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THr pEMocRArIE IDopcn.
April kie5e.

The reader OF he resolusions 4fihe Democratic
Convention or yirsinaeaHnot Gail q be struck with
the fact thar The Party whieh 70 often boasts Of
speaiis9 on Family its sentnchts, has dsSgess ne
compre5sise altogetaeri Whilst A great parade is
made about the Resolutions ot ss ard ~. ard The
abstract and unmeaniag Baltimore Platform of
1874 and 1913, not sgiia5< issuttcieA about The
practical ana vital questions embraced 10 the Ad-
jusiment Measures Of 1850.
The Union, the sole organ at Washington, ereitses
the Convention for This, because no issue is nae
pending iraiot can put deii the attitude Of Viz
einia on these questions" Indeed Is not this the
r<ry inn< which the Aholitionisis Of the North are
continually presenting not onysto Virginia, ut
the whole South Is ii not the rery issRe upon
which all Northern and Western hostility is urged
against Mr. Fillmore = Is il moi upon This identi-
eal:issue nat The Democrats expect 10 the Wing
party 80 divided as 10 impair Mr.. Fillmore,s
strength4
Nothing else but this issue presents the slightest
obstacle 10 Mr. Fillmore's triumphant reelection.
Well might The Convention dodge the question,
when II is recoleeted hatan approval Of the series
OF Compromise Measures would be virtual con-
demuaiIoa OF the course VI the whole Democratic
r.sss ssss..y-.s~ss ss,~A,si rressIs
BayTy, Beale, and McMulien.
a And further the dodge was made, because an
approval NIGH drive or the support OF Addition
Democrats in the North, such asiRantonl, Sumner,
Preston King, and the Massachusetts, Coalitioniss.
Ifths is not atttGt dodging, we know not what is
Fit be not unlike the Virginia frankness of past
times then all history bellies the Virginia character.
Who would have expected such AMMAN as Henry
A. Wise 10 suffer such question to- be blinked p
Was the Convention afraid to give Mr.. Fillmore
and his Administration even the Indirect tribute
due to their manly AND patriotic course Were the
members OF the Convention so much afraid Of The
effect OF trnth upon The masses Cfthe American peo
pie that they were even ashamed to do common
justice Shame Shame
The National Intelligencer justly says: IF the
Usion had always thought and spoken thus lightly
oft1he Compromfse' measures there would be
more color for its lame apology for the sins of omis
sion Of the Virginia CoAyention. But we have the
direct testimony of the Uaion itself that the omis-
sion, which it now Jsstifies as oflulc or conse-
.quence, Is material. FOrsin the Union of March
l6lh, the reader who CHOOSES to turn to it will find
the following
!" The Wiigso{ Itdidna-ANorHER SlGN The
Wing State Convention of indiana, held at Indian
apolis on the 26lh ultimo, nominated Gen. Scott for
rthe Presidency and Hen.J J. Critcnden for the
Vice Presidency, and passed resolutions laying
down the platform of the party, ~ ,ohiet there is
mestion iohaterer 81 The C6mpronifSc measures,
II will puzzle the Union Continues the Inteigen-
eer) to give reason why it is 50 in Wing Con-
WESTON, and not so in Democratic one.
We may add, and II viii puzzle the Democracy
every where TO excuse themselves for so fragrant an
omission-such palPable Sinking of the ques-
fion.