Washington sentinel., 1853-10-16
PROSPECTS IN NEW YORK.

sometimes 1all ana IL seems that the WHY tao
tics of the New York freesoilers cannot COM
mand success. In every State but New York,
the Buffalo disorganizers are looked upon with
adherence by the true and sterling democracy.
All the signs indicate that even in New York
the scene of their active and desperate opera
tions-they will hardly be able to make de-
cent showing at the polls, although they are
backed up by the influence of the State govern
ment, and have established in many quarters
the belief that they carry with them the active
sympathy and support of federal authority.
Without such adventtious aids they would not
have dared to enter the field at all: for they
have no innate strength of numbers or of char
acter.
The Buffalo gathering was composed of two
separate and distinct classes. The first was
made up of men utterly destitute of principle
actuated by no higher motive than revenge and
the hope of personal aggrandizement OF such
we're the followers of the Van Burens. The
second class was composed Of those misguided
enthusiasts whose rest is broken, and whose con
sciences are wounded by fanced sufferings
among distant people, and yet who look with
stony eyes and stony hearts on woe and misery
around and about them. The fusion of these
two classes at Buffalo naturally presented the
names of Martin Van Buren, of New York, and
of Charles Francis Adams, Of Massachusetts.
as candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency.
Whap Mr. Tnb IL r. ~
ing year, entered into an coalition, in order
TO obtain for his patriotic and disinterested
followers portion of the State spoils, the
conscientious enthusiasts of the Buffalo gather
ing-the Adams men-the men who were not
instigated by revenge and the hope of plunder
merely-thought that they had been BETRAYED
into an alliance with unclean heretics. But Mr..
Van Buren calmed their fears, by telling them
that he had entered into the arrangement not
for the purpose of reconciling himself to the
ocratic party. This pious purpose seems to
have satisfied their scruples, and induced them
TO accede to the bargain and corruption of ls49,
which is now held up to the country as a pure.
honest, and patriotic reunion of old friends
who had been only temporarily estranged BY
temporary misunderstanding. But the practical
issues Of 1850 exhibited its true character. by
revealing the Buffalo freesoilers in fierce and
rancorous hostility to. the national democracy
Now, il seems that the freesoilers who were
represented on the Buffalo ticket by Charles
F. Adams, are again dissatisfied by the hypo-
crisy which the Van Buren, followers exhib.
tied at Syracuse, and begin TO denounce them
second time as false and faithless Even
Charles f. Adams himself comes forth from
his wellmerited obscurity, and mathematics
the trickery by which he and his friends have
been duped, by men devoid of principle and
destitute of honor We know not whether
the ingenuity of Mr.. John Van Buren, has been
able to compound another sop for Cerberus
We cannot tell whether he will be able TO ap-
pease the "true friends of freedom as they
style themselves, by another assurance that he
means to abolitionize the democratic party,
and for that purpose sanctioned the unprin-
cipled and violent proceedings of the Syracuse
freesoilers. He has left himself verge and
quire; for it does not appear as yet, that he has
been able to read the hypocritcal resolutions.
by means of which his supporters expect to
palm themselves off upon the country as ma.
tional democrats, so that they may gain suf.
6cient degree of credit to enable them to prac.
tice another fraud, and commit another treason
We have always thought, and still think.
that the public labors under great mistake as
to the number of votes which the democratic
ticket received in November last from the
freesoil party Of lS4S. The inefficiencv Of the
whig dynasty, the unpopularity of the Wig
candidate, and the peril which the country had
experienced from fanatical agitation, combined
with the high character, consistent record, and
strict nationality of General Pierce, carried
the State Of New York by a majority which
has been wrongly attributed to the exertions
of Van Buren, Dix, and their moss-troopers.
We believe that great portion Of the freesoil
party remained inactive during the contest OF
1852; and we believe that General Pierce reaped
as much advantage from the position which
Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Webster occupied at the
time oftheir death as he did from all the sup.
port which repentant freesoilism gave him.
Viewing the matter in this light we believe that
the freesoil strength is much overrated in New
York, and we believe that the Adams portion Of
the Buffalo party will not consent to follow the
lead of the Syracuse disorganizers by pretend.
ing TO forswear and repudiate their real and
cherished opinions for the purpose Of elevating
few men to official station. Judging from