New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-18
A REQUEST OBEYED.

A REQUEST OBEYED.
Tie Infamous Secession features Of the platform
Tnr TRrBuSE il sheet which makes professions
10 respec,abity and We presume VIII admit that de
beraie living is discredtable. We make this reason
able request OF -lhat inasnuch as u speaks oil the
"inf. US Secession features Of the platform of Tie
Democratic State Convention, il point out specifically
In the resolutions OF the Convention, the secession
features" Of which it speaks. II Il cannot do tbis
as il cannot il will appreciate what eLhet shoud be
written on it, front. Albany Argus.
We cheorfully obey the reasonable request y
of The Argus, even though it be not conched in
the most courteous language. Truth first,
courtesy afterward, is our rule.
The - Secession features" of the Richmond
Cngper platform, then, those features 'ohieh
are plainly calculated 10 girs aid and comfort to
he Secs siopisis. When we were engaged IN
war with Grea. Britain. it was quite common
TO speak Of such declarations of sentiment BY
our people as were calculated to encourage and
strengthen the public enemy as British, and the
colloquia convenience Of such phraseology will
always dictate its employment
A formidable, desperate rebellion is now de-
yaststng our country. Its ayowed object is the
destruction OF our National integrity and the for
nation Of an independent Conicderacy on its
ruins. That Coniederscy is intended to embrace
the fifteen Slave States. It's watchword is Sscss.
SION it assumes that any State has a right to
secede from the Union at pleasure, aud that all
the Slave States but Delaware and Kentucky
have practically, aud all but these, with Mary
land and perhaps Missouri have formally done
20. Such is the brazen front Of Secession.
The Government OF the United States is doing
ia utmost TO make head againsi this gigantic
rebellion, which mas brought immense ARMIES into
the field and is now beeaguerIng the National
capital. The life or death of the American Re-
public hangs by Q thread; another victory for re-
belOn on the Potomac would drive thousands to
despair Of the Union. Such is tho crisis in
which a Democratic State Convention is held at
| Syracuse, and the following resolve driven
through it BY determined, relentless majority.
Reortd That while admit the necessity Of summary pro
csses snd martial law among sufgeht popu atom and wi hn
the lines Of military operations profess against the doctrine
that an Po"e except shs hpe'et'y. Of The People can
oEnes We protest nst the assumption OF the Executive
the federal Government 70 organize s'ems OF State Police
against the assumption Of the Federal Executive to epess the
discussions Of free Pee by the refusal Of mail acie in
any way except the decisions Of the civil Tribunals aud that
hnay protest against the doctrine OF President Lncons
era Uovenmen subyersive Of the fundamental doctrine
Of American bty Ia the treaty Of which the states
ton ba. Of separate The Crown
lands eyed wiihthe right eminent domain 'othe States and
the Federal Constitution adopted by the States and bndng
ouy those that accepted aId the liberties OF the people
the prosperity Of our nation have BEEN mantained and ud
yepcd nom the beginning Of the Government until upon
the basis Of the Independence OF States subject only to the
Federal bond and the strict limitations OF the Con'tiu'ion
Can any man doubt that the effect, if not
the intent, of this resolve is to strengthen the
rebels Must they not be encouraged to renewed
and more vehement attacks ON the Government
from the South when they sec such demonstra.
tions made against it by State Conventions at the
North Is not here plain, emphatic condemna-
ton of measures which the Government has
deemed essential to tho safety-say rather to
the rescue--of the Republic 7 What means the
talk of suspendng the privilege of Ae writ of
"habeas corpus for eira ofenses 2" Is treason
civil o0ense Were not the system of pass
ports" and tho reorganization of the Police Of
Baltimore and st. Louis absolutely forced upon
the Government by the Vaccinations of treason
If JEFF Davis had been asked to draft a resolve
for adoption by New-York Democratic State
Convention could he have concocted one better
calculated TO SOW distrust and diSallectOn among
the people of the loyal States than that above
quoted Can you imagine that such resolve
by such a body will not be usod--and powerful
ly used--to animate aud strengthen the rebels by
assuring them that great party at the North is
moved to help them oil it dares 7
We hold this Secession resolve-that is,
one calculated to help the cause of Secession. 1t
is 80 understood at Tammany Hall, or it would
not be there repudiated 1t is so understood by
the Democratic candidates and journals which
have denounced and protested it, And that the
People so understand ii will be shown by their
votes at the November Election. And we have
hopes that The Argus will 30 understand it
when that journal comes to account for tho rout