New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-18
SPIRIT or THE GERMiH-AMERTCAy
PRLSS

From DE F'ti> P',es D-ocr.,e Geruaa paper Of Pa.
Next Tuesday a Ns,i'nal Conven'o, meets in Phia-
dephs TO frame party platform and b,mila caadi-
date tor the Presidency. In the hand Of tbs Coo.
venon, the destiny Of this Republic for long series
Of years probably rests. Whether 70 the cause Of
freedom futsre yet remats in the United S,.te., "
whether the -prit Of oppression ths row rules shall
etabsh tse II and subdue the whole country ,ug-
las wishes, d,pends upon it's action u2on it. decisions.
From the proceedings IN Pittsburgh IN February, a.
wei a. from the whole tone Of the press and the
ceIt invitation to the State. to send to the Convention
Of the 18th Of June il appear that all parties opposed
3 the Administration will represented Republic ans
Free-Solers, An,i.Nebraska Democrats while no the
Northern branch Of the Know Nothings are in council
in New York. The first task Of this Conv entOn il TO
III tie those independent mssses upon common pst-
form. This must read No further extension of Saw
ey-RedemPtion for Kansas-Repea Of the Fugitive
Slave law
The Democracy, by their patchwork at Cincinnati,
where they have nOIniD ated a Buchanan, instead Of
d cir proper representative Pierce Douglas, ana
joined i'll temporary matrimonial bond- the Se~-iork
Hards and Soffs, have sought 10 give Themselves the
appearance Of q solid pbalanx which, overthrowing
everything before it. must gain certain victory in
November How little magic power lies IN the Cin-
cinnsti platform il shown by the example Of Sss.tor
Hsnln of Maine, who, in open Senate, renounced
bis allegiance to party that u-ties the strocious
proceeding. in Kansas there will be no lack of im
aors Of this Senator when the union of all friends Of
the Constitution but enemies Of the Administration
is oonsummated The hopes Of Buchanan not in
the union of the Democracy, bu, in divisions among
their opponents.
rs the platform must be broad, tha: al the enemies
OF the saveboldng Oigarchy may unite upon IT, 40
must the candidate be- man in whom this union m ~
eontnue-one sgeinst whom exist antipathies re-
polling portion Of the voters
The question is a simple one, viz: Il there, among
the Leaders of the progressive party who have fought
bravely for year. in favor Of the principles which
must be embodied in the platform one who has pros
poet Of securing majority of the votes of the coun
Try This question has already received q most de-
cio ed negative. The mot influential organs of the
press Of all compilations whole States aud corpora
lions have declared that only by the selection of q
new man. whose name enjoys universal respect one
not besmeared by the mire of partisan presses, can
victory be achieved in 1856, and the path opened for
further trumphs Of Freedom.
As in Cincinnati the South was obliged 10 stand in
the back ground, though by ancient usage the no Oh
nation should have been herr. even Douglas her
Northern champion, at last yielded, in order that
the chances Of the party should lot be endangered
in Phi adelpbia, the champions Of the Republican
parry, Seward Hale, Chase, Sumner and others, mu-
yield Ia the pressure from without in favor Of a
man. who has heretofore stood aloof from party
tests.
This man is John G.. Fremont, the conqueror of CAL
ornia with sword and compass, the soul Of that Con
stitutiOnal Convention which saved the Gold State
from the curse OF Slavery The name OF the explorer
of the Rocky Mountains is known to the Old well
TO the New World, and it requires no Hawthorne TO be
rewar6ed with the fat Consulate at Liverpool 20 an
swer the question, "Who is Fremont r. question
that be put only in the case of Franklin Pierce.
Such Banks and Blair point TO him a. the right
man. already New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and
other Northern States adopt him man Of energy
who among the fist to declare himself for the
demption Of Kansas the Of voters look to him as
the savior in need upon him the united Anti Nebras
ka vote may be concentrated, and probably those of
the sO-caled "North Americans the rebels to the
Philadelphia Know Nothing Convention.
Freedom bas alas lost much ground in AmerIc,
that greet with heartfelt JOY the first EXPIRE sson of
the peoples will in favor of reconqueriug it, Let John
c. Fremont then be our leader in this battle.