The New York Herald Newspaper, July 1, 1848, Page 1

Whole No, 6140. —— ADDRESS portunity | 5 Har ped o N . ter troduced by them, or war the presidential canvass. or Tu She ADenn. eee food serpyrme | if ; will attend to facts, and whose minds ate | N, | try tanatoraed fo eRorae, and, et impot ‘compromises of tbe ad sn vclety direct to thane” Tar Turee, 1840” Sir, Wil: | ition ef freedou. and the estabilahiaont of slave ‘ to y 1846, ,e - edom. an ees! iment of slaver; RATIC STATE CONVENTION, conbrel the papeles eee eee en we ne Frateote t hed member of the House of liepre- | that part of those territories lying ‘north of th i i their were ODP te of Pe vania, offered to | agree wi leny the power of this govern. HELD AT UTICA, N. ¥.y JUNK 22 AND 23, 1848, nace oof baa nebo har srt the |-alavery, by ay cation of the : th C in that oe plncing 000 000 | mont to Derpetrate ny feck enormity. The dattle of of the President, to din | Bunker Hill was not 0 create & governinen F a Pa Be A par gat ep seria Mag al roy Roe Bagel agg ei he number declared by.’ the tings peace with Mexico and in'the acquisition | with any such faduities. ff exercised by Congress, it ‘ ‘and Ra ney ne dag ap. | that, to this ond. we desired, wad 60 far a6 dispensable to his regular nomi : tory, & proviso to the effect that there should | will never be submitted to. People of the State of New ¥ es erty eye PE ney | eoustituttonally direoted could we de- | we disclaim any intention o elther slavery nor involuntary servitude, oxcept | It was sald by the greatest of Romam orators, that veluted by 9 State Convention. 1s thls, they rege tion of ; opinions on the electors of other States. thereafter to be acquired by | he would rather err with Plato, than think rightly with of the United States. weak SIONS, CER, alt ‘they added ano- chliosuce of 76h, Amt . in 1 ganas | state tho principle leaving others to apply was carried by @ | the herd of inferior philosophers, We live in the beams ee eee att |e eres earache | Cake ahaa, hi SS hn Sy em Fextow Crtizexs:—The uaprecedented circumstan- sate of © some SY ie oe Pheeeeenie! at bathe in the Baltimore Convention to speak for Us o Genste for want o€ | or by what gency, it mag. come, We epnunt there- ces under which the conveation that now asks pera | tiog. “9 ekat which wuald_ newer bave heen patah |, efire the aevmtling of ie eusinve,t teu: | to bind us ce them by vay of i prosesdings, We Gg ay pe Ran a caf see ben “ neo a ease coi poe Eg eek som thane inions; condemned Mibe ae neredl repudiate themall, ‘ , think rightly with tho abstractionlsts ‘and pro-slavery questions it bas dis , aud tho important in Gubernatorial © be jn | cal; denounced alt who held them as from just and most obvious ne be advocates A pepeent day. zat Fine eB 9 Sure it bas taken, impose upon its members, with more than | J) tember next, to whic! sh; and) resolved to support noone | further illustrated and enforced. both by Fea- med, and pasted vy tie House, Inthe Senate, | the genius, philanthropy an jotinm e r, ‘ce, the daty of laying before you a fall and be 4 twenty years, the of the forthe Presidency or Vise Presidency, who rts soning and by reference to nu erous con- | the bill was amended by the striking out of the proviso, | with the narrow-minded, one idead sectionallsm of the ordinary force, iy of laying ad. da- | tobe’ ticket which. in spite | sdoptor favor them, It was to as sae these’ - | nected with this case. But we forbear to Sug & | aad inthis emendment the house concurred. In the | latter, we find in the contrast, @ strong confirmation franc exposition of their sentiments, motives a1 "| of these unanswerable objections. 4 of the deole: terminations, to give effect to foregone concia- | train of remark already, pethaps, too extended, since | course of these several proceedings, the general subject | of the soundness of the opinions we have spoamety ph ebb astringent es? Wu | ot several ofits mombers. is now obtedded by the now | sles, that car Selceeies ore Eplnioase to pravent the | dency, which forms s part of our proceedings, ana | the tecriteries’ thereafter foes kequived by the United | sured conviction; we cling ochem, with the’ kaoep oF Macerity and respest, of candor and of confidence, is | papers of the faction upon. the demogeaay of New teh | Nominstion of caudidates whe entertain ‘to which wo take pleanure in referring, has placed the | States, was more or lesa:discussed; and in the meen- | sympathy and love, Bolieving that Congress has the waieb free Americans should be addressed—in which seuinr Presidential candidates, in plat of rege: oure that of candidates who abjurdd such point in the sunlight of the clearest Acmonstration, time, tom States, of whieh New York was one, thro er to prohibit bs ego ae Sars: in pcb. ge lake, ats Hone Meee te” | sap Ray [YORK COMPELLED TO NowINaTs—atae CaNDI- | {ROS thelr Rapronontatives, to support, | shoul ie oxerclued; snd foollag, 1a our luimost hearte, DeMocRAtiG PARTY OF THE UNIOL AMD OF NEW Fork, are equal to, aad Sean See. DATES AND THEIR PRINCIPLES. that if through the sufferance of by the act of Con- ® tongue ‘ YORK—PRESENT ATTITUDE OF THE LATTER. “ None bat themselves ean be thir parallel. Lie comstituonte, he was to be held wud slloncod eit was | 12 default of any nom‘nation in which the demo- ‘ ufty years the friends of democratic arn—it was by those measures most deliberal Sun that tee ww York, in the per. | Caey OC this State had a voice, or which, with liporig' ta, the United States, fu the South ond ia th Pi ert ind avan fore surpations paeene tes or chute teas ene HettLtuse, vopiscaplat vant were | tense of honor or fidelity to principle, they could reulark tady bo oxtended to the ‘af the on- | the greatest orime, which, in the middle of the nine- North, have. moro or less closely. been banded togethe: | 12s the contrivers aud members of the Albany Con- | (raduced, insulted, 4 spurued, by man calling then allow thomyelves to support. they hava buen compelled | ¢i9 North), was. there any referonce whatever to the | teenth century, » nation can comuilt; we pledge our- / aele ie of nation, and frthe ion of in party associations, In the methods, and