Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-18
From the Louisville Journal
Hew ths Platform was Adopted In Cin-


Il has bssn matter Of great surprise to a large
nsoosr a Denocrats that such platform as that
$4,000 q Cincinnati could have received the
nancoiua = The Southern delegates in the Conven-
tieA The Delegations ron Alabama and Florida
wsss poa16vsly instructed by the Democratic State
ceavsn&ons a their respective States TO withdraw
tom The oouvsntion unless q sound Southern plat.
hsm ~ sdopeed.
IL Ast b lAss the platform was yi.shed through
~ - knowing ones without giving the weak.
oockod md hmbes.kneed- brethren an opportunity
- sxanins inss - merits. It was a6Ied up by
- menagssa, and the arrangements were made
esoosehand - push Il right on without affording
aDs - IN sxanination into It's merits and without
any dlscussion. IL was reported and read amid
considerable oonfisIon. s
Scarcely twenty men In the convention heard its
ccntsnts undsrstandingiy; but several "old sta
gsrs had been posted In various parts of the hail.
who we're fhniliAr With parliamentary tactics, and
= the very moment when the reading was conclu-
dsd, one Of them moved lts adoption "without the
dosang of IN | or the sroasng Of IT, another
moved 70 adopt an except the flibusterisni. Pres
to- quick vittOi changel The previous ques
&0a was demanded, tho question put, the vote
taken, and the principal part Of the platform adopt
ID bslore majority Of the convention had time "a
think Of IL contents. For the purpose of effectu
any preventing any material amendment, at the
WY 49, oPtpVstonSSy, one on the managers moved
. reconsideration and also moved TO law the motion
Dr. recoasldsratio0 on the table, which motion was
carried, and then the platform was safely nailed
dovn and clinched, - that no matter how dissat.
iscsesy p large portion Of the delegates II could
not b amended.
There never was perhaps, In any convention,
- mnch bald, barelhced, impudent trickery as was
psace1DeA - vssk q Cincinnati The honest men
h Ne coavsaticn who wanted TO do right were 81.
hnesd, bsew-beatsn, and oat-generaiied by the
hsekstsss and demagoguss The platform was
passsd without any but the managers knowing Ia
seaeeatA and when The Southern delegates GET
hs0s sad have time 70 study Il and ASCERTAIN wRsi
kind q principles they have endorsed, they win be
Indignant q the TRICKS put upon them.
fhs cAisf katnre q that portion Of the platform
whisA slsdss 70 Tie slavery question IL the squat
- sevsrsnty principle. Il 10 there In all of its
sdjsO lsagth cad bessdth and thickness. like AN
Inmsass barrier Of solid rock, Il confrouts the
6suth md s9setoaly barn IL entrance into any Of
Tie TsuitssssA which are the common properly Of
"a Ne 6eaes& No Southern delegate, With his ewes
epsn ed hb wits shout him, would dare TO an
psovs this inlAmoas principls OF squatter sover.
eighty, which completely takes away from the
oeuah ~ hops of practical benefit from the Kansss
Nseraska bin; Jet thsrs Il H. juggicd through the
coavsatioa By Tie trsckery Of demasogues. but Il
win ~ rspsdiaasd By the people, and With Il thew
Win rspudiats the platform that contains Il, and
he party By which 4 AAs been endorsed.