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Policy VS.. Platform
The Democratic Party and the Ne.
arc Statg uersanaeafs. - Wat
Z e6agresssond Re construction
Stand, or Be Svept Apay?-What
TIE Eeso York World says.
) Under the heading, "a Frank
Answer to an 1nsidious Question"
d very significant leading editorial
appears in the New York World
OF Tuesday last: The World is
The most prominent and inhuen-
tsslpf the Democratic organs at
tbs North, and is understood to
reflect the views of those who will
shape the policy of the Democrat
fc party IN the event Of its success
in Nogember. The position which
e has taken differs very widely
from what very many Southern
Democrats have conceived to be
the aims and publicly declared in
tentions of the National Democra-
ey, and, as faithful ehroniclers of
political events, we, therefore,
place the statement of the World
before onr readers. The article to
which ne refer was in reply to
the following paragraphs which
appeared the New York Times,
Of Wednesday last &, .,
according TO the policy thus
5 aashoratively eoclasmed, It viii
be incumbcat on Mr. Seymour, if
elected, TO set aside the new gov:
ernments as null and void, and
: with the help Of the military to
disperss them and re-establish the
order of things which Congress
abolished. This programme IN
volres the forcibleS destruction OF
governnaenta organized under the
law, and whose validity Congress
has recognized, the overthrow of
constitutions which have been
ratifedbya majority of thepeople
the disfranohisement of the freed
saen in defiance of existing law,
aad the restoration to power of
rebel leaders in spite of the disa-
biiisy imposed by the fourteenth
amendment. "
Wilfthe World give its opinion
frankly touching the application
,of the Blair doctrine as to the dis
persioa of the soathern. govern
: meats and the sdisfranehisement OF
the freedmen by the mere order
of a. Democratic President =? Will
Ii explain how Il reconciles its
profassed respect for law, and its
acknowledgement of the de facto
snshority of the new governments,
with It's support of candidates
who are pledged to defy and VIC,
lsntly to overthrow both?
no which :sinsidlous question
the World makes "frank answer
as follows :: .5....1.. .-
This strain of remark and re
guest for information proceed up
onzthe unwarrantcd assumption
That General Blair's letter is s
part Of the Democratic platform
But there is no process of fair rca
soning by which it can be made
to appear so. The Democratic
National Convention adopted its
plssform before balloting for can
didates, and without any expecta
tion that Mr. Seymour would b'
its nominee for President or Gen
erai Blair for Vice President
Whatever candidates had beer
nominated, their acceptance woulc
have bound their personal honol
to the support Of the platform, al
though it might have oon6icted
in some respects, with their owl
declared views. Governor Sey
niour, not long before the Conven
tien met, made a noteworth..
speech on the payment Of the pub
Ioadebt. Does the Times believe
ordoes anybody believe, that il
nominating him the Convention
ipdorsod all the views eSpresse'