Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-09-23
THE PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLl-
CANS OF NEW YORK.

Of old a strong Wing journal; in later years
very conservative and for time rather favor
able to the American organization and jealous
of the Republicans. Its present position
cvincos better appreciation of Republican
ism, and we trust it is significant of like
views among many who have not seen their
: way clear for energetic cooperation with the
Republican party. In this respect there is
very little room for improvement in Vermont.
, and it is more for the purpose Of gratifying
our readers than any thing else that we copy
the following.
From the N. Y Commercial Advertiser, Sept 10.
THE REPuBL1cAN RESOLUTIONS. - We
have already spoken Of the Republican nom
nations for State officers made at Syracuse
last week with that commentator which we
conscientiously believe them to deserve. No
7 address was prepared by the Convention,
though such a document, iudiciously framed,
would doubtless have been useful. Tho CEN
trail committee. however, can issue such an
address, If they deem it advisable, and there
are gentlemen upon that committee abundant
y competent to prepare one that shall be
A, able and vigorous Eleven resolutions how
ever, were adopted at the Convention, sharp,
crisp and decisive The reading Of them
was deferred to late hour, call for their
, reading at an carly hour in the evening ses-
sion being very decidedly ncgatiyed They
were, however, enthusiastically adopted at
the close of the session, and appear to have
been universally approved by the Republican
journals Of tho State. We doubt whether
the Democratic State Convention, which
meets this week. will have the courage to
d. L., u
licans have done in these eleven resolutions.
The frank, bold tone of the Republicans is
indeed most gratifying sign, and honorably
F, and iavorably distinguishes the Albany
Evening Journal has justly remarked-tho
Republican party from its opponents. 1t is
! a sign Of vigorous life and determined
D will.
4 The Syracuse resolutions re-aflirm, in all
its length and breadth, the Philadelphia Re-
, publican platform of 1856; insist that free
dom is universal and national, and slavery
e exceptional and local " and that to this sa-
/ cred principle the federal government is under
solemn obligation to adhere that the Con-
+ stitution has conferred upon Congress the
y power to mako all needu rules and regua-
y tions for the territories, and to protect them
r. from slavery and all other political and social
evils that the encouragement given by the
Democracy to the slave power has encouraged
" schemes for framing slave code for the ter
" ritorics and the revival of the barbarous. in
l. human and detcstable slave trade that Pros
A. ident Buchanan's administration has been
st marked by reckless pronigocy in expenditure
* and disgraccim abandonment of the great
,. principles of individual freedom and State
rights; that it is the duty of the federal gov
p ernmcnt to set apart a portion of the public
lands for the free use and occupation OF
the cmigraut; that American citizens all over
the world, as such, are entitled to the prompt
H. perpetual, efficient and fearless protection o
the federal government; that the canals shall
be retained as the property Of the State that
they shall be completed and enlarged that
it is the duty of the Legislature, at its next
session, to provide the means for their com
pletion that the floating debt Of the STATE
IS ought to be paid, as provided for in the act o
be April 3, 1859 aud that the Republican par
E. ty, being an organization Of broad aud liberal
views, will cordially receive all who may be
attracted into its ranks, without regard to
former party divisions or differences.
Such is the platform Of the Republican
at party in the State of New York, formed with
noble independence of all other political
o. organizations, and designed to state "the
n truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
t truth respecting its tenets and purposes. -
or There is neither concealmcnt nor exaggera
al ton in this platform. 1t explains clearly and
st forcibly what the Republican party is, anC
what it proposes to do. 1t appeals to III,
ir people OF this State with modest confidence
tn and asks them to support it on It's merits .-
It. There are no mumbling utterances, no unccr
ir tain sounds, no quibbling or hypocrisy, n,
lie meaningless generaities or od captandum de
an nuncations in these resolutions. Still les
he is there an unpatriotic thought or scntimen
of in them from first to last. They interfere
IS with no established institutions. They null
of lily no constitutional rights. They dorogat
to from no State prcrogativcs. They neithe
c. curtail nor enlarge the legitimate sphere o
re the federal government There is nothing il
- them as we assert without fear Of successful
I'd contradiction, that any citizen of the UniteC
IN States, the slave States as well as the free
h. cannot conscientiousy and heartily subscribe 10
m il he IS not already committed to the eriensio,
I'd Of The area Of siavery and the rene,cei of TN
African Stare trade. We say this delberatel,
and Of earnest conviction.
The Republican party does not expect, and
we imagine does not desire to fratcrnze with
those ultraists of the South, (or in any Other
ed region, if elsewhere such ultraists exist a.
RS insist that slavery shall by law be forced upor
ed the territories and that the infamous slave
&C trade shall be made legal commerce in the
he United States. The conviction entertained
lg by Republicans Of the injury and dsgrac,
IL which those measures would bring upon oui
h, common country, is too deep and earnest tc
y, permit of determination with such men. But
r. that same strong conviction, combined with q
lie sobriety of wisdom that compreheuds the
~ utility and value OF combination of all who
+ are opposed to those iniquitous measures
t, prompts them to present common platform
s. to their fellow citizens, that need exclude no
Mt one whose aversion to the slave trade and the
st enslaving of the territories is strong enough
s. to prompt him to oppose those schemes with
to out doing violence to any other honestly en-
er tertained conviction. Wings, Americans and
re Democrats may stand upon this platform
= without compromising one Of their cardinal
ID principles, or even an important doctrine, il
st they only are 'caiiag to keep slavery tcithin il
l. present limits.
to We cannot see how the Republican Con.
L. yention could possibly have acted with better
he judgment than that which distinguished it.