Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-12-01
From the Rochester Advertiser.

L
| igan writes to friend in this city on the feel.
ing OF the democracy there, with respect to the
position of the party here, and the causes which
led to divided action in this State. The latter
is dated at Detroit, the 18th inst, and from it
| we are permitted to make the following extract.
| Adverting to political topics the writer pro-
ceeds as follows
The result Of the recent election in your
State may we'll be claimed as a triumph by
your section of the party, and in that view will
be cheering intelligence to the national democ-
racy everywhere. In the grand northwest,
where as true hearts and as high intellects exist
as in any portion of our broad confederacy, the
| good news will be hailed with joyful praise. 1t
| is no more than we had right to anticipate.
| from those who in '48 barred themselves to the
| stroke of feesoilism, and fought the good fight
| for Cass and the Union, and who, though
beaten, undismayed, still nourished the princi-
| pies they had contended for, and again, repudi-
ating infamous coalitions threw the banner to
the breeze, with compromises of the Constitu-
ton" and democracy untainted by freesoil-
ism" emblazoned amid its stripes and stars.
And the democracy of Detroit, and of Michi-
gan, who stood shoulder to shoulder with them
IN support OF their own great statesman in '4S,
by the strong breath Of popular Indignation,
kidney as John Van Buren, and his followers)
who strove long and hard to defeat the re-elec-
ton of Lewis Cass to the United States Senate
"These men-the true democrats of the vol.
VERNE State-were not to be awed by the
frowns of those in official stations or by the de-
nunciations of venal press, send their con-
gratulations to the staunch national democracy
OF New York. They congratulate you on the
proud stand you have taken, and the rebuke
you have given to the administration, and they
exhort you to stand fast firm in the convic-
ton that another campaign will result in yonr
complete victory over short boys wings, free
sellers, and political vermin Of every division
and class. Much better is it to submit to de-
feat in a contest such as you have had, than to
purchase success at the sacrifice of principle
1t matters little that the nominal endorsement
by the administration, of the freesoilers and
short boys has given free vent to the anathemas
and foul-mouthed SANDER of certain politicians
and presses, when the adamantine democracy
OF the empire State-true to principle, eschew-
ing evil, even when winked at by the high priest
OF the party-show, by their action and their
votes, that they spurn fellowship with those who.
more than once, in the advocacy of measures
Matched in the womb of iniquity and fostered by
fanaticism, have shaken the foundation of our
So'CiHhiohts AL SioIJ NC tHelTS: the natlOnal
democracy of the State of New York, who.
without the prestiges of an administration,
without the monied levies of political wars, and
with the smiles and spoils Of office holders to
lure, have achieved the great moral and virtual
defeat of a faction sustained by the action of
the federal government, cheered on by the oiras
Of every class of apostates and upheld by the
gold, the exhortations and promises of the lie.
gion, that are nourished by the pap Of Office.
" In truth, the Cass men of Michigan do owe
their brethren of New York some vindication
touching the ISLANDERS of the paper that assumes
to be their organ and when the opportunity
offers, it shall be fully and publicly made.
They have no affinity with the Free Press, and
Its course has filled them with shame and indig
nation. That here, at the home of Gen. Cass,
paper claiming to speak his sentiments and
those of the democracy, should so misrepresent
him and them, is humiliating in the extreme.
If am not mistaken, he will himself in good
time, disavow any endorsement of the articles
that have appeared in the Free Press, relative
to the difficulties in New York and as for that
paper, change in its editorial management is
already talked of and with prospect Of the
speedy establishment of new Journal the
hunkers of our State hope before long to be
set right with their brethren in New York.