Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1853-11-17
To CORRESPONDENTS.
L<svs busness addr-sssed the "Eiikprs
An on the Baiiinsrs Platform

Whenever now name j. mentioned and the peg
sons antecedents are reviewed and he is shown be
or TO have been Free Soer, the ready and flippant
response of the Democracy is "oh never mind lie
stands upon the Baltimore Platform" Like enough !
IL very comprehensvcly constructed Gen Pierce is
the platform. Bronson, Dickinson and OConnCr,
were the platform, ii they have not been crowded
off, John Van Buren, and WIN. j. Brown on the
platform Uniouists and DiSunionsts, Free Sellers
and unl<ers llards and Softs all upon the plat
form. Exactly There was room enough for all
Dickinson says it constructed To look two ways,
but the old gent has found TO his cost that 1t
looks only way, AMI that is toward Free Scil.-
Nevertheless, it sill holds all.
When the Wings pronounced this piece of polite al
jugglgy just what its friends now CLAIM for it. viz
thai il vas omnium gathcrum, into which political
bucks ers of every hue from the Aroostook TO the
Sabine might gather, it Indignantly denied and
the Wings were politely given TO understand that
they either fools and coUN not understand it, or
were liars and could not.
fine however, the great teacher, has illustrated
its true character and the Democracy a-e Obliged
TO own that the Wings depicted it, true lincamenis.-
They confess the fidelity of the painting and seem
now to glory in it, They my to consider it
great statute oil JcDiillN-lD>o'lnE every po'i'i'H
criminal and obliviatng every political enormity. 1t
is another Stygean siresm, into which plunge cl-
fects change a. miraculous a bath in the Jordan
did of old. No Naaman is permitted 10 enquire il
the waters Of Arbana and Parphr are not cura-
tive The Styx, and the S;yX only, is the great
fountain OF Democratic cleansing. Tie sins Of all
can be here lavrd away, except those Of poor ID \,
who Achilles like, is still vulnerable in the heel
Some Pree Sod sticks to him. that is If during the next
decade we get the EnluirerS report upon his case
In this instance LIe statute vas forgotten, or was
more strinssutly construed than commonly.
Now the Wing platform, far aS tho Compromise
Measures we're conccrncd was more explicit anu pre-
else than the Democratic IL tbs that it pro-.
clziInei the Compromise "a fina.ity." No Van Blu
could have put his foot upon it with the decara
ton in his mouth, that he adopted the pla =
form for this occasion only" In the case OF
Seward the Wings sail, well. IL he subScri-
hes to the doctrines Of the Wing platform,
what harm come OF him." But the con
sistent Democracy were not to be appeascd in this
manner. The Democratic platform could hold John
Van Buren,, notw thsta ldinS his reservation but the
Wing platform could not support Seward, who adopt.
edit without qualification.
The plain matter of Fact is that the Baltimore De
mocra,ic platform meant nothing. We cant say what
it was Intended to mean, but it began with snatch
from the Declaration Of Independence and wound up
in the woods.
tmay be truly said, therefore, that all these va
rious sorts Of Democracy are upon the PLATFORM
They all in the family but they are not unlike
some negro families We have sccn-hcrc bright
mulatto and there so black that he would do no
injustice to his pedigree in Congo. 1t this radi.
cal defect that enabled John Van Buren, To Side the
Administration and the Democratic party oil of the
Baltimore to the Buffalo platform, where they
practically stand. The perpetual cry Of all!
upon the platform" is mere inanity. 1t de
ceven Let her rip would be shorter AMI
historic. j, is true that Dickinson aud his par Is are
cnging around the wreck to what they beiic-c lie
the sound parts OF 1t. But We have seen what fate
has been awarded t. them. IN is connection please
read the proceedings of the National Usnocrats in
Washington, copied from the Sentinel, in another
column. Could We say anthing more severe upoA
the present Administration than these prOceeiiI g.
acted out under the very eyes Of the Cabinet: