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BOCA* ' Protosipt.:pseist otorcaostoi Irons All pate of Ile;Vales are reopellirapy solicited -to cull reisolreiVoonoolSor---, fable's ' TS. .110131", • RT, ! , , J OBBER P ri7 AND• 41101P1 7Ai: • isisks; fm,:lecTV, d=~`y=a:.z- qtriirOitatt - eite4 l • • 110. .?;11' 2. ;V,; - a 444::540A.'..VVfigt sr 0., Ws4o-014:44-0, ,14:1 40;0*.4 ,, ,,144 VP ' 6,4 , 4 , - ' 7 _ „ ;_ ; _;-,;,., „ 24N0. 220: - ;' -t,l i,, ,, 000 p ;sooners. „ iEREiNGt OTT* Corner FOURTH sad kASKET Ste., oil;;:r e, P lred.l . - -: ‘ , t-h4IPLItIiCID•4 ( WirgOMPLETE - RMID3,OIO*M t FANCY , 000D8; AC , - ' ~f•6146,' • yARD; & CO.- - *0§, : 404114 42 N9RTII,VMD,STREET, 21414422211416 10i C 422118,1t1 .‘ EITLICS;4IIBBONS,' DRESS ,GOODS, WHITE. GOODS; 'LAORS, EMBROIDERIES e. ROMERY, 'GLOVE% *IIS . SHAWLS. )1110 E;' tila CO., - • 'IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS TOREIGN Arm DOMESTIO DRY GOODS, - - , 815, MARKET, STREET. faihn • ' , ' Apix - pa•ti Ituv."4 co • IIOPOOPPPS OP ^ ' 1VPW , P (10 9P 93, . -- • - • AOZE4, and • • ' `:" •' • Emnii.o.thErints N0..829 IdARKET STKEET. -83 - t Ouipieueit Meek, selected in tibe best /tame= eutekiti'by timielvie; bi" tie eceipletti tie bete • ever &Aired. 7 fen -ft JOSHUA • • 11001intiviND JOBBIIIt • No ;:'2433: t le&lClCi +. 4 1 , STREE T.. NIW 0 9 40 .i!* d'Y for i•bl4m !MAX TRADI. 31100/4/NTOOK*'9RAIrr,"& 00,,0 ) Impartereaci Irliolonde-Dealen • tatinB • • Viretitaillik , • .11EAS.ET BTII/LET, "'• fablAs!zi - • ' • Pklladelokla. ~„ - • _ AIIOTION , AND tiINIII4,L Et/REIM - 1 and DOIdiSTIO-DRY e4 . 00D3! /Wg SPRA , kid sad Tkird, 'Moir Market: NSPACH, R.V;gl3;' - 4: CO. - ftifoitiikair.lo4#4B' 180 " NORTH, Tffiß D . STREET, '" '.! Qknit*lgosOrior Tiara - ma 04eny Rte. ) ) • • .imLADßlnvEtte. SPRING OF 1659. 40MM 8. , ELL1E0.4‘.!: 150/4, Mb MARKET STREET, -' YNIOETI_ RS 101.1 WROLZSALE JOBBERS OF OARSIMERRSi ANE. yEsmaa, , - To ‘ trltlett tie, Attention of ;TYKES In Invited. 47[7 .- . WIVE & CO., • `8 , 06;'7[ - A'E T.'t3 TE,E E T , Importers and Dealers hi 'SI*l3,4E4Wfil, OBAVATS, BOMBAZINES, DRESS • • - GOODS, dce., Witnse eMisMotly - reieliring New Goods from New York ind-Bhlladelphla Auctions, to which we Invite the attention of pnrshasers - spd-tdOl FriiiTlA.N, JONES, & - CO., 7 11r1r010118ALI,DIA:LE1111 - e ijt . ? R! D Mlt 8T ; 0 DRYI-.;GOODS, .240_ - M . A.,#l4l;El i „ : B‘TitilET, lour &ion below: Third, gaieith elde, ‘:telotain 'SOHN H. -BROWN & CO., • :111P0R1411.8 'AND JpBBIIRS „ or ,DOMESTIC • DRY 4:51.00D5. ST#CIiNT , • . /forth stder above Third Street, - fitdbtla PIIILADDLPIIIA. It ‘ OUL SPRING IMPORTATION!! 1859 -Et.089„ vir r inEr.mxtek, MIIMARMIT Stret, and 1518 MMIIIRON Ptreot, ' .rgaIaIDELPHI.6I , ImPoRTERs 'AND `JOBBERS - or * 4 .A..144"ie Glai633fil, 4,4 '4inplet• 'atoek, to wkieti they to tlio-atiootioa of Morita. , fobl-8m , ANIE - S. KENT, SANTEE, .86 . „. - ap9min9 AND J 0888,13 • - OP DR IT ISH,•.FRENOII, AND AMERMAN RY- 0 O'D S , 241' NORTH THIRD 'STREET, _ bECONDS 061 - O!ANI ° ' ' : 1001 - IEN, • "- i iiip_NNTNlt;/11N, DNAIMB IN 81tArriOR'ERY. 4..iiestlrAottliezil or, JINVIIOPRSIN' EVERY • • *mairry 140,6, eTvx...l3, , ••-•%117441:10.1:11rcili ARNOLD'B.INGLIBI(.WEIT/NG -if Map,' , x - • , ;0. liV]gi/l/4trit-riiitt -I.PrP.';f4' 1 .,..... , • . ... 1 ..!::,..,,, ~,..:-.:,,,• ~,..1 , , , -,, , ,,,, . „,. N,N k A ‘,. , . , , j.,,,.. • , '''.', . - 1 / 4 .2 - , ~- 11 . ''' .-! i' '' ' ' s '' ' - ', -. p . 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', .,c0_,L.74,-.•• , ...:•:3F4 -7 .-.4.4-tqw±l,, , r,: e oy,fg„-.., •,:..7- - ---'7---'--------' r. . . • ••••,- _••,....•......„.,:„.„.._, • ....:._"„.....?„..„,„...........t.,„,„„... , ;_•..„._ _ ...,.... . . . .. e•' . _ ..,... ~ . c . .. • ,• , „ . .. .. , ______ __„ 4., ....,..... • F. :: ;. ..„.• .1 ;.. ( --/0• •,• :,. • . ..., _ , „,......... 4 ..„.._., .. •••_,_ ___ or . .. . . , . . , . • . . .. . _ . . , ' , f • . . . . . - ". , tts ~ FRIDAY; APRIL 15, 1859. Deigociak Stitp Convention, Poindar Sovereignty Frilly Endorsed Th`e • Prrisei•tptienirerei Titreitiny of the I?eite rat adinitittirtintion 'Deikounced The OiHce•Holdere' Convention Repudiated Speecheis of llrlessrs. Lehman. Forney, Knox Carapbell, Cantwell, and Wingard iCONOLIIKON OF TILE PKOORESINOS. ,toorresPondence or The Pressl jaitntSßuita, Aprill.4. The Convention reassembled at 2 e'olook P; M., yesterday; the President, Alexander McKinney, Esq, in , the ohair. Mr: 'Lehman remmiled that he- had been in formed' that' the committee appointed by the Convention to prepare an address and resolutions to be submitted for their consideration, were not gat ready to report, and would not be for half an hour; and he moved, therefore, that a recess be taken for thirty minutes. s.. Afielegitto hoped..tbat the motion would not be agreed to, because he thought that tho time which would elapse rbefofe the oommitteo came in might be profitably employed in listening, to addresses from the niembers. Tlje question Was taken, and the motion was no agreed to. Loyd lallsWere thou made for Mi. Lillian, of Philadelphia, said that it had been: Very ,far Irent,hie intention to address the Convention, for although he had been, to a certain itirteiit an native politician on the side of the De. moomay, - yet-ithad never before been his good fondue to attend a Democratic Convention, outside of his native city, as a delegate. Ile would have preferred: therefore, to have passed some term of probation In order to Profit by the wisdom of those who bad more experience than himself; but if a few words from, one who had always been a Denta• orat, who had always adhered to party organiza tion as essontial to the success of Demooratio principles, and who had'ever regarded the advanee meat of truly reptiblieen prinoiples es essential to the preservation of our, great and glorious Union, would satisfy the Convention, he would, in` his bumble way, make a few remarks, however trite they might be. Is his adherence to party organization he had sometimes been compelled to oast his veto for mon whose eharaeter he bad not altogether approved,, but lie had never falsified his instincts or hie edu cation by supporting principles that he deemed to be indorreet, [cheers,/ and never would; [re newed applatiati ;] and it was in pursuance of this rissoltition that he "attended this Convention, hop ing that oat of 'lts 'deliberations some good might follow, in order that the great Democratic party, now -- struggling and torn by dimension anti 'faction,might at some future day be rallied in alt the strength which belonged .to it, and again triumph in eleetions of the people: [Cheers.) Re approved and cordially endorsed the senti ments of the /gateman from Chester county, [Mr. 1' ickataa,J On had addressed them In the mor ning.: - " • 'ln his'oplaion, there wee - no question which meld divide the Atneriaan people save that of slavery, and' it was necessary for everyman who took an interest in the welfare of the Union and the people to &redder thiscpiestion In all its -bearings, and make up his mind laity and decidedly upon it. Helmeted that the members of the' Convention would appreciate the necessity of doing so, and. Would be,prepared to act. [Cheers ] The question efalairery w as _ not one of our Makings It was 'one 'that bad ite existence before this Goiernment was fornied. Oar forefathers had found it a stumbling bloole in their way when they framed the Condi. talon, and had settled it by a compact which was binding npon no, and which we ; nil ought s to carry nut in good faith. Il.trusted that there was an instinctive aver sion in Oa breaet of every Northern -man against the repudiation of anyeentracE; np matter what it might be. [Cheerer ] That this Cormentlen would no nothingrby whisk the stigma or stein of repu. diati could be fixed upon the brow of -any doles gate resent' [Choors.l lot them adhere to the spirit and letter of the eontreet, taking care, at the sane tithe, that - they Stood by their rights, reedy, in the language of the gentleman from Chester, to defend thetr, privileges and hearth, Manes, with the,reame energy,' seal arid _ohlreirY ...,,ealibithgt:redlii stand ing:WO% their, neonate!' institution. [Chem] To &this, it was not necessary to violate a single right of the Routh, or to yield a single privilege that belonged to the North; it was only necessary to do what James Buchanan should have done—stand by the 'Cr:institution and its compacts, and artery eta the pledgee ho made when he °wanted the nowt, nation , of the Cincinnati Convention. (Great ap pltinse He reoollicted well when as en humble supporter of this man, whom ho worshipped as en idol. regarding him as a pure, sagacious, and con • sistent statesman. he had stood before the people of his own loosing end advocated his- election, assuring them that be would carry out, in good faith, the principlee to which he bad pledged him self; and he little thought then that'le would live: to see, the day when ho [Mr Buchanan] -would violate the solemn and sacred pledges which lee gave the people in his letter of aeceptaneo. Decease be had- iolated his pledges, because he had deserted his own State and the North, he was here to act with the 'delegates of the Convention, and to, rebuke him before the people of the United States;, [theers.] Upon, what, ground do we stand ? Upon plain constitutional ground. The venal press who de rive their livelihoOd frcm the corrupt benefits which: this Administration lavishes upon them— these Mere hirelings of office, and minions of de spotic :Federal power, will toll you that we are striving for our own advertisement; that we are Republicans, that we are traitors, that we are dele gates to a bogus Convention, that wo are meet of dis appointed olfice-mekers, and men who have private grudges to gratify. But they may clamor on, and we will show the world that our sympathies are neither with the patty North, salted the Billets Republican party, nor the party South composed of the fire-eaters and (Reunionists -of the South. [Cheers 1 We are Democrats in principle, net in 'name alone; we are neither for seetionalisea North or sectionalism South ; we are for Domoeracy, for, State.rights, and bit, butnot least, we are for the Union.;M Wo_ stand between the interventionists of thei North and - the interventionists of the South; we stand upon the platform of popular so vereignty, which says that ,it is contrary to the enactments of -the Constitution to please the Northern Abolitionists by passing a law which would prohibit the rights of the South in the Ter ritories, or to please the S suthern extremists who ask the passage of a law to protect slavery in the Territories. Ile held this to be the true doctrine, the doctrine of non-intorromtion, the doctrine of popular sovereignty—that to the people of the Tanneries properly and essentially belongs the right tp make their own local and domestio insti tutions to suit themselves. [Great applause.] Na called upon the Conventicle to act with wis dom, prudence, and discretion, and show to the world that they had been so guided. He felt cer tain that the political truth which they would proclaim would in the end triumph. Mr. ,Bushanan might dictate, nod his servile ofnee-holders attempt to carry out that dictation In every part of the Union, but against the voice of the people" they would be as the breath of is weak child against the north wind when It came In its fury and Its might. (Cheers ] In coneinsion, he said that ho felt certain their movement would succeed, because it was founded ' upon truth and judos. Mr. Burnet, of Pittsburg, mild that the Commit tee on Address and Resolutions had agreed upon a report, which was then being arranged and would be made in a few minutes. Dunn, of ghtladelphfa, ocoupied this short time in a speech, which was frequently ap plauded. Col. Forney stated that he was ready to submit a unanimus report from the Committee on-Addren and Reaolutiona. This announcement was greeted with applause, and Cal. Forney.then read the fol lowing address and resolutions : `1„ ADDRESS In absolute Governments opttression can only be rebuked by armed revolution; but in a country where opinion and notion are restrained by laws which derive all their vitality from the respect and obedience of the people, our written Conetitu tiona provide other remedies for the treacheries and tyrannies of ,temporary rulers. The right of meeting in such assemblages as these is among the most sacred, as it Is assuredly the most effective, of our 'franchises. It is in these sanctuaries of freedom that all great revolutions begin ; hero that public, opinion is enunciated and or !finked ; here that inalienable rights are vindicated ; here that intolerable wrongs are avenges; and hero that, while rebuking the excesses of our servants, wo avoid that resort, to force, in the maintenance of truth ,and reason, which is the Inevitable forerunner of a' nation's downfall. Nothing is more characteristic of our countrymen than their indifference to the inconsiderable errors of our pablio men. ()distant when Government is honestly administered, even if such Administration is not always original and startling, they applaud their faithful servants with generous impartiality, and gladly leave to the leaders the machinery of or ganisation while there is no flagrant breach of propriety or of lass. Between the contests of faction and the ambi tion of mere politicians, the great body of the American, people are rarely disturbed. But when they see 'their _original rights assailed, and the laws from which these rights derive their autho rity, direotly attacked, by those who ought to bo their guardians and their champions, previous in difference is at' once exchanged for constant dis trust, suspicion, and vigilance. The events which have called together this Con vention are unhappily too familiar to require an elaborate recapitulation. They constitute a mourn ful page in the history of our country. Beginning under an Administration; elevated to power by the intelligent suffrages of 'a confiding people, they have finally eulmiriated in a series of outra— gee upon ,constitutional righti and individual in dependethe. Which has called, forth riot only the resistance of the Denworatio Orly, but has awa kened the solicitude of patriots in every civilised Government ran the globe. Longer submission to these outrages would be not only cowardice, but treason: 'We are impelled, by every consideration of self respect, 'of fealty to prinoiple, of fidelity to plighted faith,' and above, all of lave to' oar - country, to name snob a position as will rezone PRILADETRI - la, ~12100 AY. APRIL 15 1859; • the Dometiratio " ,Perty from willing complleltk With the guiltiest of maladrninletratieno. • - - . , When James Buchanan was nominated for ; the aloe of-President of the UnltediStatesi'hifnelnl, nation was regarded as " the most signifleant:9olte cession to 'a conservative sentiment, e After '1), long struggle, at ' the close of which the theory of Congressional intervention ,in ' the , Territories of ' the United States, bed been SIMI easefully. exchanged for, the enduring prinaiPle of popular sovereignty, Democratic party ; North and. South found • itself Compelled - to make , this latter -principle the leadingt if not the 'onlYi: issue- in the Presidential campaign:, The opposti tion,.byoraftily arraying the prejudices of notion. I against section, had inetilled into the popular reled-1 the suspicion that it never had been the purpose of the Democratic. party honestly to carry out the covenant implied and written by this repealer the bilesonri compromise, and the subsequent enact ment of the Kanses.N,ebraska bill. So sueoessfullY had' this suspicion been inculcated, that self-pre servation required the most formal ,and distinct declaration of the Democratio.party, in National Convention assembled, of relete determination to adhere in good faith to the ' prineipleltealkand to the law upon which that principle was founded. And in order " to make assurance doubly ' candidate was selected who was,believed to be available, only *num of his supposed,and known identity with , the - feelings and r expectations of the people. The alternative of noreintervention end popular sovereignty in the Territories, in the per son of, James; Buchanan, and a President commi t-_ tad to the adierse idea of intervention against the South by Congressional. legislation, was clearly and unequivocally presented. The Southern. States, keenly alive to the necessities of the exie ' ganoy and, to their- own interests, saw the al ternative, and accepted it with all its reeponaibill eies Mr. Buchanan himself gave hie own frank understanding of the issue, in repeated volunta ry deolaratioos, of which the following was the first after his nomination.: "In accepting the nomination, I need - Namely say that I accept; in the same spirit, the resolve tient] conetiteting the platform of principles erected by the Convention. To this platform I intend to confine myself throughout the gammas, believing 'that I have no right; ns the candidate of the •De. mimetic party, by 'answering interrogatories, to present new and different- issues before the pee. pie." * The agitation on the question of, domestic slavery has ten long distracted and divided the people of this Union, and alienated their affections from each other. This agitation -hes assumed many forma , sines its commencement, but'it now seems to be directed - ohlefly to - the Territories; and, judging Demi its preeentediaraetert,l think. , we-may safely anticipate that ft to rapidly ape prenehing a - finality.' 'Tun- RECENT 'LEO/SLA TIONoPCoNGREss RESPECTING non e:erre snkeeetr,' DERIVED, AS IT HAS BEEN, PROM THE ORIGINAL AND PURE FOUNTAIN OF LROITLIIATE POLITICAL POWRR, THE WILL OP THE MAJORITY; PROMISES. ORE LONG, TO ALT.Ay lent DANGEROUS EXCITEMENT. 'PIM LEGISLATION IS POUNDED ' UPON PRINCIPLES AS ANCIENT AS FREE. GOVERNMENT ITSELF:" AND'IN ACCORDANCE THEM .HAS SIMPLY DECLARE) THAT THE PEOPLE OF A TERRITORY. LIKE THOSE OP A STATE SHALL DECODE FOR THEM SELVES WHETHER SLAVERY MIAMI Mee SHALL NOT EXIST WITHIN THEIR LIMITS: "Tow NEIIR.REA-KANSAS ACT 'DOES NO -Mona TITAN GIVE THE FORCE OP LAW To THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLE OP seep GOVERNMENT, declaring it to be 'the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate, slavery Into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom. but - to leave the people thereof perfeetly free to form end replete their &sweetie inciitutions in their nwn way, subject only •to the Conetitutten of the United Stetee. , THIS PRINCIPLE WILL 'SWIRLY NOT Its , eon enOVEnern , BY ANY INDIVIDUAL oF ANY PARTY raommertZa DE VOTION' TO POPULAR ooveniennee. BERIDO' 110 W - VAIN AND ILLUSORY WOULD- A OTHER PRINCIPLE PROW; IN PRACTICE TN 'REGARD TO THE TBRIIITOItIESI Thigh' appa rent from the feat admitted by all, that after a Territory shall ile.Vs' entered-the 'Union, and be= come a State, no ,constitutional power would' then exist wbieli could prevent it from either ahidishing or establishing slavery. as the ease may be, accord. jag to its sovereign will and pleasure.” No doetrine aver more directly appealed to tap popular heart. It was indeed the only question at stake in 1851. The people made everything sub ordinate to it. They saw in it a deliverance tram those unhappy excitements which had for years disturbed the deliberations of Congress; unsettled the relations of business, and ,trlienated ape per lion of the Union from the other; They saw lull the only permanent finality of the dispnte in ,pe. gard to Slavery in the Territories. ,They did pot ask that, in applying the prinelple, it should be a* pilot! for the benefit one emotion alone.' Pro-- roundly interested in the Progress of the Southern States—oonneeted by revolutionary association's and Harty attachments to thninen and the- mess- area of the South:.