The Empire County argus., 1854-11-18

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1t is a principle recognized by all men in polti-
cal life that candidates for Office, when they accept
nomination, do, by the very act Of acceptance,
bind themselves to adopt the platform Of the party
comforting tho nomination PRESIDENT Fierce was
nominated upon the compromises Of 1850, and the
resolutions ofthe National Convention assembled at
Baltimore in 1852. Here then is the platform upon
which Fierce was elected to the Presidency, and
upon which he and his Cabinet were inducted into
office:
Resolved, That the Democratic party vii! resist
all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it,
the agitation Of the slavery question, under what
ever shape or color it may lie madc.--BdAimOre
Platform, 1852
President Pierce alluding to the compromise
measures of 80, aud the acquiescence of tie coun-
try in those measures says.
THAT this repose is to suffer 10 shock during my
official term if have power to avoid it, those who
place me here may be assured" prcsidcat PjeYccS
Message.
Of the Baltimore Platform Gen. Cass says:
regard the Baltimore platform Of 1852, which
contained the following resolution, THAT the Dem
ocratic Party will resist all attempts at renewing
in Congress out Of it, the agitation Of the Slavery
question, under whatever shape color the attempt
may be made as the creed of the party, and the
only proper position for the Democracy to occupy
Oh this subject.
Now, has the administration been true to the
platform upon which it was elected y! Upon this
subject we quote from the late Democratic address
of the Democracy of the State Of Michigan. The
address says:
"The introduction of the clause repeating the
Missouri Compromise, into the Nebraska Kansas
bill in Congress, was a violation of the letter and
spirit of that platform. The latter declared against
agitation the former was agitation. On this
ground alone it forfeits all claim for adoption or
support as a party measure. We prefer the plat
form to the violation of it, for the reason that it
was proper and necessary assurance given to the
country that hcnceOrth Slavery agitation, with its
concomitant discords, should be excluded from the
political arena
In our opinion them the Nebraska Kansas bill,
or the cardinal principle involved in it, the repeal
of the Missouri compromise, should not be made
party measure, expressly or implicitly.
The accepted creed of the party, disavows all
sectonalism and sectional agitation and when
restless men unwisely drag sectional questions into
the public councils it condemns the act and looks
to the wisdom of the whole country to apply the
measure of redress. For the Democratic party to
accept such test would be to renounce the ale
glance and support of one section to gain that of
the other. 1t would be an Innovation exceeding
pernicious and dsorganizing and at a cost of the
entire Nationality of the party. party truly
National knows no North, no South, no East, no
West"
Again, John Cochran, Naval Officer of the port
OF New York, an appointee Of the present admins
tration and its mouth-piece in the Soft Conven-
ton of that State, as Chairman of the committee
on resolutions reports this declaration:
Resolved That we consider the introduction Of
tho cauSa in tho Nebro Slya and hill rnDca1-
ing the Missouri Compromise as incxpedent and
unnecessary
Of the amendment offered by Senator Dixon re-
pealing in express terms the Missouri Compromise,
the Washington Union, then, and now the organ
of the administration, declared it "a Wing scheme
to SOW ascension in the ranks Of the Democracy"
Stephen A. Douglas himself at one time expressed
himself about the Missouri Compromise, and said
"It had an origin akin to that Of the constitution
of the United States conceived in the same spirit
of fraternal affection, and calculated to for
the danger which seemed to threaten, at some
distant day, to the social bond of union. All
theevdences of public opinion at that day seemed
to indicate that this compromise had become can
onlzed in the hearts of the American people as
sacred thing which no ruthless hand would ever
be reckless enough to disturb"
Nevertheless, this compromise has been disturb
ed and that too under the patronage Of the admin
isration, and in violation of the platform of 1852
upon which Franklin Pierce was elected Section
al agitation has been sown broadcast over the land
in the teeth of the platform Of So which declares
THAT the Democratic party will resist all attempts
at renewing in Congress out of it, the agitation
OF the Slavery question under whatever shape or
color it may be made" Will any man deny, Or
say that the Slavery question was not agitated in
Congress at Its last meeting? Who commenced
the agitation Who reopened the Gnality Of the
Compromises Of 80? The President and his Cabi-
net with the aid of Douglas raised the storm, and
then to escape its fury endorsed "a Whig scheme
to SOW dissension in the ranks Of the Democracy.n
The first step of this administration was to ap
point repudiator of the compromises Of so to of.
fee, to appoint Buffalo platform maker aad omi
nent Free Soil speechifer to Office, in the person Of
John Cochran, and next to appoint Van Buren
Free Soil eector Of 49 to office in Illinois, over the
heads of two Cass electors of 49, who were appl-
cants for the same place. Then off goes the head
of Bronson, because he would not affiliate with
Slavery agitators, and Free Soiler was picked up
instead. All the democracy who adhered to the