The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-07 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR SOUTII-WE3TERS.
Contract Department, Alniralty, Sorn3rset
Hens?, July 1, 1333.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADAIR AL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notic3, that on MONDAY, the
13th.instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be
ready to treat with such persms as tni.y ba willing to
CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford all such quantities of
BOUT ERS

ns may from time to time be demanded under a Contract
for twelve calendar months certain, and further until the
expiration of three calendar months warning.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves an unlimited
power of selection in accepting the Tenders.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
tr her of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
the Conditions of the Contract and a pattern South-
Wester may be seen.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the
party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend
at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and to his proposed sureties in writin4, when, but not
before, the rejocted samples are to be removed.
Ev,ry Tender must he addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty. awl bear in the left-hand corner the words,
" Tender for South-Westers," and must also b n delivered
at the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Ad-
miralty, Somerset House, signed by two responsible per-
sons, engaging to become bound with the person tender-
ing in the sum of £lOO for the due performance of the
Contract.

By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

THE PLATFORM OF MR. CHASE.

(From the Anglo-American 1 ivies.)

The delegates to the Democratic National Con-
vention will this day organise ; and conjecture and
suspense will soon be at an end. Neither the nomi-
nees nor the platform are as yet mo-e than vaguely

conjectured. Never was a great party so completely
at fault—never was a rats -run wherein the public
were less able to select a favourite. PENDLETON is
unfound on Finance--CHASE is a Republican and
unsound on suffrage—HoßATto SEYMOUR will not
stand—indeel h is said that he dare not, having
been warned by his physicians against subjecting
his mind to the furious excitement of a Presidential
campaign. If Mr. SEY3IOUR could and would stand
he best answers the Democratic requirements.
ANDREW JOHNSON is talked of ! but in a recent
interview with CHASE lying rumour tells us he ex-
pressed himself as favouring the nomination of the
Chief Justice, and desirous of aiding it with the
means at his disposal. Generals HANCOCK, M'CLEL-
LAN, SHERMAN, and THOMAS; Admiral FARRAGUT ;
Messrs. HENDRICKS, HOFFMAN, and hundreds of
others are suggested ; but CHASE, whether he has a
chance or not, is still the man most talked of.
Many of the leading Democratic journals have pro-
nounced against him ; and the World, on the 15th
June, opposed him on the ground that he regarded
Negro Suffrage as a blessing instead of as an atro-
cious though perhaps inevitable blunder. The
platform of the Chief Justice has been given in an
authoritative manner by the Spring field Republican,
and it is said to have been drawn up by Mr. CHASE
infuse] f .*

The first plank is thoroughly well put in, and shows
a master hand. We would like fully to understand
what the word Democratic, as it there stands, is
intended to mean. No .Republican denies that
Universal Suffrage is ayecognised Democratic prin-
ciple, to be qualified only by known unfitness, say,
from vice or dense ignorance. Indeed we may go
further, and maintain that it is an acknowledged
principle among all that suffrage should b. 3 universal,
wherever mankind is qualified to exercise it. To
state, then, that it is a recognized Democratic prin-
ciple, of which each State must define the limita-
tions, is not to say much ; and although it looks
liberal in scope, and broad and general in applica-
tion, it might be adopted by any clique of Old
World Tories. All the people of the United States
might stand on the rest of the platform, with the
exception of the " War-horses," whose extreme Re-
publicanism enters the confines of despotism. If
the Convention accepts the platform, and nomi-
nates the Chief Justice, it will go to the country
with a good man and a good cry. No one can
doubt what Mr. CHASE means by " fulfilling na-
tional obligations honestly and exactly." Old Green-
backs is committed to advocate the payment of the
National Deht in gold, and, as far as the bond-
holders are concerned, the best President they
could have would be SALMON CIIASE. No
special privilege should be allowed to any classes of
individual corporations. If such are permitted they
may as well establish an oligarchy at once. Were
certain cliques in the United States granted powers
enabling them to mulct their fellow citizens no
Atneric.tn could discuss with scorn the cmdition of
society in the old country,
which permits the social
distinctions. of a titled class. SMITE' is not injured
by JOHNNY RUSSELL being called a "lord," but
SMITH is injured if JOHNNY RUSSELL levies a tax
upon him for his Lordship's own benefit. What the
special privileges are to which the Chief Justice
alludes, we can Only guess at. The holders of the
United States Debt are not an individual corpora-
tion, and as he himself fixed the terms whicU gua-
ranteed interest payable in gold to the lenders, he
cannot class the observance of the National Con-
tract as a " special privilege." But what about the
manufacturers ? Can the iron-masters of Pennsyl-
vania be called " individual corporations," and be
said to enjoy " a special privilege" in the protection
of their industry ? It looks uncommonly like the
gauntlet of Free Trade. We believe that the
best card of the Democrats next to the Northern
prejudice against the negro is the open advo-
cacy of Free Trade. if CHASE'S platform
means the obliteration of every vestige in the
South of the civil war except the individual
ruin wrought, the blood spilt, and the hatred en-
gendered, which cannot be obliterated by any legis-
ltahtieon—i of the Civil Service,
betterf it means
the payment of the
the National Debt in gold, the inauguration of
free trade, and the most earn Eat endeavours of the
inthe SuGovernment so to harmonise the white and black
may live together in
races
each, with the guarantee of freedom and equality
peace,
and findo theti that
position they
that nature intends for
before thelaw—then, we say, that if itbe the platform
this day erected in New York it is a solid and en-
during structure, and the flag unfurled is one under
which all shades of Americans, both as to opinion

Universal suffrage is a recognised Democratic prin-
ciple, the application of which is to be left in the several
States under the Constitution of the United States to the
States themselves. Universal amnesty and the complete
removal of the late rebellion, is not only a wise and just
measure of public policy, but is essentially necessary to the
beneficial administration of the Government in the States
recently involved in civil war with the United States, and
to the full and satisfactory re-establishment of the practi-
cal relations of those States with the other States of the
American Union. No military Government in any State
of the Union, in time of puce, is compatible with the prin-
ciples of civil liberty established by the Constitution, nor
can the trial of private citizens by military commissions be
tolerated by a people jealous of their freedom and deserv-
ing to be free. Taxes should be reduced, as far as prac-
ticable, collected impartially and with strict economy, and
so apportioned as to bear upon property rather than upon
labour, while all national obligations should be honestly
and exactly fulfilled, and no special privilege should be
allowed to any classes of individual corporations.