The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-19
party. These men have been overborne
and trampled down in their own p p3litical

party. These men have been overborne
and trampled down in their own p3litical
organization. They invoke our assist
ance, and the assistance Of the Demo
cracy willn be invoked in vain by
those who are struggling for good go
vernmens, for law, for order, and for the
extension Of the guarantees of the Con.
stitution over our whole country. am
here to concede that the party opposed
to US have taken great part in the his
tory OF our times. know the achieve:
ments of which they are proud, but I
know that If, in order to secure what
they have accomplished, venality must
rule at Washington, then one section of
our country must be given over to plum
der and desolation, and military force
must be relied on Tor the support of the
Government, which rested SO long in
calm security on the consent of the 60
verned. What patriotic citizen, who has
acted hitherto with the Republican
party, can look back on the past with
any satisfaction? for one, therefore,
welcome, with proud and grateful heart,
every man who has been opposed to us
hitherto, and who is now willing to stand
shoulder to shoulder with US for the
principles I, as a Democrat, have steadily
upheld, and which no man now asks me
to surrender; the principles the fathers
supported for the American theory OF
government. to whose defence once more
all good citizens are prepared, unitedly,
to rally. We have upheld, in every way
left open to us, the supremacy of the
civil law, individual liberty under the
paotsction of the hdbeds corpus, the
rights OF the Southern States and the
Southern people to full and complete
equality in the Union. We are contend
ing for all this, to-day, and, believe,
are willing to cooperate with all men
who are willing to act with us. Unfold,
then, the banner with these principles
emblazoned upon it, and, whoever may
bear it, we will follow and be satisfied
with the victory which will place it high
in the ascendant, where, surrounded by
its old friends and it's new allies, it will
wave in unohallenged supremacy for q
generation to come. To-day, and here,
the government of our country may be
rescued from the dangers which sur
round It. Let us resolve to do it, and
the cheers which will hail our action
will not come from the parasites and
paid retainers Of a mean and venal ad-
ministration, but from the exultant
hearts of freemen, forgetting naught of
all the past. but all tho past forgiven.
The following is the platform adopted
unanimously by the conventions:
"The Democratic party Of the State of
New York. assembled in regular conven-
ton to select delegates to a National
Convention, to be held at Baltimore to
nominate candidates for President and
Vice-President, declare and resolve,
that We recognize the changes in the na-
tuxo and Constitution. of the Govern.
ment which have taken place, and with
out re-opening the questions of the past,
are ready now to cooperate with those,
whatever their previous party affiliations,
who favor united and localized govern
ments, who seek to restrain the exercise
by Congress of absolute and general
powers; to prevent its entering on gene
raj private legislation; to restrain the
growth Of vast corporations aud to work
O permanent civil service reform; and be
it further
"Resolped, That the recent declaration
OF political principles by the Convention
o. Cincinnati is evidence of the progress
of public opinion toward sound and
wholesome views of government; that
We believe all patriotic citizens may
unite upon that platform for the pur-
pose Of restoring the honest administra-
tion OF national affairs and enforcing the
obligations of the Constitution; and our
delegates to Baltimore are instructed to
take the course best calculated to secure
the triumph OF these principles. and the
selection of any candidates representing
them who shall meet the approval OF the
Democracy in national convention as
sembled."
While Nilsson returns to Europe with
an immense bank account, Patti exists
in perpetual shower OF diamonds and
francs. Lucca is already rioh, and the
divinities of the hour arc everywhere SO
prosperous, it is not without pang of
melancholy sympathy that one reads OF
Mario forced to return to the stage which