-the perooprOo 'of the Werth 'recognised in the logical end fair gonstinet4o4 tir the platform laiddevirby the North And South at Oinoinnati the; true pathway to' an , endlfriet na ttonal brotherhood..and- ihe_trun' secret of kpar-- petted 'bond of poniM tra4.',P.T9lMltilevr,r,ll,ll , the Aserahers na - 01 — rainto trig• Mit not that Ytonsop should be made a free Write, lave by due course of law. Mi. Dacha; nan,'wiseTy" appreciating this state of facts, and far from refusing to meet it, went - boYand theca-. p_eotationii of hie friends, and during the eamPaign, t:e publicly and privately oumitted himself .to the most decisive measures in support ‘or'the great principle of popular sovereignty and non-inter. ventlap. e rove that the South had no choice but to wept Up, end ho addressed himself with' in. dustrlous pertinacity, not:only to the interests, but to the prejudices of the North, declaring, by word and deed, that if he could not convince the North of his shmeriti, the agent to eleot him would bo a disastrous failuri.' . Under his lead, inspired by his example. and, controlled by his counsel, the campaign of 1850. in the State of Pennsylvania, was made upon the dir tinet issue in the language of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, as follows : " That the Constitution, and all laws of the Uni ted States which are not locally inapplicable. shall have the game loves and °fleet in the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere Within the United States, except the eighth section of the get preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6.1820. which. hang INCONSISTENT %VIVI TOE PRINCIPLE OF NON•INTER• VENTIGN 1W CONGRESS WITH seevetty Sr{ tee States AND TERRITORIES, at recognaced by the legtsla- • tiara of 1850, commonly eUlled the compromise measures, IS HERESY DECLARED INOPERATIVE and VOID ; it being the true intent awl meaning. of this art not to legislate slavery into any State Or TERRITORY. nor to exclude at therefrom, but to leave the people THEREOF perfeenO FREE TO YORE AND REGULATE THEIR DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONS /N TUEIII OWN WAY. SUBJECT ONLY TO THE CONSTI TUTION OF TIIE 'UNITED STATES." So willingly were - Mr. Buchanan'a opinions ac cepted, and so obediently wits his example followed, that ovary document written or published within the eon lines of Pennsylvania, on the issue involved, amplified his own original and volunteered under standing of it The able and distingulehed orator's who traversed Pennsylvania during that struggle, either adopted his theory or generally abstained from coming in collision with it. Nothing but this conourrenee of sentiment and of action rescued Ponneylvanics from the Republicans, broke the force of the constantly-recurring excitements in Congress and in norms, and secured to as the era (dent aid of thousands of eonsorvative voters. The President adhered to bits declarations till after his election, and inaugurated his Administration by anothier pledge oven more explicit and emphatic. At this moment Junta Buchanan occupied a position which challenged the admiration and gratitude of his countrymen. No voice was raised in opposition to him. His Cabinet, elmeen by, himself, and unanimously confirmed by the Senate, was accepted by the country without a murmur. Mon of all parties held out their bands to support and strengthen him. 'The Demecraey, entrenched in every State in the Union. looked forward to a career of impregnable union and perpetual vic tory, and patriotic eitieene regarded that great party as the only permanent political organization. The Administration, In good earnest, proceeded to select two of the ablest statesmen to proceed to games, to arrange a difficulty fully ripe and ready for settlement. Clothing these gubilwal agents with full authority, and again re peating. in their instructions, his former user anises, 14r. Beohanan bad nothing to do hut to trust •to time and to prim:Spite and to turn his attention to other important questions. -So care fully eonsistent was but course, up to a certain period in the - year 1857, that he wrote the most pressing lettere to Gov. ,Walker, imitating and urging him to stake everything upon the groat doctrine of popular sovereignty, and to be well assured that the General Admenistration would stand or fall by that doetrine. Whoever shall write the history of these events will find it diffi cult to reconcile ouoh a series of comm Was and pledges, such is succession of solemn asseverations on the one side, with the sudden; startling, and extraordinary change which took place in the minds of the President and his Cabinet before the assembling of the first session of the Thirty fifth Congress. The change itself was a most dleastreus calamity. It was a wanton sacrifice of honor end of good faith. It woe a bold confession of insin cerity and deception. t s'amPed the whole his tory of the great campoign- of 1850 with ignominy, and confirmed the mediations of men who, during that year, bail everywhere proclaimed that the professions of the Democracy worn falsehoods, and that our thousand assurances that fair play should ho secured in Kansas were uttered only to be trampled under foot. Pot a while herculean efforts were made to in dote the Administration to retrace itit stops, and to recant its shameless reereanov. But it had gone too far to retreat. Good Democrats every where deplored the surrender, but stood ready to support Mr Buchanan and his Cabinet upon other portions of their policy. Fenli'ng that the-wound widish had been inflicted by those whom they bad clothed with power must be severe, these Demo crats still trusted that it would not be fatal, and that time would beat the breach. 7hue, while unable to Benotion the desertion of principle them selves, they turned their attention'to the preserva tion of harmony in the Demooratio party, and, like true patriots, avoided indiscriminate warfare upon the General Administration. How was this magna nimity received by- the guilty authors of this betrayal? With haughty and insolent scorn! Infatuated by the posseetion of power, and blind to consequences, they insisted that their 011.71 , tarlytude should be' applauded, and erected their ount troacltery into to substitute for the gospel - of our political salvation, demanding that all men should be excluded from the De- - meeratio wbo did not fall down and wor ship, the great ordne of which they hod been convicted. Hundreds of the purest and ablest patriots in the ranks of the Demooratie party appealed for toleration, and Implored to he per mitted to remain true to their own pledgee; but their appeals were rejected with disdain. The mercenaries of the Administration were let loam upon them in every tree State, ea if they'. ;themselves bad offended ugliest the Democratic creed. They were denounced as disappointed 'men, charged with affiliating . with Black Repub. titans, and refused admission into peeked Conven tions; and every man in office who would not con/- tine in the °Timid() woe at once removed', The apeotaele was then witnessed, for, the first time in , ttikpOuntry, of ft deliberate interference; on the Vitt Of the General Governuient, with the rights otithe .States; of a deliberate war of it so-called Deirimaratio Administration upon Domooratio no. mrtions ; . and of -a deliberate organization_ by. mln power, to break down the principle that' planed 'them in power., . Other infamies followed in rapid ettooession., , _TIM , :SOuth, tempted by, the tin just..preifer .of turning ja free Territory, Info a ,otaito State, united forces With the Administration qmtrot ;those who' had alwayi been its friends. tt Ineffaceable,-proofs- of the frauds by 'which t i . t i e ( result; was , sought to : bo consummated ' mit't offered in vain , :to_ the consideration of ' the 1 :AdMiniii.tration loaders. Laughing the doctora -1 'tied! of, the people of Kansas against the Lecomp ton Constitution , to scern,.they next invented the IMP& bill, and made it another.test,of 'political orthddoxy. 