Washington sentinel., 1854-01-13
From the Albany Argus.
Smoked Out, At Last.

Lung huu ocSCIt nave Uccu the lrlDQldtlOnS
Of the little clique who aspire to direct the
" administration" party and the "administra-
ton" press in this city, since first it was dis
covered that the Nebraska territorial question
involved the old dogma of Wilmot Provisoisn.
1t were amusing to tell of the profound delibe-
rations of the faithful-the trayellings to and
fro the Executive mansion--the anxious tele-
graphic communications interchanged with its
proprietor at Washington-the whispered assu-
RANGES that all was right as to Douglas bill,
and the openly expressed apprehensions that
all was wrong-the urgent appeals of freesoil
Office holders to throw the proyiso overheard.
the urgent appeals of freesoiers not Office
holders, for the instant rebuilding of the Buf
falo platform. ALI these might have been seen
and known of men for weeks past. For weeks
the perplexed organ has retained dismal and
omnous silence. Its allies throughout the
State were insubordinate." The silence of
the leader of the pack had encouraged the
whelps to clamor the louder. Some of them
audaeiously hinted that the Atlas was welded
to the flesh pots Of Egypt that custom-house
appointments, pension agencies, organship, &C.,
had taught the central organ Of freesoil' (see
proceedings Of Herkimer convention) to play
new and strange tunes. There was talk in the
freesoil camp, for the first time in years, of
principle!
Still the potent AHds, bursting with the i'm
portance of oficiality, retained its silence. How
many articles were written, rewritten, remod-
elled and cast aside, concerning Nebraska and
the proviso, by the sage editors, it were imper
tinent to tell. The perplexity increased ; not
another paper remained in the State which had
not spoken out its mind. Something must be
done. Insubordination " was spreading. 1t
sat down by the very hearth of Van Burenism.
1t was no longer possible to hold peace
AT last the atlas has spoken in language
precisely such as it used at the commencement
of the last agitation careful, wellconsidered
and deceptive. 1t upholds the legal prohibi.
ton, By Congress, Of the institution of slavery,
from the territory of Nebraska. This is the
proviso in it's old shape. tits what the democ-
racy has always opposed. Its revival would re-
open-if there did not already exist-the vast
gulf between the democracy and the free-soilers.
1t is unnecessary to review the grounds upon
which democrats have planted themselves
against congressional Legislation upon slavery
in territories; those grounds are to their minds
conclusive and unshaken. Upon this point they
will never yield, and were the temptation Of
Office and power thousand times what it is.
could never yield their convictions.
Now that the old warfare is renewed, and
by the freesoil demagogues, the cautious an
proaches under which they have concealed
themselves, are rent open to view. We see
that "acquiescence' in the legislation of 1850.
differs widely from approval" of the spirit
and precedent OF the compromise acts. We
see that while freesoers acquiesce in the settle-
ment OF the slavery question as to Utah or
New Mexico, they stand ready to renew the
warfare upon Nebraska, and stand equally
ready to follow it up, should Cuba or the Sand
wich Islands seek to enter the Union. The DO
tent opate of "the spoils' fails to lul their un-
resting nervous system and the confident
assurances of "peace" contained in the Presi.
dents message must have been indited without
an accurate knowledge of their peculiar char.
acter.
Since the issue is once more to be met. we
predict that it will be met firmly and con.
sstently by the democratic party. The prin.
ciple Of the compromise Of 1850 must be
perpetuated in future territorial legislation
else nothing but providential interposition can
avert the destruction of our national Union.
The virtual exclusion of any portion of our
citizens from territory purchased by the blood
and treasure of oil, can never be submitted to
at the hands Of the American people. And
yet this is what the Atlas, the Ereaing Post,
the DuHaio, tocnester, syracuse, ana Troy or
gans Of freesoilism, the professed and recog-
nised sole supporters of the administration
in this State, are now demandingI
The true men, who upheld the banner of
non-intervention in the storm of l848, and who
saw the tempest temporarily subside in 1850,
foresaw, in 1853, this early re-awakening of its
elements. They stand together now, in the
State of New York, determined to maintain, at
whatever odds, the same principles which they
have so long maintained and cherished. And
when the administration, which has forgotten
their proven heroism and devotion in the past
shall turn from later favorites with disgust and
dismay, it may find in the national democracy
of New York, band Of men whose unbought
support il might have earlier secured, had it
not imagined the need of purchasing it from
others. While the Atlas and its satellites are
bowling their old accustomed imprecations
against the Constitution and the Union, the
true democracy win but stand irmer BY the
principles Of democracy and the rights Of the
States.
BEAuTIFuL.--Here is beautiful sentence
from tho Of