New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-19

same sectional and geographical policy, and 10 the
hope Of acquirirg s'ill more territory for slave
boIoirg, The ntt'on was plugged into the Mexican
war-s wholly unnecessary add purely sectional
and geographical war, in the bloody glOres OF
witch at Buena VIsta and Chapultepec Mr.. Choate
seems so sn1ious TO baye share.
Our Boston orator al political adviser can hardly
be so utterly ignorant Of cotemporaneOus political
hi,t0ry az not 10 know that President Pierce before
anybody had even dreamed Of him for that office,
and while be was q Senator in Congress from New.
Hampshire, openly profcssed ~ sit at tie feet OF
Mr. Calhoun, then Senator from South Carolina,
and to take that nulliier and disunionist for his
guide and instructor in national politics. nor can
Mr.. Choate be ignorant that the notoriety Of this
fact bad much to do with Mr. Pierce's nomination
He must also be supposed to know, What Is noto-
rious to everybody else, that under the admiDstra
tion Of Mr. Pierce, and in the enjoyment of his
Executive favor the old multiplying and disunionst
politicians of the Southern States have rfen to the
leadership and control of the so-called Democratic
party.
1t must be impossible for Mr. Choate, even with
all bis wonderful power of dressing up bad case
and sinking out of sight the most evident facts, to
deny that Franklin Pierce has administered the
government of this Union in purely sectional and
geographical spirit the great and Distinguishing
acts Of bis Administration having been the repeal,
with bis consent and concurrence and By aid Of his
influence actively exerted, Of the Missouri Com
prouise-tbat solemn compact upon which rested
the balance of political power between the slave.
holding and non. .slavebolding States-and, subse-
quently to that repeal, the attempt by fraud and
force 10 convert Kansas into Slave State Mr.
Choae must know that all these iniquties, that this
thoroughly sectional, geographical and anti-natona
course Of policy, are explicitly iudorsed blythe Gin
ciDnsti PLATFORM while in this Cincinnati platform
Mr. Buchanan ostentstiously sinksa the little per-
sonal identity he ever had, declaring himself to be,
as Presidential candidate, the Cincinnati platform
and nothing elte.
Such ia the Presidential candidate in whose favor
Mr.. Choate has declared busef lie Was at per-
feet liberty to do that. We have not the slightest
objection to it, Perhaps, indeed, it ought to be
regarded merely as professional JOB on his part
aid in that light we cam OF but consider it as a very
happy omen-a confession on the part of our op-
popen's of the desperation of their case-slnce
Mr.. Choate s chief, famous for his extraordinary
professional shifts and oratorical efforts in despe
rate cases. Mr. Choate was at perfect liberty TO
90 over to Buchanan; but in doing so he Ought
to have had the decency not to talk soous
geographical parties, considering all the facts of
the case. His TRADE upon this occasion against
the Republican party as geographical and anti-ns-
tiona is one of the greatest pieces of iupudence
with which we have ever met. Such tricks some
times suceetd with a jury from which every man
of common intelligence has been excluded; but
the public always sees through them and always
laughs them AID their authors to scoru.