Washington sentinel., 1854-06-20
OLD QuARRELs.

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OLD QUARRELs.
The Washington Union could not, even when
the Nebraska bill was pending, conceal its
hostility 70 the national democrats Of New
York. More than once it attempted to preju-
dice the public mind against them by cunning
misrepresentation, which showed that its affec-
ton for the Buffalo platform men Of ls4S was
although large majority Of them
opposed the administration on a test question.
Now that the Nebraska bill has become q
law, the Union is less guarded in its language,
bolder in its misrepresentation, and less eau.
tious in manifesting its hatred and its friend
ships. After vascillating, hesitatlng, going for.
ward and coming back on the Nebraska bill,
it finally declared it to be test measure. The
bulk Of the New York softshells and freesoilers
failed to stand the test, notwithstanding the Ia
vors which had been heaped upon, yet the
Union steadily refused TO censure them, even
in the mildess and gentlest terms The bulk
Of the national democrats Of New York did
abide the test, and do now sustain the Nebraska
act. Yet the Washington Union is eager to
censure and denounce them. Such course
must throw whatever weight that journal has
against the democratic party and the success
of the administration.
The particular cause which called forth the
last effort of the Union on this subject was the
of recent meeting of the general
committee of the national democrats Of the city
of New York, convened to prepare for State
convention. The committee, after transacting
its regular business, by vote of twenty to
twenty-five, refused to pass special censure
on Messrs. Peckham, Maurice, Oliver, Peck, and
Wheeler, members of the House Of Represen-
tatives from New York.
The Union, with consistent hardihood and un-
afirms that this fact connects
the national democratic organization with an
arrangement to unite with the abolitionists to
re-elect Mr.. Wheeler to Congress. Such on
affirmation shows the bitter and vindictive
feelings which the Union cherishes and proves
it's readiness to shelter the soft-shells and free.
soilers by inaicting injustice on an organiza.
ton which has always sustained the principles
of the democratic party, and which now sus-
tains the Nebraska bill against freesoil and
abolition assaults. The vote in the committee
was a close one; and the proceedings of the
meeting prove conclusively that some Of the
members believed that the committee had no
right to pass censure on individual members
IF Congress, whose accounts had to be settled
BY their constituents.
Whilst the Union makes this unjust and un-
candid use of the proceedings with regard to
Messrs. Wheeler & Co., which were initiated
oy q single member, it omits to publish the
resolutions adopted by the committee which
proved that it thoroughly endorsed the Ne
oraska bill, and resolutely repudiated the
course which the freesoilers and abolitionists
nave pursued in opposition to it. We append
he resolutions that the Union remembers to
orget to publish, whilst it labors to create the
that those who adopted them are
an arrangement with abolitionists
because they did not see ftto arraign and con-
lemn particular members of Congress. We
agree that the members alluded to have earned
. just and perfect title to condemnation, but
any child must perceive and understand that
} committee convened for the purpose of pre-
pairing for the choice Of delegates to State
may properly refuse to pass upon
he merits of their congressional representation
and leave each member of it to settle with his
constituents. The article in the Unionis, there.
fore, utterly indefensible. 1t is uncandid be-
Cause it garbes the record, and it is unfair and
to deceive by putting forth conclu.
sions and making charges which the perfect
record would disprove. These are the resolu-
tons adopted by the committee, and even
casual reader will perceive that much Of the
Union's anger was occasioned by the fact that
Senator Douglas is praised in them whilst the
is not praised:
Whereas, at a public meeting Of the democrats
Of the city Of New York, convened by the call OF
our predecessors, the general committee OF 1850
and held at Tammany Hall on the Cd of March in
that year, TO express their sentiments upon the
bill for the government of New Mexico,it was re-
solved that the Wilmot proviso, requiring Con
gress TO impose restrictions upon the government
Of the territories was political heresy having no
warrant in the Constitution, and that in organiz
ing the territoresthe principle eofselfgovernlncnt
on which our federal system rests, would be bes
siituton preserved, and the confederacy strength.
ened, by allowing the local legislature 10 enact
such domestic laws 40 are agreeabls TO them,