Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-07-20
New Wine in Old Bottles.

OUR stately cotemporary, the National Intclli.
gencer. has some very amusing structures upo n
the platform OF shreds and patches made by H. o
pisunlon Democracy at Baltimore, who pledged
themselves first, ih the language of the Clncin,,n.
n Platform, to resist any agitation in Congre
or out Of it," Of tho slavery question; and after
wards adopted resolution agitating the question
which the first resolution Quoted, had pu, under
The ban.
One resolution eschews agitation, the other aei-
sates the question:. calling upon the very body
wh"se power over the subject in the one instance
Is disputed. to intervene for non nterreation One
resolution declares that Congress has no power
over the subject; whilst tho other inyokes Con-
gress to exert power. THIS is the new wine pot
into the old bottles; now patch to the old gar
ment. which ndds one more shade to that Josephs
coat. the many hued and mnny sided Dem,o-
racy. Here is what the Intelligenccr says:
In the platform OF 1856 the Democ acy of t.
whole Union pledged Themselves. with renewed
energy # purpose" to the following well con.i-
dered declaration upon the sectional issue Of Lo-
nestle slavery"
''R"solved. ThGt the Democratic party will re-
sis all attempts at renewing In Congress or out
OF 1t. the agitation Of tho slavery question. IN.
DER whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made"
How well this pledge. originally given in 1852.
was kept during the Inst four years, with rccari
10 the agitation Of slavery In Congress. may lie
read in the debates of that body. while with rc.
gard Ia tho proceedings elsewhere hni in iustra-
ton oi this promised abstinence, nre they n
written Of the late Democratic Conventions In
Charleston and Baltimore? And yet the Denuc
racy. in each Of it's two representative schools nf
ter having been rent in twain by III" stress If ex
none tho lcss renfirmed tho Cincinnati plutforn,
in its entirety. The Douglas Democracy -
pledge anew their adhesion to the declarations cf
1856, including the resolution against agitation Z"
in Congress or out of it. because they believe
that Democratic principles are Interchangeable in
their nature when applied to tho anne subject
matters. The Breckenridge Democracy re-
affirm this Cincinnati platform viii, few "cx.
planatory resolutions. among which no exrcp
ti"n is taken To the pledge made in 1856, mud
previously, against renewing the discussion Of
slavery " in Congress or ont of it, under whatev-
or shape or coor the attempt may he made. - E.
Now. we venture to suggest that il the " OK
planatory resolutions" in relation to the duty ,f
the Federal Government. In all its departments. to
protect tho assumed rights of slave property in
all the Territories, are mennt to be ANYTHING more
than trutum fuimen, they cannot DO reduced to
practice without involving direct conflict with
the earler pledge against "agitation. The new
piece Of cloth will not take from the old garment
the last rag and latter left by former patches
even now. "mnley is the only wenr would il
not he best to hang up the little of tho old su that
still remains in the wardrobe of cnst.oh clothing?
Should not the new wine he put into new skins.
better Tilted 10 sustain the threatened Ell, ryescncc