Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-08-27

CAn II approve the New York Bargain
ana sale:--A Presentation of tho
Whole Question by an Old Fashion
ed Conservative journal.
[From the Philadelphia American, Independent
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The corrupt managers who run the
democratic machine in Few York recently
held a convention at Syracuse, where the
pretended friends of Bell and Everett were
also conveniently gathered, and nominated
| an electoral ticket, upon which ten names,
protessedly attached to the latter interest,
were inserted. 1t is said that several of
these ten have acted with the democracy
for years past, and it is known that Others
OF them have taken no active part in poll
ties ut all, and can i'll no sense be con-
| sldered representative men. This part of
the arrangement, therefore, is an aula-
cious sham, insulting to public intelli-
gcnce, and n shameful abuse of Mr.. Bells
name to cOnSnmmate scandAlous bargain
and sale. The prominent actors in that
convention were the Van Buren leaders
who got up the Buffalo convention in
| l84S, and who contrivcd the notorious
platform by which Gen. Cass was defeated.
| The radical abolitiOnists, headed by Garri-
| son and Gcrrt Smith, have never gone
farther in their crusade against slavery
I n
did to revenge the defeat of Mr.. Van
Buren,. They are known all over the
| Union as utterly destitute of principle, and
as influenced solely by the most selfish
and venal considerations. Their proceed
iDgs at Charleston were properly charac-
izel by Senator BOyArd when he denouuc-
ed them as an organized band of plunder-
crs, who rejoiced in their profitable infamy.
/ These are the men with whom the Bell
and Everett leaders haze formed a coali-
tiOn, and consented to play the inferior
and humiliating part of Instruments in tic
hands ofjobbing politicians. They dare
not profess any principles in common, for
they would be confronted by the journals
of Congress to prove that there is no bond
or conneXion of sympathy between Mr..
| Bell and Mr.. Douglas. No man has de-
nounced the American organization more
ierccly or more nnjustly than Mr. Douglas
has done, or appealed more constantly to
foreign prcjudices, i'll behalf of the party
with which he is identified When he led
the movement for the repeal of the Missou-
ri Compromise, he was gallantly and pntr-
Oticnlly opposed byJOhn Bell, and a noble
band of Southern patriots, who then fore
saw the contention and sectional struggle
which that act would provoke. Mr. Dou-
glas is entitled TO no such merit as has
been claimed for him in opposing the Le-
compton policy OF the Administration. He
was actuated mainly by his desire of secur-
ing his return to the Senate, which had
been jeopardized by constant concessions
to the demands of the pro-slayery propn-
gaudists. Mr.. Hickman's recent speech in
this City reveals the fact that he was. on
the very eve abandoning the friends who
had yielded to him the lead against I4e-
! nd Of ~ 4,
! bill, with its superaddcd bribery and infl-
my. But for the determined conduct OF
Brodcrick, Ht caucus of fthcanti-Lccomp-
ton men Oh the day preceding the vote, he
would have followed the treaclery oil
those who were bought up like sheep at
snambles by the Administration.
The only pretence upon which the dis
graceful fusion in New York is justified,
is the necessity of defeating the election
of Mr.. Lincoln. No otEcr motive is as
signed, and no higher object is claimcd.
They combine for q selfish purpose only,
and hardly have the deccncy even TO COW
er it with varnish of honorable or pat
riotic impulse. The Barnburners and
AbOlitionists of ls48, who have stigma
tized slavery, shareholders, and the South,
with the most OpProbrious epithets, and
who sought favor and Office Mt home, by
by the afiectation of superior zeal for
! "free soil, !" are the men who now have the
aud0city to question the soundness and
conservative character of Abraham Lin
coin, q kentuckian born, whose whole
public and private life furnishes the best
ILLUSTRATION of an American Citizan, in the
broad, national and proper sense. No
class of politicians are more Objectionable
to the South than the chafering jobbers
| who habitually trude upon the Democratic