The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-20

mocrats-whiIo they win not question the motives
or the fidelity to their convictions ofthose WIN
take different view, fail to either tho proprsty
or prudence OF supporting the compromise tiokst,
ana thus giving the highestspossible sanction even
whiie In words rejecting 1t, to the compounds
platform.
If it be not yet too late. would respectfully AK
those gentlemen themselves, what they expect tn
/ ing the compromise ticket
Is 1T that free soil democrats will share in the
patronage, or influence the action, Of tho airninis-
tration, in the event of success This expectatisa
must rest upon one OF two experimentation that
free soil democrats will forego the assertion Of ther
principles, in which freedom would gain mo-
thing but lose much; or, that General Pierce, not
withstanding the platform and his present position,
will give prominent stations to men whose actions
will endanger that very slave interest which he y
expected specially to guard in which case the sup-
porers of that interest will have just cause to
PLAIN Is either Of these suppositions likely to be
realized? is It that the extension of slavery VIII
be checked, or the removal Of natonalized slavery
secured Every one knows that tho leading idea 81
the platform, fully endorsed by the candidates, il
the indefinite perpetuation Of slavery at tho ma
tonal capital, with all the reproach it brings
upon our institutions and government, and tho per
mancLt maintenance, as irrepealable, of the Fugi-
tive slave law, marked Us it is by the most unwar-
rantable invasion Of the rights Of the States aAd
tho liberties Of individuals 1t is well known also
that persistent efforts now being made to intro
duce slavery into California, either by nm alteration
OF the constitution, or by division Of the State.
and the establishment of territorial government
in the southern part; to convert Utah and Now
Mexico into slaveholdhg territories, with Wow to
the creation OF slave States and to extend slavery,
by lnsuar or continental acquisitions, in which II
system now exists, may be established. To asns
OF these projects can any opposition be expected
from the administrator of the compromise nons-
Dees, If elected
Isl that tho other great interests of freedom and
progress will DO promoted What word does the
platform contain in favor of constitutional improve
ments OF rivers and hnrbors, so important TO the
progress of the West, and to which the free demo-
cracy pledged its support at Buffalo !? What word
In favor OF land reform, so important to the settle
mcnt of the public domain--so beneficent to this
struggling masses OF our native population, and
the emgrntion which presses upon us from the Old
World Whatword in favor Of any action or decls.
ration by our government, in favor of tho nations
OF Europe contendiDg for freedom against despots
No State has more uniformly and steadily opposed
all these measures of progress and reform and free
dom, than that which pronounced first and prs.
nounced alone" for General Pierce at Baltimore
Nor is there any vote or act of HIS 50 far rs am
aware, which does not justify its preference
Is it that free soil democrats expect that whatever
may be the result of the pending election the
of freedom will still survive that the principles Of
living democracy will still inspire determination to
maintain right and resist wrong! that, at length,
the slave power with all the oppression and injustice
It upholds, with all its ostracsm, social and p0lG
cal, of earnest friends to liberty, will be over
thrown and that our national government will be-
come what fathers designed it to DO, free gs-
vernment in fact well asin name with all its inau
enee actively and perpetually the side of free
dom at home and throughout the world! This ex-
Iectation will not, hope be Disappointed but, if
fulfilled, it will not be through but in spite Of SUCK
action as that the Baltimore compromise Conveu-
ton. The support of its nominees, am firmly Goa
vinced, will not hasten, but retard its fuflment.
have thus stated frankly, but with entire respect
for those who differ from me, the reasons which
convince me that free soil democrats cannot, with
out marked inconsistency, support the nominees OF
the compromise democracy. i address them to you
because it so happened that were cO-labor-
in the preparation of the platform promulgated
by the Buffalo Convention, and afterwards closely
connected in relations to the convention and its
nominees; because, ALSO we both profess the same
democratic faith and desire the Of the
democratic measures. know not what your judg-
ment will be after the perusal Of this letter For
myself. confess that it is with the deepest regret
that find myself compelled to separate in action at
this any time, from any portion of the democratic
party of the country, and especially from some Of
those New York democrats with whom it has been
my pride and pleasure, hitherto, to act; Had
more Convention /; had tests, incompatible
with democratic principles, been imposed; had the
nominees represented that spirit, and the ideas Of
reform, progress, liberty and economy embodied in
the original platform, no division need have oc-
CURED The Convention is responsible for the divi
sion. The Convention, which organized n compro-
mise democracy upon new tests, created the ncces-
slty ior u radlcal ana independent democracy. am
ready to submit TO the judgment of candid compro-
mise democrats themselves, whether any honorable
course remains for those who think ms | do, and
mean to act as they think, other than independent
action! Let even those free soil democratic, whs
propose to vote the compromise ticket, say, whether
we, who refuse so to vote, do anything more than
carry out their declarations and adhere to their
own principles
May it not be hoped that there yet remain many
thousands of democrats in New York who will pre-
fer to act with the independent democracy, openly
ard avowedly on the side of liberty and progress, ,
rather than with a compromise democracy, intole-
rant alike of the claims and the friends Of freedom!
remain, with the highest respect and regard. yours
truly, s. =. CHASE.
Hon. Il. +. ByTLER.