New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-22

American people with abiding consdsn.e In th ar
capacity for selfgovernment and their continued dsvo
don 10 the Constitution and the Unicn proclaim the FOL
lowing political sentiments and determinations tor the
establishment and maintenance OF which their national
7 organization ss party IL ehsc
1 The Government Of the United States n OF HIM.
ted character and IL confined to the exercise OF pow
ere expressly granted by the Constitution and such ss
may be necessary and proper for carrying the granted
powers into fun execution. and that al powers not thus
granted or necessarily implied expressly reserved
10 the Ststes RESPECTIVE " spd 10 the people
2 The State Governments should be held secure Ia
their reserved rights and the General Government sus
be reverea and watched over the palladium Of our
liberties"
We have no objection to the views here
expressed, but they are not distinctirely
Wing, nor do we perceive any strong ne
cessity for thus asserting them. The an
tagonist party has been making loud
noise in behalf of State Rights for quar-
ter of century, and meantime has COM
nitted more outrageous violations of those
Nights than any other party ever did.
Surely, if State has any essential Rights,
the right to choose its own associates
should be among them; yet Texas, a Foreign
Nation, was thrust into the Union as q
State, with litter of three or four addi-
tional States in prospect, against the most
determined resistance and protest of ten Of
the States then composing the Union-and
all this by the main strength of the De-
mocracy,' always so fierce Tin words) for
State Rights We object, therefore, to
the Wings making loud professions of
their devotion to State Rights lest we
should soon find them overbearing and out
raging those Rights as recklessly as the
Pbarisaic Democracy.
3 That while struggling Freedom, every where, enlsts
the warmest sympathy of the Wing party, still al.
here 10 the doctrines of the Father of our Country as
selves free from all entaDging alliances with foreign
countries and Of never quitting our own to stand upon
foreign ground That our mission as Republic Is not
to propagate opinions impose other countries
our form of government, by artifce forcs but 10
teach by example, and show by our success modera-
ton snd justice the blessings Of sefgoyernment and
the advantages of free institutions.
We are very glad to hear that "strug-
Cling Freedom, every 1chere. enlists the
warmest sympathies of the Wing party"
as we had been led to fear that such was
not the fact with regard to good many of
the Platform builders at Baltimore and
those they represented. There is hope of
party which (if only in words) sympa-
thises with struggling Freedom erery
,shere." 1t can't help doing a deal of
good, even though it should not heartily
mean to. Nor do we object to what this
plank says about "entangling alliances"
foreign ground" and "our mission"
All this is pretty good. But we do object
that this plank lodges the vital, the prac-
,ical point; and this we proceed to set
forth, viz: Suppose the European Despots
should openly avow determination to put
down Republics and Liberty of Conscience
everywhere, and should thereupon proceed
TO overwhelm and crush Switzerland,
Chill, New-Greaada, &c.-ought we,
could we afford to, await our turn?-or
should we anticipate and so avert the i'm
pending blowi Suppose the Allied Des-
pots should proclaim their resolve to crush
what we consider Liberty every where
should we go on mumbling and maunder-
ing about entangling alliances" Fare
we'll Address," teaching by example,"
and the like inapplicable platitudes We
rather think the People would insist on
some more pertinent and positive declara-
ton. Now we object to plank that
it evades the real issue, and asserts some
thing not at all to the purpose. Nobody
is contending that we should form "en-
tangling alliances" "quit our own to
stand on foreign ground" "impose on
other countries our form of government
by arti6ce or force" nor any of the pa
raded bugbears. What the men of this
age do ask, is simply that our Government
shall manifest a consciousness that he who
sets fire to the house adjoining ours in es-
sence and effect sets fire to oprs-that a
conspiracy of Kings to crush Republicans
elsewhere because they are Republicans, is
in truth a conspiracy against our Libertie,
and National existence. And this is left
uninscribed on plank 3, as also on the
corresponding plank of the other Baltimore
Platform, which was (if any thing) rather
more evasive and gassy than this. We
shall stand on neither.
T. That where tho people make and control the
Government they should obey its Constitution, laws
and trss-s they would retain their sefrespect and
the respect which they claim and viii enforce from
foreign powers.
This is rather fOggy, but quite true
if it means to condemn hibustiering in