New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-30

co,v,r.son. our re.pop.e is, ti,t il 10 high time
sou.bosy. With tbe prestige sod pluck ot Mr.
Douglas. tsush, our E.tional Conveos'on A"nsrr'
that p,io-;p car h. rnuocisfed. AMI race" 'e-
csns,.d. b, others, quite as properly as eS them.
The, have lnrg enough dictated both ereeds s1d
cs.dlda,es 70 tie people. prescribing. WIZ rn-
cru.,e.p precision. for whom tseS -hsii Vo'@' ''i
utn, dnr,rne. that vote shall represent We are
glad 70 end ,hst one distinguished party chef b"
The courss. to u-e plain lspgdsge to tn. three or
fur hundred political tIoks'er., who. by and n.y.
viii be .el-ct-d at h-p hazard OF BY corruP, sepi
snces to go to Charleston ard there drtennine, BY
tLimbe-rg gfca ,rickrry, the de.tiny OF one OF 'ae
great part,e, Of the country. aud perhaps OF the
courtr, it..lf. for tie coming four year.
Our Csuca- and Convention system, when opeTa'-
ing CD a n.tionsl 'hearer, is almost a. bad 81
con,titu'iota al monarchy With i's accidents OF or'o
The responsible ministers Of the crorn can De
driven from power ST the pleasure of the people
But when Harrisburg or Baltimore Convention,
after ignoring ali tie leading statesmen OF the
country, sudd nly ti-covers the peerless qua'ihca-
,;or. .or place and power of SOME unheArd of Tyler
or PIX or Pierce. and the rank and fle OF rhe
marty. with a "a toIrsOnc fear of RECOMMENDATION
and loss Of fpottsgr, rsify the discovery with tseu
votes, no subsequent d'spprobation OF The people
can nd the nation Of the infection. Patronage aud
pay are assured utto tie incubus however grievous
to he borne, for four years
This ~ stem renders politics sud ONCE -h"ldlng
such vulgar pursuits and occupations, that the
G., ~ Of all
ceilings will have nothing to do with them With
honorable exceptions, and we are happy to say
there are many such, i, crowd. Congress sftee Con-
gress With obscurity aud mediocrity and fills our
State Legislatures and Executive departments
With men " ho we're never heard Of before they en-
tered their halls and are utterly forgotten a. soon
as they leave them And 80 il i. With all tie des
cepdiDg grades Of Office till they reach the lowest
place in tte eift Of the smallest political municipal
ity 10 the land.
And. not content with debating candidates, and
sentenci, To the party guiilotne those who rePu-
diate the oc'ators and their nominees, these ire
spousbe conclayes prescribe the creed OF the party
in respect to all questions past pending, and pros
pective. A muss of undgested verolage, called
platform" usually presented to the Convention
just rs every member - rushing for the door or the
depot aud which few understand and all soon ior-
get becomes, henceforth, by virtue of such action,
the irIesocable creed Of the party to which every
orator, editor aud candidate, in the ex 'ting can
yass that follows is required to conform in thought
word and deed Every BODY knows that creeds
thus originating have DO effect IN producing iden-
tit, of sentiment in the party win no votes to its
candidates, while they repe many; and usually fall
within the scope of the criticism that Webster,
with more Wit than wisdom, bestowed upoo the
Buffalo plotfcrm, viz: THAT all which it contained
80 that was true was not original, and all that
Was original was not true :"
The period may come when the people will &C.
ect their candidates and adopt their or eds without
the ntsrpositron Of sefelected Convention or
Caucus In the meantime, the recent letter oil
SIR. Douglas points in the right direction