New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-22

| i very large meeting Of the citizens Of Delaware
was held At Dover Thursday last says the balsi-
more Patriot Of the l5t in view Of the formation q
1 new National party. The meeting was immense
1 and most enthusiastic. Many speeches we're made
and various resolutions passed The following is the
| "platform:r
| /. Resolved That shis party shall be called the
/ upeonle's Party Its platform shall be follows
| q Devotion 70 the Union Of the States.
| 3 The expenses of the General Government should
chiefly be borHe by the duties on foreign IMPORTS and
1 in having such duties the principle the Home Vau
alton should be made for the purpose ofaording just
protection to American industry, aud that we are OPP
posed to direct taxation.
la the formation by the people of Territory, Of
their political Institutions, the voice Of the bona de
Inhabitants should be fairly ascertaned and the pro-
posed new State should not be admitted into the
ederacy unless Congress is convinced that her const
tuition expresses the actual will of her people, and
that the best mode of ascertaining the will of the
people is in our Judgment the submission Of the
stitution TO vote Of the people.
s. Disclaimng all hostility to Aliens as such, and
especially account OF their religious faith, yet
declare that proper legislation should be enacted
by Congress to protect the institutions of this country
from the arrival of criminals and paupers
g. The net proceeds Of the sales of the public lands,
not needed to pay of public debts should be divided
among all the States, old as well as new, upon equita
be principles.
The platform was adopted In sections, by acclama
Ton inuttu, Wttn more unablinty tan was csct ut-
fore evnced by any party in adopting PLATFORM
II Delaware is small in geographical proportions,
no doubt can be entertained Of the lageness Of the
aspirations or the bgness of the stomachs Of its popu
lation The foregoing platform affords iudubiable
evidence Of the verify of this latter proposition
And then, how peremptory and precise these Della
wareans are I! They leave nothing to chance. They
close up every loophole Of escape. They provide
against all accidents, misconceptions and msinter
pretations They not only conceive and bring forth
the child bot they name him and prescribe a
positive government for bis future walk in life And
they go on, apparently full of confidence that their
bantling, if he ever reaches manhood will act walk
and talk just they have directed in his infancy,
that he should talk walk and act in he arrives
at the age of maturity.
The baby is unfortunately named The name viii
be the death Of him, if nothing else should happen
to clip abruptly the thread of his existence. Thirty
or forty years sgo-in the earlier and purer days Of
the Republic name might have answered in
differently, il not tolerably WELL But in this fast
age, it will not suffice at all. The baptismal appella
ton will not answer. Peoples Party won't live
long. We doubt whether it viii survive the swad
ding clothes process The people viii not rally
around the cradle, much less sing lulabys to "Peo
and, if we are not much mistaken " Peoples Party y
viii torn out to be no party at all-the tremendous
commonwealth Of Delaware to the contrary notwith-
standing.
The second plank inthe Peoples Party' platform
is set forth in the following imperative language; ode
voton to the Union of the States This isas stern as
sambiguous. What "Uniong' we wouldrespectfny
ask The Union our forefathers established or
he lint ft,o IF fba Mort
they will establish-founded upon outrage plumber
and spoliation of the South If the former we will
go for it as far as the farthes if the latter we will
denounce 1t, abominate it, exeerate it. and have
nothing to do with 1t except to expose its enormities
to our Southern fellow-ctzens.
The third plank we demur to most decidedly and
believe large majority Of the Southern people will
join with us in sentiment and action. We think it
would be infinitely better for the South all duties
on imports were repealed, Custom Houses utterly
abolished and the expenses Of the General Govern
ment paid by direct taxation. This would deprive
the Federal Government Of the power Of discrimina
ting in favor Of the North aud against the South and
would put the two sections on an equality than
they now are Adopt the principle that every tub
should stand on its bottom and we confidently
prophecy that the Southern vessel would float
even II tuu NoltAtrtH oue rsAuh. Al All events We
may gain and can't lose by the operation.
The fourth plank, in regard to the Territories. we
little nothing about and would not, were it
generally adopted We have no idea that the abo-
ltonists will ever permit the admission Of another
slave State into the Union. They openly say so
and they will possess the absolute power to do as
they please in year or two Hence, we look upon
territorial planks in any partys platform as mere
snrplusage.
The fifth plank is eminently worthy the source
whence it emanates With the remark that we view
the emigrants from Europe, no matter what their
religious political bias eminently SUPERIOR NOR
ally, socially and individually to the Abolitionsts and
Freesocrs Of the North we will quit this branch of
the subject.
The sixth and last plank is good enough, perhaps,
because the public lands mightas well be squandered
one way as another; and division among the States
npon equitable principles might result better than
the swndling process which has prevailed in Con
gress for long series Of years past.
With this resume OF the mighty Delaware "plat-
form, we will bring our remarks to a close. De
cldedly, the prejet won't work. 1t is not feasible
The people up in Delaware are altogether too Tito
plan for this utilitarian spoilsseeking political inn
practicable age. They had better go to work,
improve their sandhills, and let national reforms
alone.