New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-04
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY JULY A, 1860.

Charleston should be advocates of his nomination
TO the Presidency, and that the other half should
Lot be personally unfriendly to him. He, in con-
or prevented its adj ption, and thus left his sup
porters in the delegation free to act and vote for
him untrammeled Mr. Dicknson's first error was
in going in person to Syracuse on the occasion OF
the State Convention. His presence only tended
70 eubarrsss the action of such of his friends as
were shrewd and bold eoough to cope with the
sharp, reckless partisans who led the Sots 10 tnat
contest. Once there, he should never have taken
a step toward fulfilling on his part their common
compact until they bad performed on theirs'
They had agreed that one-half the delegation to
sderaton # this pledge, promised to abandon the
district mode of choosing delegates, and TO openly
give in bis adhesion to The new coalition In adj
vance of the meeting at Syracuse, he abandoned
the district programme. There nc shoud
have taken his stand until his half OF
the delegation was voucbsafed to him. lie
knew that his btterest enemies had never charged
him with violating his word Of honor. He ought
TO have known that the largest charity had always
classified those with whom he was now dealing
amorg political sharpers who scruped at no means
TO secure their ends. He should have waited to
receive their frat instalIment of the joint compact
before performing in full himself But no; some
body pushed Dir. John Stryker from the platform
of the Syracuse Convention. The miscreant was
said TO be a Wood Hard Thereupon, instantly
the Soft leaders sent for Dickinson to come in and
make n speech, and denounce Wood aud his tur-
bulent ally In an evil hour, and despite the
warnings of cautious advisers, the Samson OF the
Hunkers entered the temple of the BarDburners
and made sport for bis Old foes. As he turned his
back upon lifelong friends, these political Philis-
fines leered and jeered whispering to one another
that " Scripture Dick was caught at last! Hav-
ing ensnared their old enemy lesser adversaries fell
an easy prey. Securing to themselves three
fourths of the delegation, and passing resolution
that efectuay senced the other one
fourth, the SOfts went to Charleston with
the prestige of Dickinsons Endorsement OF
their fidelity to the Southern Democracy, when
in fact they were only seeking their own aggrlnd-
izement az his dest -uctiOD. At the time OF the
transaction, we pronounced the treatment of Mr..
Dickinson at Syracuse one of the most brazen
frauds in the annals of political chicanery. But,
the perfect nOnchQLance with which Cagger & Co.,
after obtaining power and position at his hands,
wbised his Presidential aspirations down the
wind at Charleston and Baltimore, will, in the
line of audacous cheating, find few parallels even
in the chronicles of no ,jockies, thmbleriggers,
and confidence men generally.
Dir. Dickinson is not great man. We are not
aware that anybody ever suspected him OF great
ness except Auburn Brdsall, the Sage of the Sus-
ouehaDna aud the man from North Carolina who
voted fol him throughout the fifty or sixty ballot
Jugs of the Baltimore Convention of 1852. But, as
men are measure nowadays in the Demo ,ratc
party, be would make respectable candidate for
the Presidency. His record is eminently sound.
That is to say he never gave vote against Slavery
during the seven eventtul years he served in the
Senate. Ere Cass wrote the Nicholson letter,
and while Douglas was cequetting with the
" ilmot PrCvi.O, be Introduced into the Senate a
series of resolutions avOwng doctrines in advance
Of Popular Sovereignty, and tending directly
toward a Slave Code. While Democrats ike
Wright and Benton were resisting Texas annexa-
ton IN 1S44, because it would enlarge the area of
Slavery; white Richmond and Church, and Cas-
sdy we're erecting the Free-Soi platform at Buff
falo in 1s4s while John Van Buren,, and Ludlow,
and Cagger were denOuncing the Compromise
measures of 1850 while the entire Soft wing of
the party were damning with faint praise the
Kansas Nebraska bill so late as the Autumn of
1855; in fine, throughout the past fifteen years,
when those New-York politicians who have just
dictated principles aud candidates to the Baltimore
Convention were tomenting agitation against
Slavery, and openly or coyertly cOalescing with
AbolitiOn'ss, or paltering, in double sense, now
with Free-SOilers and then with Fire Eaters
Dickinson, at the head of band of faithful
friends, has steadily followed the flag, and kept
step to the music of 60 the National Democracy"
He has deserved more consideration from those he
has served than be has obtained. He would have
received it, had he kept out of the hands of the
Soft shsrpers of his own State. He is doing what
he can to atone for this by now throwing the
weight of his influence against the candidate of
the faction that seduced him at Syracuse, and be-
trayed him at Baltimore.
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