Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-06-12

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The New York Evening Post, the leading organ
Of the Free-Soi party in New York, and an un-
wayering opponent of the Oomppomisemea has
given in its adhesion to the nomination Of Mr.
PIERCE for the Presidency. 1t says, in substance,
that che is new man, Of capacity and character,
who is uncommitted by any letter !" and, for the
benefit of that wing Of the Democracy which it re-
presents it endcavors to explain away the Compro-
mise resolutions Of the Convention We do not
pretend to say that its reasoning is founded on facts
but we nevertheless quote what it says on the sub
ject, that readers may see by what means it is
expected to bring the entire Democratic vote to the
support of the nominees Of that party: aa
.with regard to the resolutions said to have been
adopted by the Convention just before its close called in
some quarters the platform, reassert in stronger
terms what we said yesterday Further inquiries into
the circumstances satisfy that in saying that they did
not express the Of The Coaueto we used the least
pressive phrase the would justify They not
adopted BY tie Convention Threefourths Of the mem
bers-more than ree-fourths, it is said by somehad
left the room; not than dozen Of Tie rest hep ,chat
doing Mr. DAVIS the President Of the Convention had
been obliged by exhaustion to leave the chair Mr. IR
WING was in his place, and exerng himself vainy to
establish something like order The main business Of the
Convention had been completed members and bystanders
talking it with each other and every thing
attended TO but what going beside the chair In
the midst Of this hustle and confusion in the midst OF
loud conversations shcrts and noise Of the hasty
frances and hasty departures, something mas read wich
no body heard and concerning which very few
that it was reading Mr.. IRVING put the question oil
the resolutions In lump The ayes in that fragment Of
Convention just in the hustle Of breaking up
than the noes and he declared the resolutions
adopted From of the members then in the Convcn
ton, who decidedly opposed to part of the resolu
ons and would have voted against them if he had been
given opportunity have it that did hear
tde resolutions put to uot and not aware of this pre-
tence that they had been adopted till he heard Of it after
ward platform made in this does not de-
serve The name Of farce, which yesterday gave it.
farce played before audience which is Of what
is going on. t'er i7r ereFe94aa .la9 faiaft 5A
The Evening POST also gives its readers to un-
derstand that Mr. PIERCE is not the ultra Southern
man which in some quarters he is represented to be-
1t proceeds to speak thus Of some Of his acts in
Congress: Lfl'a
Mr PIERCE voted, when in Congress, to respect the
right of petition exercised by the Abolitionsts In
1887 when after having served his State in the House
Representatives he had taken his seat as member Of
the United States Senate he voted to receive in the usual
manner petition asking for the abolition Of slavery in
the District of Columbia and sustained his vote by his
voice. He took the same ground with Mr. Adams to
the propey Of the abolition Of slavery the District
but declared that he would give vote which might
be construed into denial of the right of petition
That was time when the influence of slavery in the
ascendant when it the fashion to toss back such
ttons with contempt in the faces of those who presented
them, and it required courage in politician Of the
Democratic school to confront and defy the mperous de-
mand of the South that all memorials and applications Of
this nature should be rgdy excluded from the notice Of
Congress The right to ask for the extinction of slavery
in the District of Columbia is admitted but FnAsKL
PIERCE whatever be his opinions respecting the Compro-
mise, one of the earliest to assert ii. ~
Mr.. PIERCE, it viii be remembered, did not an
swer Gas the other Democratic candidates did the
Letter Of Mr.. SoorT, of Richmond, asking whether
if elected he would veto any act of Congress having
in view the repeal Of the fugitive slave law.