New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-16
The Buffalo Platform.

Presenting that ali our readers worth taking 70
on Political topics have thoughtfDlly perused the
Resolutions adopted by the Buffalo Convention
we proceed 20 make few comments thereon
without repeating them. Those who need 10 DO
so will easily turn 70 them.
All that they say Of Slavery IS emphatically
night. We are somewhat surprised that 50 large
body. so composed, could have united IN 50 intel
lgible and thorough an exposition Of subject by
no means tree from difficulties But the common
sense Of this people may be trusted good way.
Congress and the Free States have no business to
NEEDLE with Slavery in the Slave States they
have no right 10 establish il elsewhere and they
ought TO abolish it wherever they have jurisdiction.
All this is plain and simple il is important 1t Is
true. The Convention might have expressed It In
fewer words, but they could hardly come nearer
the truth
As to Retrenchment, Cheap Postage aboshins
unnecessary Offices and salaries, they are very
well, and very easily said, especially by party
out Of power This don't practically amount to
much II the Convention had declared IN favor oil
cutting down all salaries over 81 900 twenty per
cent aud all over IS 900 thirty and all over sloOo0
forty per cent, we should have liked it, better es
pecally ii they had added "s5 per day for The pay
OF Members Of Congress during each day OF actual
service, and ten cents per mile for travelling to
and from Washington Election OF Postia0st
eys by the People, instead Of so far as may be
practicable" would have pleased as bat this is
pretty fair resolution.
River and Harb0r improvements are most eau
tiously but fairly commended This will do.
The Tariff Resolution is not bad, though by
no mems as good AS it should have been. II
seen TO contemplate doing about the right thing,
but not for the right reason. We must raise
Revenue TO support the Government and pay OH
It's debt, aud experience has proved larih OF
Duties the least onerous and most reliable mode
OF raising the needful amount but this is not the
only nor the principal reason for imposing such
Tariff If the Government owned gold mines
which brought it in Thirty Millions II hard dollars
per anpum there would still be perpetual and
pressing necessity for a Tariff TO protect and
preserve the National Industry from the fuctua-
tons and depressions incident to the unrestricted
competition of the whole world. Free Trade is
an invitation 10 all mankind TO strike down any
branch or branches of Home Industry which,
through diversity OF wages, of experience, or OF
elsewhere than among 1t is a condemnation
OF our seamstresses 10 utter pauperism whenever
the like class in any part of the earth, may be
driven to make common garments for less than
will buy here the daily bread Of a seamstress. SO
with the shoemaker halter, weaver, silk-grower,
DC, &c. He who makes Protection Incidental 10
Revenue, either does not understand the
is Indifferent TO Protection.
We have kept the best resolution to the last
and il is so good that we shall reprint it entire
Rssolrsd That the free grant to actual settlers in
consideration OF the expenses they incur in making
settlements in the wilderness which are usually fully
equal their actual cost and of the public benefits
sutng therefrom, OF reasonable portions Of the Public
Lands under suitable limitations, 10 wise and just
measure OF public policy, which will promote IN yari'
GUS ways the interests OF all the States of this Union
and therefore recommend 1t TO the favorable con.
siderauon of the American People
This is very timid and halting when you come
TO analyze it, yet, poor as 1t is, there is more
meat ia it than in all the Resolutions passed at
Baltimore and Philadelphia 1t is very true that,
as matter OF policy, it would be wise to give
every man who will settle the wild lands OF
the Union a small piece to improve and cultivate
without charge. We insist that the Government
will obtain more Rcreaue and pay of its Debt
sooner by offering everybody who needs land a
patch to live on without charge, thus increasing
the aggregate OF National Industry and of the con-
sumption OF merchandise than it will by its present
land peddling system, which keeps multitudes
idle, famished and thus consumers of goods only to
afourth the extent they would be iithey were ena-
bled to buy. Yet this is not the extent of the
Land Reform demanded, nor the best reason for
IL. The lnaliensbiity Of the Homestead but by
consent and the Limitation OF Lynd Ownership to
moderate area per man, so that in time each man
very nearly, shall sit under has 0rR vine and
fg-tree is the great point to be gained, and worth
al the practical measures that our great parties
have been contending about these fifty years
And every man should be made welcome to a
small piece of the Public Lands not because it
costs the full value to improve such piece, but
because Man has a God given Right TO- Land
whereon 70 live as well as Water to drnk and Air
70 breathe.
w trust none will consider these criticisms
uniriendly or harsh. The Buffalo Platform ushers
in an era in our Politics and benefcent one
The Free Soil party is not destined to succeed
and Perpetuate ITSELF simply because twill shame
or brighten one or both the old parties up to the
work which they have too long neglected Free
SOIL has already been virtually carried--we feel
IN our bones that the last Slave State has been ad-
ded TO the Union Freedom of the Public Lands
viii soon follow and We have a lingering hope
III some Reucnchment Of the patronage and cost
Of the Federal Government We shall have no
more National Conventions laying on the table all
resolutions relative to the great public questions
OF the day. The Wing State Conventions We, 10
he held this year will not only tell YOU ,rkat they
ARE tcr but rhy. The Buffalo Movement has
already saved the North from humiliation what
more 1t cell do we presume not to say. There are
n good many inclined to give it a lift in November
for the good it has done if they could be sure they
were not thereby aiding the election OF Lewis Csss
They don { mean 70 be responsible for that.
lLLiNois.-The Telegraph from Cncinnsti) has
been kicking aP a .,csh dust about the Chicago
Congressman. Hon. John w entwoTth LoCo- Foco.