The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-22

provisions Of the constitution Of the United sat-.
now aDrurd, III the Light Of this resolution. are III
thr1e resolutions, which directly follow it,
rspsr. s mas no under the constitution to
several States and that such States are IN. sole ami
Proper Juagos u everything appertainDg their own
AFFAIRS not prohibited by the constitution that All effort.
Of the abolitionss Others made 10 ipacc onrress ~
interfere with questions Of slavery or 70 AXE ncnien
steps in relation thereto. calculated 10 lead "a th
most alarming and dangerous conseauences ana th.t al
such efforts have an inevitable tendency to imnish the
2, ae people ana enaa9ger the stability and
nanced by any friend Of our political institutions
This is the old Baltimore platform OF forty-eirht
to which they add the two following. The. pea
sures referred to in its natural children and
IT Is not expected that they would dsown desert
their ofspring:--
Resolved That the foregoing proposition covers and
was ntended 10 embrace the whole subject Of slavery
agitation IN Congress- and therefore the democratic par
y OF the Union standing ON this national platform will
apide ny ana adhere to- faithful execution Of the
known as the compromise measures settled by the last
Congress act for eclang agi.ives from service or
express provision Of the Constitution cannot with del
y thereto be repealed nor so changed destroy or
Resolved, That the democratic party will resist al,
attempts at renewing in Congress it. the agta-
ton slavery question under whatever shape
Tor the attempt may be made
Free sellers, by thousands, fed from the demo.
cratic ranks when they read the platform Of forty
eight, which We give above, and continued away
leaders What will those free sellers Do now, when
they are called upon, not only to adopt the old Bal
timore platform, but its progeny, the Compromise
and Fugitive Slave law We have good reason to
believe that great numbers Of such free sellers will
abandon the democratic party TO return to it.
Some SO called free sotes alas too many of them tvh
remain ,c'th the democratic party zoe doubt not, for
PERSONAL ends; 6,a me cannot cherish 50 mean an
opinion OF human nature as to beftcce there are
mai also rory 9nGny more aho iciH turn tcHh indig
ad,f scorn from iis conspiracy against the rights
aadhe constitution, At the country. The csnUen-
HoS 10 BE- deM at Ciercidnd in august and at Buff
into ~ Sc7fsabcr wW take encouragement from this
6oWdnd faf1ma,s dtctcrsion Of tie democrat: consc
Gnent 'poaldte tVbsier ana Fillmore compromise.
From the Possnn Commonwealth June III
SHAH the Cause be surreatlered.
Shall al opposition TO the slave rower coase2
shall all the interests Of freedom lie Abandoned
shall the men who Eaye for RiaDy years past been
b1vely contanding against the cncroechmcnts Of
slavery and the extension and perpetpation af an
institution which Is at once the drest carse and the
deepest disgrace az orr country. stink away, anG
give up the contest! These are the questions which
pow come home with irresistible force to The free
soil party How shan they be answered.
Another struggle has come on One party has
met IN convention. and tameiy surrendered MI ia
slayery-has bowed down in the most abect sub
mission 70 Southern domination, and adopted a
platform and candidate uneqniyoeally pledged tc
tie interest o. the Shareholders. Nothing can be
more full or explicit The other party meet the
present week, aud will undoubtedly take similar,
aye II Y were possible, more degrading position;
and then whatl
Why, tho people Tho voters of The United States,
will bc called upon to sanction their proceedings BY
sustaining their nominations Win they do so.
Undoubtedly the greot majority Of the members OF
the two great parties into which the country is d
vided will do it. The leaders determine upon it,
because they wish the honors and emoluments OF
which slavery has TO DISPENSE; and The people, the
many, will blindly follow Bat what viii the free
sellers do those who earnestly and honestly detest
we'd re II
its overthrow! Will they fall into tho ranks of
either Of these parties and give their votes for can
didates VINO they well know will wield tho immense
patronage OF the national government in support OF
slavery! That il the question. Who can doubt the
answer! No truchearted man give vote
which be knows will favor the cause ofoppression-
which win riye still closely, the chass Of the
slaye-which will bring the national government
still more under the control OF the slage-hoding
arstocracy. 1t is not possible. What follows. but
that the free sellers must, and Will, have candi-
date of their own-a man well known and unAitera-
by committed as the friend Of freedom and the IN
fmchipg foe Of despotism.
Banburners may fall of, if they will They once
were with us but wo never rcckoned them as of us.
Recreant men, who love tho spols Of victory more
than the rewards Of well doing, may desert us but
the great mass Of the rank and lille OF The party Will
adhere, with stfiet and unwayering dety. 10 their
principles. and vote Tor true 10 tho interests
Of freedom Ut rome 1T all. If there be any unprin-
clled men y 10 fancy they can barter oil the free
sob vote q Massachusetts, fora mess 81 10 sage, they
cAattcts Te:scnai. We atc free men. We have
honest ahd deep coaN' "cns and e. those onv!etions
MeiceAaiy politicians ulay rest ASSURE, ae shall be
lsithfsl.
. All constitutional opposition 10 slavery vas
the brief bGt COMPREHENSIVE anG patriotic pyncipls
announced il TIE Buffalo platform, i 70 hat we
ale unaltcrably committed, hot oHly Ivy ~ fepeated
declarations hat IN tic warmcst attachments Of
our hearts. We cannot, therefore. vote for q nm
who will sustain the Fugitive Slave law We cannot
vote for man Who we have Nd reason 70 doubt
would give his influence in favor oil dividing Cali
iofnia and making ore-half Of IL slave StaJe, and
would do anything and everything else lie slave
power might desire.
That wc must ID this. il we vote with either Of
the great parties, i certain enough Or course i
therefore elear. We nave no time TO lose. Let
rs al once hold state Convention ana after hay
Ing soemnly announced our resolution 10 main-
tain m unsceprng warfare with slavery, and to op-
pose any ard every party in alliance With IT, let
at once proceed 10 elect one hundred delegates to
the Cleveland Convention, including those already
chosen. Let IL show Enthusiastically our detsrmi-
nation to place tie free soil party of Massachusett:
where al may sec that whatever traitors to huma-
nifty and freedom There may be else 9lcge, we are
ste0liast and ilLmoYcablc.
The coming contest viii S'try meu's souls" as
they have never been tried since the days Of the
yolution. The revenues OF our e0yesnment amount
now to over fifty millions per anuum or GWO hundred
millions niouI years. All that sum ii the poll
teal capital with which the successful parity will
maintain the Interests Of slavery and reward its I'M
sorupulous pagti2ans. All the CREST issues which
used 10 divide the $50 great parties having become
absolete, those is nothing now to contend for be-
tween thorn but Tho sp0ils. The public revenue forms
conurtlye IUi.d win which to purchase politicians
and editors. Our government has become govern
1fent of corruption. Having no honest use for NJ
its ysstreynuc auduo grand principle being ut stake
between them, aul slavery being resolved that the
whole power d. thc nation shall 10 prostuted to ts
support. tho cowardly sensibihty Of the leaders 81
both parties is easily accounted for. They want Of
fees, they want patronage, therefore they must az