Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-02

Inc w aSnln8tOn OnlOns
This is marvelously proper press to
sustain the present dynasty and it's oould
BE- successors and assigns We presented on
yesterday the names Of a tSp anti-slavery Dem
ocrats Of the North, among the many who
abound in that region, and we presented also
New York, and New Hampshire, to show the
unreliability ofthe Northern pseudo Demorra-
cy, on the question Of Southern rights. We
now present the Washington Union itself In
this same category. Il is just az unreliable on
this question as the Van Burens, Blairs, or
Bentons We will prove this from it's own col
umns.
Just after the nominations Of Frank Pierce,
that paper said:
/" The Free-soa Democratic kaders Of the North
arc a regular portion Of the Democratic party;
and General Pierce, 81 elected, ,riH make no dis
tinction bstaesen them and the rest of the Demo-
eYaey in the distribution Of Official patronage, and
IN the alection Of agents for administering the
Government
For once, the Union intended to tell the
truth. The editor no doubt supposed that Gen
Pierce would make no distinction" among
Democrats, in the distribution Of official pa
tronage" General Pierce found one sand
Democrat In New York, TO whom he assigned
an important position, to wit that of Collector
for the port Of New York. The other impor-
tAnt positions in that State were filled with
Eee-soI Democratic, such as Dix, 'Cochrane,
Fowler, and others The pledge given by the
Union to the "Free-soiI Democratic leaders
of the North" was certainly redeemed, and
more than redeemed by General Pierce, for he
soon dismissed Judge Bronson from the Col
lectorship Of New York, for the reason that
he would not fill the custom-house with Free.
soil Democrats. The history of that transac-
ton il fresh in the minds OF the Southern
Democrats
The Washington Union not only gave the
pledge to the "Free-soil Democratic leaders of
the North" that they should have fair share
Of the spoils, if they would support Gen. Pierce,
but that press sanctioned and sustained the
administration In giving that regular portion
of the Democratic party" the lions share !" in
the distribution Of official patronage" We
will here 80 far digress from the point we make
on this question az TO compliment the Union
upon its far-reaching sagacity in hitting upon
the true means Of bringing the "Free-sol
Democratic leaders of the North" into the sup
port of Frank Pierce, to wit: the PROMISE of
posoer and plundert This was an admirable
adaptation of the means to secure the end pro-
posed
In that movement the Washington Union
manifested very great, aye, remarkable sagaci-
ty, and as it failed to obtain those EXTRA twenty
thousand dollars which 1t claimed out of the
Treasury, by reason Of Secretary Guthrie's OBJ
stinacy, we are decidedly of the opinion, that
the "Free-soil Democratic leaders of the
North" who have realized fortunes under the
present administr alton, by reason Of that saga
cious movement Of the Union, ought to make
up handsome purse, and present il TO that
press through John Van Buren, rs their repre-
sentativel
But to the point When the Hon. ex-Sens.
tor Shields, of Illinois, was discussing and de-
Tending the passage Of the Kansas bill, at
Springfield, Illinois, in the fall OF 1854, be
spake as follows, to wit:
Kansas and Nebraska were frer aos and the
people there would keep them free. The establish
Inent Of slavery In those Territories Was not only
improbable, but impossible, and II was always wiser
and better 70 let people work out great good for
themselves, than have 1t forced upon them by 9TH
ers and this was the way In which freemen AZ
ways do what Is great and good, By their own free
and voluntary act The principles Of non-inter.
veption would not only keep Kansss and Nebraska
what they are nov--frre--but would BY its full
and fair operation, We acquire The continent 10
ths lsthmus OF Darien, york rsth such powerful
force cad eject fAof no r'ca vouid ~cey see csotkeY
slSrs Tvrsfory on this costiseutn
The speech ofex- Senator Shields, from which
tho above extract ID taken, Wa published In
the Washington Ustos Of October estb, 1854,
aud that press, In preeeoting the speech, not
only announced It's grottfootios that Mr..
Shields was csnvsssing Illinois, and giving
powerful aid to bis Distinguished COLLEAGUES
Judge Douglas" but the Uhioa said Of this
speech, that Mr. Shields "sustained the prin-