Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-10-19
IA Lower Deep.

we Thought that the majority Of tf
: New York Wing state Convention. wt,ie
lately assembled at Syracuse. Ind ~tearI,e,
2 tife very lowest depths Of political lpsra
I datiun by their endorsement Of WIN, II
Seward aud his leathsotie tltrais,n,
I But it seett1s we were mistaken, in 81,
opinion. The Democratic Conventio,
have openly performed at net. Equally. i
not more detestable, as will be seen b,
Tie following extract from the Yew Yorl
Evening Post, probably the most ihatien
tial democratic Journal III the State
THE DEMooRAfte srAfE CoNvispTtoN
AND TtiE NATIONAL Eta We have
marked the acrimonious tome adopted by
tile Nutj0vut Eru, in c%unrtnettitg t,bo,,
the resolutions Of CIR late Democratic
Convention at Syracuse, with suttle SIR
Prise. II Is true that sotne Of those resps
lntions were ridiculous, and sott,e peyltat,s
a little unreasonable, but tltett. others
were very well, and considering the dis.
tracted condition Of our party. ought to
have been d source Of qualification. ratli-
er than OF complaint, to the friends Of
freedom. We think 1t Is as much Of n
triumph ts ought to have been expected
rom us, to hive nominated Martin Van
Buren, ms otif candidate for the Presidency,
alid ny q significant and emphatic silence.
to lave rebliRed the course Of Senator
Dickinson. Aud yet both these itnpof-
tart results Were accomplished. A eein-
inittee composed Of d majority Of pro-sla-
very i,eil, refused to report a resolution
approving Of Mri Dickinson's course
ai,d a similar resolution, when afterwards
offered in convention, was unanimously
rejected, OH a vote for tie previous ques.
ton.
Within fifteen minutes after ills tneri-
toriolts net, the convention adopted the
following among other resolutions report
ed by the saine committee
Resotrei, Thar riffs Geavtsttos mn
THE NAME OF MARftR VAN BIZ.
REH 10 THE PEOPLE AS THE DEMOCRATIC
ehhpIbArE Fon fiE OFFICE or pr EstbEpr
OF THE UNITED GTArEs AND THAT WE witt
SPARE No HONORABLE MEANS TO sEctfp n
HIS ELECTION.
This resolution was adopted without
debate by a vote Of 90 to ", and but for
its having been put to the convention in
connection with another resolution con
graduating the country FOR something that
had not taken place, would doubtless have
passed unanimously,
We presume no one will question the
acts above set forth by the Post. So far
hey have gone %undisputed, and it may
therefore,, he fairly set down that the New
ork Democratic Convention, in present.
ng the name Of Mtttta Fua Huyen to
he people as the democratic candidate for
he Pfestieacg, fully endorse his abolition
sIt1, and other aborninable doctrines =
resolution passed Witiout debnte, and
y an overwhelming majority. No one =,
'fotested against it, and no members left ;
he convention Because Of its adoption. F.,
We look upon the action Of the Demo. ,
ratio Convention, in endorsing Van BIZ j
el, az more to be reprobated than the
elton of the majority Of the Wing Con :
ention, in endorsing Seward, for these =.
.
lst. In the Wing Convention. the !
Of the resolution endorsing Sc !
'ard was strongly opposed by a large :
and n lengthy and able debate I
issued upon it's presentation. "a. When '
le resolution vas adopted d large milori- q
OF delegates arose from their seats
nd lett the convention, followed by the 1
resident 81 The minority immediate. ="
assembled IN another place, took stronp :
round against the action of the majority, %
sied an ,tlanswerable address to tile Il
sople calling for a new convention. and o
voting the Whigs,in the strongest terms. :
rally around tho standard Of the Union. II
e whole Union, and nothing but the 3"
o.
LIN the Democratic Convention none ii
these things were done. The Van o.
tref resolution passed without debate, ol
ID no members left the Convention be. G,
Use of its adoption. @ pt
Which. therefore, is the most cansura- pt
81 Both conventions disgraced them HI
Ives, but in the wing convention there al
ere some fedeeming exceptions-in the
mocratic, lone. A goodly number of In
hig delegates wouldn't swallow Seward. .
way it could be fixed. while the dem. nj
delegates gulped down Van Buren, III
thout even making u wry face! al
Wonder what next will turn up on the re
litieal chess-board. We should not be th
'ch surprised, now. if somebody should pr
port "old Nick" himself, from below, W
d If u convention should be got together Ia
dyed to 'spare no honorable means to IN
'ire his election to the Presidency of
United States! His two principal -
fasltes upon earth have now been en- =
'sed by econventions-then why not -
~? give the Devil his due"
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The wortlllessness Of the l~egisla- ma
e body that met last winter in Baton
'uge, is acknowledged by every one Q
human being, not even the creatures
benefited by the enactment Of the
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