Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-14

Y The New York Evening Post gives the
following account of the way .iu which the De-
mocratic platform was adopted:
with regard to the resolutions said to have
been adopted by the Convention Just before its
close, called In some quarters the PLATFORM we
reassert in stronger terms, what we said yester-
day. Further inquiries into the circumstances
satisfy US that in saying that they did not cypress
me Seaseof the C0Rceatjon, we used the least ex
presslve phrase the case would Justify. They
were not adopted By the Contention Three
iourths OF the members-more than three fourths.
u Is SAID by some-had left the room; not more
nan dozen ofhe rest knc,o acjsat aoas doing
VII. Davis, tue President of the Convention. had
oeeh obllged, by exhaustion, to leave the chair.
Mr. Irving was in his place, and was exerting
himself vainly to establish something like order.
The main business of the Convention had been
completed; members and bystanders were talking
IL over with each other, and everything was at
tended to but what was going on beside the chair.
In the midst of this hustle and confusion, in the
midst OF loud conversations, shouts, and noise of
the hasty entrances and hnsty departures, some
hang 'cas read ,nhich nobody heard, and concer-
ping which very few were aware that it was
reading. Mr.. Irving put the question on all the
resolutions in lump. The ayes, in that frag-
ment of Convention just in the hustle of break
ing up, were more numerous than the noes, and
he decard the resolutions adopted. From one of
the members then in the Convention, who was de-
cidediy opposed to part of the resolutions, and
would have voted against them if he had been
given an opportunity, we have it that he did not
eren hear the resolutions put TO uote, and was not
aware of this pretence that they had been adopted
till he heard of it afterward A platform made in
this manner does not eUen deserve the name of a
farce, which we yesterday gave it. A farce is
played before an audience which is aaoare of what
is going on
The Evening Post also gives his readers to I'M
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:
'sMr Pierce voted, when in Congress, to res
pect the right of petition exercised by the Abo-
Iitionists. In 1887, when, after having served
his State in the House of Representatives, he had
taken his seat as a 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 by his
voice. He took the same ground with Mr.. Ad-
ans as to the propriety of the abolition of slavery
in the District, but declared that The would give
no vote which might be construed into denial of
the right of petition That was time when the
Influence of slavery was in the ascendant, when
it the fashion to toss back such petitions with
contempt in the faces of those who presented
them, and it required some courage in politi-
clan of the Democratic school to confront and de-
fly the imperious demand of the South that all
memorials and applications of this nature should
be rigidly excluded from the notice of Congress
The right to ask for the extinction of slavery in
the District of Columbia is now admitted, but
Franklin Pierce, whatever be his opinions res
pecting the Compromise, was one of the earliest
to assert it,