Washington sentinel., 1853-10-13
DANIEL 8. DICKINsON,s SPEECH AT
ROCHESTER,.

We lay before our readers to-day the elo-
auent speech delivered by the Hon. Daniel S.
Dickinson before an immense gathering of the
national democracy, at Rochester New York,
on the 9th inst. The space at our disposal
does not permit us to publish all the proceed
ings Of the meeting, as We were requested TO
do, by one Of the resolutions adopted.
s.. The reader will find, in the noble and patr;.
otic effort Of Governor Dickinson, a full and
complete refutation of the charges which have
been made against him BY the treesoil leaders
in New York, and repeated in many other quar-,
tiers with great zeal and earnestness, in order
to prejudice the public mind against one
whom the country honors as among its purest
frmest, and most disinterested patriots
The South needs not to be informed that while
Governor Dickinson, like most Of the inhabi-
tants Of the non-slaveholding States, regards
slavery as a great evil, he has stood fixed and
immovable on the principle of noninterven.
ton. With that the people of the South have
always been satisfied. They ask only for peace
and quiet They do not object to the abstract
ideas Of northern statesmen with regard to
their domestic institutions, provided they aid
In resisting sectional encroachment, the forma-
ton Of parties based on sectional prejudices,
and unconstitutional congressional interference.
Non-intervention was the vital principle Of the
compromise of 1850. Non-intervention is the
characteristic principle of that portion of the
Baltimore platform which relates to the subject
Of slavery; and Daniel S. Dickinson has been
true to nonintervention, and the steadfast foe
of the freesoil organization from the time of its
formation 10 the present hour.
advised, to create the belief that legitimate,
honest union between the national democracy
nnd the freesoil faction in New York was
effected in the year l849; and unprincipled ex-
ertions have been used to connect Daniel s..
Dickinson with that pretended union. We saw
through the imposture, and promptly exposed
it in our columns-and the reader will perceive
by glance at Mr.. Dickinson's speech, that we
are fully sustained in the exposure we made Of
a bold and somewhat extended combination to
sustain bad men, by maligning true, faithful,
noble, and gallant patriot
More especially would we invite the atten-
ton-the close and particular attention--of
the friends of truth and justice TO that portion
of Governor Dickinson's speech which exposes
the miserable quibbling which Mr.. John Van
Buren, resorted to and attempted to sustain by
mutilated and garbled extracts to poison the
public mind and prejudice the public SEN
timent so that band of impure and leprous
factionists, who, instigated by the basest and
most degraded motives, and using the basest
and most degraded means, might seize on the
organization of the national democracy and
misuse it for their infamous purposes. We
appeal to the common sense and honest
impulses of the democracy of the country
yea, Of the whole nation-to say if it is not an
unparalleled outrage, to pretend at this day that
an honest alliance was formed in New York in
lS49--an alliance which, viewed in the light
furnished by subsequent events, cannotbe consid
cred otherwise than venal and corrupt combi-
nation. Some men think that good ends may
mitigate the wrong of using bad means for
their accomplishment But the New York
coalition Of 1913 cannot be elevated to the
dignity Of an honest union by any such sophis-
try; for the hope Of plunder cannot justify the
act and stratagem Of the hghwayman.
And is it not q sight to stir the blood Of every
true patriot--the erect attitude and heroism
with which Daniels. Dickinson with high unbent
form, and his long white hair thrown back from
his honest brow, meets the mercenary crew
that pursues him. BUTT is no new sight We
remember well the scenes OF 1850, when that
mercenary crew assailed the Constitution of the
country, and endeavored to tear asunder the
bonds of union which has made us prosperous
and happy at home, and great and glorious
abroad Daniel S. Dickinson was then in the
Senate OF the United States, striving to still the
troubled waters--to calm sectional animosity--
TO Observation-Disclosures kindly sentiments
and rebukng factious agitators with the same
unfiinching courage and the same earnest pur.
pose which he now exhibits. He knew the fate
that awaited him, but he feared it not He knew
that a base league would overthrow him. but he
shrunk not from his duty TO himself and to his
country. The factionists held their saturnalia
when they thought that they had dragged him
down; and the sight was one which reminded us
of the picture Of the poet, when he paints the
scavengers Of the battle field, manglng the
bodies ofthe brave men that had fallen--the lean
dogs holding their carnival over the dead, under
the walls Of Corinth. But "the milk white hind
tho doomed to death, was fated not TO die
Daniels. Dickinson yet lives in strong, vigorous
manhood, and his name and his services will live
when those who now pursue him with fell malig-
nifty viii have been forgotten, or remembered
only with adherence and aversion.