Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-10-30
MORE MUD.

MORE MUD.
We clip from The q True Democrat" the or
gan, par excellence, Of the softs in the city Of
ofNew York, the two following paragraphs:
"THE CouNrY MEErISo.--Let the democ-
racy bear in mind that the county meeting, for
the purpose Of ratifying our city nominations,
win take place this evening, at Tammany Hall.
Several distinguished speakers will be present
to address the meeting, among which are Hon.
Martin Grocer, John Haa Buren,, and the Hon.
John A. Dir. The distinguished speakers, and
the brilliant prospects before the free democracy,
all unite in inviting grand rally, to shew the
boilers that the democratic masses are, where
they always have been, true to Tammany Hall"
s42a1 THE SPEAYRRs To-NIGHT.--The unterri6ed
democracy of this and the adjoining cities, viii
have an opportunity this evening of hearing
some Of the most distinguished orators attached
to the democratic party. Among those who viii
positively address the assemblage at Tammany
Hall we see the name of our popular candidate
for attorney general, Martin Grover, esq. Mr..
Grover addressed the monster meeting at Al
bany, last night, and then took the cars for
this city. He is one Of the most brilliant
orators in the State. The Hon John Van Blu
rem is also on hand this time, and will, in com
pany with several other shining lights be
present, and define his position"
According to the above extracts, the meet
ing to be held is meeting of the free democ-
,acy-in other words, of the abolitionists and
freesoilers. 1t is to be addressed by Messrs.
Grover, Van Buren,, and Dix, the leaders Of
that party in New York, known as the soffs or
freesoilers. The free democracy is composed
Of men hostile to the Constitution that they
are hostile to that peculiar institution of the
south which is provided for and protected by
the Constitution. They are unmitigated aboli.
tionists--they are moral and political destruc-
| tives and incendiaries. When the True Demo
cras speaks Of the I" free democracy does ii
mean TO include itself and the softs generally
in that category? If SO, the honesty of the de-
claration, at this time, almost atones for the
dishonesty Of the views and principles of that
debauched and demoralized faction.
We have it thus chronicled in the True Dem.
ocrat- published in the face Of day, and de-
clared before the world, that the leading spirits
among those men who are attempted to be
palmed off on the country as the peculiar and
Simon Pure national democrats, and passed of
on the south as its special friends and guar
dians- that these leading spirits are to address
the free democracy These men, put beside
Bronson, and Dickinson, and their noble com.
peers, are as Hyperion to a Satyr; and yet we are
grayely and presnmptuously called on by men
L I y ths-
and presses, high in place, and influence, to
drive the latter from their seats in the congre-
CATION of the democracy, and install, with sol
emn pomp and imposing formality, these free
/ democrats, as they call themselves, in the va
cant places This is what the good men and the
true men Of the north and the south are for.
| mally called on to do.
| We can hardly credit although the evidence
stands with such painful distinctness before and
| around us--that any member of the govern
ment can sympathize with these foes to the
peace and happiness Of their country, and treat
with scorn and contumely those whose only
crime is solicitude for their country's peace
and an attachment to its Constitution.
But we have the satisfaction Of believing
that if true manhood and virtue and patriot
ism have not departed from the earth, the
masses Of the people, north and south, will
set the seal of their reprobation on these bad
men, who thus boldly avow themselves the
"free democracy" of the country. At the head
Of this organization stands Joshua r. Giddings,
Wendal Philips, Lloyd Garrison, Abby Fol
som, and that notorious buck negro, Fred
Douglas, the best we believe, Of the crew.
Mark the association, mark the fraternal EN-
braces that are now shocking the taste and the
moral sense Of the nation, and brand the whole
tribe from the highest to the lowest.