The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-17
New York Politics.

The Hunker Tor Cass) State Convention of the |
NewYork democrats, after nominating full ticket,
on the 5th, excluding the Barnburners, passed
resolution offering conditionally to withdraw one
half and support the Barnburners, who might be
nominated atthat convention to fill the vacancies.
The condition was that no test should be inn
posed upon the candidates, inconsistent with the
resolutions adopted by the Hunkers at Rome, on
the subject Of slavery. These resolutions were dec
aratory of the power Of Congress the subject of
slavery in the territories, wish that it might be
exercised but determination not to make 1t a test
Of party.
/ The regular Barnbuner Convention met at
| Utica on the 18th We have only Geographic
notice of its proceedings, which announces that
| a union was formed upon the basis proposed. In
other words, the Barnburners accepted the nomin-
atoms of tina Hunkers, for Comptroller, Attorney
General, Canal Commissioner, and State Prison
Inspector, and nominated candidates of their own
for Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State En-
gineer, and Judge of the Court of Appeals.
If this union be made as reported, it is practi-
calIy concession by the Cass party to the de-
l mands of the free-soilers The mere resolution
that the slavery restriction is not TO be made par
ty test, amounts to nothing except to save pride.
Recognition of the power Of Congress over the sub
sct, and the testimony given to the moral duty Of
exercising it, leave no doubt that the whole action
of the party will be given in favor of the exclusion
of slavery from the territories by act of Congress
The course of the party will be decided by its rep
resentatves. The individual opinions of few
against the exercise Of the admitted power will b.
overruled by the preponderance of numerical forct
in favor of action, and the power of regular nomin
ations will carry the whole body in that direction
If the Cass democrats have, as is reported, ioineJ
with the free-sol men, the whole party may be Sc
down as in favor of the action Of Congress to OK
clude slavery from the territories.
Another result is that there is no longer any or
, ganized party in New York, if in any Northern
State, favorable to the Southern view of the wan
of power in Congress to egislats for this exclusion
OF the three parties lately existing there, two-th
wings and the free.soilers-have agreed in tn
public afIirmance of the constitutional power an,
5 the duty to exercise it. The regular democrat
} have, heretofore, avoided or refused to make an
such pledges, and generally insisted, as the mos
polite way of getting rid of the question and al
its embarrassments to them, on the doctrine of non
intervention; in some quarters insisting that wa
inexpedient, and in others unconstitutional, to i'm
pose the restriction Should it be true, the ele
graph communicates, that the bunker and Free
soil conventions have united, and that the unior
extends to the mass of voters, then it may be Sc
down as certain, for the consideration of the
Southern States and people, that the State of New
York, by common consent of all parties, is ranged
unchangeaby in favor of law of Congress for
bidding the existence of slavery in California and
New Mexico.