Washington sentinel., 1854-05-23
SENTIMENTS OF NEW YORK Ma
TIONAL DEMOCRATS.

The Buffalo Courier of the goth instant con
cludes notice of the action of the democratic
(hard) general committee Of New York city,
with the following just, manly, and sensible re-
marks:
" The action of the New York general COM
mittee is fully up to our expectations, and we
record it with pleasure. It is worthy Of the
men who went out from Tammany Hall, when
demagogues and traitors had gained possession
of it who did their duty SO nobly last fall in
defence of principle, and have kept straight on,
consistent, faithful, and Just even now, under
the grossest injustice and wrong that democrats
ever suffered at the hands Of friends or enemies
However it may be understood or supposed
at Washington, the democratic sentiment of
our State approves and sustains the principle
and purpose Of the Nebraska bill, and will not
justify our representatives in opposing it be-
cause it is assumed to be an administration
measure. The support which the administra-
ton may give to the bill, concerns or should
concern them as little as its deplorabe hostility
to the glorious organization which holds the
political destiny Of New York in its firm grasp.
"All we ask-all any national democrat
asks of them, is, to make the right use ofoppor-
tunity, whenever and however it presents ITSELF
to strengthen the hands of those who are with
them heart and soul, and will stand by them in
everything but the desertion of q sound demo
cratic measure and the sacrifice of principle.
Let them not abandon the Nebraska bill, and,
least Of all, let them not compass its defeat to
avenge the wrongs and indignities of the past,
or they will peril our organization and pros.
poets, at this moment stronger and brighter
than ever. We say this, not with the expecta-
ton that our humble appeal can avail much,
but send it forth as democratic sentiment.
QUERIES FOR RABOLITIONIsTS TO AN
SWER.
If the allegations of abotionists of the pres
ent day, true in reference to the superior vir
tue of their pilgrim forefathers over that of the
present generation, how is it that these superior
saints could, individually and as States, own
slaves, import slaves and deal in slaves as mer-
chandize, and yet admittedly, by the abolition
lists themselves, they be superiors in the scale Of
virtue?
If the pilgrim fathers with slavery on their
escutcheon were so superior to the modern abo-
litionists, is there in the mere fact of slavery
existing at the south, any reason why the south
should not stand as high in the scale of virtue
as the north?
Slavery aside, the south is admitted to be
equal to the north If slavery did not efface
virtue from the pilgrim fathers, but left the
light of it brighter in them than it now shines
in the abolitionists, have not these latter de-
generated in other matters to an extent which
will more than counterbaance their abandon
ment of proftless slavery? There mast then
be greater sins than slavery and in these sins
the abolitionists must have indulged since they
have sunk them in their own estimation, below
their fathers who INDUCED in the sin Of slavery.
That slavery is consistent with high state of
Christian virtue and intelligence is the creed
Of freesoilers and abolitionists; for they habitu
ally eulogise as exemplars Of virtue those who
in times past participated in slavery in all its
phases, alike ofwhites and negroes. The great
William Penn lived and died stakeholder ;
the pillars Of, the New England church were
shareholders and slave-dealers, yet they receive
the 10 pnans Of the whole host Of freesoilers.
Let parallel columns Of abolitionists and
shareholders or abetters OF slavery be placed
side by side, and the latter would be to the for.
mer - Hyperion to a Satyr.