Washington sentinel., 1853-12-06
THE BALTIMORE PLATFORM--THE
BALTIMORE NOMINEES.

BALTIMORE NOMINEES.
The exigencies of the "soft' organization in
New York, and its defenders in the country,
have suggested new views of the democratic
creed announced in 1852 at Baltimore, and Of
the opinions of the distinguished gentleman
whose name was the rallying cry to the victory
of the democracy in that year. The Washing
ington "Uaion" has for some time indicated its
proclivities to the Van Buren, faction in New
York, by denunciations of Dickinson, and
apologies and fatterng notices of Prince John;
but it has more recently taken deeper hold
upon the issue which divides the true from the
false men in the north, by frittering away the
obligation of the platform upon northern men,
and gravely insnuating that the form of that
obligation was a rtse, by which an unreal,
feigned and hollow nnion was effected, between
the bitter foes of the south, and the honest
friends Of her constitutional rights.
If the Union means, by saying that the Bal
timore resolutions do not express an approval
of each of the so-called compromise measures,
that the members Of that convention would not
for and approved them one by one, then its
position we will not be disposed to controvert
as it is matter Of notoriety. If it means that
their opinions about those measures had under
gone no change, then the remark is still true
But if the Union intends to assert, as its Ian
guage indicates, that the northern enemies o.
compromise, because they were the friends Of
schemes Of freesoil and abolition, were included
and their heresies covered up, under an adroit
phraseology in the Baltimore resolutions, then
we unhesitatingly deny the proposition. That
such is its view appears from the remark that
1.-THE friends of the measures of adjustment
never had the strength to elect President
and this fact ought to impress itself with force
upon the minds Of those democrats rio clam
from the administration mare consideration TO
aoards the original adrocates Of the compromis'
than they are supposed to hare rect'::red,' Cal
this mean anything less than that Bronson, &c.
were wrong in their opinion, that freesoilers
were not slyly included under the apparently
bold declaration of the platform, and that the
Union and Mr.. Guthrie were right in their op
posite Interpretation.
The idea, when stripped of its cloaking
jargon Of words, is this Freesoism was
smothered, not extinguished at Baltimore
and for the consideration of the suspension of
its hostilites it is now to be rewarded, and
courted, and warmed into new life by patron
age.
The platform at Baltimore was treaty.
torerer, not truce for day. There were
parties to it, the north and south. The rights
9fHe south were threatened by the porer Of
the north. The south exacted terms-which
the north granted. The terms were cessation
.torerer Of agitation and incasion Of the rights
Of the one by the power Of the other. The
south was in danger, and demanded a safe
peace. The north was in no danger, and could
grant the demand-without exacting anything
in return.
1t is thus perceived, that there was strik.
ing difference between southern aud northern
difference is continually borne in mind, true
understanding of the issue, and the settlement
at Baltimore, will not be attained.
What was the matter in issue? Slavery
Where did it exist? In the south, and Me,t
alone. How came ii in issue? Who brought it il
question? Northern abolition and freesoilism
They assailed slavery through the federal gov
ernment. The south made no assault on tho
north. The south asked non-interference-
be let alone. Its opponents pressed upon he,
she cried, stop. That was all.
California, abolition had labored to dress il
its own foul robes, while still territory. Fo
all the new territory, Van Buren fresoilisn
had attempted the same policy. The non-in
teryention of the north had united with the
south and defeated their schemes.
California came with the Constitution in hand
and claimed admittnnce to the Union. The
south opposed it-why, the history Of the times
viii show and we need not open the past to tell
upon that question their northern allies left
them. She was admitted.
Texas was dismembered-t south DIVIDED