Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-11-20
Com munitateb.
New YoRK, Nor. IG, 1853.

ISM has acquired new strength has, indeed,
achieved splendid victory. To this end, it
has been quite apparent to intelligent men
IN this State, things have been tending for
months. To arrest if possible this calamity,
the national democrats of this State exerted
themselves to place the party in right po
sltion at the last Syracuse convention. In
the canvas for delegates they elected decided
majority of national men, besides the sixteen
contested seats in New York city. This is a
notorious and undeniable fact. If no exterior
influences had been excited to control that
convention, no division could have taken place.
or would have been likely to have occurred
there. Why was not the administration willing
that the national delegates should control that
| convention What answer can be given to
this question? The national delegates were
Of and represented, the true democracy of the
State-that democracy whose character was
untarnished- had committed no party sins
TO repent of or atone for-who had preserved
their connection in principle, sympathy and
party action, with the national democracy of
the Union, until their principles and the com
mon principles Of the party had triumphed.
| Why did the administration, coming into
power by such triumph of principle, fear the
ever true and reliable friends Of those princi-
| pies in New York? Had the New York de-
mocracy proved recreant to the party principles,
or parted faith at any time? No, never. Why,
then, was the naval officer, the surveyor, the
postmaster, and other U. s. officers of New
ork city, sent to that convention to influence
or control it, if possible? What did the ad-
ministration fear from the action Of that con-
| vention? What could it have done, if not in
terfered with, but make suitable and proper
nominations, and pass sound national resolu-
l finnc ~
| the Presidents inaugural. Will it be said that
some disapproval had been expressed by indi-
vidual national men of this State of the policy
OF the administration in respect to appoint
ments? But what of that? Is all freedom of
opinion to be disaowed in this State Must
every democrat approve of every act of every
act of every member of an administration, on
pain of prescription? Ifan out and out aboli-
tombstone who never pretended to be dem
ocrat-one who never voted democrat ticket
is appointed to Office, must every national
democrat say Amen" and swing his hat with
cheers Of rejoicing approval? Is this what is
required at Washington in the way of approval
of the policy of the administration
! The national democrats of this State, on all
OCCASIONS have protested to be the true friends
of the President. Resolutions affirming their
confidence in him, and their approval Of the
inaugural, and their continued adherence to
national principles, had been passed at most
oftheir meetings and conventions, and nothing
to the contrary had been said or done at any
place in the State, certainly not to meet the APP
proval of any considerable body Of men, Mr..
Cooley and Mr. Brady had made some hasty or
harsh remarks; but what of that? They ex-
pressed but their individual opinions, which
few approved of-none we're responsible for
but themselves Why then, ask again, was
the administration unwilling to trust the ma
| tional men, who had carried the convention
with its control? What did they fear? What
could the convention have done distasteful to
the administration? But whatever may have
been the reasons why the administration was
distrustful Of the national democrats, the fact
nevertheless is, that the convention was broken
up by men claiming to act under orders from
Washington. The fighting men, who were
brought there from New Y ork, were notorious
ly imported and paid by the government Off
GERS. This has never been denied
i These men marched into the convention in
company of the surveyor and postmaster of
New York, and acted there under their leader
ship and authority. Surrounded and protected
| by these men, the surveyor, when appealed to
| by General Ward to have the DULLES leave the
platform, replied in speech to the convention,
which was taken down verbatim by the reporter
for the Herald, and was as follows:
MIR. Cochrane-I will answer Gen. Ward in
| moment, and do il by authority (Ha ha. ha y
We are all here as Union democrats. (BahD We
| are here national democrats. We are here to
| sustain the State and national administration
/ applause from the DULLES on the platform.) He
| called on the Union democrats 10 come up and
sustain both, and all their acts and appointments,
and the Union democracy Of the State and national
administrations. He spoke by authority when he
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standard, could not be sustained by the admins
tration. He spoke by authority when he said that
| he who did not come UP to this standard would be
considered without the pale Of the democratic
party. He said that he spoke by authority"
I The man who made this insolent and insult
| ing speech, has not yet been removed from
Office and the naval officer who was present at
Syracuse, cooperating with Cochrane and Fow.
Ter and other government officers, has since
been promoted to the Office Of collector of the
port Of New York.
Do not these facts prove that the admins.
tration approved of the acts of these men, and
Of the means they took to control or break up
the convention. The administration either ex-
pected that Redfeld, Cochrane, Fowler, John
| Van Buren, and their associates, would control
the convention, or else that division would
| take place between the sections The con-
troll of the convention by these men, through
the agencies employed, involved of course the
defeat of the wishes and purposes of the ma
tonal democrats and the ascendency therein of
the freesoil leaders--of John Van Buren,, Pres
ton King, Martin Grover, John Cochrane,
Isaac Y. Fowler, George Rathburn, and such
as they. Such men thereby would have be.
come and stood as the opponents Of the policy
of the administration. Such was the obvious
plan, purpose, and expectation of the admins
tration; and this is part of its policy, of which
national democrats, suppose, are expected to
approve. The only alternative between sub
mission to such control and influences left the
national democrats, was the one taken to dis |
solve all ASSOCIATE with such men, and
refuse to act with them in convention, sup
ported as they were, by the band Of hired bul.
lies. The dissolution Of the copartnership be-
tween the democratic and freesoi parties, made
| at Syracuse, was thus the act Of the admins
tration Without the interference of officers
claiming to act under the direction and autho-
rty of the administration, it would not have