The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-12
The New EuffaIe Platform

BY the letter which follows, and the para
graph annexed from the Commercial, it will be
seen that new Buffalo platform has been
given to the people of the thirty second Con-
gressional district of New York, and that they
have sustained it by triumphant demonstra-
ton. This is composed Of the six Compromise
measures of the last SESSION of Congress, to
wit
J. The admission of California with her free
constitution.
2. The creation of territorial government
for Utah, leaving the people to regulate their
own domestic institutions.
3. The creation of territorial government
for New Mexico, with like provisions.
4. The adjustment Of the disputed boundary
with Texas.
s. The abolition Of the slave trade in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
6. The fugitive slave bill.
Mr.. HAVEN sustained each and every of these
measures, and has been elected upon them in a
district where the most strenuous efforts were
made to accomplish his defeat The PREsr-
DENTS home district has thus favorably re-
sponded to the measures Of pacifcation, and
there is no doubt that they will everywhere
be sustained by the people:
BUFFALO, Nov. 7, 1850
am happy to inform you of HAvES's election,
and by majority Of more than 200 voice. Every
election, you know, is crisis, but this has been
peculiar one Mr.. HAYES has fought the battle
nearly alone, although he has bad good friends at
A. z. a
things, and against the combined influences Of the
Albany Journal, and the Tribune, and the Express in
Buffalo, and several Other papers of a like stamp.
Mr. HAVEN took high ground. He addressed IF
teen meetings in various towns and in the city four
teen consecutive week days, and on AN average of
three hours each He dismissed all the old Issues
simply by saying that all such questions he stood
where he had always stood; and then he discussed
ser,af,m each Of the six measures which have agi-
tated Congress and the country for the last ten
months, putting each measure upon it's own intrin-
sic merits-Fugitive Slave bill and all. He has in
sisted each measure that it was strictly right,
and at least equal justice between the North and
the South, and, if any thing, leaning towards a
triumph of the North, although no section had
cause for triumph over another He has stood
firmly, and at all timce upon strict adherence to
the Constitution in every particular, whether in ia
vor of the North or otherwise.
Az Mr.. HAVEN has been from meeting TO meeting,
in many cases he has been met by Hawley, Love,
and Talcott, some Of them, who have tried to
follow him, and urge upon his meetings that no
man who sustained the measures referred to was in
any way entitled to the support of WHres, avowing
their determination TO vote for Stevens, and ped
ding votes for him. BY these efforts Of Mr. HAvsS,
the people have become thoroughly acquainted with
these measures, and have sad we will not have
either tho man or tho measures sacrificed or dis
turbed; and in scvcral towns the acccssions from
the Union Democrats have more than compensated
for the dcscrtion of the disafTeoted Wings.
No man in the Northern States has taken higher
ground than Mr.. HAVEN, or sustained IL with more
sincerity, zeal, and success; and regard his cleo