Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1853-11-02
Tn. New York Tropsir.---rh. vhs'.i. Pres,

TO obtain any but the faintest conception OIL
the state Of things in. New York. Indeed
the limits Of our paper will not permit us to
present more than few Of the prominent
facts and occurrences. That which most con-
Germs us Of the South to know is, that the Sec
rotary Of the Treasury, npon the basis Of a
seeming sre-union of the party in ls49
free Sellers and Hnnkcrs,) which Reunion
was supposed to be thoroughly cemented in
the great and triumphant contest Of 1882"
directed the Collector, Naval officer and Sur
veyor Of the Port of New York to make such
appointments in the respective ofices ssas to
give just cause of complaint to no section" Of
the party recognizing all as now standing
''unequirocally upon the same platform of
principles Z" The Collector, Judge Bronson,
not submitting to this dictataton of the Sec
tary,--although he was informed that it
was the 'spolicy which the President would
require to be pursucd'-has been removed
from office. That the purpose Of the admins
tration was to recognize the Free Soil party
as oentitled to official station" is of course
palpable. As TO the effect of such a recog-
milton, no intelligent, unbiased Southern
man can for moment doubt.
1t is attempted to be justified, not By the
Secretary, who "palters in double sense" in
his reply to Judge Bronson, and attempts to
shelter himself behind a ridiculous bubble,
alleging that be Lad not directed him to APP
point Free Solers,--but upon the distinct
and avowed basis, tina. the reunion referred
to in 1852, was enough 10 induce the admin
istration not to look further into the scnti-
ments, upon the slavery question, of appli-
cants for office. The resolutions of the late
Syracuse Free Soil convention approving
the Baltimore Patform,-arc referred to,
moreover, as showing that the Free Sellers,
are now entitled to the confidence of the
South. The reunion and the resolutions arc
both denounced by the New York -H1rdsr
the national Denocrats,-as a despicable
cheat of the Free Soilers,- to the last degree,
false and fagitious.
1t would indeed, require no facts to ena-
bic any one at ali acquainted with tho history,
character, and purposes of the Free Soil par
~, to conclude that their conduct is fraud,
practised merely for the spos Of office.
But the facts abound. John Van Buren,
its leader, at an abolition meeting III Vermont,
avowed his object to be -, obtqin the con.
troll Of the organisdti n" Of the Democratic
party Of the North, in order 80 conrert it in
TO the great anti Slavery party of the coun-
trG." In three successive State conventions
the Free Soilers ''voted against the approval
and recognition of the Compromise measures,
and when compelled to yield to the popular
Democratic voice, they demanded that the
fugitive slave law, should stand as an excep-
ton to a qualified and meagro approval of the
great acts for the adjustment Of the slavery
agitation" In tho last Baltimore Conven-
ton they ''resisted the adoption of the ma
tional PLATFORM Their present candidate
for Attorney General, voted against it, and
declared that he had nothing to do with the
the late Syracuse resolutions referred to -
"At the last regular session of the State leg
islature, (of New York; they refused to sus-
tain the patriotic resolutions proposed by the
Democratic members approving of the nation
- u Al ID
ident Pierce, and the Fugitive Slave Law
and finally, when at the succeeding extra
session, the resolutions were brought at last
TO a vote, they fed from their seats, or re-
naming in the chamber, voted in the mega
tiee"-these and various other facts, are
vouched for, in an address ''to the Democratic
Republican Electors of the State of New
York" by the President, Vice President and
Secretaries of the "Hard" or anti-Free Soil
members of the convention which lately me,
at Syracuse.
They PROBE the insincerity-the "doep and
dangerous designs" as we are told in this ad'
dress--of the Free Soil Party.
Yet those men are countenanced, and the
genuine national Democrats of New York, ar,
condemned and deprived Of Office
We know too much of party feeling to sup
pose that, even in the South, the course o.
the administration viii be generally disap
proved at once by the Democratic party,
indeed, it should finally become so, yet SOM
of the Virginia papers Of that party, hav
manifested the good sense, and the indepen
dance to rebuke IFS unwisc policy upon tn
subject. The South Side Democrat, III
Woodstock Tenth Legion, The Aieraadri
Standard, the Norfolk Netrs and The Rich
mond Examiner, for example. The latte
says;
"lIany democratic prints are buslly calcu
lating the right and wrong OF this matter