4onsoious of the prejudices of the - Nottliern ptleple against slavery, they attempted tO'cammit the Oemocratie organization to the :Utonstreus idea that while thirty or forty thousand. of a population wore suffmient,to constitute Kan etts!eklave State, under the Lecompton"Oonstitu ,tion,lsinetY-three thousand would he exaeted• if the: voice of the people prevailed in favor of a free qtate. The rules,of the House of Representa tivesithe, plainest of parliatnontary,nsages, wore , evekturnod. and 'defied, In .order to complete the triumph of wrong; and an investigation, demanded Niko by publinopinion and by a majority of the rapider:branch, was defeated by the unworthy tilok;of these who happened, through the itistru- Mentality of-the ,speaker,, ' to,obtaie _the mastery. of the Ontitittow.' --- ' , '. - - - ' - Itearetaneri telhote, Wrongs became a duty as mall as a necestlity. We had to 'cheese between. absorption in 'tho. ranks af.dur political adverse ries, or•o hold organisation egainat`the vices of I.retellterolitt public) . oervants: , We feel that our whole' action, though denounced by the General - AaMinistratton, has ben v indioated by thenourse of ovetta and the ballot...box. • , Every accusation brought against the polioy of converting Kansas, by nolest moans, into , a slave State, has been es.: tablished, every point 'in the indictment of the General Administration bee been made good. Wo have failed in no ono particle of our testimony. Tao Ganda which disgraced the rule 'of the minor ity its Moises have not only been proved, but con• fessedtb) . , lhe instruments hired to fabricate them; and•tite•jostice of our position has at last reached theXeufhern heart. The voice of ono of theMblest sane Cr Smith Carolina has Veen raised'in detes tatlim,of the course of the minority in Kansas, and of tbs:mimes' perpetrated by that minority-and &menaced by the Northern mole. In the face of this record, has the - Administration of James Mamas boon manly enough to admit its errors, and to arrest its proscription? No - ! with the a?gtunglated evidence or •the iniustiee of tiff ,own course, and of the singular integrity and truth i ot the men who have antagonized it, it refuses to perform the high duty of yielding to "the force affects,- To punish those 'who have been right froM the beginning ; and to realard those whose only Merit is in the fact that they . have appreved of it/I inconsisioneies and wow is atilt the enh limetnission to whioti it is dedicated. ' • Wa moot hero to=day however, not alone to pro. test against the past and 'present course of the ;Fedeiral Adminstration,, but to vindicate the , Deitilteratio party rf Pennsylvania no against the asultoptions and usurpations'of a body, eallinit iyr self a Borne:troth) conventlno, which convened hero ' on the 10th orMeroh last. As if sinitten by - judicial ' blindriests, an:elaborate endorsedent of practices oondortmod,bY ihmishole nation was followed by a deliberate insult tis the Chief Magistrate of Pauli sylvonkt. Opera ordy in roferetme to the treacheries and crimes of the Federal Administration, the Con vention announced doctrines which, if not solemnly repudiated by thOliamocratio party, would deser vedly stoic It.into infamons obscurity. Governor Wakes, Anson in October of 106/, (Mid ohoselo as the-personal-friend of the President of the United Btates,)could never have been elected- but for his early accaptamic and eloquent oharnpionship of 'great nrinoiples we archer° to-dny to rescue from reprotich.Datini that ConiesL, Governor paeker wa sustained and;nasisted by tile imparent variedly+- and ponsistenoy lbe General Administration and ifs agent: - on this pitestiqn. Tho wise, just and con ciliatory dowse 'of 'Governor Walker, beaked, ai hp' was then presumed to be, by the whole power of the President and his Cabinet, so strengthened our candidates with the people as to make them al watt it esietihitf in' their canvass. The opposition party.,-headed - by Mr. Wilmot, melted away before DM arguments of Gevernor Packer and the greet moral spottiest() - e r an honest fulfilment of the pledges l of 1840. Unhappily; at :tinter period, our puhlin servantisiAt Washington determined to l'alianden their idtprognable position and to throw therpdelfeifiptq Ito arms of an adverse and fatal heresy, - : , ,Governor Packer, Ilke other American statesmen, profoundly and publicly committed as he winjeould. not,'nfterwards. follow the disrepu tablp ,example set for him at the Federal capital ; and, therefore, with every pfirpose of maintaining friendly relatioiht with the General Administrq lion,.ise found Meisel( impelled., in, moderate an 4 digrnfisid language; to reassert his grateful attach tilliFtPl3l the tisinelnies he had advocated' in his cam a. There no aggression in ..this.;- noAatitene — til 'eopte 'into' crinkle]; W . Wira'Vtit enteial monopoly, a-lending itii rf `arine arms into every State, and fighting the peo people, in their sanotuarimarith their own money. Ms tone was. the tone of respectful deference, and his whole ba'aring,Trom that day down to the pc. ?led , when he'reiterated the sentiments uttered in Moipaageral'rggagage, pirtmtnd a sparked eon ; frost to the degmatlerdespotlem *hick arrogatea to Itself the control of parties and the alteration of creeds.' But be had committed the inexpiable sin refusing to accept the test offered to his lips by the iliwsident and 'hi; Cabinet, nod the order was given, at ones, that for this offense lie was to be summarily and Ignominiously punished. Ms friends were traduced and proscribed, and all petrlppnication severed between his Administra ep and that qt Washington. t ensioned presses and paid officials united In the crusade; and at last a peeked Convention formally repeated the orders of a perjured Administration, by joining in tho most shameless attazies upon the private cha racter of our Chief Magistrate. We ere not here to apologise fur or to defend Governor Packer; he must stand or fall by his workt3. PM, regard ing him, es we do, as u'itaithful and conscientious public servant, and as having well fulfilled the expectations of his constituents, we should be wanting in manhood it'we did not express our ad- miration of the man and our confidence In the Chief Magistra, There is, in troth, but one course for us to pursue, and that is to reject all connection with men capa ble of suck subserviency and tyranny Tife great leader of the Northwestern Democracy, tied to the policy of the Administration, would have been lost in an ocean of popular odium. Sectionalism would rule, not in the North slope, but m'i'ke whole Dllon, if we do nit move against it. Let ns, then, eon- Urine to preserve the, principles of our creed, and patiently wait fqr time and the ballet, box to yin dioate us. There is no permanent success for any party that does not stand where we stand to-day. lf, from a handful of, men, struggling against an Administration armed with almost imperial power, we have grown into n compact and corn mandin f. organization, unencumbered by, and din dainful of, patronage, relying only on the justice of our cause, so in_ the future must we conquer by the logical righteousness of our creed , end the manifest practicability of our remedies. from the days of the American Revolution, and the Articles of Confederation, and the conga• tutional convention; down to the present hour, the patriot has always regarded with jealous eye the tendency of the Pederni power to absorb the rights and interfere with the sovereignty of the States. Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Maiieon In 1.10849, both foreshadowed the evils that meet flew from any such example, if not sternly checked upon the threshold. 'Dego groat men took up arms against certain unconstitutional laws of Congress, and de• pounced theta, after they had boon signed by the president, as seising the rights of the States and consolidating them in the hands of the (lenoral Rovernment. They all declared that this would he to surrender thp form of government we have chosen, and to live under one deriving its powers from its own Will and not from our authority, And Mr Mndbon in the eddress prepared by him against tho same unconstitutional laws, declared as follows: "Measures have already been adopted which may lead to these consequences. They consist: "In final systems end arrangements, which keep a host of commercial and woaltby(ndividtl• als eipbndied and obedient to the mandates of the Treasury " In armies end navies, which will, on the one hand, enlist the tentleney of man to pay homage to his 'fellow creature who can feed nr honor him i and, on no other; employ the principle of fear. by punishing imaginary insnrreetions, under the pretext of preventive jostles. "In swarms of officers; civil and military, who can inculcate political tenets tending to consolida tion and monarchy, both by indulgence and severi ties ; and can not as spies over the free exercise of human reason. In restraining the freedom of the press, and investing the Executive with legislative, execu tive, and judicial powers over a numerous body of men. " And that wo may shorten the cainlogue, in establishing, by emeossiveprecedents. such a undo of construing the Constitution 1113 will rapidly re• move every restraint upon Federal power. 