The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-14
THE REPU BLIC.

iooS VI Tic oHCcS. WHdt though tneH oio
friends had turned rank Abolitionists, and
had struck hands with FREDERICK DOUG
LASS and JOSHUA X. GIDDINGs on the
Buffalo Platform / Better join with Adolf
tionists than be kept out of the Offices with
their emoluments. What though their
old friends had become "worse than
Wings" and had banded together on local
and sectional issues fatal to the peace,
harmony, and perpetuity of the Union
Better join with men "worse than Wings
and hazard the Union itself, than remain
the victims of their own virtuous love OF
honest political association, and suffer un-
der self-denying ordinance that should
exclude them from their old enjoyment
Of the ''spoils of victory"
In pursuit of this interesting reunion fol
this laudable object, the State Central
| Committee addressed a note on the Goth
of June to the s'members of the old COM
mittee," (of Barnburners, Free-Soilers,
and Abolitionists,) proposing that both
parties should agree to recommend the Sc
lection of one delegate from each organi
cation in each assembly district, to meet
in separate bodies at Rome, on the 18th
of August, for the purpose of consulta-
ton, and devising means Of union, and,
if it should be deemed expedient, to meet
an joint convention, and suggest names fol-
| union ticket for State officers. To this
arrangement the Committee of Barnburn-
ers, Free Sellers, and Abolitionists con
sented on the Sd of July. The letter OF
the Committee of Barnburners, Free-Soil.
ers, and Abolitionists, acquiescing in this
arrangement, indicated the intention Of
standing by their guns; and advised the
Locofocos proper that if they contempla.
ted any union it must be in terms on the
Buffalo Platform of 184S. ssYou will
readily appreciate" it says, 'sthe gratifca.
ton we have experienced in seeing the
| Democrats of Ohio, Connecticut, Wiscon.
sin, Vermont, and other States, firmly
planting themselves on this ground. 1t i.
obvious that it will shortly become, if il
is not now, the Democratic platform of all
the non-slaveholding States" Here is
the direct and positive avowal of the de.
termination on the part of these factionists
to base themselves permanently on such
a platform as shall admit only the non
slaveholding States. Here is the bold and
unalleviated declaration of the design tc
form sectional party, on sectional issues,
Of such character, and with such pur.
poses, as shall exclude permanently the
Democrats of the slaveholding States
This pill was little too bitter for Loco
focoism proper to swallow without wry
| face. So the democratic" Central Com.
mittee sent letter greeting, under the
hand of their chairman, bearing date the
4th Of July, to the committee of Barn
burners, Free-Soilers, and Abolitionists
which expresses qualification at their hav
ing consented to the proposed convention
at Rome, but suggests regret that thei
communication exhibits "willingness tC
defeat the end which our Locofoco) com
mittee had in view, the reunion of The
party in asserting its ancient and long
cherished principles, for the purpose o
putting an end to the misrule of their ole
enemies in the State and nation" II ther
goes on to hit the committee hard on the
subject of Abolitionism and Buffalo plat
forms, and says that, at all events, the
committee are not disposed to consider
this point (the slavery question: ga test Of
Democratic faith and duty" Then, in
the teeth of what the Richmond Enquire,
has been urging to the contrary for forty
years, the letter proceeds to say: "The
Democrats of the North and South have
NEVER been agreed on the question Of
slavery; and yet they have acted together
for half century"
This letter was considered so offensive
in its character by the committee of Barn
burners, Free-Soilers, and Abolitionists
that they re-enclosed it to the chairman o.
the Central Committee of Locofocoism
proper; and il would seem as if very
pretty quarrel had been got up on thi,
point, which would only be spoiled by ex
PLANTATION. But then there were the Offices
good judgeships, and 'fother State of
hces"-and stern Locofoco virtue melting
under July sun in view of the tantaliz
ing fesh-pots Were these to be sacri
feed for "principlep' Locofoco human