New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-14
TIE NEW DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

The Democratic State Convention of Georgia
has thrown the gauntlet into the political lists.
Its heralds proclaim the terms on which it pro-
poses to engage with the world. Like the
knights of ancient chivalry it has chosen its
Queen of Beauty, whose virtues it will defend
against all corners, and that Queen is the ex-
ceedinely tawny virgin called Slavery. Any
man OF party or thing which will not fall down
and confess that this beauty is the pride and
paragon of the EARTH worthy Of the homage Of
all loyal and chivalrous souls, will be instantly
put to the sword.
In more prosac words, the resolutions of the
Georgia Convention, held at Milledgeville June
g. declare that the platform of the Democratic
party shall be composed of those planks, and
nothing less:
!. The Unon--but the Union as secondary to the re-
served rights of the States
2. The total non-interfeence of Congress with
Slavery anywhere, in the States in the Territories and
in The District of Columbia.
3. Tho maintenance of the Fugitive Slave Law just
as it is, without amendment and without repeal.
A. The princ les established by the Nebraska Kan
sas Act which the rights of the people Of Kansas
TO form Republican Government, with or without
Slavery, whenever they please and to come into the
5. The resolution of the last Georgia Legislature
that any opposition TO these principles, by man
party is an act of hostility to the people of the South
6. sympathy with the d friends of Slavery in Kan
90 IN their manly efforts" Ii. e., by bowe-knfe and
musket to maintain the rights and interests Of the
=" southern people over the paid adyentureTs and
" Jesuitical hordes of Northern Abolitionsm."
!. Opposition to every party at the North which
does Dot core up fully and fairly to the Southern
Standard Lcludiug the KuowNothings.
G. Retaliatory measures against Massachusetts, and
Vermont for virtually repeating the Fugitive Slave
Law" and
Q. The annexation Of Cuba.
As it is said to take nine tailors to make one
man. so these nine resolutions only make one
principle-Slavery. They are Slavery here,
there, and everywhere; Slavery in the begin
ming, at the middle, and in the end /; Slavery
backward and forward; Slavery, up and down;
Slavery, to the right and left; Slavery directly
and indirectly; Slavery, by implication and by
explicaton-and, in short, nothing but Slavery
This is the platform proposed to the Demo-
cratic party, and this platform the New-York
organ Of the "Old Constitutional Democratic
Party" which is the polite for "Old Hunker,"
accepts as "a self-evident, universal anti.sec-
'tional PLATFORM" furnishing true basis for
unity which the Convention at Cincinnati in 1856
viii be bound TO adopt, and under which our
nation will pursue her march to greatness and
prosperity under the guidance of sound DEM
"ocratic Republican principles"
We have no objection. We hope that all the
dougblaces and recusants of the North will come
out boldly with this creed; that there will be
10 more compromises and evasions; and that
the issue will be distinctly joined between the
detes stable doctrine above enunciated and the
broad and generous principles Of liberty. We
have icng predicted that our political contest
must come to this issue at last, and We are anx-
ious that it should De 10 longer delayed. There
has been enough of diplouiatising in our past
controversies, and the time has arrived when
the battle must be joined.
The political conventions Of both parties for
the last two dozen years have not been conven-
tions to announce principles but to disguise
them; they have met together like bodies of
the old schoolmen to see how subtle the dis.
tinctions they could draw, or like conclave of
experimental grammarisns, to discover the
different senses which might be covered BY the
same words; and their chief anxiety has been,
not to lead the people to the discernment and