44 Let history be consulted ; lot the man of ex prism." reflect—nay, let the artifieers of manor oily be asked what further materials they can need for buildiegup their favorite system'?" M o r o than sixty years have elapsed since these admonitions were uttered What is the spectacle presented to-day An attempt, on the part of the General Government, administered by ; men calling themselves Democrats, to usurp the rights of the States, to cripple the independence of the representative, to poison and pervert the eleotive franohise, to connive at the grossest In fractions of law, to disregard those inappreciable blames of f rugallty end economy in the adminiu. tration of the Government tenght to us by the fathers of the republic, and by means of revenues swelled to an enormous. amount, and aided by mercenaries in olliee in every State of the Union, to compel obedience to its tyrannical behests, and to cover its orimas with the name of the Demo ()ratio party. Jefferson and Madison, early in this century, by their movement against a monarchi cal example, started and (tarried the great (11,11 I revolution of 1800, by recalling the people to a'' sense of the dangers which surrounded them, and by laying the foundation of Democratic, principles , deep and strong in the popular remembrance and ' regard. Inspired by a motive no lees elevated, we appeal to the North and to the South against the despotism which has enthroned itself at Wash ington city, and which tramples under foot our most snored rights; which has degraded the 1 1 Northern States into mere subordinate corpora tions,Controlled bye violent central consolidation; and which, after having contributed all in its power to paralyze the Democratic party in the North and Northwest, by means of its prescription and its tests, its desertion of established princi pies. and its substitution of novel and tyrannical ?Marines, has thrown itself into the arms of those who do not hesitate to declare on the floors Of Con gress that, wafts slavery is protected In the Terri tories, by 'all the powers of the Government, in defiance of the popular will, they are ready to break up the Union. The theory of Congressional intervention, now adopted by the Adirdnietration leaders; ipust of no`cessity be a sectional theory. Endorsed by the Republican Convention 0f,1856, it must be aban doned by, the Republicans in 1860: Repudiated by - the -- SOithern' 'delegates at Cincinnati, in 1856, 'it 10 vain • for the Same, men ,to attempt •ite, endorsement in 1860. _Whe ther asserted - to protect slavery,' or to' prohibit elaveryi• we are equally against' it. tiepropose to 'adjudicate and settle this yues, tion forever ho re fcrring it 10 as people of the Territories, subject only to the Constitittion 'of the United States.' It le in vain to argue that this is not a practical remedy. -The ,history of the struggle'inKansas shows that it Is practical; and, whatever courts may decide,' nothing can prevent the triumph of the popular voice - in the Territories, as well, in regard to slavery as in reference to every other description of property. 'lt is, therefore, too late for , South/re politicians to abandon non intervention, or for Northern politiciane to oppose it. ' The,whole history of our legislation is a vin dication of this principle, recognised by Prof: dents, by Senates, by-Representatives, by Federal and by. State - cootie, by North and by • South.. The cry from the South lies alwayo been " let us alone " - The P rinciple of Men intervention has never been seriously denied; Until th&' prettent um .ment. It is i n, fact to ~,whiek..vre triumphantly, refer, that, with one es two exceptione, nearly all the present Southern 'leaders 'of 'Cie Denikratio Party have subscribed .to thiciprinciple, ;Pre ferring the ultimatum of.a subMiseleitle thapono lac will is the Territoriatb that of Congress; and one of the molt -•.i.:lietßiguteliiiil , nieruliatih" - biri- Toombs, of ‘Georgia:, stated - the` treite on the Kansas-Nehraska bill, in 185,0, that Which, if uttered by a'Northern ma», would have been re garded as a contemptuous dammed the authority' of the Supreme Genet.• , , • ;Popular sovereignty and non-intervention rife time not only sanotioned• by' tkeir inherent- ins jwitioe, by their colneldeneewith the peat nrefes siorikof the Demo,oratio party, by their ;entire harmony.With' the doctrines of the Cincinnatiplatform,'but also by the declarations of nearly' every leading advocate of the 'Kansas-Nebraska bill ;by the interpretation- placed upon It-by its author, as well at the time it *as °initially intro duced as in all subsequent disetissions Of its mean ing; by James Buchanan, when ho, deelared that the "people of a Territory, ,ifbi thole of a State, shall decide for themselves whether elayery shall or °hall not exist within their limits ;" , by John C - Breekinridge, when he announced ,that the Democratic organization was pledged to prevent the interposition of ' Congress on the subject of ' slaVery in the Territories, and that the people of each Territory should determine the question-for .themselvel; by General Cass; by Rowell Cobb, whon'bo declared at West Chester, in 1860, that he ,It would not plant - elaverFqPen the soil or 'aorpor tion'of God's earth azapist ode of th 4 peopk; the Government of ihe United States should.not force the institution of slavery upOnMeeple either Of the Territories or of thefitates, against the will of the - people," and when ,he ant:tonne* in the, sauce speech that "preetigally ,s majority Of the mode represented in the Territorial Legislature" would decide the slavery question. "Whether they' decide it by prohibiting it, according to the one' doctrine, or by refusing to pass laws to protect it, ns contended for by the other Pert:, is immaterial. The majority of tbn people, b'y the action of the Territorial liegislatnre,_will decide the question ; ' • and all must abide the decision when made ;"by Don. James L., - Orri Sneaker of the late fionse of Repredentatives. when he deolued that "if the majority of the people;re op - posed to the instat tioe, anti if they do not desire irengrefted upon their territory, all they Save to do is simply, to decline to pass lawein the Territorial Legislature for its protection and then it is as well excluded as if the power was invested in the Territorial Legislature to prohibitlt ;" by Don. A li Ste pimps abet( be 4(44 am willing that the Terri torial Legislative may sot upon the subject when and bow they think proper;" by hundreds of other prominent menibers of the Democratic party, wbose - doolarations in support of the principles we have mat this day to reassert wonld; ill :voinmes Time Ia net Voll,settled Demo,oratio principle whieb - we are not willing to adopt and eager to defend. We yield unfaltering obedience, to We, greet prinoiple of self-government which-under lies our institutions, and forms the corner-stone of Democracy. No man who is faithless to this 2 —no matter by what 'name he may be galled—can justly be considered alhnnoe„rat ; and we will be as unyielding and 07,aoling in our endorsements of this vital doctrine as its importariee reTlires. "We agree with Jefferson in appreciating the impart nnce of an economical admintettation of the Go vernment:and for that reason do not hesitate to denounce the fearful extravagance 'which has been, motioned by unfaithful publics servants. We also believe with him that 0100 the surest preVentives against ' the' 'astabliehment of 'despo tism isethe preservation of the strength on local Governments from. the onoreaehruents of Federal. power; and, therefore, we protest against the on- Vert qttatik made upon the Governor of Pennsyl vania by the pensioned- agent-s of, the National Administration, on account of bis manliness in rebuking GA dependants', nod denounce the per , " sikent,efforta listve- been recideetwesintrol , -the - MARIO of the daunt.) , by the skilful use et the patronage and money of the Federal Govern ment., Wo agree with Jackson, that " the' Federal Union must and shall be preserved," and. there fore we seek to advance principles which should command the oonildenee and deserve the support of the people of all seationsof this Union, and shun with ablierrenee the ultraismlf of eeetioes'ists of the South and of the North.. Warned by the ex perience of the past two years of 'the imminent danger which threatens the vital principles of 'the Demooratie party if it is to be entirely surrendered to the control of Southern sectionalists and. cor rupt Administrationists, we pretest against their action in decided terms; and will sternly resist alike the demand, mode in defiance of the pledged faith of the Democratic party, for tho interference of the Federal enverement to protect oriorce sla very into Territories against the will of their in habitants, and the clamors far the, exclusion of slavery within them by,Oongressional action, and for an enforced eimilarity in the institutions of all the States through the exeroiee of Federal influ ences. While we have no antipathy against the people of the South, and ere ready to do out ut most to. preserve and strengthen every Gonstitu tional guarantee they possess, we are equally de termined to defend to the uttermost the rights of the people of tho North, and the rights of the settlers of the Territories to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way. The past history of the Democratic party has been such as to inspire us with aahope that, if its movements are characterized by proper wisdom and forbear 'once, it may again commend itself to the confi dence of the nation. lint thin can never be done, if it is to bp oommitted to Southern esltraista; if it is to be a mere sectional organization for the ad- , vancement and protection of the interests of sla very in defiance of the vital principles of free Go vernment, and if the Democracy of th• North are to be forced into a position revolting to the judg ment and patriotism of the people of the free States. Rvery observer of the events of the last two momentous years cannot fail to perceive that the disunion sentiment has been greatly.strengthened in the Southern States by the policy of the 'Federal Administration. Enoouraged by this policy, the extreme men of the South have not only aban• dosed the accepted creed of the Democratic party, but make the acceptance of their new sectional plat form the condition of their co-operation with the party and even of their eontinuance in the Union The very last movement In' the Swath indicates the formation of a Southern party in contradistinction to the Republican oreaniastion of the North; and the Charleston Mercury, the organ of these extremists, announces that " the Democratic party exists only in the South," and " that it is a Southern party, anCuothing If these preparations Indicate anything, they