Washington sentinel., 1854-01-13
NEBRASKA.

NEBRASKA.
When we first glanced over the Nebraska
bill, we saw that it would bring certain hypo
critical propositions to the test of stern reality
We we're not mistaken The National Era
the abolition organ in this city, abuses those
features of the Nebraska bill which relates to
slavery. The Albany -4Hds-the softshell or
gan of New York--does not repeat the words,
but it sustains the sentiments Of the ultra-abo-
city.
We had foreseen all this. Reasoning from
the past, we felt morally certain that the Ger
rett Smith abolitionists, and the Van Buren
freesoilers would oppose those features of the
Nebraska bill which recognizes the compromise
Of 1850 as a final settlement Of the slavery
question. They have opposed it; and all who
are disposed to examine the freesoil resolutions
adopted at Syracuse, under the light of present
developments, will be able to see cracks, crew.
ces, and loop-holes which freesoilism left open
for treachery, whilst making professions Of
fidelity to the compromise acts Of 1850, as
final settlement, in and out Of Congress of the
slavery agitation.
But We must be permitted to express our
surprise that the Washington Union should un-
dertake, as it undertook yesterday, to pare
away and smoothe over the infamous course
Of the Albany atlas. The Washington onion
says that the Albany atlas is an organ Of the
party. May we be permitted to ask when did
that journal become an organ Of the partys
And may we be permitted to ask how did it
become an organ Of the pa'fyf We think we
can answer our own questions; but if our an
swers be incorrect, we beg to be corrected BY
the Washington Onion.
If our memory serves us right, the Albany
Atlas was for years the organ Of the Buffalo
the head Of its editorial column as the corner
stone of the democratic building. If our mem
ory does not play us false, the Albany ARas
adhered to its Wilmot proviso corner stone,
until General Pierce was elected, and that even
after General Pierces election, it adhered to its
old position, and adhered to it up to the time
that a soft and sappy coalition was formed in
New York, upon the buccanier association Of
spoils and influence
When that association was formed, the Wash
ington Union endorsed the Albany Atlas, which
has been for years reasonable sheet, and
now, in the face of the plain and manifest de-
termination Of the alias to adhere to its free
soil antecedents, the Washington Union again
endorses it as an organ Of the party!
There are none so blind as those who will
not see, is an old proverb; and the Washington
Union Of yesterday proves the truth Of the old
proverb. Its connection with the Albany AHds,
which it instals as an organ Of the party, for
bids it to attack the freesoilism of that jour
nal, yet common decency, and a proper regard
for public opinion, forces it to smooth over the
sins Of its confrere-to hide them and cloak
them-and to twist and turn them, and plaster
them up, SO that the public may not see and
may not understand the company in which the
Washington Union has placed itself
The Washington Union may attempt to
apologize for the Albany Atlas; it may at
tempt, BY cunningly framed sentences, to pre-
vent the Albany Atlas from showing the cloven
foot just at this time but we understand the
game well enough, because we have watched il
long enough to understand it,
The game is this:
The Washington Union, has no circulation
in the non-slaveholding States ALBANY
atlas has no circulation in the slaveholding
States. Neither journal isread on both sides
Of Mason and Dixon's line; and hence the
Albany Atias, one of tie organs Of he party,
as the Washington Union pronounces it to be,
may appeal to Van Burenisn,, in the north,
whilst the Washington Union may smoothe
down those appeals and explain them away for
southern consumption.
We do not feel it to be necessary to 20 into
a particular and minute examination Of the
questions growing out Of the Nebraska bill,
which the Albany alias propounds, and which
the Washington Union strives to justify or ex.
plain. We content ourselves with saying, that
the Albany atlas, the organ Of the .freesoiiers
Of New York, and the National Era, The oygan
Of the qboiitionists Of the Union, make pre-
cisely the same objections to the slavery fea-
ture Of the Nebraska bill. If our space per-
mitted, we would present the article of the
National Era, and the article Of the Albany
atlas this morning but our space not permit.
ting us to do 50, we shall take particular pains
TO present the two articles to-norrow-the one