The Stephens-toombs Platform

The Louisvillo Cimrier-Journdl, one of the ablest journals published in the South, has ii vory pointed and w-ll tiracd artiolo on tully of attemptmg to niako tlie speeches of Mr. Toomns and the oiütoiiaiK of Mr. Stophons, of Georgia, tho bagi( of a platform for a politiual oumpaign. a jI asks how ïnany Caigressional distriots eau be carriod in the .Northeru States on such an issue. Iu ansvver to this inijuiry wü say that if it wore po8siblo to present tho issuo proposed by Mr. Stepliuiis and ïoombs puro and siippk), wo do QOt bilicvo a single district in tho entire Northern States would elect a member holding such views and opmious. It is utterly impoisiblo to even supposu a groat party, coiitaining so many aoie men as tho Democratie party now has. should cjminit the folly of appealing to the country on such an issue alono, but from .ist experience wo are sorry to say that jy the persistence of a few in the hurry ind oxcitenient of a gieat convention it s possible to introduce su;h a folly into ;ue platform, and although it niay be reected, its bate introduction will producu ilniost incalculable injuiy. Status and Jongrcssional distriets would reject it or gnore it and carry on tne contest on local issues but it would provo vcry disastrous. We fully bolieve that tho iiepubican party on such an issue would carry every State in the North for President, and more tiian two thirdsot' thoso in the South. That party would gx into the new Congrcss with uioro tiian two-tliinls ol' all the iiic'inbiTS, and woulii tlms liavr the power to override and onub out all Oi[nsitioii, and niako such alt rarious and olianges in the Constitution thut the lealers of that party niight doem necessary to perpetúate tüeir power. wo thunk t lit: tinirirr-Jonriinil i'or its tinnly article on this subject, aud we trust tilt; presa throughout thi; country will not only speak out most deeidedly iu response to the inquiry nutdeijr intormation, but that tho .Democratie press ia the States which reoognizod slavury, ut thü (oiiinu'iioement oi' tho wtir, will curry tlie responsos thus obtainod bel'ure tin? votéis of those States, aud let them undersluid tho otter impossibility oi turning back be wheebi of time aud restoring the stulo f tliings which existed ut the beginning f 1801. Wo iniglit as well undertake to oll back the sun in its courso. The uiondiuoiits to the Constitution have been ooepted by the people. 'l'he destruotápn i sli vm y has buen approvod by inore tlian inel.v-mno hundred o :t of evory tu íousand in the Xorth, uiid we believe by Tery largo majority in tho South, and it ught to be ftpprovod ly uvery ono living uuder tho flag of our toun'. ry, aud thero is not a single instancu on rgcord wln ti any party in a froe government ha hrcii ' -il, and thero is no probabilitj thtirfi t'Vcr will be sustained, in ui at1 I dóprive any portion oi the citiüCiis dt' tho country of tho right of suffragc on.f fivdy extended to tlibm, and thif ii riylit, ir.. oursdvos we concur fully in the vie so ably presentad by Mr. Groeebeok ín his recent speeoh at Bteubenvüle, Obio, anti we vould not, if wf had the pouvr, deprive the coloïed j.ialation of a single rightor privilege gran t ed tothein by tb terma of the aniend inenl i made to the Conltitution during or sinee the war. [f the Democratie party are ever to succcerl, they must apcapt the sit ■ . 1 . ,n aa it ia - not pfirtially, notgrudgingly, not with any menta] reser vation, butfrankly, fully and in good faitli, nd with a ÈbraJ and ünmovfble dlnninatiof to oarfy t.hom intooifet for the bsneflt of those wiioni they w(;-e intended to relieve hom the condition of servitudo. When wc do this, and turn our whole attention to the corruptions whloH have been practicod by tlio party in power- when we moke the issue of a atriot construction of the Constitubion, of the preservation of the righte of the 8tatea from all eaoroachmsnte on the part of the ganeral government, as well as the gennral government froin all .ttt.-mpts tri wraken or dostroy it - whon ♦e oall upon the maaaes to rally to the vntohwoida of rettenchmont aindeform, of conoiny and a faithful luhiiinisiraüon of the lawg and the Gonstitution- then BhaU snociied, and not tiil then. Thé peopl arealmost beginning to doepair of cause, the nnMofoorrnption andjgxtravaganco has so Uolversally peaetrated evory department of the governm u(. The puty in power cannot and aare not attotnptto maketho reforins demanded by the times. Tliis is mission of tho minority. This is their strong vantage ground. They e:m loee the batfcle ii' they throw away thoir posItSan nni attempt inipossibilities, but the time will come whon tho people will hurl the corrupt men firma power and place honest and pure men in their places, or the repiiblie will have a more latneutable downia]] than tliat of Eome. - Detroit Fret 1 'nis. Jnatbs W.Tit.worth, of Tuicola, has a drove of eleven domesticatel elk. Mr. Wentworth h;in been engaged in the boainess of raising elk, whieh he fiada eü tremoly Inerativi'. The Jonesville Independent says that Mts. Pho'be Myers died on the list inst., a ved 109 years, 8 inoiiths and 2 days. Sh" was born in Livingston conuty, N. Y.,where ahe liveiá with lier liusban-, 82 years, and who died seven years siiife at tlio advKnbed agb of lo.'i years. was married it the age of 18 years, and bas liever wort! gladgès, doitig her own work for H' years.