New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-09
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.

There was very general though we think IN
just, complaint last year among those Demo-
Gratis of our State who condemn the Kansas
Nebraska act, its AUTHORS and rs consequences,
that they were slo we'd no chance to strike an eff
fective blow for Freedom in Kansas except by
voting an entire Wing ticket. ave are op-
"posed to the Slavery Extensionis;s," they
said, land ready to show our faith by our
"works; but we are not Wings, and d. MT
"wish to vote so as to be counted such. Give
Gus fairly constructed Anti-Nebraska State
ticket, and we will support it heartily"
Such a ticket has ow been made. Nobody de-
MES it, The candidates are fairly divided be
tween Wings and Democrats of old, but all now
REPUBLICAN. The Platform is simply and purely
REPUBLICAN, Free-Soil Democrats aimt that
they have been disappointed BY the iberality and
fairness with which they were met at Syracuse.
And they are now rallying to the Republican
standard with heartiness and zeal We are conf
dent that the voters for PRESTON KING next
month who voted for Horatio Seq mOur last Fall
will number tens of thousands.
TIE ST. Laurence Republican and The Otsego Dem
Ocrat are leading Democratic journals which now
support the Republican ticket. The EreHing Post Of
last night answered the Presidents Kansas Mani
festo in leader which of itself would serve to sh w
that its cOmplacency toward " Soft trimming and
trucking has been thoroughly exhausted. Tas
Post may or may not directly support the Repub-
lcan ticket it manifestly will not oppose it. tn
Oiean Journal and the CObieskW Journal, hitherto
adverse, have both hOisted the Republican flag
And The St. Laurence Democrat, issued at Canton,
the home and grave of Silas Wright, which was
the last paper in st. Lawrence County to cling to
the Soft cause, has finally renowned and de-
nounced the recreancy of its leaders 10 Freedom
as follows:
"WE co WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES LEAD
"THE wAY-NBEN THEY DISAPPEAR, WE CEASE TO
FOLLOW. This is the motto with which TIE 81
Laurence Democrat set out, and il is the mlito we viii
follow the end. We gave our support 70 the " Soft
"Shen organization because we opposed more sound
Democrats would be found in that orr sniz than
in any other We believe il will not so turn oat-cer
tainly not in 81. Lawrence County.
principles, not men, is one of the old ID amocrst'c
maxms rom which no sou Democrat can safely de
part. We gave the stform OF principles LAID down
at syracuse by the "SOii-Shel Convention, gSner
GUS interpretation, and It'll kept on; bu, every day
ard every week is multiplying the evidence that the
soft Shell organization Is entirely under the control
Of those who determined TO carry their party, aud
all who adhere to it into the support Of the Kansas
Nebraska law, and all its odious consequences of
Slavery exen men, Soon after the adjournment of the
Soft State Convention The Interpretation placed upon
the resolutions by those favorable to Freedom die
ayowed by the General Committee Of New-York, and
that Committee declared that it was expressly uodsr-
stood that nothing in the So resolutions should be
Construed into opposition to the Nebraska bill.
Well, this was Q stumper But we concluded the