New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-03
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
KEW-YoRX POLITICS
THE ANTI-NEBRASKA CONVENTION.

HE EDhAShA COA'f LN1AN-''
IN Ne Editor Of Tie y. Y. Tribune
Sir: ] wish a. q Delegate to and Member OF the
An,i.Ne braska Convention held at Saratoga Springs
and Auburn, TO address few words TO my fellow
delegates and 10 the friends Of freedom generally Of
Nh parties throughout the State. am not entirely
assfed with the proceedings ard results Of the two
sessions Of our Convention. I think there was not
suficent confederation and Difference paid 10 the
Democratic elements constituting so large portion
of our Convention and Of our State, and especially
10 such men as Preston King Abijah Mann, Bradford
r. Wood, and their attached and devoted frienls.
There should have been, as in Maine and other
States, q fusion Of all parties,-Whigs Democrats
Free-Soilers Independent Democrats and all Others
opposed TO the Nebraska inquity and Slavery propa
gandisrn. Still the Convention at Auburn has, under
al the circumstance perhaps done the best thing it
could have done. The truth is, it In a somewhat
embarrassing and difficult spot, in consequence Of the
peculiar position Of parties.
now think as do many others Of the Convention,
that we made mistake in not nominating our ticket
at Saratoga, though thought differently then did
snsjority Of the Convention. Had We there nomi-
nsted our entire ticket, taking two true men from
each of the leading political parties Wings and Dem
ocrsts, authorizing our Central Committee TO with
draw one or two Of the names if they thought OK
pedient, for the sake Of fusion with one or more
other party it is altogether probable the Soft Dem
ocrats would not and could not have got vote to
stuty themselves, as they did at Syracuse and thus
have driven away such men King Mann and
others by virtually ndorsng that monstrous iniquity,
the Nebraska bill but that, on tho other hand, spurn-
ing tho Custom-HOuse influence, they might have
adopted the substance Of the Saratoga PLATFORM and,
as the Wings did virtually adopt that platform, we
should thus have had both the leading parties with
In the canvass Of tho State.
But what lie past is past. As did not nominate
at Saratoga and by not nominating virtually invited
both the Soft Democrats and the Wings to sanction
our platform and nominate full ticket and as the
Softs spurned our platform, Endorsed the Nebraska
bill and nominated out and.out Nebraska candidates,
and as the Wings vrtu ally adopted platform and
nominated. we believe, true men, standing
firmly on that PLATFORM and neither of these can
didates after accepting the nomination, could well
decline in favor of any candidate that We could
name; what else could we do at Auburn but TO nom
mate the same candidates and support them, unless
we wished 10 divide the friends OF Freedom and SUI
fer its enemies to triumph Thus, though heartily
wish one or two Of the nominees OF the Antl-Ne-
braska Convention could have been Democrats
not of the bogus Democracy lately in the ascendant
at Washington but of the true Jeiersonian stamp-yet
epeat that under all the circumstances, our Con-
yenlon did the beet thing it couldha done in adopt
ing the Wing nominees, standing on our own plat
foim as they all sroHediy do. The vote was fairly
taken and deliberately decided in their favor. They
are good men and true and shall heartily and SIN
cerely support them in the approaching contest and
trust all the true friends Of liberty throughout the
State will do the same, including tie friends of Pres
ton King, Bradford X. Wood and Abijah Mann,
among whom your humble servant ia not the least
devoted. And on behalf Of this portion of the Anti
Nebraska Convention we give the public and oil
parties fair warning that we are distinct party I'M
dissolved and calculate to be in the field next year,
In season. with our ticket, and whether tho Wings
will reciprocate the favor they now ask of us, and
how many and what other parties viii consent to a
fnsion with u.s. ID. SKINNER.
Gan