assuredly mean that the day is rapidly approach ing so much dreaded by the Pother of his Coun try. and that henceforth this happy confederacy wilt bo divided into geographical parties, each intent upon its own interests, and ouch the in furiated fee of the other. There can be no union of these States upon a sectional platform. We mast stand together on constitutional principles, or surrender the Republic to ineprable divisions We are here also as law-obeying Democrats We desire to be understood as upholding the principles of the Federal Constitution, and the statute laws enacted under them, end of resisting those who are violating them. We are hero to sail upon every oitinen to assist us in maintaining the Con stitution and the laws an they aro, and to declare that there is no higher law, North or South, which onn justify any man in doing violence to either. We arraign the Federal Administration as the worst enemy the Federal Constitution has ever had, as having attempted to weaken that instrn meet in the affections of the people by allowing the lawn enaetod to oarry out its,provieions to be wrested from their true meaning or to be ruthlessly violated. We-arraign that Administration for es tablishing a precedent by which the money of the people is to be used to corrupt the °leadens, in ut ter disregard of law. We arraign it for NI uncon stitutional war upon State rights and State equali ty ; for its assaults upon the independence of the representatives of the people in Congress assem bled ; for its despotic proscription of men for opin ion's sake; for the absence of frugality and in tegrity in its department's ; for its guilty proffers of bribes to a portion of its own people, as well us to those of a distant foreign government; and, finally, for bringing the name of our Ilepublie into disgrace and shame before tho nations of the earth. And all these, not merely without law, but against law; not merely with no warrant from the Constitution, but in de liberate violation of its letter and its spirit. Our duty in such an emergency rises above a mere party duty It is a far more Boosted impulse and conviction that compels us to come forward to pro test against vice and aggression which must overthrow the liberties of the people, and add another failure to the long procession of extinot republies, unless averted at ones and forever. We are unwilling that the enemies of this Union, either in this or in other lands, should hold the American people responsible for these excesses ; or that the enemies of the Democratic party should make that party responsible for the -manifold transgressions cf those who have betrayed its principles. In the name of both, wo protest against any such accusation. We may ho stigma tined ne rebels by purchased politicians and venal newspapers; but if we can rescue the Domooratio party from the shame now sought to be put - upon it, and bring its Conventions—State and national —back to the principles with which it can alone succeed, .and without which it must forfeit its own self respect, and the confidence of the country, we shell have performed a duty far more im portant to our country than if we had assisted to °loot atPresident by false professions, or hurled our opponents out of power upon a Notional appeal. How, then, shall we escape continued defeat, and how repnir the shattered fortunes of our once proud and conquering organization? It is easy to break down an Administration or a party un worthy of trust ; but to reconstruct snob a faint° as will withstand the ravages of time and the con tinued siege of an intelligent and - vigilant antago nism requires the exercise of the loftiest patriot ism. Let us address ourselves to this momentous task. We are here, not for negative deolstrationS, but for positive and unequivocal nation. In the first place, we assert that there can be no ene ma in the future for the Democratic party, TWO CENTS. , unless there shoiald be an 'instant nidon' against the aggressions of - inftifuated- and treacherous public servants, and the exaction of 'an ha potions faction of ' Soatherit ditendonists, who distinctly claim to contra that party. No conven tion, whether hold at Chariest:o4 or at Cincinnati; can ever wield such- influent:ea with any h,opirof Irinmph fOr its candidates— We ninsearrest the tendencies of parties and of power toWards section alism: Above all, we must set our faces sterniil and everywhere against the new and scatidaleue-1 demand that Slavery has beemite the Controlling' power of the State; that it shall be elevated' above all other property, and shall be foiced into the Territories at the point of the bayonet. This is the preotioat question.: whether the people shall rule Recording to that which woo noritineted in - ttie bend—whether they shall- control and "regulate their rivendooieette Institutions in theft Own way—' or whether they are to remain the abject Creatures of a Congressional majority, who, - in defiance of law, shall sit in judgmen t upon their acts, accepting them only as they come up telhe new standard of ' intervention 'for. the benefit, of slavery? • The principle, of. popular soyeretrity`and nortAnter vendon is; cardinal and tliat . with' us. ,We cart' accept no Candidate for any offic e who deer not accept that without , reservation; • extd-;we refuse to reangnio - htty - 'teoroe' intended' to Ignere"or to :set nettle this fundamental Condition. - - Theaddress was sigoed•byl, the committee, corn. Oak of the felloiltingqweedZientlemen irefcW6ar..l-1--...• ..'."..:-.-.Daripttirt... Jas.:, Gil .. .. S. G Wielard .... . . Sam'l Ringwalt• Chester,:. S E. Roller A.,Landaster. Dan. Kistler . Jr Wisteicireland, Geo. W. Nebingor Samuel L. Young, Berke., E. N.Luserrre. John H. Negley Butler. • Thos. P. Campbell • • Huntiogdon, Wt Whitton Redick " Fayette.. • A, O. Noyes - - ,',Ulinton. • John It: BroU • enheoh .'," Montgomery. John Flanagen, ` SCambria. „ G. 3. gigging' , - , 2 - Bailey Teethes " Philadelph • ia. Tao. W. - Brown ' Dauphin. T. W. Douglass 'Erie. • William J:Hurlook — Reading: . L. S. Cantwell— Armstrong, R. J Nicholson Jefferson. . J. W. Forney Philadelphia, RESOLUTIONS _ _ Raso4ed, That regarding this Convention as, to ,all intents and purpoces, a Convention representing the patriotic sentiment of the - Detnacratic party. and avowing ourselves members of that, party,' upon thoseprineiples WA' have con stituted Ito creed since the beginning of thello- - vernrcent, we are 'here today to tenet eisiery'at tempt to weaken or to overthiow that amid, and` by unite for the purpose, of reatoring, - in 'all their vigor and purity, thW great truths whit*" have heretofore made the Democracy a conquering or. geniption, and contributed to the enduring wel fare of the States of this lJnion. Resolved, That this Convention most solemnly' declares its warm attaohment to the Union of, the States, to main tain,which it pledges all its powers, and that for - this end' it is our duty, 'And the - dut of the Democratic party everywhere, to wetoh ov and oppose every. infraction of those 'prineipl s which constitute the only basis of that 'Union, b cane a faithful observance of them can only aped its existence and the public happiness:; ' Resolved, That holding tlfe:Oenertil tration res ponaible for certain 'grave, diparttfres from Pattie duty and Demooriitid principles, we ere' hound to regard that Adidnlstration as having forfeited the confidence of , menace it as unworthy of the support of the Demo. cratiO party. Resofverf, That when the Democratic party in 18Itti was - solemnly Committed iniNational, State, and;Connty,Conventinas to tbelmulamental prin ciple that the people of the •Territories, like those of the States, were to be left perfectly free to_ decid e. - for themselves whether slavery should,-or, should not exist within their limits, subject only to the Conititntien of the United States, we entered into a solemn covenant, which: notilthatenSing 'the conduct of faithless public Servants, we hold our selves bound to maintain at all liazards,und - to carryout in letter anti spirit: • ' Reseiveti, That the attempt of therGeneral. Ad ministration to disregard this covenant, and in its stead 'to erect a despotic test to compel obedience to doctrines subversive of Republiean liberty, wee not the work of the representatives of - the Dereti erotic party, but of men who 'had resolved upon. the . destruetion of that organization for their own ambitious purposes; and that- this ,refiudiation ,of right and en - dorm:fent of wrong was iftly'follewed by a - remorseless war of- Federal power - mien .State sovereignty, and by an arrogant proseription of all ;Demount:la organizations. and I)oltAralio ohampinna who would not follow • the shameless .example. • Resat*, That we - sieliberatell'and and tet - indarse 'tbir great principles of popular sovereignty and nelPinterrention ; as well In the Territories as in the States, non-interven tion by Congress with slavery In the Territories anti non-intervention by the Federal Executive with the franchises of the . people' of the - States,. and that every effort to forms the Democratic party of this country upon any other platform should be rebutted as p reparation for lasting disgrace in the first place, and for lasting - rind.desvirving de feat in the second. Resolved, That this principle of popular sove reignty and' non-intervention, lying, as' It does, at the basis of our free institutions, enunciated and accepted, North and South, by Legislatures and courts, by Congresses and candidates, substi tuted In 1850 for an obsolete Congressional rule; and re asserted in - 