Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-16
NEW YORK "soFr-sHELL CONVENTION

We have before us several notices of the proceed
ings Of this Convention, held at Syracuse on the
9th instant The two principal resolutions adopted
on the occasion have been already given to our
readers The nominations were as follows:
HoRATIo SEYMOUR for Governor; WILLIAM III.
LUDLOW for Lieut. Governor; Jason CLARK for
Canal Commissioner; and VIM. r. ANDREWS for
State Prison Inspector
The Albany Argus (Hard-shell Democrat) re-
marks that the sayings and doings of this Conven-
ton exhibited state Of things which would ex-
cite derision, were it not absolutely pitiable"
sWho can laugh CONTINUES the Argus at the efforts
of faction utterly distracted and forlorn, entirely
enfeebled by dissensions and differences among them
selves to bring its chosen delegates into line in its
own State Convention?
at will be seen hatJhe committee resolutions AZ
ter protracted conference extending through night
unable to agree, and had finally to come in with
majority report Abijah Mann being among the leading
dssentents; and that the comitee were divided SO
were the Convention when called upon the resou
tions-one hundred and forty-nins delegates,
than third Of the entire number voting thereon,
cordng their names in the negative!
ssAnd such resolutions How tender-footed, ambaga-
tory, and circumbendbus the subject of Nebraska
How cautiously worded in respect to Pierce and his Ad
ministration! How measured and guarded even with
reference the official Of the present Executive which
has been vauntngy pointed to the Of
his availability!
And yet with all this dilution, these milk and water
resolutions could not be made paatabe to wothrds Of
the Convention large minority of dissentients for
whose special accommodation they had been thus modi
fed and subdued bolted and Of these, shaking off
c~~A 49,
!" We hear also that there quorum present when
the last two nominations made the Convention of
five hundred and twelve having dwndled down to less
than two hundred and that they adjourned sine die in
the worst possible humor with each other"
The New York Commercial Advertiser (Whig)
says Of these proceedings:
g The milk and water resolution the Nebraska bill
was adopted without vigorous opposition by the best
men in the Convention The vote its passage 245
yeas to 149 nays, the most able and influential
bcrs being in the negative We apprehend that this
solution will prove fatal to the Sof-she organization. 1t
is satisfactory to one. The anti-Nebraska
offended and indignant, and the Nebraska not
pleased. A more remarkable instance Of blowing hot
and cold with the breath has rarely been noted in
the records Of political duplicy The resolution de-
carss the repeal Of the Missouri compromise ineIpedn
and unnecessary that s to catch votes
and the time that the results to grow out
of that likely to prove beneficial hat is, to
catch Nebraska votes 1t scarcely credible that any
body Of politicians could have the audacty such
gross contradiction the folly to sulty themselves
in this ridiculous manner
The New York Evening Post (Soft-shell Demo
crat) says:
ssMr SEYMoURs denomination was so much matter
Of course not to say matter Of necessity that his pub
a. ha Lac~
datshis fall was not regarded asA reason for
The Post @ seems highly gFssiisd I j u tbs fsss.oil
complexion Of the resolutions and the Freesoi tone
Of the principal speeches, and thus proceeds:
s'The resolutions occasioned somewhat angry discus
son and If the report which reaches US by telegraph be
correct led to results which reflect great dscred upon
the majority of the Convention. The repeated refusal to
hear Mr. MANN, the resolutions he wished to
port from the minority of the Committee Resolutions
is an indignity for which imagine excuse
palliation. The Convention seemed to have become
ashamed Of their afterwards but not in time to
wipe away the insult which had been given to the power
full constituency which Mr. Mann represented, and to the
party of which Mr.. Mann has been distinguished orna-
ment for more than thirty years.
"The resolutions adopted far less scrvile than
might have been expected FROM Convention majority
whom consisted Of Office hodery and their dependents
They the introduction Of the Nebraska Kansas
BILL repeating the Missouri compromise, inerpeaie and
unnecessary, and rearm the Baltimore resolutions Of
1852 against the agitstion Of slavery.
eve presume shal not be expected to disguise the
pleasure have experienced from reading this delibe
rate and solemn declaration from the only organization
which has any claim represent the Democratic party
in the State of New York, and the only organization in
the State which pretends to be any sort Of terms with
the Administration that the law which has opened the
Territories of Nebraska and Kansas slavery
peen and unnecessary; that the nation hos been
vulsd the Democratic party prostrate and many of its
ruest friends aenated from its support for the sake Of
rvin np n m not "
any considerations Of public necessity, but which had
| not the poor excuse of expediency"
| We give some further views of the Post, because
it is more likely than its contemporaries to under
stand the views and feelings Of its party friends
f" Soft" branch of the Democracy asking
the attention Of the Southern Democracy to the
concluding remark of that print, to wit, that the
cause of freedom is looking UP in this State !; and
also to the declaration Of Mr.. JOHN CooHRANE
that he still stood upon the platform of free soil
free Speech and free men"
What would Mrs. Grundy have said if Wigs
were to utter such sentiments? We await the re-
Spouse of the Richmond Enquirer and other ortho-
dox prints. But let the Post speak in the mean
while
The language used by the Convention is unequivocal
and decided. What they say about not agitatng the
question further and about not making it test is
dgnifed and absurd, but not than the resou-
tons which usually adopted by the Conventions Of
party in power and anxious to remain there They do
the judgment of its friends in this State the Adminstra
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