Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-09

| w hbC i1hONfhS thttt
But, on visit TO that city, shortly after the
Convention, we found spirit Of querulousness'
which would have surprised US, II any faulty on
the part Of this administration could have excited
| our establishment. The approval OF the admins
ration, In the resolutions OF the State Convention,
was not sufficiently general and indiscriminate for
| that meridian. There was too much OF opposition
to the extension Of slavery in the platform 20 make
| II acceptable 10 the Southern States; and the De-
| mocracy Of New York could not be regarded as
national with such predictions for freedom and
oppugnaton to the spread Of the peculiar insttu-
| toni The fact that the platform was laid down
as the basis of action for The Democrats of NeD
York. and not of other States, ,0as urged in vain
and we were assured that reliance for success in
| the next Presidential campaign was based upon
the South, whilst the North was ignored, as OF lit
| tie or no Importance"
"Thc approval Of the administration was
not Sufficiently general and indiscriminate for
Washington" Mol Mr. Writer, who peppers
the highest is surest to please here. Ifyou
do not make the lowest sort Of a salaams at the
Threshold of the audience chamber; if you do
not cry out Great is Democracy and Pierce
its prophet; !" if you do not bring glad tidngs
Of the exceeding popularity Of the administra-
ton, you had better have staid at home. But,j
defence Of your Wilmot Proyiso platform, you
plead that it was domestic platform laid
dosn as the basis Of action for tho Democrats
Of New York, and not for other States" Oh,
'no, Mr. Writer, the American party has spiked
that dodge, they have required that this hide
and seek game shall cease. This Kane-letter
and Nicholson-letter policy won't do. Parties
must come out and show their hands. The
day of Van Buren, policy is over with the sys-
tenn Of telegraphs and reporters. gentle
man like Archbishop Hughes 10 speaking to q
constituency at one ermsme Of the continent
and the tslegraphic operator Is listening 70
him at the other. So your local platform upon,
a national subject won't do. Besides, the adj
minstration wanted something better for the
Southern elections, not knowing then that the
whole Wing party in Georgia would commit
themselves to its fortunes, and your own.
But the writer, properly indignant at the
interference Of the Washington Union in the
affairs of New York. reiterates his convictions
of his correctness, and breaks out into a strain
Of indignant denunciation which is really re-
freshing in this day Of obsequious venality.
We make no apology for the length of this
article, or the extract with which it concludes
Both will be useful to those who wish to form
correct opinion upon the great question:
(which is the Democratic party Of the NorthS"
We are compelled to believe, with the Alba
ny Atlas, that tho Free-soil and Abolition
sentiment expressed in tie Syracuse platform
finds an echoing response in the bosom Of
nine-tenths Of the Democracy of this State [of
New York; outside of the city Of New York. !"
Now for the extract:
els 1t strange that, under these provocatives
our regard for the administration should have been
lessened that the feeling should have arisen, that
ifthe Democracy OF New York were 80 unneces
sary to the administration, the administration was
quite as unnecessary to New York; that our inhe-
rent love for freedom and free institutions should
have reyolted az the dictation which would require
the Democrats of this State TO square their sent-
ments and actions not by their own convictions Of
right, but by the wishes of the slaveocracy of
Georgia and Mississippi and that the success of
the elections In those States was considered OF
greater consequence than that Of the Empire Statei
Was it wonderful that an independent mind should
have proved FESTIVE under the arrogant assump-
tons OF the Washington Union TO dictate 10 those
quite as competent itself TO judge as TO the pro-
priety of what should and what should not be done
by the Democrats Of New York, and the platform
|. they must consent TO occupy in 1862 Was 1t
| surprising that, knowing do, by an editorial
experience and observation of quarter of a CEN
fury, what impulse actuates the Democratic voters
of this State, we should prefer 10 stand by cluci
date and enforce the sentiments Of the State Con-
venton, and, in so doing, administer . dignifed
but deserved rebuke to the pro-slavery tendencies
of the administration, upon which the North has
strong claim for justice, II not for gratitude,
| as the South
"By those who know us not, and those who
Judge others by the spirit of subserviency which
rules In fhc.r bosoms these inquiries may be an
swerei against us. But those who know us more
intimately, win need no ascnption Of mercenary
motives 10 account for our having taken up the
pen In a canse with which our feelings and bust
ness relations have been identified for the last
twenty-five ycars--the success Of the Democratic
party. We scorn, and hurl back Indignantly, the
assumption come from what source II may, that
we would say or publish anything In Mr.. Cassidy's
/ absence that We would not say publish in his
| presence, or before the world. Equally unfounded
rs the assertion that we have fixed price upon
| the Atlas establishment beyond the requirements
| Of Justice and equity towards all concerned or
above that paid for similar property OF less intrinsic
| value.
"No the administration at Washington need
not lay any such fatterng unction' 70 lis soul, as
that the expression OF sentiment by the editor who
pens this article is either clandestine prompted
by unworthy motives We have abundant evil
dence that the truths which we have been con-
strained to utter in regard 10 the government and
its slavery proclivities find an cchoing response in
the bosoms Of nne-tenths Of the Democracy OF this
State, outside ofthe city Of New York.
at IL this reflection OF the sentiments OF the
radical Democracy which gives TO our views what
ever Of potency or power they may possess. Our
I" abolitionism" IL the "aboliuonismD Of those who
hold in their hands ths political destinies Of this
great State; and who, with every disposition 70
stand by the ticket Of their choice, ask only
that their principles may not be blinked to suit
baser market or a more Southern latitude. We
have also an abiding conviction that 50 long as VIC
shall feel 1t consistent this paper win continue 70
utter It's honest convictions irrespective Of the
winnings Of place-men, or the threats Of those in