The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-14
Gen. Thomason's Resolutions.

the resolutions offered by the delegate from Crawford, and we propose now to discuss their merits. The statement of the griev- ances of the South given by Gen. Thomson, so far as it goes, is unexceptionable.- He says:
 'l The people of the Northern States have organized political party, purely sectional Tn its character; the central and controlling idea of which
 is hostility to the institution of African slavery, as
 it exists in the Southern States, and that party has elected President and Vice President of the Uni ted States, pledged to administer the government upon principles inconsistent with the rights, and subversive of the interests of the people of the Southern States.''
 We quote this for two purposes: First, as plain and unequivocal affirmation Of of the principles and aims of the black republican party, and, secondly, to show what poor logician Gen. Thomson is, and what ''lame and impotent conclu- sion he draws from correct premise.- After admitting that the ''central idea" of the republican party is hostility to slave ry," and that Lincoln stands "pledged to administer the government upon principles inconsistent with the rights, and subver- sive of the interests of the people of the Southern States" he proceeds to demand of this party to give up its central idea, and seems to expect that Lincoln "pledg- ed' as he is confessed to be, will wait till his term of office expires before he will at tempt to put in practice the promises he has made.
 IL does appear to us that Gen. Thomson is more sanguine than Micawber, or Titus Trumps, if he expects q great and triumphant party to ignore its 'central idea, ? and to abandon its sectional char acter. If it were possible for such . thing to ''turn up," we would deem it advisable to discuss the probability of such a political revolution in this instance. But no one who is familiar with human nature, and the history of parties, can reasonably expect triumphant political organization to abandon the arms that carved the way to victory, and to suffer itself to be emascula- ted, and scattered to the four winds like the leaves of autumn. It would have been better for Gen. Thomason's reputation as n logician had he taken up the Chicago platform and Mir. Lincoln's life, like some of his compeers, who now occupy seats in the convention, have done, and undertaken to show that the republican party was not opposed to slavery, and that MT. Lincoln was a pretty clever fellow after all Had he succeeded in establishing this fact, he might then very consistently have conten- ded for amendments to the constitution with distant hope of getting them. But how Gen. Thomson, who Is man of talent, can expect a dominant party to accept compromise that would leave it powerless in the future, and strike out its "central idea, ? is problem that we are unable to solve.
 The simple truth is that Gen. Thomson knows his proposed amendments will never be listened to, and why then does he propose them? Why did he not in the same breath recommend that earth be re- created into an Eden, and that the roses should conceal no thorns beneath their blooming beauty? To one so sanguine it would not seem at all unreasonable that the insensate earth should listen to such fanciful propositions. But we have said that Gen. Thomson knows that his pro- posed amendments will not be regarded.- Our Union friends are in an unfortunate edicament-unfortunat for themselves and for the State. They have no hope of preserving the Union, but so strongly are they attached to names and idols, that they blindly cling to government which has blessed and protected them, though its glory has departed forever, like the sceptre of Judah. Some of them are bound down