Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-07-12
More Bolting fcOm the Hunlser Platforms


The Windham County (Vt) Democrat. hrst
clnss.Democratic paper Call of the olden ume) mas
the following truthful and candid article on me
new Pierce and King Platform adopted al ban-
more: H.
eve have been in no haste to comusent upon 'he
platform OF resolutions adopledb by the Nationa DEM
no.atic Convention prefetring TO Waittor the plat
form Of the National Wing Convention, ana me
comparative puiet which would succeed to the set
clement of the questions Of who should be the candi
dates and what the policy Of the two great pn'tl-
cal parties, in the coming campaign. these qnes-
lions are now settled, and 10! Slavery IS uiuln
nhant over both Whg and Democrat.
While none Of our readers can for moment oouD'
as 10 tke course which is consistent with ne primer
Mes which we haze advocated in the past, we trust
,bara is mt one of them who would esteem us less,
If our sense of duty or sell respect would aIo"
ans 10 change our course without changing our opn-
Sons-to adopt policy IN antagonsm with conVic"
aons Vital to truth and right, because others o. ou'
party were found capable oil so doing. =,
We ,Yould moi be understood as asking any lndui-
gence in our adherence TO course strictly conlorin
able 10 the action Of party IN the past ana 10 It's
protessed principles in the present, tor u IS que !"
our consistent support Of both. While elnsIss ~
n0rity (Which we think il viii not) in the coming
strife, it becomes all TO remember, that the cond
tons and the principles which united the party 70.
gether, against pro.sIavery compromises and COM
promisers, not changed, are not less imperative
in their bearing on the final triumph of truth and
justice and human progress, than when it had ma.
joriy Of some twelve thousand.
1t was not the weight of numbers which gave dig.
nifty to position then; and not the fewneFs of the
faithful abate any thing from the strength and
promise OF our position now. 1t the majesty
of the Divine countenance reflected 10 the eternal
principles Of right to which the free democracy was
pledged, that sanctioned its action in the past,
and that will sustain its action in the present aud
iuure.
We repeat tive have not changed. We stand
heretoiofe with the democratic banners Equal
ity before the law''-nailed to our mast head The
majority Of the Democracy in County have stood
with as on the same platforms; their resolutions in
successive conventions, their nominees for office, all
have been concerned to the standard up TO the
present time II they lea US now 20 defend alone
the passage between slavery and freedom, we shall
point sorrowfuly to their deserted barracks, but We
will not run, we viii not falter in the fight.
The good old Democratic doctrine was s'PR1N.
cIPLEs, not Men" And the wisdom Of this disinc.
ton was never more strikingIy illustrated than in
the present political stampede when in their head
long following OF men, the majority of the Northern
Democracy have so lost sight Of principles, to
adopt platform OF measures in direct antagonism
with the possibility Of Democratic Institutions. II
men not principles, to he the hope of the De-
nocracy, then has the Democracy adopted the basis
of absou6sn and the will of the men, not the eter-
udi tlhIuuldDS OIL SONeIHs
body polite.
II human views Of expectancy are allowed to rule
our principle, we cease be governed by principle
and yield ourselves to the rresponsi be hu ran wilt
which is despoiism. We need not make labored
argument to prove what is a known fact. We need
not cite the resolutions of our party in the State to
show that the compromise resolution OF the Balti-
platform is directly opposed, both in spirit aDd
letter. Neither need we call mp the "reminiscences o.
its past action in conventions to justify rejection
of the Baltimore compromise resolution as anti-dem
ocratic and eminenty federal in It's parentage anc
baptism. The Democracy long since charged tina
the Fugitive law sswas the spawn Of Wing parent
age;" and we are utterly unable to comprehend how
the Democracy can make the nursing ofthis WhIe
bantIing test of orthodox democracy. We are ut
terly at loss to understand how sustaining the
slavery measures and discouraging the agitation 0
she slavery on slion, "nuder whatever shape col
orr is essential to democracy. and test OF demo
cratic faith; when, according 10 The Wing platform
the sustaining Of these slavery is de
clafed To b. Essential the nationality of the whig
party" 1t would that the peculiarly Of eacf
Il the peculiar characteristic Of the other, thai
the Wing or the Democrat, acknowledged TO be such
iy an application of the acknowledged party test, il
Just as much one as the oIher Else how is it that
rejecting this lest but adopting all the established
principles Of the party, one Is dlsowned OF both
parties" na