New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-18
THE SOFT IMPRACHnRNT.

There are miracles Of aQdacity which the human
mind can only contemplate with wondering amaze
ment, and such ia the spectacle presented by the
late Soft State Convention at Syracuse. In that
Convention were gathered majority of the cor
spicuous Barnburners" of 1s4s-RichmODd, Gag
ger Cassidy, COchrane Ludlow, S. B. Piper,
SaxtOD Smith, &c, &c.-the men who split the
Democratic party and defeated Cass and Butler
on the single ground of devotion to the cause of
Free Labor and hostility to Slavery Extension.
1t was not pretended that Gen. Cass had done
anything to extend Slavery or wished to do any
thing further than to establish the doctrine of
popular Sovereignty" or the right of each Ter
ritOry to have Slavery not have it as its People
should decide; but for that, and that al, ne, Van
Buren, and Adams, Dix and Gates, were nOmi-
mated, and Cass and Butler, Walworth and
OCODOr, rolled in the dust. And now these same
political gamblers come together to form hocus.
pocus ticket of Electors mostly devoted to the
support of Stephen A. Douglas, who has always
fought against Slavery Restriction, who old his ut
most TO pulyerize these B4rnburners in ~, who
proposed and carried the Reputation Of the Mis-
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to punish by law the utterauce of Anti Slavery
sentiments, and who boosted, on the 10th Of May
last in speech in the Senate, thas bis policy had
carried Slavery degree and half further North
than the South had ever CLAIMED pdor to the in
PRODUCTION Of his Nebraska bill The Anti-Slavery
agiators and b"ters of lS4s, speaking for the piO
neer Pro-Sayery agitatOr OF 1854, and since,
through the mouth of William II. Ludlow, one of
their chef in the war upon Gen. Cas- and the
N4t opa Democracy Of as grayely
E,olred That the organization OF sectional party In the
Northern St5te founded idea Of an irepresbe
ct between the Free and Slave States and ncompnbiiy
Of cont in the CoofedeTscy Of States having the
exercise OF the vital principle Of local self government different
domestic insttuons and pledged elevated power
the influence and authority Of the Government In hostility
the rights and Interests Of portion Of the States is
with the peace Of the notion equality Of the States
stability of the Union and deserving the epobaon and
active and combined resistance OF all patriotic and conservative
citizens.
Resolr,d Plat recoFaize the doctrine of the equality Of
the d their equal ghts in the Territories the common
property of the non and that intervention by Congress pro-
and benefit Gpatcuar species Of property peculiar or
Ohe States be such protection is denied to all other
property unequal snaaa and subyersive of the great
Dem bcrac principle "noninerference by Congress with
Ssy State Territory and In violation Of the spirit Of
thuhE 10 DOuds OF JhiOni
aud threats and cOnspacies Of disunon such
retaliation for It's refusal dangerous inys
sons OF the rights Of States and the citizens thereof and
that such struggle viii stand by the Union against dis
union"
Is not that cool The faction which failed TO
carry single State in as now charges the Republ-
cans with inability to carry any but Free States
as crime They falsely accuse US of proposing
an "irrepressble conflict between the Free and
Slave States, when in fact the largest Republican
city in the Union is st. Louis, the commercial cap
ital of one of the greatest Slave States, and trading
extensively with half a dozen more of them.
There were more delegates from Slaves States
IN the Convention which nominated Lincoln than
IN that which nominated Douglas after the Brock
iDrldge men bolted. And yet this gathering OF
Douglasltes has the cheek TO deprecate the cleo
tlon oil Abraham Lincoln, the sectional candidate
" of the Republicans" If Lincoln is sectional be
cause, though be has will.wishers in every State
and party in half the Sla 'e States, he may not re-
ceive the Electoral Vote Of any but Free States,
what is Douglas, who is repldiated by all sections
and can hardly carry an Electoral Vote North or
South
Twelve years ago. Messrs Ludlow 4 Go. vohe.