The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-16

very conclusive 2' If it did not, and if this
letter is an unexpected addition to the stock of
evidence previously existing ''of Its own know
LEDGE" sits own" testimony is yet to be
produced. This is point which the Union
will doubtless clear up. @.
There is another point of not less interest,
and not less in need Of calculation Why is
it that the Union, the organ Of the staid CAss
Democracy, was unable to elicit the ''conclu.
sive" explanation which was readily accorded
to Mr.. DE LEON, the representative of the late
organ Of the Southern Rights party? The az
fair may be no mystery after all but really in
it's present aspect il is not unlike reputation
by General PIERCE of the Unions Democracy,
and an open Identification with the Democracy
of Mr.. FoRsYrH and the Southern Press
Another sample OF Freeson Democracy.
The Buffalo Republic has followed the ex-
ample Of the Albany Atlas in defining the
ground on which the Freesoilers of New York
render support to PIERCE and KING. Its pc.
sition is identical with that of the Atlas and
the Euening Post. and fairly exempliies the
spirit in which the Freesoilers enter the can
vass, and the nature Of the treatment which
the South may expect at their hands. We
quote from the editorial of our Buffalo name
sake of the 10th instant:
eve affirm that we and the Republic cling to our
Fresso principles, and cherish them as the apple of
our eye. And We not only cling to them and cher
ish them, but defend them as manfully as we can,
han a Of
lift his pen or wag his tongue against them.
What more can we do! Would these grumblers
and sneerers wish US to keep encased in armor,
and fight as one who beateth the air7 We are not
80 belligerent as to attack those who offer Us no
provocation, nor do we see any use in continually
asserting and reasserting that which no one dis.
putes."
The New York Freesolers ceiling to" and
CHERISH" their "Freesoil principles and
mean to defend them whenever an enemy
worthy of notice presumes to lift his pen or
wag his tongue against Them" Yet in the
face Of this and dozen other plain spoken de-
clarations of PIERCE and KING prints, South
ern Democratic editors have the hardihood to
write of the reliableness and integrity of their
party!
The Buffalo journal has another equally ex-
plicit paragraph on the platform. 1t reads as
follows:
"l3ut, say some of the grumblers, by supporting
Pierce and King, you are supporting the platform
which was made when they we're nominated, and
which you repudated. We deny that we ever re-
pudated the platform. We reptdiatsd the rotten
planks that soere oolshy put in to soiden and zoe
repudiote them still. We say the old Demo-
cratic platform was wide enough and good enough,
and the meddlesome fellows who put in those rot
ten planks did it without authority; and deserve to
be booted by those who employed them for med
ding with that which was none of their business
We support Pierce and King. and recognise as
ours the old Democratic platform-not the rotten
planks'
1.-The rotten planks" are the resolutions in
favor of the Compromise measures, and the
summary manner in which they are disposed
Of is good lesson on the elasticity of Demo
cratic consciences. The platform is paraded in
this latitude as of binding efficacy in its entire
ty. 1t is "the National Democratic PLATFORM"
which is to quiet all imputations against the
conservatism Of the party. We begin to think,
however, that when the task of picking out
"the rotten planks" shall be completed, little
will be left beyond bare and worthless skele-
ton. We are content that the rottenness shall
be adjudicated upon solely by Democrats, in
full fellowship with PIERCE and KING. Two
planks are known to have been cast adrift by
Democratic members of Congress, and the
great mainstays are being thrown off with equal
nonchalance by the leaders Of the northern
wing.