Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-12-09

Tie National Democracy IN Council Aoain,
The national democracy of New York held
grand jubilee in that city last Wednesday
night to rejoice at their, late triumph over the
freesoil administration party The immence
Metropolitan Hall was crowded 10 ovefaowing.
The proceeding, were commenced BY the read
Jag and adoption OF. an address, the tenor of
which may be inferred from the subjoiaed par
agraph, which sve extract:
ain reviewing these occurrences, we shall not
do ourselves or the factsef histoxg the injustice
to speak with hesitation, IL wa. an hack of
candor. We gave to the n6znzAflor Of the
present Executive of the Uxif2d States. an
earnest aud cordial support M an hisprevi-
Gus political lile he had avowed and sustained.
as we believed, The national principeA We
hailed his trapmhant election as1fhe aseeh5en.
cy and elevation of that principIes We gar>
ded it as an earnest of the stability, nav, ihdes
tructibility,.of our glorious Union,. We adhe-
red,tofhis belief, Notwithstanding the selection
ofsaCabinet, curiously mosaic, and strangely
in contrast with<the popular expectation, be-
eoAfdaees and because we.relied ups The Gin.
1n this~State, w the leaning and associa.
Free,Soil isads9s a',d their coalition allies '
.sher it becaiIscz obvious that fh1H class ofpo.
litisians were their assured aud Ioa6dential adj.
.viserS-when we saw the Nation9$ Dernocracv
-of the State, whose consistency 6hd daeotion
through all the dark periods of oalr history and
all times, no man can gaiasay, &scarded as UNI
worthy of confidence, or treated as aliens
when we saw this Civilization with Free-SoiliSm
sipen,into asmanifest interference by Cabinet
ministers fifa5F State politics. in the tacit ap-
prevail of theacts of violence and outrage by
which our conventions were sought to beseon'
troled, and finaly, i'll the eiectiou from oil|cia}
stations under the Governments, of4honered
and consistent Demonstration thesassertion
of our political rights in State affairs became
s'irreguarty," and consistent political integrity
''insubordination, "---and when we SIM the
power and machinery ofthe Department, thrown
into the canvass, in every fornlSof intimidation
and appliance, we could no longer doubt the
proelitites of the Cabinet, their designs upon
iheSpdependence and the integrity of our PEG
der the danger to all freedom of opinion: all
natfbnality of sentiment, and all liberty of po-
H6eal action; if allowed to sweep on unchecked
and hnresisted in their career of attempted do
7 mination. Nor could we hesitate to act as be-
came men; smarting unds< Use Of wrong and
injustice4 That we saw oa <t1fiidence misap.
piled; our position misrepresented, and our lib
erty of opinion and action ia .*he State affairs
invaded, with pain and regres<&e will not deny;
but that we saw it with fearf5f in any craven
spirit of submission to Cabihet interference, no
man will now assert. 1t is anoble spectacle to
see a great people sustain a Government foun-
ped on justice, and maintaining the principles
and avowals by which it invoked and obtained
power; but it is far nobler to witness prompt
and gallant resistance to a Government which
fergets It's friends renounces its principles, and
aims to tyrannize over both