Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-06-12
The Presidential Struggle---Parties, Posi-
tons and Prospects.

In the following, the N. Y. Herald has stated
very exactly the character of the Cincinnati
Convention and the platform it has put forth.
Next week We viii give the platform as it was
dressed up by the Convention, when it will be
seen. as the Herald says, tina! it is different only
from the following in its verbage: -@a,.
We know of nothing so full of warning to the
the people of this Union as the pains and labors,
the fuss and flummcry, the disgusting exhibit
tons of corruption and depravity, and the mot
ley gathering of the filthy birds of prey and car
rion crows which attend the accouchement, in
these latter days, of one of those modern politi-
cal monsters known as national conventions.
For example, the Cincinnati Convention, as
sembled for the modest purpose of debating to
the democracy of the Union their exclusive can
didate foI President of the United States, meets
under the impressive auspices of pistols and bo-
vie knives, bludgeons and terrorism, and is grac-
ed by the company of five hundred gamblers
and blacklegs, and from three to four hundred
women of the town, gathered from the stews of
most of our large cities, and all revelling to-
gether as in the festivities of common jubilee.
Such is the revolving spectacle now exhibited to
an insulted, enlightened and intelligent people
by the once venerable and heightened demcrat
ic party. In fact, this party, SO long pluming
itself as the party of the Union and the consti-
tuition, has fallen at length under the control of
the niger drivers of the South, as completely
as the broken fragments of both the old parties
of the North have sunk into the dirty schemes
Of the niger worshipping demagogues of this
section eu4 ,s la.
This Cincinnati Conference of the niger driv-
srs will, ofcourse, give us high sounding plat
form, full of windy distractions and unmeaning
rubbish, with which to gull and hoodwink the
honest yeomanry of the country; whereas. If
the principles of this niger drivers convention
were truly expressed, they would be given in
some such platform as the following, to witt
/. Resolved, That nggers, pistols, howle-knives
and bludgeons are the fundamental principles OF
the democracy, reconstructed under the admins
tration of warlke Franklin Pierce, by our dear
friends the Southern niger drivers.
2. Resolved, That the freedom of speech Is liable
to abuses even in the United States Senate, abuses
which can only be corrected by the application OF
gutta percha to the naked head of the offending party
as he sits in his chair; and that in thus heating an
abolition Senator we righteously vindcatng the
true policy OF the ''unterrifed democracy"
3. Resolved, That the killing of contemplate
IRISH waiter holding the position of Niger for ne
glect of duty or impudence to democratic guest
coming down to late breakfast, is proper warning
to the whole Irish race that they can no longer ex
pect to ride rough shoS over the democracy OF the
Union. ...,. .yF
A. Resolved, As demonstration, as interpreted by
our Southern teachers the niger drivers has already
established African slavery i'll all the Territories of
tho United States, that 'squatter sovereignty" is
humbug, that Gen. Cass is humbug considerably be-
hind the age and that all abolition free State squat
tiers should be expelled from Kansas if necessary by
fire and sword, &c, &c.
This in whatever DISCUSSES of high sounding
verbiage the Cincinnati niger drivers demo-
cratic platform may be written-this, we dare
say, will be its proper interpretation Y,
Herald, 4tk.