under th: Saeanasicrohendetee ata . De excluded trom’ any share tu the muve : oferor ; pent oautary, 6 tation Geb commslt; OS pledge Jur. Indurncos; resulting’ from these relations. thoy have | ‘ention, effected. the Gna} division of the, damosssoy Gescnly OC OaMY poate: portant of oae popuisrsiastions, orto provide for thelf icon taauritictol to's Leoding penctie ot tind: however it may be with others: due shirte shell be from the parent stock — —the oracle of the slave power end from time to time, united in tho snpport of principle: | ioc, thay out. themselves | From these stri ot less é¢-nap | Ca intensets, nad the Interenteat thels tellow-gities Coryphious ef | clear of a guilt so enormous. Not for the feo rimple of Sad of onjocts, of measures and of mon, ossential | They’ thgrefore, aud thoy slons.are responsible for the | festiags then due to justioe, toexempt many honorable | other States who conour in thelr opinions, by the |itechamplons—nct meray” to natuate with chet wie: | Sif'the tautie to whteh the qitestion rela our rooeed sa;sluvery should be engrafted on the institutions fe part therein (and the | of these territories; there would thn be perpetrated they supposed, to the useful working of 4} | sonal separation, and forall the evils, state-and m2 | inembers, who as we learn from rongrable | nomination of cbndidates for the offices of ie ghampice Rte nd “iad rele Dyke ed toys apres Prstony P Sedeeative Neate, HAG SN ee ee of thy | tional, ‘whigh may follow twits train, the pablisked debates of the convention, labored fhe leap S| esate seater ctratane te | the teed. of he wink alaeidiers ak: this, too, | vernment--would we bring upon our souls the weight, or ‘She "Federal ok te soverninent aud 4 BREACH BETWEEN TRE DEMOCRACY OF NEW YOIK | vain to procure cee pon thelr orale a WEL Tet they kmew to Nethe wishes ad the will of thelr Rot, among thi non-essentials—not amon, Gs i Lor upon our. onteetty CR read of any voluntary the coatrol they have exercised over both. the demo | AND THE SLAVE POWER OF THE SOUTH—BALTI- eke stags cam ime dacieiemmine constituents, the menters of this Convention have, | important articles of fait Sasa he: one tame peaeey ee ae cratic purty of the Union have been enubled largely | more convENTION O¥ 1848—ITS DOINGS AND ITS to promote the welfare of the people, and theadvaney: | pocrmines. prinel ble. whether we regard them in their unan . nominated Martin Van Buren, of New ea Tnronch, thevsume odious de. | York. asscandidato. for the office of President, and uty — the | very touchstone of political orthodoxy. | From the experience of the past year, the gronte of Henry Dodge. of Wisconsin, as a candidate for the | 22°, ': the last month, and the discuss mivat of society, and with them, strength and the For the pi of nominating oand! vey inn a te ba, ean ‘1, by indirection. ‘The a or ‘oo i A ee Lag Fouow a of the Armerioan Fep une a sus tedercninan, | sapported by the demoorecy tatin delegates of New York are nositnly received, but gery a a t of orth, But to vringe ocenre Tao Lely reed now required to mwvasures of this century. by which our tndependenc: President, a nal Gini obarester aad aabtoy. hove beon ‘eo ecraugtbened T Wenis trae soe mara wa’ mebbientony” aa really rejeoted—a resolution oxplcity proclaiming the aad iltustrated—our territorial limits exteaded from | nonth. Im this body, the democracy. of Jocted, but tte followers aze to fad inded {0 1848, ot Te: | the fitness of elther of these prrter yhe oey ar noun: ee will nubmit to be placed, by the slave po " poten cn rllige How sttinglega sevb § pao add ED ougeim inl percep ec terpretation of the creed of 1840 and 1644, to which ite | for whlch they have:been named. We havo nom pounded and malutatned them, he deliberate design | LY (ore mo nes with St Tee Mrtalmed, and. torape- aera ceoiet or ach has baba doue to acts the ge: | Aaa togive thirty ale vetes—e aumber equal, within s | candidate for the Presidency: givoabié ready assont as | 11°") ."inioud, aectnat hie know nd is poet. | of, preseribing to Candidates for the Presidency text Cit ecorcted os a tnesbree ond ino duy.af Coe srg nomination. ¢ which no Northern man, not recreant to inci Wenn ot Cancun art, | pve ate ao eta | rare nh mai of a | ral soli ranrahits Rank ert ne haaaPts | owen te en re pe » De ratis Convention of Alaba: and. of .sov je soheme were per: in, eations that might como befere Gcher States, and as meintslned. on, the flocr of Cow: dard beaters. the division'and ruin of the demooratio party. 7" ta weak territories, by. the action oF inaction of the ers or of ourselves, in any ti nel ad meet. It is neither more nor le pei varand deatrne: | they will submit to be placed, by the al wears Be eeu aa! vitunas seatetion ae Pi egates ‘appel qd federal government ; or whether they will resolutely have toe predplater Waa Wcs sad tik she Sort aero, bomen per ey Gonven- | $fe*#. snd iu the publiciprints im. the interest of the 6 froedom Pay My oy Rnd attravted to the subject, | persist in the assertion of these opinions, and in just under the favor of Providence, through the ascenden- | ;ion, daly called by the democratic members of the legir- wd ofthe United States, nor |,lie. How sincerely, omrcandidate for the Presidency oraoy of New York, Fe eee eer helt post. | 824 constitutional efforts to spread them abroad, and vy or by the Influence, of this great and patriotic | inture.and regularly held, in the city of Utica, in Febru- | 145 Cetimaeredsenenthaaanion amet ‘sympathises with the popular sontiment on the great | tion and the power intrusted to them, are somet\me: torender them triumphant. ¥ ‘The main question involved in this iasuo is, in many ery ary lant, to attend thst convention. They rt question of the day, has been made known. in -s tee Ls Woe tath to pecderve: ia: @ ‘fo this service of dut; d of honor the republicans | pursuant to their appointment,to the of Baltimore; to prohibit the introduction of slaves inte .sach t yetuolale ‘le ‘by th ble l required to take the lead—cou! pert , of its bearings, the test and most solemn which, x 9 aa tf ot pers ae orable | *0Fles fhe delegates from the city of New Kork, which f pet ag swt giy sco rr pay 9 ng a singe the formation of ‘the governmen t. has been Pree of New York (without vanity in themselves, or injus- | bat they were mot permitted, on equal-and honorable ; tice towards o:hors, wo think it muy be wMcdied) have | terms, 40 take thelr seats im the National Convention. | ,.,TDst it isonly by a State constitution, framed by ‘of our proceedings, ‘The letter of Gen. Di ough freq hare. . people of the: territory, preparatory to its edmis- the first broaching of the question, had espoused with , t Grve ta the or he 3 Se demontatic Prestieans | {helr-alaime to those seats were contested by Hohate the Union ave Stave, thet such prohibition | #2 &momber ofthe Legislature of his State, on his | isdor the cause Of freedom, and ‘hed denounced, aa | feferTed to, and moro or Jone veghat, with, the aa in the Jong line er ic di }, Chosen in the yt in er bin lv can be established. cent election as Senator in Congress, oxpresses, 9180.\| alice preposterous and wicked, the thought of making GGata TT Sah tictiica ken wie oak Sean legates, B'Poik as pot wae last 1a the waclon, bree his sliverine | ance cf aushority, from tha o- | “Phat in the meantimo, the slaveholding citizens of | With equal energy, his own uncompromising adhesion of this Union, 60 glorieusly identifted with the | gseuason ; | bal 89 longer oe fee "wth uaaui efi wit peculiarly to them. Without thelt seslows oud eff ong ally | the United States, who choose to do so, may rightfully > tea siaaeee to aia desis, and all. ahepching eros famphs of liberty in our own laud, and with ite pro- | {must P pe im senneny, Inet. doom it cient co-operation, the saving and time-honored prin emigrato with thelr slaves to the territories In qacs- “4 didaten have been named. We, there- throughout the world, the bearor of slavery into | the pill for the government of Oregon, above alluded tile prosnimod by tho farmer, tn is nnagurl ad | wronge ot indigo ceived by our dningaas athe | Up cAnztng a om the evy of seca po, | fr, oi lt pmsa efirense to oer olen, td wil cijections’ wore raised tn Congres wo any | NC orem i sion demoed never have been estal . Withew organs. In their able barely remark, that while each of the candidates will, “ the: tke e tustramentality, the great national measure EY pence enero pnroenn = A published ta.) oes s unquestionably, adbero tothe great principles and Supetien Br pt iglrege By aol Peay the uthenties f Cangyen. Lg eet petnes,. 058 Hoa of ths tater, could uot Dave beeweohiaved. Yay neem ery wi nn a kin sh aahocectinn people by. State nom, Faber eo oe ne ence ng ana | Cutlon; Rud It was, therefore, inexpedient and danger- | mately to be decided, this question must necosarily - ‘This association, so noble in its origin and pat atey theseentine taiotomannaniine all ordain to the coutrary, part and parcel of tn chole repeotiee upon a question which might emberrasa or) heoome the great question of the day. In whatever s0 illustrious by its triumphs, and so benefleent in it | truthful; and to this Tay tutions; and entitled, while the country re- A that both will be y ting of such snp plies, ae ithaay, | Boint of view we may regard It, mhetbor in tts political, results, has, within the last few weeks, beon rudely in | ‘Iouiers’ “Traduoed by novel nder the government of Congress; to all the not certainly beknown what territory, | sconomical, or sceial aspects, it ia pregnant with con- terrnptod; and so interrupted, as to place the demu | ,onyeution on the floer ofthe assemble; iosulted by the | ‘mmunities and safeguards which, undor the constitu. fe wh the: . {ndeod, whather any territory, would be acquired; | kequences. the most momentovs—cansequences vast as oraey of Now York, represented by this convention. ii | committee to which the conflicting slaima of the two | 00 of the United States, belong to it in the 8! rt penne, Thglesdiscussion, was, therefore, premature. | those portions of the globe to which it relates—lasting the attitude of unavoidable antagonism and resistance | ‘Ietegations were roferred; reportedagainst by that oom- | 7 Hc8e, it is clatmod by the slave power and its sup. ures enumerated in | PY,'hose and other like objections, Senators from the | as the existence of the globe itself. to what is claimed to be, beige on nominally is, th | wittee, beonuss they would not subait to such insult ; | Porters, are the true, the constitutional. riuhte-ct eue | 1, this address, Espe- | fo. Sie . oie nently among tl ort of the spur | 4,70, cznibit in their just relations, all the bearings of yoloe end the will of the democratic party of she Union | “nbjectod, afterwards, to a sorutiny wa to the charscter Nene Seer Olegons Tater whlotieletiey tate: fully bell te bifold alee Se he gg May epee ge a this gre at rahlect yond equi 0 valine. We) hare ja truth wa 0 fect, our ant on we oud rer act “4 “ : bee Wouto cor becthten of the seuer Wtaten, crnmraliy: | Gotrass eae ste feet cea eee tate eluded, ns to its Eastern section, by the Missouri com- Y misrepresented and Wighonored at Baltimore; 9nd | gen tee soe a om aie very. topie which to the wishes and judgment ofthe party'ae awhole. | tra Wad nore mactloe chee een mith the validity | Promise act of 1820. and as to ite Western (in which, another from Michigan, xben an aspirant, and now 8 | Tight provoke irritation. . We shall content ourselves pekaulyse s small minccieyat inipany teleaging | ritar ee ee Miguatized co | iMdeed. it nover existed) by the voluntary action of ite candidate for the Presidency, while professing to re- | with tue bare announeament of a few of the most ma- the slave-holding States, who have assumed the contro. | 9 democrats. because, in respect to this question, they | ‘havitants; and in respect aluo to New Mexico and ceive, and to honer, to love, and to obey the doctrine | terial points connected with the subject, when viewed ‘ of its national organization, and to the insults wac | raithtully represented the dictates of their own coa- | California, in which slavery was, yours ago, abollahed | 10) them, the obi « cipators of an | Of instructions, wero, onabiad to stave off, for » more | in the most general of ite aspects. Wrongs, which, by means of this control, they hay: | ictencos, and the optaions of thelr constituents; their | UY,{Ne decree of the tiextenn Congran, | 0. uen, | interior commerce hitherto unrivalled in extent and | {ho wiral vielatiou of tke duty eujolucd by the inc |. All experience hus shown, and expecially has it been Anfitcted upon us. claims were, at length, disposed of by a resolution. | 4,0°,cceusful assertion of thece pretensions has been, | beneficence, in the history of mankind. Equally, too, | structions they had recvived ; ‘at thie epoch | demonstrated by the experience of our own country, ‘With this nationsi posture, there is also a breach in | ‘rhich, while it left undeoided the merits of the contro | ‘He succwssfal assertion of those pretensions has been | Fit each unite with a patriotto Congrens, In all practi: | ftroentgt thor gre ne act. ie trait declaretions | that free Inbor and el RSbor cannot usefully exist to. the ranks of the democracy of our own State. Wha: | versy, abundantly exemplified the impationco, partiall- | jeclared t9 be « matven, of saat Beebe cable efforts to reduce the overshadowing patrounge. | Souid be trusted: firm friends of {fecdom and of free | ether on the same soil. The latter concentrated raany of us bavo loug apprehended, es the result of the | +y, and injustice of tho convention. ‘The antagonistic Sas xeapiloddion wine whateoover; | and tocorrect the abuxes of tho general government. | oritory in connexion with these mowenment# in the | 12 Masses, and wielded by capitalists, leaves ligtle difficulties and disseasions of the last few years, has | iciegutions—oach of which denounced the other as | (¢rTed to, any Oe te, ei? | which have now gr-wn touch a height as to control | Serato cther Norther men in high places: whose m to the free laborer for successful competition; and at length, come to pass, They who,as citizens of New | ere pretenders—wero gravely invited to sit together | fvtol' ty nocent theling of és ee ecmaiee. | and corrupt the action of both the great political par- | Sense, ounen Northants men dated Sith the same ob. | What is infinitely more injurious, it degrades him in York, for so inng @ poriod, iu harmonious and success- | in the assembly; to unite. if they could, in the vote: | “ste te nif fully conceded, | ties of the country. and to trample on the wishes, la- | fuct of ambition, were, from time to time, proclaiming | the eyes of the community, and in his own estimation. fal convert, strove togetuer in the political arena, ate | +o be given, and to see their State disfrauchised, if they Ndr the’ United States the | stitutions, and commands of tho people, Meet: agatauanao the. rc Se eee hibit | To this cause mus: be ascribed, the contempt felt du- now sepacated—totally and finally separated—from | could not #0 unite, A ot ocene ay tn mc gpeger yore ng il aS Rieteey au ta | tee ee Oe latory te the tetitecicn. br their | ring the provalenco of the feudal system in Europe. for eaoh other. ‘Guta ntatives were thus compelled to one of instrament of abolishing freedom, and pe ind CANDIDATES OF TH : sb AND PHILADELPHIA ne — of . tad tat i, orien, vad nt lahotete “eetall: ¢ s; tho slight regard in which The causes which have led to « state of things 10 un- | two courren : either with their claims undecided, thelr | “l#Very, im the extensive regions embraced within ¢! OOS RETO: readinoes to apply to the subject the line or the prin: | vorsons engaged in mechanical pursuits, even those of ‘and tho immediate means by which ithas beea brought | enter the convention, with an equal number of per- ry ai t priation to those who lived on the labor of others, of hawt, acwshwel Snewa tthe pobias et Noy Tok ; of Pet | 40 minutes North latitude, (the line of the Missouri | timore and Philadelphia—the former claiming to repro- | accredited organ of the national admiutstration at Wg dy ne ee fr yr a thet our provent appeal. i devigaed wxolustvely for | see thelr cyaty act cad relition, se prodcterantngd freedom would be abotchod snd slavery | sont the democrtig pariy, and th latter the whig par. | the seat of government announced, what soon in & Soke tiles Ga larer, townemt oer slave ‘alates, the Sarai em, might well omit any exposition of i Sone . oun = it in, wo shall ogntent ourselvce With & beef geteronee | “qty, {qi ber words, to permit their volo to be} “iy'states of the size of Indiana. Whether established faore Convention we have already alluded to the | that to support the principle of the Wilmot pro- | influence of commerce, of individuals from the North, boli sore ncibitons and inatectel thoes, Pate of tomioes De lsay chekion the dust of their | t2.this latter extent, or over the whole of the territo- | position jn which they have beon plaved by the action | viso was no recommendation to its confidence ox | 201 f ella Guo Datu niin agricultural districts, FINS RIVENO OF SF DEMRBA Tel RES OR MEW | fo-t, to quit'n plore from which taarre-cnty-macitec: | 19%. it will eyually, im elther eas, cxpese ous peo. '| of the convention; it ls now mecessary, more specifical | FRrOR oe pte antes tite tin imbor ty extensively employed, it exists in yor IT. ively adopted: thus nobly maintaiuing the honor oi | ‘“@*itory, by annexation, by puremde, or wy Wotiqitiat, | (ene WomIHd The RAY PUNTHUKUy) has assumed by his | ereaaing defection to the interests of frecdom—the de- | S4eh force, that no free laborer will long endure it, => A he benetit of ti lave power. has the intelligence to understand. and the abi: Reversing the order in which the toptos alluded to | their party—the honor of their @ta nats po own acts and declaration: mocracy of New York felt it their duty to intervene 0 ase tame we tomark, thet tiie back vesaah ig tho dT! opposing delegation, equally with ours, protested Slavery, planted in these regions, or in any part of | Im aletter addressed. at the close of the last year, by | They opposed themselves to the curroat, and if they | tY toeseape from it. He will eagerly seize the first 0 tem, by the action of the federal government, will, of ‘tunity to emi; ‘te, whore hi resolution of the convention. evading the pratt caeee ‘with Ib all th evil moral ory rahi is Ge to Mr. Nicholson, of Tennessee, he gives, st | could not wholly arrest, they yet stayed its progress. | Por’ vy to emig1 whore he can gain bound.to meet and to dwtermine, as papain Ta LAY ot berks» Holy ‘on the free territory ques' Ip | tn their pri 4 other conveations—through the | Without disgrace, the just r of honest in- length, his ¥' fr . ‘here it once obtuins, | this letter, after deelari rossed a forms dustry, In like manner, and for the like resson, absurd; and they, too, that he is atrongly i ress—and | , Te here of the Dndy, on oe gos conten fy it eeimem | during the territorial rule, any considerable foothold, | with the conviction, “ths p tdewe quarter ‘of “a wOuteer the maser Gutwane co sake has the tide of emigration, which, for more thai ‘ great them én i ye 4 | ‘t will, as all experience has shown, be perpetuated by | going on in he public mind upon th! ‘ k than halfa century, has been flowing westward from Til ths dianiaania, Seschuced tovhtie anas vi thocaleehs on tM print he ropk he date Te obo the constitution to be formed when the territory is con- | owas ae well asin others"'—the frosted at Gar Bente we airtet nee the voice of the | New Gaglandand from Europe, avoided the slave state Pe party°the seedsof disunion. For a sesso! the course of the convention wrong, we have only to verted into a State; and when thus perpetuated in a | will show how far, and in what di any change nd to rally the friends of lom, the lovers | Besides largely contributing to fill up western New ed aad kept down, they wore. aftorwards, by refer to the recorded af; nich bes olveleetin, state, the arrangement of the federal constitution, by | hae oceurred in New York —he proceeds to discuss the the supporters of the constitution. Stifled ia some parts of Pennsylvania, it has created Speerel Wass tke Ginscwl, bua the paah of the ont But, though the scutes or the convention can find | “Bich three-fifths of the slave population are counted | power of Congress to pass laws for the regulation of | at Syracuse, it pealed, in trumpet tones, at Herkimer | OD right bank of the ‘Ohio three states, one of and of others who united with them, to the | 29 support in reason or analogy—and. though it is for | ' the apportionment of Representatives in coaeres) the internal policy and concerns of the territories; | and Utica, and has been since re-echoed from every | Which, in population, is already third in the Union, bt-paying and debt-avolding policy of the State ad. | thia cause, condemned by the two contesting parties— | also made aries. The advantages ali de- | aud while he admits their power to create territorial | hill top in the State. Yet in its loudest, its most ex- | 82d whieh, together, now contain near three millions ‘tration, made to spring up. and to grow with the | attempts have yet been made. in eertain quarters, t rived from this arrangement, by the slavebolding | governments—a power which, whatever may be his fa- | citing blasts, it has over bevn the voice of conciliation, | °f #uls, and three others, (Michigan, Wisconsin, and most fearful rapidity und rankneas. The veto | ¢xouse, and even to justify it. by an ap) to prece. | States, sw tly explain their determination to ex- | cilities for ehange or doubt on other points he could | of harmony. of union. “ We have not now, nor have | !owa) aa yet of lesser note, but destined to rapid in- wer. given by the soustitation and exercised by | dont—the ever ready resort inail timer aud countries | ‘24 it, by any means by which it may be done, to the | scarcely be expected to question, sluoe he he.d, for | we over bad,” said the Utien Convention, “any desire | cTeate,in the North. In the meantime, western Vir- [ee Weight, rescued “from the perils to which | of t nd their ta. new territor! In this fact, we ulso the key to | many years, the office of territorial governor of Michi- | to prescribe a text, in the Presidential canvass, which | 8inis, Keutucky and Tennessee, equally fertile, ang in they were cxpored the resources and the credit. ot ‘are told oy ages National Convention of | *!! the, attempts made by the slave power, withia the | yan—he comesat length to the conclusion ‘that itis, | might prevent a union of all who sanction the general | 9M respects more favorably situated, the settlement New York, To this act of Roman firmnoss, and | 1835 two sets of opposing delegaten from Pennsylvania | ‘t eighteen months, to obtain—sometimes by flattery | to say the least, exceedingly doubtful, whether Con- | prinolples of the democratic creed.” In this spirit | 0 Which was begun at an earlier day, and with super- to the general course of his administration, th | Claimed sdmileston as rej tatives of the State; tha: | ‘2d seduction, at other times by Insolence and intimi- | gress, or the people of the territories. possess any power ve all their acts and proceedings been conesived ; | 1oF sdvantages, contained, at tho Inst census, free faction of which we speak. though not always open. | the convention refused to decide the question present | Mtion— the assent of the free to its doctrines | to exclude slavery therefrom; and he, therefore, holds | and while they were resolved that by no act or omis- | White poy ion of levs than one million and a haif. ly opposed, was always really ho-tito. Rooeiviag, from | #4 0 it, and admitted both seta to alt and vote for thy | sd demands | Heuce, the dictatorial and offensive | it most consistent with the vrinelpies of the constitu | sion of theirs shoul. bo nominated for teach ition of Europe Prospective, in the uumerited favor with which, most unfurcunately | State. But om that occasion both reta of delegaten ac. | ‘“claration put forth by the dnmoeratte convavtions of | tion, as well as most fit, for of chief, who other denied or d Wve to foreign immigration. for many years to for, New York. it was rogaedod at Washington. « large | quieaced in the decision. each belog contenttsait, anc | ‘abausand other sta.es that under no polltieal me- | botti caeraab an the people, any power over the gub- to provent’ the lasted are increased \t will follow, for many Amount of aid and comfort from the national admint. | actually electing to alt ~in the body’ on the terms pre | Se*ity Whatanever, would they «upport for the oMee-of The contrast betwoen this letter, and the | into the fee Union; wha hind been! dt has obeyed iu the past. tration. it gradually swelled to'& size, and aequited.c | veribed” It wee moreover. expected by the conven | “resident or Vice Pevaident, eny-Qarvon WHo shold hot Apeoch mado by its author on thn fivor of the | on both aides of the Wilmot nook the soll of pit will: sty capacity of mischief which. aafostered by such all | tlon that they would take this course, broause it wa: | 29¢nl¥ and aydwediy b Gppooed to the exclusion of | Senate, in March, 1847. inwhich he plated’ Bis | application to territories setae trcchea b Wes. te cooaiavver eeea secanea oe _ well known that the division in the State was purery"{ 44very from the territeries of tho United States. either'| objection to the Wilmot proviso, chiefly, if not exolu- | of a of the prinelple ct the Missouri tex the of thet, geva® abe lovat: that 4€ did not extend to national ay the aation of Congreso of the peopl ot fuck ter | sively on the ground that it was premature and inex- | oF who, by say ‘other farin of infidelity to Dies bond * a oe . . alao. pedient then to adopt it; and. still more, with his de- | will. disqualified, or might, be mxpocte cae by whose recklexs expenditures aad engagements, pbb eae, the Baitimore convention, | clarations in the Senate and elsewhere, in July, 1846, | qualify himself, from tho sapport te Rea Tee “ its finuncet had bron so alarmingly diordered 4 ‘thade. picks tne ‘ould not wnequivocullyavow-|/when the three million bill was before that 1s, | erate, th ra, at all times, prepared cordia'ly.to | with the free In injury of and by whom. but for the sulutary Tes" aime . Tew be the sante, as far ay re | the like ion. And hence, finally. ths trestment:| certainly. quite noticesble, aud well calculated to tat: | unitein the support of auy sound pd competent de, | Of bk eta Uy uur new constitution, they might eget” be put at | carded the nominations. whether the one set or the | Xtended by the majority of that convention, acting | isfy the minds of others as well ax of the distinguished | moorat. who wae unwedded to any ecttoore inion ca | Ifit be sald that the territories of Ni azard. The untiggly.deewe Of the illustrious | other, or whether both conjointly Wore admitted int. | Uader the direction of the slave power, to the men who’) nomineo bimrelf, that “a great change has indeed been | either side—unstained by pollutius bereeine wad fornia are too remote from the. A! Hot, 2 hy aud skill the storm had | the body. Besides, to provide for any unexpeoted aif | *9 truly.and not more truly than regularly, represent-| xolug on in his own mind’ on this momentous topic, | fettered by the alee, tampowed i "the slave power, | 484 too unfavorable in point hered. soon followed his expuision from the | ference in their votes, the resolution was s0 explained a od at its bar the democracy of our Stute. The blow | it is, however, most unfortunate thet this cha Such was the avowed, the notori 4 the Me the | ¢migrants to their distant wnd duitr; nd in hin grave—to use the exprossive | t0 call for farther action on the part of the convention. | "med at them wasa blow at freedom. It reaches eve- | should, from time to time, be more and more againet of New York in reference th this mort im, | therefore, receive no accession to. first of our literary societies—“in ht= | im case of any such sontingeney. Tero. om the con | 'Y free State im the Union—every freeman in the re- | freedom, aud more aud more agrecable to the dsmaanda febsebinabontier. Seamdnleseen vet thls most 'n- | from them; & momont’s Teflection oe oa grave lic buried the hopes of millions of his country. | trary. the resolution was final; it tendered to the 72 | Public. and the doctrines of the slave power. With every dis. | rable independence and fraternal concession, they | #%d shorteightedness of the was fen.” ‘The sorrow which reut the heart of the demo- | claimants the right of giving. by heir concurrent | THE DEMOCRACY OF NEW YORK NoT BOUND To suP- | Position to treat the matter fairly, we find it most dif i teronity and composure the noisy uccuns- | Mit vast class has generally avol racy of New York, the ‘universal {rmpathy of ali eon, 96 votes, thong it was notorious that the differ- PORT THE BALTIMORE NOMINEES. cult to resist the conclusion—and such, we apprehend, md the empty clamor by which they are as- | “Hosen the Northern and middle peseenn Cone clslsene; the sighs nui: lnmssesenoms oti) Case ueteses Saree ‘extended to national ies; that | ~The nominations, by the Baltimore Convéntion, of | W!ll be the ju ‘nt wf the ontire North, and of impar- | sailed ; conscious that by no act—no word of theirs— | P*rmanent establishment. eae, orn bow 6 btw incapable on prin eho neither be reconciled nor compro- | Lewis Cass. of Michigan. for the office of President, and | !@! bistory—that this change of opinion wax greatly | has this most delicate and dangerous question been | eke tet beierinnaaeen ee phe pv by ae Se . in the nature of things, it would ne- | of William O. Butler, of Kentucky, for the office of | ifuenced, if not wholly effected. blinding and | unnecessarily mixed up with the Prosidential cinvase; Han be nd been Lmmota m two monthe | cessarily produce an utter repugnancy of sentiment | View President, having been made without the concur- fe sith tiny Wot dyaed of a too eager desire to xeoure the | feeling that, if blameworthy at all, it is, not for acting ree rs 3 5 in mt Are we bound, by au; 7 and speaking sooner. and to more purpose; and as- ed from of ee lying in In’ rove cag mew «same |: veaiy elt gy that ae admision of the vo [party An by aay plat seconty, by aay eth so | Ab s.evante, en Cast ha pled nimi tor the | fred at, ataigeat and fring” me wil do | oT, hehe than hive of tho Cana nvvation, Yom the | posed. elise and dertroy the votu of the'| able, men, 0 Yield our suppors? "Im aureecioe: aeons | save interent. He tends pledged, by the letter roferred | fale Doth: with usseatelon true cone serie ot | liom wud the inetinccs of nates, ha thes RropoKed seats were | questions, we