Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-09
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North
Since the scientific inquiry into thccxplosive.
capacity Of saltpetre, no question has arisen
more interesting to the speculative public than
this: The Democratic party at the North is
divided into two sections-the Nationals and
Free-soilers. The National Democrats had
been turned ont of Office and repudiated by
the present administration. 1t took the Free
sellers to its bosom, perhaps, because, as we
proved last week, by the election returns OF
New York, they were the most numerous.
Perhaps because, having suffered from polit-
ical epidemic more fatal than that which pre-
walls in tho unfortunate city Of Norfolk, 1t was
very obvious that state Of public sentiment
which swept from legislative existence forty
six members Of Congress within a single sea-
son, was too formidable to be resisted and
must be appeased. Hence the administration
continued the Free-soilers in Office on condi-
ton That they should keep their Abolition
lanterns perfectly dark, and not permit their
light to shine before men,"
The Van Burens and Cochranes would pro-
baby have kept this truce some months longer
but the rank and file of the Free-soil Democra-
cy refused to submit longer to this Z" dark Ian
tern" arrangement They, therefore, at their
late convention in Syracuse adopted the Will
mot Proviso, and expressed the opinion that
the government ought to interfere with its
whole power in the Kansas question This
declaration Of course took the administration
completely shack. Its Southern supporters in
tinatcd that this Free-soil deluge was only "a
little shower after all, /" harped much upon the
fidelity Of Mr.. Pierce, and hoped that the South
ern Democrats would relapse into their an
cicnt belief that the North was Inhabited by a
rabid and rapacious body Of Abolitionists, con-
sisting Of Wings and Americans in about equal
proportions, and that they were only restrained
from crossing the Potomac and capturing eve
rybody they could find, by an extremely reso-
Lutte body Of men called Democrats, who guard
ell I" the rights Of the South" like the angel be-
fore the gates of Eden, and that, If by any acct
dent, these protectors should be deprived Of the
National Government, negro would not be
worth cent. This has been the Southern ira
dition, boldly asserted, faithfully inculcated,
implicitly believed, and carefully handed down
f,r several generations The irruption Of these
clamorous Free-soil Democrats had startled the
faithful in the South. They made inquiry into
Its meaning, and were duly hushed into their
original convictions. An article appeared, not
long since, in the Albany Atlas, Free-soil
Democrat making what an administration pa
per calls an abolition demonstration. This
caused pricxing Of the ears amongst those
respectable powder-headed Democrats Of
the South, who, by virtue of having taken
this popular appelation, are INDUCED in every
latitude Of aristocracy in their opinions and as
sociations. Well, heypricked up their ears to
hear Democrat OF the North talking abolition.
But this was contradcted again by theory an
nounced or advocated by the fertile imagination
Of the Washington Star. The theory was as
follows
That proprietor Of the Albany Atlas wish
ed TO sell his interest in the paper to the Black
Republicans, and that, as It was not quite up
10 the abolition mark, he wrote the abolition
articles to which we have referred, to make
the manifest correspond with the order. This
was an ingenious device. But in reply, the
Albany Atlas comes out, and, referring to the
S,ar in terms which we presume its intimate
political associations warrant II in making use
Of reiterates It's opinions about the abolition Of
of the New York Democracy in the most deci-
sive manner, denies that the proprietor has
written anything that he does not believe and
crnnot stand up to, and really makes more
awful exhibit Of the condition Of tho Democra-
cy in New York, than we, in our innocent and
unsuspecting simplicity, had conceived posi-
BILE, although we had demonstrated large nu-
msrical majority Of abolition Democrats, by
the results in the State Of New York, and the
Congressional mortality to which we have be-
fore adyerted
But the murder is now out In vain win
the Richmond Enquirer, the Washington
Union. or the Charleston Mercury, endcayor
u conceal or combat the fact that a majority
OF the Northern Democracy are Free-soilers. IL
has been written down by the people themselves,
beyond contradiction the irrevocable election
returns show 1.-THE empty seats in the Hall
Of National Legislation prove 1t, and the Alba
ny Atlas testifes the same fact in an indignant
and admirably written philippe against this
deceptive administration. We commence our
extract by quoting the modest and manly ex-
PLANTATION Of the Atlas writer, showing his con-
nexion with the paper. He has been man
Of business. His associate, Mr.. Cassidy, has
sustained the editorial department alone and
unaided for this the writer claims no merit
But he pays the following admirable tribute TO
the business department." and every editor
win appreciate the indispensable services which
he had rendered in that capacity, as well as
the delicate manner in which their valuo is adj
verted to:
q In this humble capacity we have lsborcd and
suffered with little Of sympathy from ,Hpy quarter