New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-08
Letters to the Massachusetts Free Sell Con-
venti0n.
SENATOR CIAsE's LETTER.
"A LIZA .

DEAR SIR: have received your letter, inviting me,
In behalf OF the Free Democratic State Committee 10 at
tend the Convention of the Free Democracy of Mas'a
chusetts be held at Worcester on the 9th instant
and requesting of me- In case OF inability TO tnst
invitation some expression OF my views upon poiucal
prospects and duties. Engagements here preclude tue
possibility of my attendance at Worcester and the Mas
sachusetts Free Democracy has proved itself 30 clear
In Its understanding and 30 devoted 10 the perform
apce of Its political duties that any expression OF my
views on that subject quite superfluous. Morris
1t needfu that say word as TO political prospects In
deed do preten to discern with any cearness even
what lies nearest In the future. OF this only am aoo
lutey cert ain that truth and right must prevail Iner
triumph may be postponed but II must come shame
and wrong must cease-they may endure lot WINE,
and even seem strong and permanent, but they Will
vanish away. .
Slavery, therefore, must perish, and all combinations
to uphold il will be broken. For this result with the
least admxture Of evil have looked, and still LOOK 70
the Democl acy of the Union. The principles OF tue
Democracy promulgated by Jefferson and deeply sealed
in the convictions Of the people faithfully and wisely ap
piled to these questions of slavery which nave no"
CT me 10 be of paramount importance, and imperavey
demand final and Constitutional settlement, would ac-
compish that great end securing and establishing tae
hts of men, without invading the rights OF the states
We cannot however, shut our eyes to the fact that
there is power in our country outside OF the Dem
ocIacy, and In many respects an'agonsnc 10 the penn
ocracy aid of which has been thought essential 10
the success Of it's national candidates. and purchased not
unfrequently by marked sacrhces OF Democratic prn-
ciples | refer, Of coursApto the Slave power, wnicn
for years past has been sused to dictate the orsanza
lion rules platforms and nominations Of our National
Democratic Conventions Its adherents declaring In adj
vance their determination to support no candidates,
whether nominated by the Convention or NOT VINO
should favor any application Of Democratic principles
which would endsDger lis ascendancy, and insisting
upon the adoption of rule which enables them to de-
feat any nomination not entirely satisfactory To them
selves have hitherto exerted an effective control over
the results of these party Conventions.
This power lie efsntay aristocrsc, ar even oigar-
chic Continued submission TO Is Incompatible with the
permanent existence of earnest Democracy The ad;
vocaes Of submission, however, will be numerous ana
the motives OF submission powerful, SO long as party
success is thought to be secured by IT. but let mere
once be called into existence counter power, which
will demand the faithful application of Democratic prn
cipes all question: including the great questions OF
Slavery, the condition of support OF the National
nominations, that the sacrifice will prove more dan
gerous than the maintenance of principles and the advo
Gates and the motives OF submission Will disappear TO-
gether. .
Such counter power may be found In an independ'
ent Democracy, which, acting cordially with the rest
of their Democratic brethren when they can without
compromising principle, will, nevertheless steadily re-
fuse 10 do so when such action will Involve such com
| promise Such independent Democracy, to main.
tain it's title confidence must be unwayeriDg In us
support Of Democratic measures and In its adhesion
TO Democratic principles and never enter into incon
sistent alliances with the antagonists OF Democracy
At the present moment, the need and importance OF
such an organization seems very manifest The Slave
power sprineng from the Slave interest, has dictated
the platform and nominations of the Democratic party
at Baltimore 1t has foreshadowed, by the expulsion OF
Robert Rantoul from that body, the prescription by
administration
election of all Free Soil Democrats who have not re.
| csnted, and who will not recant their professions
There is then, In my judgment, no honorable choice
left 10 those Democrats who, while they mean to abide
faithfully by all the provisions of the Constitution, yet
love fire edOm well and hate despottsm too sincerely
| to be willing to adopt the Compromise OF 800, as
a final settlement Of the Slavery question, or en-
gage then selves 10 the execution and maintenance,
In all its despotc sripgency without repeal or essen
tisl modification, Of the unjust cruel aud uuconsutu-
| lo traa1 dom Of nd n
the press They shut up by fidelity to Democratic
principles well RS by personal consistency aud self
respect TO the rejection of the nominees well as the
platform of the Convention. The nominees, of whom
would cay nothing inconsistent with high personal re-
spec represent their platform, and would thank
for attribupg to them any purpose of administration
not entirely in harmony with Its spirit and policy.
