The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-12
The Buffalo Convention.

We copy below such addltlOnai Information OF the
doings of this body as we find in exchange papers
received yesterday. The New York Evening Post of
Thursday states that he wires between New York and
Buffalo out of order and that no intelligence can be
had at present OF the proceedings"
II will be seen, however, from the summary of the
proceedings given by that journal under date of the 9th
instant that the convention has laid down its platform
in three resolutions, and has the first of them planted
itself fully and openly the ground of the professed po
lal aboonists 1t has declared that it is the duty
of the general government to- abolish Slavery wherever
it has the constitutional power" This refers, of course,
primarily the District Of Columbia. 1t may refer also
to all those places within the several States owned by
the general government and used for public purposes,
over which of the general government exercises
jurisdiction And the representative OF this Abolition
Platform the convention has put forward Mr. Van Buren,,
who in into Office the express pledge to veto
any bill aboishins slavery in the District withouthe con-
sent of the slavehodng States and who repeated that
pledge most distinctly his inaugural address! Martin
Van Buren, his declining years. turned abolitonis and
nominated by convention in which abolition influences
predominae and in which the poessed abolitionis Gid
dngs is one of the leading orators Can the politics of
any other country of any other PERIOD show political
somerset like this?
'The three resolutions, (says the New York Globe,)
adopted at the inatory meeting of the Buffalo Convention,
entirely settle the question in regard to the ascendency OF
abolition docrnes-as commonly understood-in that
patriotic body" And the Globe goes to insist upon
the fact that the second resolution declares that savery
in the States is under State control" No abolonst,
with grain OF sense knowledge. has ever doubted
this The declaration is part and parcel of the abolition
doctrine Mr. Gddings maintains it, and SO do other
proessed aboli,ionists Many of them, indeed 60 for
change in the con sttuon, dissolution Of the Union
on this very ground The Buffalo Platform is, therefore,
not the less fully or openly the Abolition Platform,
count OF this second resolution
But the third resolution clnches the matter. 1t de-
cares 81 that slavery should be prevented in Ter
rtories by congressional action" No exception is
here made or implied of that territory included in
the Missouri compromise of 1920. and not get formed
into States. Slavery is to be prevented by con-
gressioAal action there, well as in other terrific
ries What is this but professed aboHtonism? 1t is
more 1t is direct violation of the faith OF this govern
ment pledged in that act of compromise. In that COM
promise Mr. Van Buren, openly concurred, by expressly
refusing ,ren asked permit his name to be used In
connection with remonstrance against it. We have
published his letter the subject Yet now after the
Buffalo Convention has adopted this resolution, he be-
comes its nominee
All this is very well in respect. 1t will show
the democracy of the country the true meaning OF every
vote which may be cast for Mr.. Van Buren, In the
coming canvass. We may thus learn what number OF
northern democrats ready to quit their old party
associations and take part with the aboonlsts profess
ed and unproessed, who have met and nominated 'her
candidate at Buffalo The d<nouement of the whole plot
has come sooner than might have been anticipated and
is well for all concerned that it has come What the
democracy of the north inclined to think OF MI
Van Burens course and position before the Buffalo Con-
venon was held, may be in the resolutions OF the
democratic members of the legislature of Maine, which
we publish in another column What the country will
think of his position now that he is the Buffalo nom
nee is in some measure, prefgured in the very strong
probability that he will obtain throughout the coun-
try one single electoral uote for the presidency
The doings at Buffalo are important in one other
particular. In openly identifying Mr. Van Burens
with political abolitionism, they have commend
ed him TO the especial support of the stragglers from
the ranks of the northern ,chigs, with whom the polit
cal abolionsts both in Congress and out OF Congress
are is well known, usually found affiliated and ACT
ing witness the instances of the abolitonrss and semi
abolonsts now in Congress from Ohio and New Hamp-
shire Thus Mr. Van Buren,, altogether against his pur
pose finds himself more in the way of General Taylor
than Of General Cass After this Buffalo BUSINESS
more--far more-than half his strength will come
from the ranks of the northern wings The results
OF the elections in the south and west, which have
just taken place. show that General Taylors chance is
al best desperate, and almost utterly hopeless The But
ao Convention has put the finishing stroke to it. In
thus assuring the election of Gen. Cas-, the convention
will have effected result unexpected and unwelcome
to Mr. Van Buren,, it will be sautary to the country
and gratifying to the democratic party.
We subon the telegraphic reports of the convention
We lind them in exchanges:
From the Evening Post
| TELEGRAPH.
FREE SOIL CONVENTION.
BUFFALO, Wednesday, Aug
The convention org,aized temporarily al ~ O'Clock
Nathaniel SAWYER, OF Ohio, was appointed temporary
i chairman Two secretaries We're ePPoh.eo-ose ,'on
Illinois the other from Connecticut platform Oh primer
pies the convention. in the form OF 'n'eo i
uonone declaring the daty OF tue general kvves
ment abolish slavery wherever II had the CONSERVATORY
powers declares slavery in the STATES Is soiep
under the State authoriy announcer declares 'a
slavery should be prevented by congressional
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