New-York daily tribune., 1856-01-16
TIE SORTS "EATING DIRT AT SYRA-
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Tie men who went TO Buffalo in ls4s, aud then and
there resolved to support the renegade Van Buren, for
President. and to fight on, fight ever for their
platform, - no Slave Territories aud no none Slave
Sates'-these same traitors with certain accessories
after the fact have been in session for two days at
Syracuse trying to cover up all their past inhdeltles
and to swallow down all that they rejected few
wears since So potent is the force of official patrona
and Presidential recognition, that the same ie-
lows who declared " the Democratic party for ever
Dissolved" because they could not, uader Polk, con-
oldHthe Federal appointments in this State are now
soemny resolving that "thcy are the only Democrat
ic party" because, under Pierce, they dO control all
the Federal appointments What farce is this whole
a6air-what miserable, disgusting, Infamous, and
degrading position do not these din-eaters occupy
Men who stood up few years ago, declaring be-
fore the world that they had at last awakened 10 the
recognition of a great principe--that negro Slavery
was the bane and the curse and the damning stain
branded upon the American pe0pie-that tier espe-
cial political mission hereafter To labor thai it be
restricted eircumscribed and hemmed inthat TO the
end that "their unaterable hostility to the extension
" Of Slavery into territory now free might be accom-
pshed, they would never again support STAKEHOLDER
for Chce-that all political questions were secondary
and unmponant compared with this--tha Cass, be-
cause he opposed their Provso, unworthy of their
euppon-that Dickinson, who voted for Texas anneXa-
tOn and for the Compromle measures. should be car
cried back to old Virginia. and rejected and cOutemned
bv the Free Democracy ofthe Norh'-here are these
same men for the sake Of miserable Offices, dnd ia tie
hope Of retaining kem grovelng in the dust, recantng
their professions acknowledging themselves hypOcrites
and pretenders pleading recent conVersion and sc-
ening all beholders with new wyassumed cant OF na-
tonality and patriotism! If any such spectacle OF
naity has been witnessed before, since politics began
among men-if any such bold loathsome and degrad-
ing exhibition has been made-we are among those
who have never read or heard of il. The sly laugh
with which those arant knaves the Roman auyus. are
said TO have greeted each other when they met, was
nothing 10 the broad grins with which the members
of this congregation of officials must have come to-
tlaVa nj nf hon had a
Joshua X. Giddings, EIastus ID. Culver, Benjamin
+. Butler the negro Ward, the Rev. J. w. May,
Stephen {. Phillips, David Dudley Field. Israel +.
Hatch and Charles Francis Adams addressed them
with their "felow-traitor. al the Buffalo Conven-
tion in 54s. Others remembered that they had acted
together in the Utica Convention OF that year. along
with Henry S. Randall, James W. Nye and George
Ratbbun when John Van Buren reported the resolu-
tiOns. The memory Of Others REQUIRED back to the
HeIkmer Convention of ls47, where John L. Beck
man and Churchill {. Csmbreeng figured and where
David Wilmot denounced Hunkerism and the South
And there were many who recoected the Anti-Texas
Secret Circular of lsi4, signed by Bryant EimOnds
I. w. Tucker and the rest Let US hope they had an
agreeable sort OF time in recalling these "by-gone-
Among the members of this Convention OF January
10, 1856, We notice the names Of Henry H. Van Dyck
and Nicholas Hill OF Albany; Oliver G.. Croker Of
Broomc Gilbert Dean Of Dutchess frae r. Hatch
Of EIie Dean Richmond Of Genesee J. e. Camp
bel of Monroe George III. Puner, Hiram Engle
John Cochrane, &C., of New York William Wander
H..
William II. Ludlow Of Suffolk Pomeroy Tucker Of
Wayne and Others OF lesser note, who in lsis wee
rampant IboiHi0aisfs and ,upporedtbe ms ultra DO
itionits for office Everybody knows this Does any
body believe that these men have changed their views
VIII they, themselves admit that they have indiyidu-
ally changed their views Win all the resolutions they
can pass make the word believe thai their rea opinions
If they have any a-are not now iust about what
they were eight years since Can ANYBODY, then,
truly and honestly eonfde IN wha, they now -ay Can
we have any earthly guaranty that they have been jc-
king all these many years, and are in earnest now
Somebody is 10 be deceived: either they were playing
fsse 10 the hundred thousand voter WHO followed
them inte the support OF Van Buren, and Adams s4s
they playnsiialse TO President Pierce erd the
Cincinnati Convention IN ls56. Which j. IL
Three-fouIths of this Convention OF tie lC,h Jan-
uaTy are mon who were Van BIren.tes and Buffalo
Platform men in ls4s. They have been required 70
submit themsovc> 10 this personal humiliation as the
price of continued favor in The way Of Office and
patronage. The VashiagioR UEioa aud tbe wire
workers OF the Custon-House puppets nave demanded
this ss the prce Of to.eratlou.
And vet ]: cannot ts forgotten tia. the CorveEt.on
al IL. 2StL August. .st.. !yu. wt 20 rs COVE
of n. lct Iar.a- c. 81 @;-s.trcf. 90 ii .Cei