Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-11-06
New Yot The IIsrklner Convention.

The foioing 10 an extract Of the address read
before this invention Of the Young Democracy
II dwells " b special emphasis on the ques-
tion Of the Tlmot Proviso:- -
"The cred of democracy, which had taught
:he fathers II the Republic that human bondage
was a socia moral and political evil imposed on
a section ofhe Union by the peremptory force
ofcircum,tnces, has received Of late years a new
interpretatin. The doctrine Of Jefferson, Wa.
shington Prick Henry and the Randolphs, that
slavery is a,reat social evil. which should be
gradually BIT certainly eradicated that it is
relation fata to industry, false to economy, in
furious to uprals and dangerous TO liberty. and
in its ind.et and pernicious influences upon the
masters retaiating the wrongs it imposes upon
its more immediate victims, has Seen discarded
by school Of modern politicians of the South.
1t is maintained in sections OF the Union, and
by prominent statesmen, that slavery, instead Of
being an inevitable evil. 10 a desirable good,
which presents not only the sole means for the
continued associated existence Of the black and
white races, but the safest and best relation be.
tween capital and labor, aud one in which the
subordnaton of the latter TO the former can alone
he permanently maintained. This doctrine has
been asserted from the federal cabinet and pa
pers issuing therefrom have impeached the free
institution, Of the North as the sources Of physi
cal and moral degration to emancirated laborers
This ominous and repugnant theory is now
sought to be carried out in practice by the con.
quest Of free territory and the establishment Of
slavery thereon. Against snch . usurpation Of
powers, for such an object, the Democracy Of
New York firmly and solemnly protest. In be-
half Of the free white Isborcrs Of the North and
Sou,h, in behalf Of the emigrant from abroad, and
! in behalf Of posterity, and in the name Of free
| dom, we protest against it. We protest against
the extension. by the arms or the influence OF the
Republic, Of an institution whose inevitable con
conitant is the social and political degradation
OF the white laborer; which, wherever it pre-
walls denies TO the masses that equality Of suf
fIage which is an inherent element in the Demo
cratic system.
We protest sgainst the sggressions Of an insti
tuition which gives 10 the owner of four slaves
representation equal to that of three Of our owl
free electors; a preponderance Of political pow
er which, so far as il 10 one Of :he compromise
of the constitution. we shall faithfully observe
but which the freemcn of New York will not ex
tend 10 conquered provinces. We protest a
gainst the extension Of an institution which 10
source Of insecurity and poverty in peace. and c
embarrassment and danger in war. We prote'
against degrading the character Of the rxistin
, war alternating the sympathy Of the producin
|, masses Of the North, upon whose labor and il
dusty the heaviest OF its burdens must uitimat,
Iy fall. and damping the ardor Of our brave SO
diery, and staining the lsureis they have so @
lantiy won, by presenting as the aim aud consnn
> nation of their sacrifices and valor the subjug
II ton Of free soil to slavery"