New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-09
a WARNING TO w. III.


Soft nemocr, cy Of New York. and nearly all of it;
lesoers, are Of the Buffalo Platform school. fe"
,bousand HupkArs swell its ranks, while hall
0.ore nc ,nsp ike HOratio Seymour occasionally
m.sdle in i,s mana cement. With some garing
Inconsistencies The B-rnburner. Softs kept the
Buf,lo faith down to TIE repeal of the Missouri
Connromise. At that crins, such of them as pre-
ferred Federal f,vors to cherished doctrines, sue
copbed t, the Slave Power, while a faithful
minority, following the lead Of their principles,
omitted with otl err tree men to found and build up
the Republican party of New-YOrA. Since this
separation of the wheat from the chat the Negro
Propagar dsts have had no more faithful disciples
than the Sets
This school Of politicians are distinguished for
reckless courage and treachersps tricks, for
.tokpg everything upon the Hazard OF single
throw Of the Gle, and then cheating all roand the
b, ard when fsiug to win according to the rules
of the game. As their sacrifice of old principles
became from time to time apparent, their rankr
suffered severe depletion To recruit them, and
show bold front to the foe in all greet emergen.
cies. they have been in the habit of drawing prom
nent men into their service from the antagonist
wing of the par y-ge 1erally selecting such as had
s retinue of adberents-and always promising
A,m, as a reward for their perfay to old friends,
,hce fer Themselves and provender for their
retaIers. Seymour and Marcy are notable illus
stons of this policy To Seymour they promised
the Gubernatorial Office, and to Marcy the Presi-
der tial chair To establish a character for fair
dealing they redeemed their pledge to Seymour,
but they meant to cheat Marcy. But he
agreed 10 defeat Cas- at Baltimore in 1852, and
They gave him seeming support. Pierce thinking
them sincere, proposed to make Marcy Secretary
of State instead of Dix, whom they selected.
They were reconciled to the change by MaIcy's
pledge to so distribute tts Federal patronage 10
this State as TO kill off their old antagonist and his
he editsry foe, Daniel S. Dickinson.
The Softs falling rather into disrepute under the
rule of Buchanan, wished to regain their ancient
prestige and power at the Charleston Convention.
Fernando Wood 81 d Mozart Hall stood in their
way Dick Dson and bis band of followers were
sounding the slogan. The Regency were at their
wiis' ends. After much counseiog they resolved
to "dv De and conquer" They first led Dickin
son to suspect tie fidelity of Wood. They then
stimulated him, by lavish promises, to put Wood
to death at Syracuse. How the Softs pledged to
Dickinson one half the delegates to Charleston
how they assured him that at the slightest opening
10 hi. behalf they sould rush in with their thirty
FIVE votes and clamOr for bis nominaton-hOw
somebody knocked Stryber off the platform, and
Dickinson leaped upon it and gave Richmond &
Co. national i dorsemebt-hOw they ostenta
tiously displayed it at Charleston aud got charac
ter thereby -bow they spurned and spit upon
DickiI sons Presidenti, pretensions at Baltimore
aud took Douglas instead-are not all these things
chrobicled in the speech of Scripture Dick at
The Cooper lnstituef
The Soits are again in a strait The Syracuse
swindle, the Charleston cheat, the Baltimore bar
gain, have reused the ire of their old foes. The
Firz.James of the Hards is about to invade their
I eacherous home with