Washington sentinel., 1853-10-13

MODS ticket! The Utica freesoir conven
ton did meet and harmoniously" displace
half the names from the democratic ticket, and
supplied their places with an equal number Of
"freesoiT candidates, and passed set Of re-
solutions which, for abolition ferocity would
have put Fred. Douglass himself to a blush;
and John an Buren then, as now a conspicuous
leader Of the freesoil wing, declared that his
object IN uniting tie organizations ieds 10 make
the democratic party tie great anti-siarery party
Of the no,fh!-and the very antipodes in SEN
timents, and with no object except power and
Office in common, were thus connected--not
united; and this is the ''wsioa Of the party
Heaven save the mark !--over which so many
peans have been chaunted by consecrated
organs, and to the high priests of which the
smoke Of so much incense has ascended.
That many entered upon the experiment in
the most perfect honesty and good faith be-
leving it TO have originated in pure motives
and susceptible of profitable results, / have
never doubted but ] denounced it from the
beginning as long as denunciation could avail,
and then acquesced under protest, and patient
ly awaited the moment when it would be over
thrown by its inherent elements Of destruction.
That time, thank Heaven, has transpired, and
the day on which it had development should
be celebrated hereafter not only by democrats
but by all honest men, as day when the demo
cratic party was emancipated from vassalage
ten times more abject than the worst form Of
negro servitide. And now that it is gone
may be permitted to hope, if the party is to
be governed by contract instead Of opinion
hereafter that we pay off the freesoilers for
their services as farmers pay who take sheep
a pound Of scool ahead.
All democrats who distrusted the healing
influence Of this puissant union," were de-
nounced as being opposed to what was drawled
out in appropriate whine, she union and Aar-
mony Of the party" and ! have been de-
nounced, both by the coalition at home and its
apologists abroad, as being opposed to q "dem-
ocratic union.n If by that is meant that have
been and am opposed to all hollow and heart
less bargains for the spoils, under any and
every guise-to all banding together of demo
Gratis, afreesoilers," !" and political hucksters to
hunt together ike wolves for prey, that they
may wrangle over its division afterwards, then
am opposed to it. But lift is intended to say
or mean that | am opposed to a cordial and
healthy union OF the democratic masses, upon
the pure and sublime principles of the party,
making doctrine the primary and Office All
incident object Of its pursuit, the charge is
false
Perhaps no better evidence of bad faith on
the part of the coalition Hharmonists'' could
well be exhibited than the continued disregard
i Of truth and fairness which they have at all
times exhibited, and still exhibit, towards every
true democrat who has uniformly refused to
bow the knee to their 'sfreesoif' coalition Baal,
Although from the first dawn of the sectional
agitation upon the slavery question, as a sena-
tor informs us, it was well known that spoke
and voted against s'freesoir' abolitionism in
every form, in every place, and upon every oc-
casion--and although for this l was hunted
down in every lane of life as man was never
hunted before pursued by their minions and
vile presses with ferocity more fendish than
that ofevi beasts,--their papers sent into my
house to wound the feelings of unoffending
women and children--laden with every epitaph
in the catalogue Of Bllingsgate, subjected to
every calumny which depravity could invent
threatened with violence and pursued by their
4 blood-hounds to the retirements Of my own
freside because resisted their hellish crusade
against the southern States, yet since the doc
trines which advocated, and for which was
prosecuted, have become popular, it has suited
| the purposes Of the same faction and its aiders
and abcttors, before the disruption at Syracuse
too, and while / was in the quiet prosecution
of my private pursuits to show that accorded
with them in freesoil treason, and they forth
with employ scavengers, and scissors in hand,
enter upon the manufacture of evidence, know
ing its falsity, from speeches, which at the time
they were made, opened upon me all the food
gates of "abolitionism' bitterness and " free
sol' malignity.
i / refer to these matters not because they are
matters of annoyance to me, but as a part of
the history Of these times, as is my right and
duty, but ] refer to them as matters of history,
merely to confound the falsehoods of the guilty.
Who does not remember that day when the
country was arrayed in sectional conflict, in all
but the conflict of arms when winds howled-
when ightnings fashed-when thunders roar
ed, and the storm descended in dark and fear
\ ful density-when our fabric trembled to its
foundations, and its battlements rocked with
domestic convulsion. Who associated with
fugitive slaves and renegade politicians, stimu-
lated on this accursed and fendish spirit and
i cried out disunion land who barred his head
| to the aptiless peltings" of this storm--when
the fanatic gnashed his teeth--the hypocrite
groaned--the demagogue blustered-when the
bad prosecuted and revied--the good trembled
! the timid hed and even friends like the priest
and levite, passed by on the other side. Let
these questions be answered, and let faction too
remember, that it isyet quite too early to enter
upon the Justification of this chapter in our
history.
| lnat tnVlous HlscreaHt, HaMar, cOuiu not
enjoy the honors which awaited him because
he saw Mordecai, the jew, sitting at the kings
gate, but these able harmonists, more vindc-
tive still, could not see me sitting at my own.
Again, at a recent coalition ratification at
Albany, Mr.. John Van Buren processes to quote
from my speech at Rome, but oddly enough,
seems not 10 hare had the achole speecA before
him. since he divides paragraphs in manner
to change entirely the sentiments Of the speech
/ was urging my friends to abstain from all
"proviso" agitation---from all federal legisla-
ton on the subject, illustrating my views on
the subject in various ways, and counseling
them to leave it to be settled by the people inter
ested under the Constitution. For the purpose
Of fdistroying entirely my influence ! was charged
with beingan adrocate Of sldrery--a slarery pro-
pagandist-a STARE ertovtionist, dc. de-, this
pointedly and Indignantly repelled and in SO
doing said: