Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1848-08-19

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may be the true principles fac the adjust
ment oflarif laws, this Baltimore result.
ton asserts no principle at all. The
evidence on this point is conclusive. On
the Goth Of Februaty, 1914, this article 0l
the Democratic creed was submitted TO the
House Of Representatives III d resolution
offered by Mr.. Cambell, oil South Carolina;
the resolution was divided; the first branch
included all the resolution down TO the
words tour common country" inclusive.
The yeas and nays were called upon the
passage Of that portion, and the yeas we're
166, nays 4. The rest Of the resolution
was then submitted to vote, and the yeas
were 172, nays OF Here we find Wings
and Democrats, ptotectionists Of every
grade, and free trade men Of every school,
voting for the resolution which this Balti-
more Convention attempts 10 palm of upon
the honest people of this county rs a de.
elaration Of p%rincles upon our tariff policy.
And these same men object. 10 the Wing
Convention for not decla, ing their princi.
ples upon these questions. and are Mortified
at the idea that General Taylor should
declare that he would conform bis action
upon this subject to the Judgement Of Con.
gtess. They act upon the principle that
mo impostue lean be- too monstrous for
the popular creduIiiy."
The sixth resolution presents no ques.
ton of difference in theory. II is but an
empty profession Of economy, which The
Democratic party have uniformly dis
regarded when in power. The Democra.
tic party, since the day that the breath oI
life was breathpd into II by Mr.. Van Blu.
rem, have never held power a single year
without creating a new national debt, OF
enlarging their own unpaid old one. Let
the people remember Mr., Van Buren's ad
ministration. There Is no danger in their
forgetting Mr.. Folks. The tax. gatheref
will keep him green in the recollection d
this generation at least.
The seventh article of this creed is d
valerous assault upon Mr.. Webstey's sob.
so1ete idea," and a tissue Of m~isrepresen
~tations ofthe eff cts Of the financial quack.
cry to which | have before referred. anc
upon which | cannot afford to spend more
time. | shall therefore proceed TO the
seventh, which speaks upon a subject o
great public interest, and at this time one
of great public solicitude. Il has already
divided the Democratic party at the North
and will produce the same effect nj the
South. Both sections of the Union laugh
to scorn such twaddle as this:
"That Congress has no power under the
constitution to interfere with or control thu
domestic institutions Of the several States
and that such States are the sole and pro
per judges of every thing appertaining 4
their own affairs, not prohibited by tht
constitution that all efforts Of the aboli
~tionists or others, made to induce Congress
70 interfere with questions Of slavery, or Il
take incipient steps in relation thereto. ar
calculated To lead to the most alarming ant
dangerous consequences and that al sucl
efforts have an inevitable tendency to d-
minish the happiness Of the people and en-
danger the stability and p%ermaneDcy ofthi
Union, and ought not 20 be c~ountenancet
by any friend Of our political institutions
This resolution. TOO, was submitted II
Congress by Mr.. Campbell on the 26tl
February, Is44. II was also divided, ant
the vote on the first branch Of il, down Il
and including the words prohibited BY tht
constitution" was-yeas ISL. nays 2; MIR
Gidiings, Of Ohio, voting in the aiirma-
tive. Upon the second branch Of the re-.
solution, the yeas were l2s, nays 23-
John r. Hale, the present Abolititn can-
didate for the Presidency, voting for boil
branches of the resolution The frs
branch Of the resolution asserted an Obvi-
Gus and a universally admitted truth, Which
was, perhaps, not doubled even by the
persons who voted against 1t for ii Is vel
known to his associates here that one D
them (Mr. Adams) rarely voted for a~hstrac
resolutions, whether he assented 10 the
principles asserted by them or not. The
last branch Of IL Is an elaborated a%rtiice,
intended to he made by involved sentences
doubtful phrases, and imperfc ely express ef
ideas, capable Of "a doubtful sense !" bui
il does not distinctly assert any contiovert.
ed proposition whatever. Mr.. Van Buren,
who once stood a canvass for the Presiden.
cY on this resolution, denies that there ii
any thing in his present position i%ncousis.
tent with II. The correctness If this as
~sertion depends wholly upon whether you
test ii by the Northern or Southern con-
struction.
Some Of the Southern delegates to the
last Baltimore Convention attempted 10 gel
an expression of opinion from that body
touching the power Of Congress OVER the
subject of slavery in New Mexico and Cal.
@ifornia, and the right Of ~slaveholding citi-
gems Of the United States to emigrate with
and legally bold slaves in those Dependent
cies. No such expression of opinion could
be obtained. They were referred ID the
resolution under consideration for all the
information upon those subjects which The
Democratic Convention were prepared to
give. But the real question is upon %,
and Is pressing for a decision W. cannot
avoid il if we would ; we must meet il, and
determine IL. That real question isis
there any right any whore, without the
i consent Of The slaveholding States, to pro.
hibit slavery IN New Mexico and CaIifor-
MIA. or TO withhold Inc protection Of law in
the enjoyment Of their property in slaves
from such citizens Of the slaveholding
States as may choose 10 emigrate with
their slaves to those dependencies A
large party in this House, and in the Union,
hold that Congress has this right. Gen.
Cass, The Democratic nominee for the
Presidency, holds the opinion that the
Mexicans, Indians, Negroes and mixed
races, wbcm we have conquered, and who
occupy those dependencies, have IT. The