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The ADDRESS Of the Democratic Slatt
Convention Of Io,oa;--eohat others think ~
it.-The Albany Argus of the 10th ult. con-.
tains copious extracts from the Address
adopted by the Democratic State Conven.
ton, of Iowa, at their recent session in To-
wa City, accompanied by the following re-
marks by the Editor. We can but feel.
proud, that our own infant State, the Young
est ofthe American sisterhood, should have
assumed and maintained a position upon
questions Of National Politics which may
we'll be regarded with consideration by one
of the oldest aud most powerful the con-
federation, and which may be referred to by
all sections of our country as an example of
lofty and inteliigent patriotism.
We feel confident That the Democracy of
Iowa will stand to the position they have
taken. That they will not suffer themselves
to be drawn from it by a question which
has no practical application, throughout the
extent Of our territories, and which, in it's
wanton and useless agitation, can result on-
" in arousing and keeping alive those feel
ings of hostility which are already too
strongly manifested between the two sec-
tions of our country.
The DEMOCRATIC ATTITUDE ON THE SLA-
VERY QUEsTIoN-In the eloquent extract
which we make to-day from the address Of
the recent Democratic State Convention of
Iowa, will be found the true platform, on
which the democracy of the nation may
stand-and triumph. 1t is the old found.-
ton, on which JEFFERSON reared the fabric
OF the Democratic Party-which MADISON
maintained during the war Of lsl2-which
JACKSON re.at1irmed in his conflict with The
moueyed power of federalisn--o which
we're based the election and adminis.ra ton
of PoLK--and on which all sections OF che
Union, knowing no geograp hical lines in the
discharge Of their duty to the country, car
ried forward, with united energies and with
deeds of arms of unparalleled brilliancy and
success, the great feature ofthe late demo
cratic administration-the Mexican war;
Upon this broad national ground, the great
party ofthe nation can stand, as>it ever has
stood. and defy the assaults, the colnbina-
lions, or the strength of it's adve rsares. A
oSFdI from IL VIII Uc luz signal OF Its
disruption, aud it's inevitable overthrow, j!
not its extinction.
The distinctive feature of this address is
the rejection of the modern isms Of sectional
actions--Provi soisin at tue North. and NuI-
LITIGATION at the South-as part of the creed
and faith of the National Democratic Party
North and South are the elements Of agita-
ton and of extreme feeling. One extreme
demands, as an article Of political faith not
only that slavery shall be prohibt in the
new territories, but that it shall be declared
that in Congress is vested the constitution
al power Of inhibition, and That it ought
now to exercise it. The other extreme iii
sists upon the constitutional right of ct
zens of the slave states to transport thther
and hold their slaves 10 the new territory
regardless Of the local inhibition. While
we do not deny the right respectively to en-
terrain and avow these conflicting views we
utterly deny the right or the policy to re
quire the declaration ofeither as any part of
the democratic creed, or as an article Of de
mocratic faith. Leave them tc Tester in in
dividual bosons--to minister to personal as
pirations--to crafty personal resentments
or ppointnents-bu by no means to
canker and corrode the great body polite of
a party, the leading PRINCIPLES Of which be-.
long 70 all sections, and md Ell the brad md
liberal creed ofwhich the sincere fiisnds of
the country and our institutions can dctfo
gether for the maintainancs ola great com,