1854, after the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, is the, only principle that will forever remove the question of slavery from the halls of the National Legislature, and prevent the triumph of the enemies - of the American Union. Revolved, That we regard with undissembled in dignation and alarm' the attempt of the Federal Administration, hacked by its dependants in the North, and the disunioniets of the South, to com mit the Democratic organisation to the scandalous doctrine, that, in detionce.of `the pledges of the Domooratio party in 1856. and in disregard of the legislation of 1650 and 1854, tho people of the Ter ritories shall have no control liver the question' of slavery, but that slavery must be protected against the popular will, not merely by the courts, but by Congress, and, per consequence, by the , army and the navy; and that, regarding the resolutions of the Convention which assembled at Harrisburg on the lath of March as having accepted this mon. strong, heresy, we hereby repudiate the platform and candidates of that Convention. Resolved, That long and oonsistently as we have advocated the rights of the South in the North, and solicitous as we are to preserve amicable re lations with the people of that portion of the Union, candor oompela As to say that we can never cooperate upon the declaration of a purpose to Ignore and insult the popular voice in the Terri tories after all the obligations of the pest; and that we appeal to our fellow-countrymen, in that quarter of the Union, not to lend their counts= nonce to a poiioy, the effeot of which is to consoli date fanaticism here, and to place them inextri cably in the wrong. Resolved, That we are irreconcilably - opposed to any and every attempt to disturb that adjust moot, or to reopen the slave agitation—either by re-opening the African slavo trade, or by the adop tion of a slave code for the Territories by the notion of Congress, when the people fail to do It for themetiveq, or in any other form whatsoever. Resolved, That the welfare of the country im peratively demands a jealous resistance by the, people of the corrupting inlinences of Federal power, whenever they are unwarrantably exer cised ; that we aro keenly alive to the existence of the dangers which all the .great statesmen of the Demooratio party have predicted from the prostitution of the vast patronage of the General Government to the accomplishment of partisan purposes; that. under the present National Ad ministration, the worst fears of the patriot states men of the earliest days of the Republic, on this subject, have bean realised; and that the events of the last two years have sadly illustrated the truth of the remark of James Buchanan in 1927, in his speech against the prostitution of Federal patronage to political ends by the Administration of John Q. Adams, that "the nature of man is the same under republics and Under monarchies. The history of the human thee proves that liberty can never long be preserved without popular jealousy. It is the condition of its enjoyment. Our rulers 771114 i be narrowly watched.', Resolved, That we aro alike opposed to Northern and Southern disunionist', regarding them as natural allies, ono to the other, each appealing to the passions and prejudices of its own section against the peace and harmony of the Union, and demanding Congressional intervention for ite section alone, contrary to the right of the people of the Territories to govern themselves. Resolved, In the language of Stephen A Doug las, "It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter deeide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go in tog Territory under the Constitutioni the people have the lawful means to introduce st or exclude it, as then please, far the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, naless it is supported by local police regulations. Those police regulations can only be established by local legislation; and if the people are opposed to slavery, u they will elect representatives to that body who will, by unfriendly legislation, effeotn• ally prevent the introdnotion of it into their midst. If, on the contrary, they are for it, their legislation will favor its extension. Hence, no matter what the decision of the Supreme Court may be on the abstract question, still the right of the people - to make a elrive'Territory or a free Territory is per fect and complete under the Nebraska bill." Resolved, That representing, as we believe, a large majority of the Democratic party of - this State, we do hereby most solemnly protest against the betrayal, abridge - meat, or mutilation of this great principle of the "majority ruling," appliaa' ids alike "to the Territories the same as to the States;" and we therefore reject, as an innovation and unsound, the resolution of the late Convention* that abridges and limits the right of-the people of. a Territory to act in reference to the institution of slavery to the one partionlar time when they oome "to organise their trate Governments;" that weeontinue to hold to the fullest application of the principle to the Territories, anti cannot but express oirr alarm and astonishment at its threat ened entire destruction, as. disclosed by leading Southern Senators in the resent 'debate in the Senate of the United States.. Resolved, That wo are utterly opposed to the acquisition of Cuba, unless it can be obtained by snob fair and honorable -means as wilt he consistent with the dignity and fame of the , Ra. public. Resolved, That adhering to the theory of a fru gal and economical administration of the General Government, as taught by the fathers of the De mocratic. party, yet the necessary expenditures of that GoYernment imperatively demand a revision , of the present revenue laws ; and that in such re- Vision we are in favor of such a dieting recogni tion of our manufacturing, agricultural, and me chanical interests as will rescue the Government from a resort to direct taxation and permanently protect the labor and industry of thcoountry, Resolved, That the Matißistaticii 7tllipai4 1 4 .1.0T1VA, TO_ . Oorreagozedento for /14,1100.1110' in the; follovizitinies - ,; , ; Every' counnuitoethnt tionti'he eooo' name of the meet. La order toinente **rec . . the typography, but one aide of the d tie written upon. , We &all be greatly obliged to gentlemen to Penne*. retie, and Other !Wet, for. ontrOtrtb*giring entreat sows of tik**s7 in ' LUSO ptilleM&i - audit* the resources of the Murneinting onntinthe !across* _ of Topolayon, or any,infOrnosidi that wtli p•pitfiregivinj to She . *ow reader. . •,• ..,,, .. .._ ..;_r-. •,.._ r F.Taoker,.ooVenaorof Peznsylvania, meekwith -- our entiresod cordial oPPraval, ottaraateriseik as -; ' it has been, by an honeetundcarefalguardianship • of 'the interests . of- this,peopie: of 'our..Dosamon., • wealth; and that We commend- him: :not only for .. - his opposition to. corrupt legislation,',but- alsohe—_,' canto be wasamonget the first to endorse the great - . , principle of popular sovereigaitY,.Witichlies,at tile -•., _ very heart of our free institutions, and because he 5.. has beenAtunt fearless in maintaining it' an& thst - :... the attempt of the Federal ;Administration to de- ' fame the private,and public character of Governor -- PaCker- meets - with our most: unquidified and in- -- , - -. cllanantoondemnitlon- -:- _ -.-- -- , Resolved, That this Convention entirtaiti. the '- highest admiration , for -the_ Zen. - Stephen •A.: . • Douglas, the heroic statesman and Senator of illi. _. -, decided ; that hie great ability, his bold, manlyouni ,-,: decided character, hie 'steadfast .adherence to the , . principles and pledges of the_piity, - partiouiaidy, - in reference to the goyerrinaent of the Territories:— • all demand for him the thanks and. 'continued' '-' confidence of the-whole Democracy, --and of.-all: =- true men. . . Resavecl,That we eainestly, invoke ilae - co•ope-- , ' ration of Democrats of all the States of the Union.: - in the great organized movement inaugurated at , .-. . the' State capital of Pennayivania this day; , ~.. Rerotorei,Thatwe re c ommend the appointment - hy the President of this Convention of a Demo= = , . (natio State Committee„ to consist:of .. , fiftritix;• . 'members; and that -the luestiortof notatnating- a- Democratic State• ticket -and - the call of- another_-4,1 - Deteooratic butte 9,gurenttap at the pond- ~ r , . . 'Wily, hatiferied to that Committee;. and that • • a..meetlng . of:said ~Central 'Committee may be- - .. , called by: the chairman, or_ any -five - -members. thereof.. - .- -.-, . , - - • , - The reading of the addresvand the - resolutions - • was interrupted' - frtygnently by 'replitictis . _ . ..- • = „Colonel Forney - Said: -` FresidentOlerntit e to express re.Y.liesl l .9 cenourieneein.therese, lotions and the address whichl-haverjuse read. They sneak, for themselves: They-speak out fatly , and boldly; as it becomes us to speak. ' [Applagse 1 - Arid—passing sway frpm the sat jetois they discuss —itgives me sincere gratification:to be enabled.' 'foe a moment, torngratalate not only the people" of. Pennsylvania. but the _people - of the entire' minntry, uponthis striking and mejestie - demon-, titration, whieh gill_ be felt, I _aril 'sure, in every - - extremity of the Union where the eleatrie - artery - • carries the intelligence &atwe have met thislay and declared our indepeodenee of the domestic despotism which arrogates t npplaase-jo con t rol; us. ,:iOrrear-f tie passing strange that the crimes zomenitted at the Federal capital have beettperinitted :so long to go unpunished; HaUlikte -.vette - trans- - pirod =in-England, if 'they h'adnot prisineedelon -revelation, they would have led-totheignotahrtietts defeet of any_Ministrythet bad mettldett.the,m:L,- Rid they happened to France , the Governm ent responsible' for them steed retain polefonly'liy.",' armed force and bloodshed. 