New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-09
Messrs John A. Dix, John Van Buren, and John
Cochrane in l646 united III framing and upholdius
the Buffalo Platform, wherein they

| Cochrane in 1546 united III framing and upholdiug
the Buffalo Platform, wherein they
"Resolrcd, That the true, and in the Judgment of
this Convention the only safe means OF preventing the
| Extension Of Slavery into territory now Free, Is to
prohibit its existence in al such territory by act OF
| Congress.
| "Rrsoired That we accept the issue the Slave
States have forced upon us, and to Their demand for
| more Slave States and more Slave Territories, our
calm but final al swer is-NO mJ7c Stare States and
No Stare TcJrit0rv. LIE, the coil Of our extensive
dcnnion be kept Free for the hardy pioneers Of
our own land and fer the oppressed and famished Of
other lands seeking homes OF comfort and heds OF en
| terprise in the NewWorld."
| On this platform, dozen ways expressed and as
many times repeated, before and sfterward, Mr.
| Dix ran for Governor with Seth NJ. Gates
(old.lne Aboitonist) for Lieutenant, under Martin
| Van Buren, for President and Charles Francis
Adams for Vice. There were no two heartier,
bolder, mere effective canvassers for this ticket
than John Van Buren and John COchrane. Coch-
rane was the standing resolve drawer of his psrty
Van Buren its most popular orator. On the plat
form above cited, they stumped this and adjacent
States doing their mghtiest in behalf of the princi
pies above enunciated.
On the Doth of January, 1850, John Van Buren,
addressed to the Free Democracy Of Connecticut
bis famous letter wherein he declared the Demo-
cratic party dissolved. and said:
There never was a time when those who desire to
see Slavery prohibited in the Territories of the United
States, and abolished by the General Government
Wherever it has the power, were more urgently called
upon to speak and act with energy aud decision The
recent Message Of the President IGen Tayorl in fa-
yOr of the Non Intervention policy, ought, think, to
satisfy bis supporters in the non-sevehoding Stfes
Il at no assistance is to lie expected from him in resist
ing the spread of Slavery, and that, whatever their
hopes in this respect may have been they are sned
to disappointment. The course OF Gen. Cass at the
same time while it in conformity with his declarations
du1ipg the late canvass, leaves US nothing TO hope
from him. or from thOee who now sustain him, DC.
The next Fall witnessed fusion" between the
party of Messrs. Van Buren, Dix and COchrane
and their late Democratic antagonists; and when
some earnest Anti-Sayery Democrats inquired of
Mr.. Van Buren the meaning of this movement, he
answered that his object was "to make the
democratic party of New-YOrk the great Anti
SLAVERY party of New-York, and the Democratic
"party of the Union the great Ant. Slavery party
| of the Union" How has he succeeded in this
| effort? or rather, how has he persisted
We need not follow him through his subsequent
| career TO find the answer 1t was not long after
the above declaration when Mr.. Van Buren declared
| in Tammany Hall that be had given up d" watching
NEGROES in Nebraska" and should henceforth devote
his energies to providing for his family. Messrs Dix
and Cochrane took the same shoot as promptly but
little more shameacedly; they turned from watch
ing and resisting the aggressons of Slavery to
watching for seats in the Cabinet or in Congress,
| Foreign Missions and fat berths in the Custom
House In this quest Mr.. Cochrane has been
| eminently successful, though he was beaten for
Congress in 1850, simply because the odOr of Free
| Soil was still strong upon him.
| There is surely very striking contrast between
| tbe Dix. Van Buren, and Cochrane Of ten years
AGO and the gentlemen wearing those names who
| ofiicisted in Tammany Hall few nights since, aud
there urged on the policy of forcing Kansas into
the Union as Slave State in defiance of the noto-
rous remonstrances OF threefourths of her people
| and in consummation Of long series of wholesale
frsuds. outrsges and forgeries of election returns
| Is not the contrast as painful as striking Just
compare the speeches made by these gentlemen last
Thursday with those they would have made had
they remained on the non. paying side of the main
| question