The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-10

n -, .osd some time will have been given Tor tn
49, 81 ,emoorary and sudden excitement; ana
n ,.,;,h tho issues and the candidates OF bol
49,. ,,,u, rresened the democracy, both OF New
a." - ,bs whole country, will have had oppor
.a occasion to consider all the consequences
N 70 the democratic party and TO the seceders tne
Of such an "organized instruction in the demo
.,,ic ranks as this meeting appears to have sci Oh
H. Under influences like these. we shall mol DC sur
IA 10 see the great mass of the democracy
NV York yet true TO the democracy oil 'he country
pu il violent and factous counsels snail sun pre-
, and the State of New York be thereby LOST 10 us
and handed over to the wings, then Will the csis nave
an. in which the democracy of all the rest OF the coun'
w must rally as one man to the work, with new ardoI
.na new energy and fight its battle gorousy and tn
uubantv in spite of the detection OF the Empire State
We do not intend in this article to comment at length
the proceedings of this meetng but there IS one
H,son taken in the resolutions adopted by it, which
os from us word OF remark. The resolution refer
He'd 10 is as follows
R,,Iped That, of its peculiar prominence
H. mi. tme and reassert our concurrence in,
~ our adhesion to- the seventh proposition included In
H. declaration Of principles OF $40 and 1914 In which II Is
affirmed - -, A.. -.
H. nierlere with control the domestic institutions OF the
vessl States that such States the sole and prop
H. udges of everything appertainng TO their own affairs,
- nohibted by the constitution all efforts of the
Eboonss Others made to induce Congress 10 interfere
.sion of sa pey or take incpienf steps relation
artIa are calculated to lead the alarming and
Bngerou equences; and that all such efforts have
anbIe tendency to diminish the happiness of the PEG.
H. and endanger the stability and permanency Of the
Mon aud ought to be counenahced by friend Of
,nr political Institutions
nngiti tvadt IL
hsn first promulgated, and in the and for The pur
hose contemplated by its framers-namey, designed
domestic institutions oithin such States against all
neou ererence aud all touching or imfend,d
touch the question the pooer Of Congress 10 prohibit the
aHshaen or introduction Of SLAVERY free territory there
r TO be acquired by the Uni ed States Oh,c question
before The country either ~ is4o 'ehen fhts proposition"
adopted or IN le4 chen II ras reHsced ana re'fe-
We cannot assent either TO the construction which is
here given to the seventh resolution of the Baltimore
Convention nor the grounds upon which that construc-
lion assumes to rest In that resolution, will be per-
LEVIED the first clause distinctly disclams the existence of
Many power in Congress TO interfere with or control the
nstuton of slavery, any other domestic institution,
,n the several States The resolution then goes to
sser something more and further than this. And what
uore Why plainly, and in terms that Congress is not
50 interfere Nth questions Of slavery, to take incpient
sp in relation thereto" And this broad declaration is
made without any single word to limit it to inter-
eence with slavery in the States. 1t is not so
united because no sane will deny that the
esoution is framed fully to oppose all interior
Ence by Congress with slavery in the District of
Columbia With what right then, do the barnburners
New York now claim that this resolution, while ex
Fssy disclaming all interference by Congress with
pestons of slavery, and all ncipent steps in relation
hereto, yet contempates the actual and effective control
that body over slavery in all the territories of the
United Staes' Is it not Congressional interference
Eh question Of Slavery" for Congress to pass law
nactng that shall forever hereafter hold slave
the west side of the Rio Grande! Can any man pre-
lend that Congress could put such law that upon the
hute book without taking an ncipent STEP in
aton to question of slavery Yet this resolution,
khch in these its identical TERMS hailed with ac
fmaion, and received whouta whisper of dissent by
the democrats of New York in 1s4O and 1884, express
I'm declares that all such interference by Congress,
such ncpient steps taken by Congress, and even all
ors made by others inducing to such interference
Taught with alarming and dangerous consequences to
the stability and permanency of the Union, and should
be discountenanced by every friend of political in
sdtutons There is reconciling this resolution with
the doctrine of the Wilmot Proviso. Either the barn.
burners Of New York were wrong when they assented
to this resolution, or they are wrong now. If they are
willing to abandon this platform for the Wimot Proviso
PLATFORM they can do So but they cannot stand on both
atthe same time
But urged that the question of slavery in free terri
tory thereafter to be acquired by the United States was
not before the country when this resolution adopted
the national democracy part Of its creed in 1910,
when it reatmed in 1874. Surely, that position
must be weak which requires such assertions to support
In the canvass of 1914, the question of the
xas, were above all Others the very questions before
country. Movements-both circular" and central,
10Th secret and open-were then had upon these ques-
hons in the State of New York And no man who re-
members the history of those times can doubt that this
resolution was then reafRrmed by the democracy at Bal
more with direct and special reference to the then i'm
mnent acquisition of territory which then, in part
least free because it in great part uninhabited
In TACT in 1914 compromise platform needed
greatly needed and compromise platform, this
uuon was adopted, on the motion of New York. Now,
1885, the National Democracy in convention have
aken Just the same ground Their candidates plant
aemseves upon it before the country; and yet
ne strange and unwelcome spectacle of leaders among
ne New lork democracy abandoning and opposing those
Candidates because they c:and firmly and unwaverngly
upon the identical platform which New York herself then
AID down If democratic organization, counter to the
national organization, be sustained by the democratic
tbo >g NJ w.