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THE BUFFALO CONVENTION.

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reader;
THE BUFFALO CONVENTION.
We are now in possession of the "Paform'
Of the Buffalo Conventions Convention made
up of Delegates from the N. York party, krown
by the name of Bambururrs, from the lorIorn
Wings whom nothing NATIONAL in It's scope
and object can satisfy, and from the Radical
Iparly, who would not be content TO live under
any government in which the rights OF property
aud The duty to labor for ones bread arc recog.
nizod as fundamental principles.
! We place these Resolutions before our rca.
Idcrs, as belonging 10 the history oGthc day; and
if ever they have pcrused more demagoguc
Iproduclion-a more elaborate attempt to mys-
Itily the public, by wrapping up soIl-oyidcnt or
admitted truths in sublImalcd phrases to give
him an air of novelty; why, then their reading
lin the records Of hypocrisy and Of prctonco has
been more extensive than ours. As for Mr.
Van Buren,, the nominee of the Convention, if
he were priyv to the Resolutions, he ought to
he ashamed of such incompaUbIily as they cX-
hibit with The whole tenor ol his political life.
+ The "demands" of the Buffalo Convention,
to enforce which this machinery of II third no.
minalion has been got up, are, as the reader
will perceive, mere lines set for gudgcons,
which even the muIcontcnts in the Wing party
are too clear.sghcd to be caught by. The Lo-
$ coloco hook is too plainly visible through the
. fshy bait lhal is strung upon it, Let us brlcl-
q " onaIyze the six last OF the Resolutions, which
alone, out of The whole, present anything
D practical.
Il The first of these six Resolves demand free.
u dom and established institutions for Oregon
/. We'll: they have got all that they ask for Ore
e oon. That demand, therefore, is satisfied
!. That ground has slipped from under thcm.-
n They demand also the same for the Provinces
q ,or New Mexico and California. What sor o
II government is to be given to those provinces
|, now territories Of the United States, is II qucs
c lion to be hereafter decided by Congress; anC
,, Iby the blessing Of Providence, we are going Il
:; have a President who is pledged, as Mr.. Var
c Buren, is not, to respect the Legislative outhor
o " on that aud all other questions which may
arise during his Administration.
~ The first objects of the SECOND of these Rcso
l. ut,ons, cheap postage, &C., are common to al
J. intelligent men of all parties, and can be no bal
ID for any respectable party. OF the last claus
y or,ha resolution we cannot say the same. W.
y regard it, on the contrary, as contemplate Op
y peal to the Demugoguo spirit, which is, in thl
Ie country, happily not formidable enough to b
worth the trouble ofpropiriating at such price
:. The third Resolution is altogether Wing, an
.e seems to have been inserted, in the teeth of III
IN ussombIed Dissenting Democracy, TO afford tn
" Wing part of The Convention an excuse Tor be
,e inc present at it at all. lfthcro is any prnci
lc pie to which the Democratic parI of the Con
m yenton; with Mr.. Van Buren, at its head, ha
ever been steadily opposed, lis the employment
n of the surplus revenue oI the Government IN i'm
:; proving roads. navigable rivers, harbors, an
, other means and facilities OF internal commerce
! or in doing any thing else beneficial 10 the Pee
i, pie.
~ The Resolution for giving away tho Publ
-, Lands is lust one of those appeals to agrarla
- PRINCIPLES, to the mass Of those who, too idle c
-, improyident to become land.hoIders by labo
Oh would willing become so by favor, which pa
" without any distinctive principles OF It's ow
oh might be expected to resort 10. The next ste
,ir of these Tcrtum Qajds, after prodgally was
ca ing the biuh-rght of the people in these Publ
No lands. would be to divide the properly of a
20 those who have earned il among those who prt
70, ~ fer the easier method Of living by their wit
on to countcract by legislation of ordinances
.or Providence, aud conlound all lis distinction
Of between industry and Incidence, be,wec
care(1lncss aud prodgaliy, and between Writ
he and vice.
es @ The .Gfh Resolution, SO far as it has an
L., clear meaning, is good Wing doctrine.
he hidden meaning, constitutes virtue and its r
80. commendalion TO the Barnburners, and II
IN. IN presumed by the Wing Rccusants in the Co
:" yention Ii is inlcuded 10 intimate denial