The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-29
Missouri Democratic Platform.

The Missouri Democracy are illustrating the
adage which associates an nfinity of zeal with
the idea Of recent conversion. They have sud
denly discovered that their position in relation
to their brethren in the faith has been the re-
verse of amiable, and that their relations
towards each other have been even less likely
to win the good opinion of the world. The
telegraphc account of the State Convention,
reporting ticket composed of Bentonians and
anti-Bentonans in almost equal proportions,
could not fail to amuse all who had any re-
membrance Of the choice epithets that were
banded about at preliminary meetings of the two
sections some short time ago. The platform of
length and with the annotations of local editors,
learned in recent history, is well calculated to
increase the establishment. From the most
perverse members of the family, the Missourians
have become the most accommodating that can
be imagined. They have resolved on being,
seeming to be, all things to all men; and their
platform, therefore, presents colors and patterns
50 various that it is difficult to imagine how
they can be brought into even momentary unity.
The Natchez Courier furnishes concise cpl
tome of these diversified leanings, and the ques-
tons to which they naturally give rise:
"The Missouri Democratic Convention must
have been good -natured assemblage 1t was dis
posed to do any thing that anybody asked, and to
adopt in its platform every thing that any body de-
sired, provided the doing the adopting was
likely to gain vote, swell the number of the
'reorganizcd' In the first place, Bentonans and
anti Bentonans were among its nominees and
its officers In the next, it endorsed the Baltimore
platform Of 1913, and the Virginia resolutions Of
'9S and '99. This will DO gratifying to the State
Rights Democracy Of Mississippi, who made the
very same endorsement. SO far, the two organi-
cations go hand in hand But the Missourians
went further; they approved the Compromise mea
sures, denounced notification, and all enemies of
the Union Of the States and of the Democratic par
ty. But the Mississippi State Rights men hate the
Compromise; believe in notification and the right
OF secession, and certainly were not year ago
particularly friendly either TO the Union to the
Democracy; for they preached up resistance to the
laws of the one, and attempted an organization
tirely distinct from the other.
owe submit, how these opposite tencts Of the
Mississippi and Missouri Democracy be both con-
sistent with the resoluti MS of '9s? Under those
promise and believe in nullifcation; while the lat
ter affirm tho right of secession and condemn the
Adjustment 10 the Baltimore Convention to set
tie which ia right, and what the resolutions Of '9s
really mean; or are the latter to be adopted, and
the Frcesoer to be received in full communion, be-
lioving them consistent with abolitionism-thc old
line Democrat affirming they preach up unionism,
and the State Rights men reading in them secession
and notification? There may be harmony in this
case with respect TO nominations; but, in point of
principle, the platform which allows SO much diff
ference Of opinion must be as discordant in its
tcrials as it is accommodating in its structure"