Washington, Jany 12, 1855.
My Dear Sir, *
* * The Old liners, I see have put forth again their motley platform. The way
is now clear for their signal defeat, if the People's Movement can be honorably
continued, as I hope it may be. We must not be the first to abandon it; nor
must we abandon it at all unless it shall become necessary in order to the
preservation of our honor.
If there was a third of the Democrats ready to adopt the
Ohio Platform and vote for one, why did they not secede from the Convention and
declare themselves not bound by its action when those disgraceful resolutions
were passed? Know nothingism can not be worse than Shilly Shallyism like
theirs. Apart from the Secrecy in which it [hides] itself, it is infinitely
more respectable, for it does not contradict itself.
SOURCE: Diary and correspondence of Salmon P. Chase, Annual
Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1902, Vol.
2, p. 266-7
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