New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-14
The Syracuse Doings.

aged as well as could be expected at their
Convention. Their failure to present an
Address shows judgment, tact and disore-
don. An Address would have involved the
awkward necessity of an explicit declara-
ton of principles, which it was expedlent
at present to avoid. Indorsing the reso-
lutions of the three Baltimore Conventions
that nominated Van Buren,, Polk and Cass,
and expressing qualification that the Terri
torial questions have somehow been ar
ranged, and maintaining an expressive
silence about Dickinson, was the easiest
gliding over the wide gulf which separates
Hunkerism from ProvisOism that could be
devised. This will be understood by Hunk
ers, in the State and out Of it, as coming
back on the old platform of the Party
and repudiating all interference with ques-
tions affecting Slavery. So in effect it is.
We think it would have been but fair-nay,
it would have been polite and generous-to
have taken one or two of the best timber8
ont of the Buffalo Platform and mixed them
in with the Baltimore stuf-say Free Homes
from the Public Domain, the Improvement
of Rivers and Harbors, &c. Perhaps when
we have fuller reports we shall see that
something of this sort has been done, as it
plainly should have been. The old Jug
Cling wands are very powerful, but their
virtue may be exhausted, or at least over
taxed, by incessant usage. a little young
blood in the old body would be found to
quicken its energies decidedly.
Mr.. Seymour was Just the man to put up
for Governor. lie is a bunker, but not an
ultra Hunker that ID, he is not above re
ceiving Barnburner votes, even John Van
Buren's. He is willing to let the Barn
burners back into the party if they will
leave their Free Soil principles behind them,
or keep still about them, and they are viii.
ling to peaye anything behind so that
they can get again within reach of the
.spoils.' They knew well that the Hunkers
not only detest their principles but detest
them personally as pretenders to principles
tbev never really cherished, but merely
caught up as means of dividing, distract
ing and thereby defeating the party. They
&now that the facility wherewith they
agreed to drop all disputed points and join
hands year ago when the Free Soil con-
troversy was just approaching its crisis aud
its decision, strongly confirmed the Hunkers
belief in their hypocrisy aud factionness.
They know that the union now cemented is
not an equal one, nor meant to be-that
they are expected to eat cold victuals and
.ooeapy the back seats for good while yet
that, though they had the larger vote
when the two factions met in open encount-
or, vet if one of their clan had now been
nut up for Governor the Hunkers would
have bolted in thousands and smashed
up the ticket. They know that their
present harmonizing condemns their past
oppugnancy--fo they boltsd and crushed
che ticket nominated in l847 on the
,pyetext that the State Convention of that
wear would Mt pass e resolution express
ing hostility to the Extension of Slavery
o resolution which they dare not offer now.
If there ever was an utter, Illuminating back
out frem revolt that Of the Barnburners
is such; and well they know it. Last year
>Abey fell into the union ranks On the pre-
&Axt that 'the masses of the other section
were at least Anti-Slavery, and that they
united mainly to be in position to bring the
whole party up to the Buffalo standard
Now they dare not propose their Antl-olaye
nv principles to State Convention, bu
tb;nk it rather valorous to avow thsm as In
dividual opinions. But nobody objected t
their holding them in that manner IN lS4l
when they bolted because the Party wouiC
not adopt and avow them as its own. Ger
tainly they either we're factious then or they
arc unfaithful to principle now.
Our CITY Hunkers will not be pleased tina
Tohn Van Buren was allowed to rule the
roast at Syracuse-that Dickinson was lef
pncommended-snd that there are strons
svmntoms of his being sold out to secure
tbe election of Seymour & Co. But they
ara unreasonable, and will have to come
down from tho high horse they have beer
r;dipe for some time past and accept tn
Runners as colaboreys and brother Dem
oorata. This being inevitable, they ca
hardly set about it too soon. The R0o
mav make wry face, but ii will hsve t
swallow awe the Syracuse ticket at last, 50 !
s san ss wall SET about it. Again we say tn