
that the sympathies and feelings Of the Presi
dent are all with them. All that they write,
all that they say all that they do, is predicated
on the assumption that he agrees in sentiment
with that wing of the New York democracy,
which, up to the time of the Syracuse conven-
ton, has confessedy fraternized with faction
lists and disorganizers. The fres.soiers will
not deny that for years past they have been re-
cusants-that they have refused the oath of al
legiance to their party-that they abandoned
the national democratic organization-tha they
erected the Buialop platform, and superadded to
all the iniquities and enormties of that platform
the advocacy Of Martin Van Buren for the
Presidency in opposition to General Cass, the
regular nominee of the democratic party.
They will not deny that their recusancy was
continued after the election, and that it mani.
tested itself in bitter denunciations of the fugi-
tive-slave law, and in throwing difficulties and
obstructions in the way of its execution They
cannot deny that their intamy was completed by
gravely swallowing down, at Syracuse, all that
they hadviolently repudiated before, and BY repu-
dating, at the same place and at the same time
all that they had hithertosworn to- We have said
that they riH not and cannot deny these things.
Perhaps we go too far. For men who have
sounded the depths of ignominy, there are no
such words as these.
Do they hope to convince the people of the
United States that the sympathies of such a
man as Franklin Pierce-so pure, SO high-toned,
so chiyarous-can be with them, and that the
yials of his wrath viii be poured out on his old
and steadfast friends, the national democrats?
1t Is truly piece Of presumption. 1t is a
fraud upon the public. It is doing the gross
est injustice to the President The day will
eome-let them mark the prediction-and we
hope that it is at hand when their impu-
.dence will meet with whitening rebuke, and
when their misdeeds will be visited with a
merited punishment.
Their policy is to gain friends and adherents
by producing the impression that the good will
and the good wishes Of the administration are
with them. They desire to create the belief
that the administration regards all as its enc
mics who oppose them. Nor has this strata
gem altogether failed. Whilst we know to the
contrary, yet many believe that the freesoilers
have been taken under the protecting wing of
the administration, and that the old-line de-
mocracy have been cast off and rejected as un-
worthy. This belief has been encouraged and
promoted BY the reserve which has. character
ized the President from the time of his nomi-
nation mp to this hour. They know that it is
not his habit, nor would it comport with his
personal o. official dignity, to seize on every
occasion TO make his opinions known The
President speaks in his acts. He speaks when
it is necessary and proper, and he speaks
clearly and distinctly
Let no one be deferred from cooperating
with the national democrats by the fear that
the President regards them as his enemies
We believe that the President has too much
generosity and too much sagacity to entertain
such sentiment. We believe that he kgao,os
the national democrats to be Ills the and desin.
tereSted friends. That there are good friends
Of the President and Of the country among the
party whom we have denounced, we know
full well; they are honest men, they are true
men; but they are misguided and we do no,
doubt that the day viii come when their error will
be as manifest to them as it is distinctly clear
to MS.