Washington sentinel., 1853-10-12

10 Its atiinltles, PTeclpRdted Itself III retreat.
Not one voted for his resolutions, the mass in
gloriousy escaping through the aisles and ay-
enues of the house:
What democrat, who is honestly in favor of
national resolutions, or the Baltimore plat
form, or the Presidents inaugural, can point to
sentence, a line, or a word Of Taylors reso-
lutions, to which he could not subscribe :?
How, then, stands this issue? A faction which
not only deserted the democratic party in its
hour Of trial, but made the detection upon the
most unrighteous issues-a faction whose pres
ent leaders were the mouth.pieces of Van Bu-
renism in ls4S--a faction which, refusing to
vote for national resolutions drawn by a
national democrat, assents only to such as
are framed by freesoiler for freesoil con-
sciences--a faction which has never given
any healthy sign ot repentance in any express
sion OF sorrow for past otfences--a faction
which finds it easier to hire bullies than to
elect delegates, and which holds conventions
where heesoil has more advocates than free
speech, and where pugilism finishes what fraud
begins-a faction, with its skirts yet red with
treason and the shedding of innocent blood,
which frantically rushes before honest men and
clamors for rewards which it has never had
the virtue to deserve-a faction which, instead
of coutritely taking the lower seats Of the sane
tuary, with a brazen ehrontery that has no par
allel in the history of parties in this country,
demands that its leaders, all tricked out in ly-
ing tinsel, shall be made high priests and rulers
this, this is the faction which now asks the
sympathy and countenance of the democracy
of the country in its issue in the State of New
York with men whose political virtue has never
been questioncd-with men who, but five
years ago, fearlessly, and with the undaunted
bravery of veterans, entered into democratic
contest which the detection of this very faction
had beforehand made a hopeless defeat.
The position of Daniel S. Dickinson and his
present associates in New York, in relation to
freesoilism has memorable parallel in sis
ter State. That State is New Hampshire, and
the man whose courage drew the parallel was
Franklin Pierce. And nowhere throughout
| his whole career does the President call more
| upon the admiration of the democracy, than III
his celebrated to freesoilism, although
| for the time it was hedged around by the form
alitv and sacredness ola democratic nomination.
That privilege even did not shield John Atwood
from the blows of Franklin Pierce, and surely
then, errors unacknowledged and sins unrepent
| ed, may justly call down upon Grover, Van
Buren,, Cochrane 4 Co., whatever of force that
slumbers in the right arm Of Daniel S. Dickin-
son. The time ,cas, when Franklin Pierce felt
himself called upon by the allegiance he owed
to his party, to array himself against the free
soil men of his own ranks in his own State
| the time u.s. when Daniel S. Dickinson feels
| himself justified in his movements against the
same error in New York And if the indica.
tons are not so fragrant in one case as the other,
the New York patriot who understands the
cunning arts of his antagonists better than
those removed from the arena of combat, should
have extended to him. by the democracy Of the
country, that countenance and encouragement
| to which his past character and services so
eminen1ly entitled him. That no mercenary
motive, no paltry ambition, no Incorporate
passion, moves him to his course, is certified
by his whole political life. There is noebar
sinister on his escutcheon; the emblazonries
there attracted the admiration of the proud old
State, which might almost have been named
the Warwick of the convention a State which,
when Daniel S. Dickinson modestly declined
the preferred laurel, cast it gracefully upon the
head of Franklin Pierce. We have no fears
that Daniel S. Dickinson, at this day, will prove
false TO his past fame, or lightly triae with the
obligations which the democratic party has i'm
posed on him. Before our faith in him falters
in the least, he will have to array himself in
opposition to other men than those who opened
the sluices of abolition in lS48, and who as yet
stand pledged to do the same thing again.