Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-09-13

loss of that highly ornamental appendage, so
the american and the hatelligencer endeavor
TO implicate the northern Democrats in com
mon guilt with the northern Wings. This,
however, they cannot do. The evidence of the
Generalization and Authorization of the latter,
was complete without the confession of these
two respectable journals. Practically there
fore, this confession is only waiver of defense
and an estoppel to all denial of guilt. There
is no merit in an act that results from necessity,
nor can the confession Of the american and the
Intelligencer, made with cheerful air, have the
effect of eliminating another and different
party--the northern Democrats. The confes-
sion is good against the Wings, but fails
against the Democrats for two very good
reasons First, because it is not their confes-
sion and secondly, because it is disproved
by conflicting and superior evidence-which
we have already, on many occasions, spread
before our readers. We will make but briet
alluson to it. 1t is this The bulk of the
northern Democrats have always been in favor
of the doctrine of congressional non-interven-
ton in respect of slavery in the Territories.
They have, also, always been in favor Of the
fugitive slave law. They have likewise refused
to fraternize and cooperate with acknowledged
Abolitionists and Freesoilers, while the Wings
of the north, with but few lonesome exceptions,
if indeed there are any, are as much Free
sellers, as the Freesoilers themselves.
Now, while we accept the confession of the
american, so far as its party is concerned, we
protest against its effort to criminate the
Northern Democrats. 1t is unjust. Do Judge
Douglas, Senator Bright, Senator Brodhead,
and those able and gallant Northern Democrats
in the Senate and House of Representatives,
who voted for the Nebraska bill, and who up
hold the Fugitive Slave law, deserve that South
ern Wings who profess to agree with them, and
whose representatives, with few exceptions
voted with them, should stamp them as Free
sellers? They have done all, and more than
Southern Wings have done to prove their
fidelity to the Constitution and to State rights.
The bulk of the Northern Democrats are CO
operating with them, and it is unkind, un-
grateful, and unjust to accuse those Northern
Democrats of being as unsound and corrupt
as the Northern Wings.
But aware that the Northern Democratic
masses have been practically sound on the
slavery question, the American, in order to
discredit them, imputes to them love of the
loaves and fishes" and declares that their
fidelity to the South has only been device to
"secure the cooperation of the South to aid
them in obtaining place and power" This
shows a most perverse disposition to blame
them under any circumstances. No matter
what they do, what doctrines they hold, or
what votes they cast the american has but one
answer, and that is, {" they are abolitionized.'
No matter how badly the Northern Wings act
and how well the Northern Democrats act, the
American still insists they are on a common
level of infamy. We respectfully ask is this
right? Might we not with the same propriety
retort, that the views and opinions expressed
by the american, are Of the same selfish and
mercenary character, as those it imputes to the
Democrats of the North?