'Yet, sir; here, in e . land of liberty, in a land of the ballot-box and the; schoollmuse—here; when we areleing„united to other continents _by steam and by telegraph, in - this age of sublimes progress, of wend'erfiti improve-, ; ments in the arts and solences—here. gentlemet, until this demonstration. , Penneylvania was Silent under grievous and persistentMrcmgm Men, men bornof the boar-who,, if the Demo: , - nestle perty . ,,had been 'hat' tine to _Welt% end titi'dllionti. would Ilion' hien sunk intoinfamy_tind. - ' :hhentority—have,purchased temporary proininendis by intoning forward-,and ;whaling at. the feet Of -4 power we .are, here to rebukg, and erject4:lAp- , :- please.] - „ , If - there were office - a fol.the;Federal Adminis tration 'te , ;besteitc. - these things: would_ • been. 4Applanee,.l , !lf there were , no patronage after which ;these:politicians hungered, fest.men - would have come here on the 111th of Marsh lest to sell their, manhood and debase their rppota tions by endorsing the morstrosities theydid. Oa "" the other -hand, the whole- mass- Of , the people" ‘iould have come together. end they would:lloer' , so rebuked the power.at Washington, that, - if it had not been arrested in its mad career, Rpobably,_ in tbe-then existing condition niblhis public mind,. another retterewmild have beinWeinedimentgarY,',. Sir, it is to our shame arid :d ie - grecs - that this - thing has not been done before. We are here, 6C_ make netspolOgies; we ire:hire to make no ptanations ;- we are bare i&do ouedaty:Tell me, - - beenrile - We sneak in matilY - tenee and beldlY pro= 'claim our• adhesion to immortal principles, that - we mill therefore contribute, to the victory of the; - 'opposition ! Sir, whin mon - are in - earnest, thei - „, never stop to cdmit,tlie cost. jleingmentiened tip. _ plensa4 And,'.l wrist that we shall hold ntter!" :- position teas rigid and es vigorous, a,fulfilment af, their pledges to-the people as wOnold'the rotted Administration we are to-daylod.enettliePAf For, it is time foe us totnesk if is time for us - , ' to, show that there f ore some thin g s whiehmay be come 'unendurable:, -' Therefore it AS; Mr. : Fred. dont, I have felt proud in being the bumble organ.; in communicating to :this assemblage, to thismg , ,,.. incept Contention. ,the , address,and,ieselittionit " how_before you: 'I move that'they laredepted , The motion yea textended,'-nnti tliett_the address and resoltitions 'were_ adopted unanimously amid the approving shouts of the , Convention, all the rising from' their seats and ltitiolpa-, ting. ,• A Mr. Cur, from Pittsburg, present as a newspv per rei.orter, but who was net a:delegate, gave the only negative vote. His obkot clearly was te - ere.; ate a disturbance, but in attempting if he was in: stantly extinguished. - Judge Knox was the next speaker., He approved. p most heartily of the address and 'resolutions, and especially he approved' the resolution denonnelig the Convention of the 16th of Marob last and re pudiating ' its ,candidates. [Applause.] 'Be , had no objection to the men nominated—he respected them, and believed that they were good men: — With ono he concurred, and with the other he die agreed relative to certain great citrreot public (potions ; yet none of those opposed to the Admin istration' at Washington. can consistently sunport 'them.(Applause.] Every vote given ror them in. October will be one counted for Mr Buchanan. As they had made their bed so let themlie. TApplause.l Is the charge of baseness and treachery against the Federal Administration true? Who can doubt it? It is for this reason, and bemuse the moo he acted with wore true to Democratic principle, that they could claim proudly the deep affection of the, Democratie masses !Applause] When 'organi zations cease to do justice to all sections, and aro faithless to the maintenance of great principles for which they were created. they no longer de serve allegiance. [Applause.] Judge Does then made a lucid exposition of the principle of pOpu lar sovereignty; showed how the Democratic party was committed to its support, and hew necessary its maintenance wee to the harmony and progress of the Unita. ' He then proceeded to refer to another question Which he_ said perhaps more immediately into. rested the Convention, heeausa it Was - a_question in regard to our own public! policy and home adts. Every member of the Convention .was aware that the Governor of Pennsylvania had been traduced and vilified. upon the ground of his conduct in the sale of the State ennuis. In 1857, the Legislature of Pennsylvania passed an act authorizing the sale of the main line of our public improvements. The sale was made to tivi - Pennsylvania Railroad Company. _After ward, a portion of the bill passed was declared un constitutional When the Legislature of 1858 amem bled at Harrisburg, it was discovered that there was almost a unanimous sentiment in favor of the sale of the balance of the impale, the two branches. - but there was a difference of opinion as to the manner of the sale., Some were in favor of sell ing them at public sale for the highest price which could be obtained, without regard to the punka sera; whilst others of our legietat2rewerein favor of disposing of the two branch. canals, - which re mained as the property of the State, in aneh,a manner as would insure the completion of a great public highway then in prooess of ennetniction— the Sunbury and Erie Railroad. After a long contest, the Legislature passed an net authorising the sale of the branches to the Sunbury and Erie road for $3,500,000 ; and he here said that that bill was passed without interference of any kind on the part of the State Administration. and, up to the time the hill Game before the Go vernor, he did not believe that its friends knew what his action won't] he upon it, whether it would be favorable or otherwise. There had been no interference by the Governor or his Ad ministration, either in favor of or against the bill, whilst it was before the Legislature: It -was signed. It gave aid to an important work which passed through the section of country in which the Goiernor resided; the road ran through one hundred miles of. the district be had represented In the Senate; his own personal friends, his own people, the men he had known intimately, and the country he knew well were deeply interested in the measure, and ho gave his cometion to the bill, which had already been sanctioned by large melorities is both branches of the Legislature. The bill contained a provision that if the com pany should resell the canals end realise over $3,500,000 by their sale, thot 75 percent. of the excess should be paid to the State, and it also pro vided that no resale by the company shonid be made without the assent of the Governor. Under the sale, which was completed to the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company; the company had abso lute right of property in these public works. It was not bound to sell them, but could either keep them and operate them itself, or could lease. them to other parties or sell them. There was no power given the Governor to make a con tract for their sale ; there wee no power given him to force the Sunbury 'and Erie Railroad Company to sell; the property was the company'd with the simple provision, that it' it did sell for over $3,500 000; that 75 per cent. of all such ernes should go into the coffers of the State. A sale wee made of those publio works, and particular objec tion has been made because the Governor approv , d of the sale of .the Delaware Division to the Dela ware Division Canal Company for $1,77 5 , 000 , when an offer of 'a higher price bed been made for it. He would state the fasts in reference to that mat ter. Great efforts had been made by the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company to sell the Delaware Division to the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com abileratwadeeneatmhe. parties, u r n t y y i e. naked s, A but correspondence thet the a w o k o E r pr k ile , " a ße nd the Lehigh Coal and Navigation refused 'to pay that mnah. The best offer the company would make was $1.500,000; and when it was likely that the sale to that company for a higher price would be a fail ure, an effort was made by the President and Di rectors of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company to Induce others to buy, and an association of indi viduals in Philadelphia, composed of many of the most respectable and influential men tkere—men of the largest means, and of excellent 'repute,- tion as men of business and oitizenii-- , Was formed,. and an offer was made by themto purchase -the Delaware Division for $1,775,000. These-gentle- - men, before they completed their organization and made their arrangements to _raise the money to pay for these works,,iforthis large stun had to be . paid in money . ,' l caked that the proposed contract of salashould submitted ) to thisHaverner. and that he should elate if it was carried out, he'would give his assent toit or not. . The presi dent of the company submitted the proposed con trast to the Governor and asked hint to assent to it, stating that it was necessary that it should be known whether he prong or ivertlitnet assent to it
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