New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-13

tionary forces. The reactlOnary capitalization
point in North America has always been the hold
ing Of slaves, and this has gradually seized upon
and made its own all other redctionary elements.
Its progress has been monstrous and like all other
reaction, 1t will never find stopping place, until
it has overcome oil opposition or Incomplete
ly oyerthrOwn. This il as certain the success
sion of day and night The means Of its progress
lie mainly in the Constitution. and its most Jealous
minions are the bunker Democrats. Its mghtisst,
and In its consequences most important, recent
victory Is the slaye-catching law and in case Mr..
Pierce should become President, the shareholders
would seek not merely to rule, but to subugate
the Union. Much has been said of the dangers TO
which the Union is exposed; am Of opinion that
1t never was in greater danger than Just now, for
the great danger to the Union lies not in attacks
upon her Slavery, but in those upon her Freedom.
Let us look little closer at the signs of the times
es they exhibit themselves in the dOings of the
Baltimore Convention.
In the first place, of what spirit was this Con-
yention bOInl In the metropolis of a Slave State,
after long continued intrigues and Vaccinations
assemble number Of So called delegates, who as
sumo the title ofdelegates of the peope-but the
majority are nothing but political hunbuggers by
profession. The delegates Of the people have the
strange duty to perform of making known to the
sovereign people their own will, that they 1.-THE
people) may bear it well in mind until the Presi-
Dental election. True, the sovereign people are
not bound by this instrument, but let them read
any "real Democratic" sheet and they will find
that whoever adopts not the declarations of the
Convention humbuggers sacred, is bad Demo-
crat at bottom-a " traitor to the party And
this is true not only with regardto the candidates
nominated by them, but also in regard to the plat
form and the party principles, whichthey proclaim
and lay before the sovereign people. Thoroughly
to humbug the people and to bind the future voters
for President perfectly beforehand, the party man
ayers, after the Convention, appoint So called rat
ihcaton meetings, that they may in future declare
any departure from the decisions of the COnyen-
ton to be a departure from the will of the people.
For, gentlemen, in the sight of these Conen-
tons nothing is more sacred than the Will OF the
people The gentlemen at Baltimore knew, for
instance, that the will of the majority was in ia
vor Of General Cass and since the will of the
people is law, they Obedent to the behests of the
Shareholders, who feared the foreign policy OF Cass,
chOse-Genera Pierce. At all events General.
am of opinion, indeed, that it is an excellent
thing for Mr.. Cass to have received lesson for
trimming his sails to every breeze, and for his zeal
for the Compromise but more valuable is the les
son which the people have been taught as TO the
democracy of Conventions and the unrestralned
rule which the sliyehOldes exercise in all the affairs
of the Unl6n.
We'll. then. the candidates selected by the Con-
yention are the Northern Mr.. Pierce in conjunction
with the Southern Mr.. King. No prophet on
earth, not even one single German bunker news
paper had ever thought of the obscure Mr. Pierce,
who was scarcely known out OF his own family
circle. Yet no sooner is this Mr. Pierce put for
ward as the candidate than, as if by magic, he at
one blow becomes one of the great ones OF earth,
fills a large space nall true democratic hearts,
and the depth and purity OF their love for HIM be-
come boundless. In Germany, they call this sort
Of thing sevility, want of principle, lunacy, &c.
In America it is fidelity to party. And If the Con-
yention Of Humbuggers had nominated the En-
peror Soulouuue or King Guizo of DahOmy, as
their candidate, every real Democrat would have
been bound from that moment to love HIM as the
father ofhis country. Only let Pre- sdent be Sc
cured safe on the points of " SOuthem Rights
and "Northem Spoils," and all is accomplished
which goodpartisan and bad republican can wish.
Fiat presses et Pere0t reSpu6hca!
As head of a family, ETC., General Pierce may
be a very respectable man. This, however, is of
more Importance than all else, that he, as poll
tician is an incarnate representative OF South
ern Rights" or a cyphe before which the slave
holders may place such integers as they please.
South Carolina has not granted her appreciation
even TO Fillmore, who has gone as far as the arth-
est in the matters OF s)ave-catchng and neutrall-
ty; but with this General Pierce, who vOluntarl-
w, in letter to the Convention, declared the
COmprOhiise measures identical Wlh the C0Rsti-
tuition and Democracy, with him the Secession
State is fully satisfied and under his rule thinks
of enrichiDg the Union with few new Slave
States instead of Withdrawing herself from it
A comfortable prospect for the future but 1t Is
-"Democracy
But let him who is in doubt what is to be ex-
pected under the Presidency of a Pierce lot him
Iefd the unexampled Platform which, after his
nomination, was promulgated As the fundamental
principles of the Party" The main points are
a. follows:
l. The party rejects any general system Of Internal
improvements" VI der the auspices OF the Government
Of the Union; whence it follows that all internal i'm
proyemsnis must emain unaccompshed or be carried
out by the separate States in narrow sectional spirit
9 No psIt of the UniOn may be bench ted 70 the IN
Jury Of another yet there Is hesitation in making
the entire North through open rioatiCu Of the Con-
sUtioR and ofJandGmentai rg the hunting ground OF
The slave hunters Of the South
g. Congress has light 70 medcle with the question
Of Slavery yet PROFESSIONALLY has the right TO ex
tend Slavery throughout the Union, and make all Tree
INT the bloo0hounds OF such as have their chains
T. The net proceeds OF the public lands should be
employ ed for ational purposes hence the public lands
on ght TO be given away. For the freedom OF the
public lands NOT to speak Of other Dangers would In
the increase of immigration, especially from Germany
lead soon 10 the erection OF Free States in the West
and by this would gain thepreponderance over
the Shareholders in Congress
Should the land bill which has passed the House OF
he preyenfN hereafter pass the Senate, which must
miristrstion Of President Fillmof6 1tlpg zoe sa:
IL by his veto Therefore, the Democratic party stands
openly for retaining the vetopower Opposed
is to all real democratic ideas) whicn, ABOVE an
nsy be used against any and every antl'compromiSe
resolution.
5. The Democratic party holds the Compromise, that
IL TO say the slayehunting law, as hnslly 10 al
e,erntv II fasens with Democratic chains the teed OF
tine forthe everlasting future, 10 mmovablepars and
will literally thus rests, all attempts at renewing IN
Congie or out of it, the agitation OF the slavery cues
under vbatever shape or color the attempt may be
made" 81. ..tr.L
This, gentlemen, comprehends within itself the
hsrshest sentence which was ever passed upon the
Democratic party. 1t is the ban OF all freedom
on attack upon all human right, sentence VI an,
is NOT fepu6Iican, it is Russian. The consequences
ottbis act, should the present so called Democracy
come into power, can be no other than restraint unit
of the fr, edom of the Press, restriction Of Tue
right of public assembly, and rule OF the mob
Whoever raises his voice against the most accuIeeu
institution in the world, against an nsI I en
.,Lioh - 20 mention lis own ObecuOnaDle Iea-