The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-03

lhe House OF Representatives adopted a
number Of resolutions of inquiry and calls for
information.
Jefferson Davis and s.the Old Platform
| We have run our eye over speech of Mr..
JEFFERSON DAVIS, delivered at the Mississippi
| Convention of the 9Th ofJanuary, and reported
in the .Mississippian. We have been not a
little amused by it, for can fail to be
amused at the assumption and arrogance
which Mr.. DAVIS manifests whenever he APP
pears in public. The Joe Miller speculation,
of buying man at the price other people set
upon him, and selling him at the price he sets
upon himself, could never have worked more
favorably in its original application than it
would in the case of Mr.. DAVIS.
He commenced by expressing his gratifca-
ton at the manifestations around him of the
"reunion of all Democrats" .'for the support of
Democratic principles" These manifestations
must have been singularly local and limited,
and at all events they failed to modify Mr..
DAvIs's hostility to his late colleague, whom
he denounces in this very speech. A ''re-
union" of the Democracy of Mississippi, with
Mr.. FooTE left out of the compact, would look
oddly enough; and yet this seems to be Mr.
DAvIs's understanding of the arrangement
Otherwise it seems to US that in this affection
ate Family reunion Mr.. DAVIS would hardly
have indicated Fraud and Falsehood, and
Freesoil, and FooTE, and FILLMORE" as the
agents Of the late temporary and corrupt sue
cess of the Union party in Mississippi.
Mr. DAVIS declared himself to be in favor of
disregarding all local questions and differences,
and uniting on the "old platform" of national
| politics, and going shoulder to shoulder" into
the approaching contest for the election Of a
| President. The ex-senator has profted by
the recent demonstration among the Democratic
members of Congress in caucus assembled. He
might readily imagine that such scheme
would work well in Mississippi, when he saw
PRESTON king and NESABLE, MEADE and
MoLoNY, RANrOUL aud Oar, cooperating
kindly at Washington, and bent upon standing
"shoulder TO shoulder" in the coming Presi-
dental election. BY the "old platform" Mr.
DAVIS intends Irrational bank" and high
protective tariff" and if he can manage
TO exclude all other issues from the Baltimore
Convention, and to bring together the Adolf
tonists and Sccessionists under the mantle Of
the old fashioned Democracy, he will take the
Wines at an advantage which we apprehend
they have no disposition to yield to their op
ponents.
There are several issues that will be pre-
scented in the next Presidential election that DO
not figure in any " old platform" Of the Democ
racy, and from which Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS
and his friends cannot escape One Of these is
the right Of peaceable secession-which is set
up by the State Rights men-and is now the
subject Of a b.sr quarrel between the De
mocracy proper Of the South and the Wash
ngton Union. This question cannot well
| be kept out Of the canvass by any snch
{. obsolete idea" as National Bank Then
| the issue Of Intervention or non-intervcn.
ton will be presented, and the people will
have chance 70 say whether they are dis
/ posed TO pursue the policy Of WASHINGTON. or
to follow in the footsteps Of the flibusiering
advocates Of CUBA expeditions and KossUTH
loans. The Wines will crave the judgment
Of the people, we apprehend. on both these
! points; and since we were expressly informed
| by Mr.. MEADE, and we believe by Mr.. Pork,
that the question Of acquiesceuce in the Com.
| promise had been adjourned over from the DE
mocratc Caucus to the Baltimore Convention.
we apprehend that it will either be acted on
| by the convention, or adjourned over to the
/ people.
All these living questions must be met and
passed upon by the masses, and will control the
result Of the election. The idea Of moving the
American People of the present day by silly
cutlery for an "ouplatform" of unmeaning gen
eralltles, is all nonsense. when they have prac.
| teal questions 10 deal with Of such moment as
are presented in the Alabama Union resolutions
which We published yesterday, and to which
We would call the attention Of the Secessionists
aud abOlltlonlzcd Democracy.