New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-24
DIR PLATRORM,

"Truth will out and it is impossible 10 suppress 1t
the emotions which control the hearts OF men viii have
vent and both faik and rteked TO check their Ut
ta0nce' IN Express
This is the day of Platforms. Their
manufacture is fourishing, though manu-
features generally are not and the stimu-
lus of an active market is likely to extend
the business. We have had two of
National cast got up at Baltimore, 1.-THE
earlier being mainly a secondhand article
revarnished y and there are to be two
more soon put together at Cleveland and
Pittsburgh. Yet even these do not appear
TO satisfy the demand; for there seems to
be much anxiety expressed as to what
Platform toe stand upon. Hear The COu-
rier and Enquirer:
{" The Tribune bolts In article yesterday OF three
columns, 1t ItpIGbstes and repudstes the platform
adopted by the Wing Convention at Baltimore. Is over
hsus the whole plank by plank, and every part which
it does not with It's rdicue, 1t brands with It's de-
nuT citation 1t strives to break 1t down with sophsms
fslaces bubbles, cavs fDeers bes, threats, mpreca
tiODs everything which malgGit can prompt and In
gepuiiy devise. 1t denies to the platform all validity
whatever, and refuses abide by Ia any sense what
ever IL knows an D. If TO Judge by its present
spirit II will hereafter know no other relation 10 than
that of implacsble enrnlty.
"Now this Is not a matter to be passed over 10 ST.
lenCe The interests OF the Wing party, TO which we
claim to belong demand full explanation and a thor
oueh uDder,t. ndng in regard 10 IT, C0ntntnS our Utes
10 his cv alone he uOtes Of at least fre thousand mem
bers of party depend upon The v0y in phich this sub
et is nor and hereafter shall be met The Tribune does
lot speek and in its and on Its respOn
sbIty exclu,ively 1t is and has been for years the
reco.nze orgsn of large section of the Wing party
North Politically 1t msy be supposed to represent in
coed degree their sentiment spirit and purpose II
deDounces the Wing platform in three days OF It's
sage we may expect that within three weeks the same
platform will be denounced by thousands Of others
hss platform Is 10 be thus redcd practically 10 nuty
the sOoner IL is knovn The batter for these are days in
rlich msn rtsh understand ph0 they ara vOtas 9Th,
and chat they are cOtng for.
Our Military neighbor is mistaken.
He has evidently deprived himself of
fund of Political knowledge and suggestion
by not reading carefully our structures on
The Hunker Platform We found a great
deal unobjectisnable in that Platform-in
fact, more than half of it. The Tariff
plank might have been better, but it is the
best ever yet sent forth from any National
Conventions that on Rivers and Harbors
could hardly be improved; and that In ia
vor Of the strictest economy on the part OF
rulers was only faulty in being too good.
There was a great deal of good timber
badly disposed in that Platform.
But IRE like to build our own Platforms.
We have no objection to others getting up
acres of them-if they won't insist on
examining them down our throat At that,
we revolt. No Platform has any authority
for US save as it affirms what we deem i'm
portant truth. No nomination is binding
upon US, except as it shall be made evident
to our understanding that our Country's
good will be promoted by our supporting
it. And, though we warmly approve the
nomination of SCoTT and GRAHAM, and
shall work hard to elect them, we will
never buy votes for them by selling our
right to think and speak as we see fit. If
there be any five thousand Wings" whose
voting for the Wing candidates depends on
our agreeing not to speak in apprehension
of Slavery or our agreeing to give any aid
and comfort to the hunting and catching of
fugitive slaves, they may as we'll take up
their beds and walk for we mean to stay
in the Wing party and not to keep silence
about Slavery nor "acquiesce" in fugitive
slave hunting. So if this is to drive Wings
into the Loco Foco camp, they may as
well 60 now as anytime. Better have them
there than grumbling and threatening
around the edges of the party they former
ly supported. If they have so little reason
or sense as to oppose the party whose prin-
ciples they hold because we belong to it
sndwon't go for save-catchiDg, they might
as we'll travel. Gen. Scott can be elected
by the votes of men who want him elected,
without those of the disafiected who seize
on such frivolous pretexts for opposing him.
Only all raise your true colors and fight
fair. We ask nothing more.
But let Us return to our Platforms. Let
US increase the supply yet farther, so that
every man may have wider field for Sc
lection. All Platforms have some good
ideas or hints in them and, as the num-
Der is increased. the range for selection
will be enlarged. Every man can pick