iny out of view the indignities tot which | #9. a8d-by many other acts, should he be elected to the | judgment of tho people: © nnn’ ©” “ne Merutiny and | 11, Vemporate rogions of the northera. Stetan the State woul totally disfran- | onr delegates were eubjected, and the motive, by #' chief magistracy of the Union, to voto any bill probibit- |" In view of the facts to which we have referred, how | Umbers from Norway, seeking in the count tee the one ot tne ntered. sud the other refused to | the conven:ion was instigated. We say nothing ob ling the extension of slavery to the free territories of | unfounded: how unblushing, the accusation preferred | *option the hardy and vigorous climate to inter. the vote of the State would be given by person» | the reservations, not morely mental, but openly ox. | his Union. by the advocates and apologists of the slave power | 8V® been accustomed in the futher land, have: very. by any | who, by the concession of the convention, were not ,of many of the Southern members— f/,, The illustrious Captain who received from the whig | against the d f ti 1 | in our extreme northernmost districts in Wisconsin, te “on — Lowe government, to any territories | ‘ally entitled to exeoute the trust. ‘If, then, it wert | over ic perfurmances of the single delegate Convention its nomination for the same high omoe forared & vectional » perth. 1b defisnes of the' Wihveutions and fowa. In the meantime there has been lit. Sbon. tarts nieborine to be acquired by the United ver allowable in nasosiations of this nature, md | from 4 neighborhood in South Caratina, by whose voice | 1® Sddition to the many indepemdent and spontaneous | of Washington, and the plain dictates of patriotic duty? | tl¢ or no emigration from the south of Europe. , 1g for their sanction on the voluntary . to | potential the credentials of the delegates of Now | 20minations with which he had been previously ho- | It is they. the leaders and managers of the slave inter- | Sreater ignorance and degradation of its popula~ In the honest excitement produced by these out. | ‘fer ap at the shrine of York we ‘ . te hermetically sealed — nored, has not favored the public with his it, . f tion has hindered them from the desi ares. thé free democracy of New York were impelled ease | to the single but pric Mowatt thet; Sh’ tas ealidee this particular question, nor, indeed. ate ia a Feacascvenes of the Father of S\ceunee x paul changing the evils of thelr present fate, foe hie t0 the gtrletees felon Oh me ee Ee Precedent referred to is not | tions thus proposed to the demonracy of the Union, | 0% general form, upon any question of public in- | applicable. Nor is it merely now, that they have sub. | D¢sings of a free government. But had there been prank an we Shonpeuk Oke Keaton yet discipline ae Ned tin tts Teale Wileven caso in band. | It differs | and of New York, have been made without her voice; | terest. Nor did the whig Convention declare itself | jected themselves to this condemnation. ‘The history |®8Y *uch desire, there has been a yet no whieh they spreng. many of —_ fome Binion tiem ye pen ete tok autlvetp diacouad’ te pm wae encathceheen ee ee Poo was pu i} the ros wry eo" pete or rg all Loy bo homey in ved my States, is fall of instances to poate tty Reb ne a so ee ite reevive the reat numbers of their constituents, did not, at the | The course of the late convention oan. therefore, die. | liar meee mil | thonl ayailabili fe cieaar’ polt- | show, that while the North, and especially the demo- fr Ak barter oh pel wl er nage Aine. eo0 , ; 5 og in their character, jonl availability the he all and the end. all, of oracy of the North, hi settiing in the North by the sauie laws of climate oo . hab bb be cata Posy gad however. ~ sag te o An sees a from that pursued by | saction ; and so. virtually, ded altogether. Such tactics. It is, however, also oy. notoriou: reat pe kA AT ho WS see Bove eben d physical constitation Ke te keep the ‘German andthe tara im aber war nduepeonabie to rouse and vn (genom pom the dlegaton of ou Wmmocrany” great | thin sort representation and. omigaion gv taper |e" tal te Jeiphia Mews co Papptncs Oe Caak 1S ae tae na | wed by tho hand of uatuam Dub by the viess of Restate? will; approved by the , nee. nm the former is denied, either totally, roug! ther: ‘The present year has witnessed tl Beccades \nnourind Uaen wanna Tn substuece, | #hen viewed in soanexton with the douditions, there is ho room in volld phalanx, that, the veteran | hostliliy: not only 40° helt attra et sharaselvee in. |ine turopesn mind, ‘The glorious werk Mt le bow. ase eu cat and mort useful ever taken for the | % thelr pe ber statenman of the Weat, alike by his com- | their political associates, in defence of their peculiar | °°mPlshing had its origin in po: f. “4 0 wi is the Nort! fi . | mer in Italy, and wi ber i eet ee, Lerkimer Convention wp- | : ther bodies in the Southern States; in the newspaper | to the existences of such authority, no @ffoot overthrown, We are theretare, cbliged My clare. Tiow ttle of pe Pere in ite rovulta far the southern as foF the morthorn states in February, 1848, were quite as reg: | publicat wat fe the rai arter. which preceded the | a self-evident proposition, our first lesson in to regard General Taylor, as well as his competitor, manifested by the South. all who arefamiliar with Amo- | f Europe. There is every reason to believe. that thua get co proceedings of the oye pe mK ty @ convention and foreshadowed its pro- | science, the very corner stone of our poli fabric, | BOTA! Cass, as equally the exponent and re} ntative | alcan politics have had abundant opportunies to know, | Mlightened with a just appreciation of the benefits of Fe ae edgy a breve ope ks nog y etapa ty gdh kha fog Yoluntary arrangements, wo act by analogy t0 | fhece inataneen throne Gide oe ough aoting in | Im rogerd to the soundness of the opinians onter- | Twpublican Institutions, their, overstocked i oven inciples of the representative ays- hrough different organ ;, | tained, and from time to time advanced. b: relieve y vast emigration to 5 $48. In motive and design. they were | elarations of lendt tem, Ia