In accordance with these views propose TO act The
path of duty lies clear before me cannot support
the nominees OF the Baltimore Convention, nor can
act with any party hostile OF Indifferent TO Democratic
principles but with independent Democracy with
what one OF your noblehearted statesmen has hap
PLY called " Democratic Democracy" am prepared
10 stand and do faithful battle for freedom, until the
whole Democracy of the Country shall become salts
fed that consistent and impartial adhesion TO prin-
eiples s safer, well as more honorable, than incon
sistent submission TO the de nands of special interest
With the best wishes your fe w-ctizen,
To Hon. 4. Keyes, Chairman. S. P. CHASE
SENATOR SUMMERS LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Saturday, July 3, 1852
DEAR SIR: The true and well tried friends OF free
dom in Massachusetts, about TO assemble Worces
ter twill not be in my power to be with ,hem to en-
Joy the contago ofther enthusiasm TO be strengthen
ed by their determination and to learn ", from elo
quen lips, the grandeur of and the eXgency
of our duties. But confidently look to them for trum
pet werds to rally the country against the sectonasm
of Slavery.
AT Worcester, In 1913, commenced the frs, strong
movement, which, gaining new force al Buffalo and
sweeping the Free States finally enrolled three hundred
thousand electors In constitutional opposition to hate
full wrong. The occasion now requresa similar effort
Both the old parties with apostscy greater than that
which aroused our condemnation at that time have
trampled on the principles OF the Declaration Of ude
pendence, and the most cherished sentiments OF the
fathers of the Republic. Even liberty OF speech Is
threatened Ii Is difficult TO see how any person. loyal
TO freedom and des Gus OF guarding II by constitutional
means support the national candidate Of either Of
these parties without surrenderiug the which he
processes 70 have at heart. LetuO expect from
any such surrender.
The two Conventions at Baltimore by their recorded
resolutions have We'd with each other ia seriy 10 Sa-
very But oice TO believe that in both parties there
are numbers Of good men who these professions
The respectable persistence In opposition the black
flag which distinguished least one of the Couvea-
lions furnishes earnest for the future though Mas
schusetts derive small encoura gement from her
Delegates there All her votes In thai Convention
In favor of those declarations by which Slavery has
received safeguards and Freedom restrictions
But these efforts doomed to disappointment In
spite OF al the allegations of parsans and the assunp-
tons Of the slave power there 10 principle which
must prevail IL cannot be too often declared for
Of Itself il IL an all sufficient basis TO political
tiyty, and also answer TO the cry OF seeu0nsism,
which is sometimes ignorantly and uogcay directed
against U.S. According 10 the true spirit OF the COnsu-
ton and the sentiment Of the fathers Freedom Snd not
Slavery, ia national while Slavery, and not Freedom,
is sectional. Though this propostiOn conmends
itself TO at once and is sustained BY the history
Of the Constitution yet both the great parties under the
influence of the slave power have reversed the true
pfcaion Of It's terms A National Whig Is simply a
slavery, WhiR and National Democrats simply Slav
cry Democrat In contra distinction all who regard
Slavery as sectional institution, within the exclusive
control OF the States snd with which the Nation has
nothing y do. Ia u2holding Freedom, every where
upeer tne Naonai Gov ernment oppose pernicious
sectiOnslsn which fasely calls itself National All this
will yet be seen and &C knoxledged
Amid the difficulties and jeecions Of the hour the
future clear Nothing permanently obsruct truth
But our duties increase with the occasion nor VIII the
generous sos be deferred by the of the peril
Any such will be content Freedom TO supp DIT
her supporters and to leave the result 10 Proyjds nee