Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-10-18
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selves 81 the OCCASION 10 acknowledge the public
nhoralitv which has sustained the ARGlNlAN for
mere than thirty years, and now upholds il with
larger patrenage than i has ever commanded.
So far as We sreAbe, itshnll never lack, in our
hands the qualities that enitle it to confidence
and support. ....aA
The @Softs' Dagueueo.yped by slsilHul Artist.
The New York Head vf the 9th publishes a
speech deliseredby The 1fon d. 5. Dickinson at
Rochester, Oct 6th. % the present aud pnst rola-
tons of the 'hardsr and "softs' in that State,
with incidental observations, designed to oucidaic
the position, objects aud character of the latter
loaled by the Union "the Naturalization parity
and The danger ofallowing them any authorit, or
infncnco N the government. The picture h.
draws Is not pleasant 10 look upon;tut ut the risk
Of shocking ihe delicate -cnsibilites of some of our
democratic friends. We must transfer IA few Of It's
touches to our canvass Be it remembered, while
looking nit, that the party whose hnenmcnte arr
here drawn is TIM which some Southern demo
cratic editors defend as worthy the confidence of
the administration and country, because it has
gone through the idle munmery of adopt
ing certain resolutions, which lhey approve. Re
ferrug to the first attempt made NJ coalition,
betwcea the tNodi1ision- pf The purity, ~ Rome,
in August lrl9. Mr.. Dickinson stys.
II had tho honor Of attending a. a delegate to
the former with the determination and Tor the
purpose. on nay own port aud Ia accordance with
the desire al those who sent ne. 10 prevent all
spos making coalitions and union OF ofuanizu-
tous, except upon tho single ground OF union
in sentiment. The hnmlhtne iprec per
formed prominent democrats Who had long en-.
loved the eonfdeuceoi the party, were there
urging on "a coulition,which tbc4 termed a'mliona
and, as subsequent Developments hive shown,
urged it on al the expense OF democracy tor thcu
own personal advantage, and although ! have
not the iuil sympathy el MINORITY ot the con
veniion to which Wa a delegate, aud although
IN turtheruCe Of IL object It passed resolutions
To which was oppo sed, and against which Hu-
ted, vet the organizations Were moi united. aud |
qualification that exercised my full share of
influence in, for that time, preventing thu con
summation Of "A most heastly coalition. But the
humiliation was only postponed, 10 be consum=
: mated few Gays later AT Symcuso-a con,eu-
ton which did not attend--under crcumstan-
ces, If possible, more disCrcdtahe than had been
proposed at Rome"
The condition of this 'unon" ut Syracuse was
as MIR. Dickinson informs us That the free soil
convention which was 10 meet few days Inter ut
Utica should have permission to strike of half the
names ON the ticket, and substitute men Of their
own for them. This was done Tho object Of Tie
''union" was, a. ayowed by John IAN Buren, at
the time 10 make The democratic party N, grtat
dnti-siapery poriyof the North, and, according
ly,nt the very time of concentrating the toul al
lance, the [ tea convention put forth a,srric- OF
resolutions, which, Mr. Dickinson says; ''would
have put Fred Douglass himself To "a blush. -
This is the union of the party continues Mr..
D." over which 50 many pnans have been
ohaunted by conservative organs and to the hiph
priest of which the smoke of 80 much incense has
aseendedn And this Is the union he might have
added, whieh,A Mr. Guthrie tells collector Bron-
son, the President requires him to recognize
and maintain in his appointments to office:
II denounced il says Mr.. u. from the begin
ming as long denuueaton could avail, andthen
aequesced under protest and patiently awaited
the moment when ii would he oscrthruwn hy It's
inherent elements of destruction. That time.
thank Heaven has TRANSFERRED. aud the day on
which il had development should he celebrated
hereafter, not onl, by democrats. hut h, all hon.
est men, az the day when the democratic party
emancipated from HassHluec ten times moro
a6ieet than the worst form at negro >er,itldc.'
The subsequent course of the an Buren, party
10 the coalition with reference 10 himself Mr.
Dickinson Describes the following language:
"Perhaps no better evidence of bad faith on tho
part Of the coalition "hamonists" could well Ia
exhibited, than the continued disregard of trulh
and fairness which they have at all times eNhb-
tied, aud still exhibit towards every true demo
erat who has uniformly refused 10 bow the knee
TO their free soil" coalition Baal. Although
from the first dawn of the sectional agitation up
on the slaY cry question,as IA senator in Congress
il was well known that spoke and voted against
'treesoil' abolitionism ia every form in every
place, and upon every Oecasion-and although
for this | was hunted down IN every lane of life
man was never hunted hetore-pnrsued bv
their mnons and vile presses with torocity
more iendish than that of evil boasts-ther pa
pers sent into my house to wound the feelings Of
motfending women and children, laden with every
epitaph in the catalogue of i}illiugsgatc-su
Jectcd TO every ealumny which depravity could
invent-threatened with violence and pursued hy
their blood-hounds To the retirement Of nv own
freside because | resisted their hcllish crusade
against the Southern States;yet, since the doe
trines which advocated, and for which | was
prosecuted, have become popular, it has suited
the purposes of the same faction aud its aiders
and abettors, before the disruption at Syracuse