order, therefore, to make the volantery Pelutieal enpenee. fm setrenee to tie MeRAT wel cream eb tee evince oe ae renee by the deme. he hn p to coun rior, The object of the formar war convertion ® true exponent of the general will — | the North, and the principles of freedom, now at stake, | the subject in question. and the duty ofexercising such | t¢fritories in Mexico and California, with ‘warm tote YA effectuate the will of the majority; which is its sole design—and to make its decisions | 9? ®"4 indivisible. power in behalf of freodom, we shall say but Nttle— | ®2d luxuriant climate, invite its entrance, a mntter te Misrepronent, to stifle, and to ove gbligatory on the constituent body, every part of much In this view of the case. we deom it of comparatively | scarcely anything. indeed, as to the first of these ques. by the prosenco of the degrading influences ey Rib, Novemabe moray ames members of the Li body should be represented ; and the representation | tt!e moment, te speak of other objections to either of | tions. In the address of the democratic members of | lations of slavery, and for the firat, afford to the eml- det rn Locordance with rogblar by of the several parts should be equal. If it be not so | these candidates; or to advert, at all, to the claims or | the Legisiaturo of New York, ismed in April last. an | SPnte from the Mediterranean, » home as permanent to 1 Rebrtisry, 108 or Cod ay tat tine | tne d constituted, the convention, more or lean, falls to | 4ualificntions of their respective associates—the candi- | argument will be found on the question of eonsiiiu- | 814.48 happy ae the free States of the North now do R answer purpose for which it wan designed; and | 2%t¢s for the Vice Presidency. Each of these latter, | tional power, in which every topic that bel toit is | those from the Baltic and the North Sea, Con ntlon: to appoint delegates to the | of tt ’ preetsely in proportion to its deficiency in this respect, respectable-and worthy, as wo admit him to bo, is in- | discussed with an abilit; tf nude Dofittiog the 1 It is not, then, merely for ourselves, nor for our pos- oye h ai a ine how they shoald will be the degree of its future failare, dissolubly united, for the purposes of the canvass, with | portance and delicacy of the subject. and which to him | terity, that we would preserve free the territories i {rho dorired to. preserve Miematlon, we In the present case, State entitled to 36 votes out | hi# leader, and onch. therefor, with him, mast stand | who seeks only for the truth, will farnish all the light | ques ‘We would keop them for the Caucasian races ’ Weratic party of New York. hailed f impartial history—the judgment of | of 200, was virtually excluded, from OF fall. Of these leaders, whatever of pane; that from Maiue te Big} URL,” Wo. ay, aero pe poh nae Ay the | be indulged in by thelr nduninces s wheter or ety ReGuasters Creges ses Sea Re ‘Adio ground between the Her. fell version, fro d ; the Hy awe ~ cattle er. . Two m their connection with the slave dele- | the land shall be filled with the descondauts tooth the Conventions, ee means of or at democracy of New | consequences result. \Convention, eon- | Pore night be offered by us ; we shall not stop to gatos of the city of New York, inthis convention, with | noble atoc Seoing wies io conan of eee tema. sete 1 pockel se Joes ponerse Is dagation 2 ‘ =e hoy the demoerecy of tNow¥ < bas not been pa Wes | a or to rsivere the latter, The pre seiietaction oud ride we confidently refer, aa estab- | done for the five states, which, by it, have been kept ! that convention WAR & member ; territories inion. to the free- lishing, beyon mbt or avi authority of Con- | for the free laborer ; sei also, the benefits, which f that Of their regularly von. | the Declaration of Independence but from the one which hae dean held, she was arbitra. | ™¢ of the Republic, is now the gress fon the free soil and | lows has derived from the abolition of LU ts rate Heasitt, Towll abanddg | resolutions of '98 ; or repudiated the i address | rily excluded. Most therefore, hi is republi rthern part of Louisiana, we would oe tele augural y ‘at Ution ax that each would | of Thomas Jefferson? Have wo not bound to the eupport of its nominations ; 3 : y word, take leaye to offer, in regard toa | nefits of this policy not merel fair. and mahi “aediy they asary, Teor to braces k ot all. hepa yo es ire 4 a nd especial Caen lah now hat tence hae Become ara by =: Sounder y. wltiane. to Oregon, a ‘a en fore any of hae-not, im fact, been bel ‘contemplated ; ‘ : J rth of ti im fact yn held ; for they perceive her to be in earnest. it i abl: a ho antionnis. | oe “ye Bey and the spirit of monopoly are e ghonn | convention in ‘Which New Zark should be represented; " G-veral porsonton any ready to offer. or, at least. if offered hy hens reat apenas teemeinacirmie al jae > for eee # selfish and the venal jo whieh re Zork should ‘be heard ; {a whi h New | —— Sai, Song egy Ud ge of the Missourt extension of the in . eahee | Dated or conramtioea? oa shoul which South Carolina, if | X the insuperable objection now, of th 7. for reasons. eativfanc raemnte! be and ho: that the establishment of by the acti ht differently. and pores ‘pevafet oth 1 Le Ta malin eh Had ' this ‘y federal government. ina single ausce tile of frow ter, fo kostdenn, Fiellanten ition. In it too much to vay, therefore, no “ ritory. makes every aitiaon of the United States» pro- | especially the Northern democracy, by whose a' t, wo beve s conclusive eam — ? the nomin tors rn " Pm yyed of oa ot there are many other objec- | territories were acquired, have carried the. with the people? Had ite t . | Hone of the gravest haracter. to any such step. ¢ | promise of the constits Mo oMltes Siem aie a oR ot oN-—HOW AND BY WHOM CON- | distinetion the enso.of Now Me Rirther pate Mns wo a Cb ey sal Gua cies ofthe lle Rapd on teeny of New | eget ee aa abe Ween sae Gena f ow | sive, we wequired Louisiana, slay % York, none la more gratuitous or unfounded than the | sctually in ell the oc aod erates tent: | ie darecy 66s petmacent settled parts, in legal oo form? in which he atempiation | mitigated in it exists im our