Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-10-26

adopted the Buffalo Platform. appointed a Stat,
Central Committee. recommended a thorough or
ganzation Of the friends of Van Buren, and Ad
ans through the State. and the holding ola Stat,
Convention at Madison. the 9th of September, t
nominate an Electoral ticket The Convention
at Madison discharged its duties faithfully. anc
appointed Committee 70 address the people o.
the State through the columns of the press, anC
a Committee OF six To prepare and report to ar
adjourned meeting, in January, plan OF perma-
nent and efficient organization, and fall and ex-
phclt declaration of principles, State aud Ma
tlona.
The CanraSS--tbe Result IN this STATE,
The Canvass was conducted with much earn
estness,--the Free Democracy standing en- the
immovable basis of Free principles, and the Cass
and Taylor parties occupying the evcr-shifting
grounds Of eXpediencv. Their leaders admitted
our principles, but said they could be best secured
by election of men whose declarations and deeds
were opposed to them. They had the old organ
zations, most Of the presses, and all the machi-
merry of party. and the means of influencing pub
lie sentiment in their hands. But against this
formidable opposition, the Free Democracy poll
ed l0,3JO votes, to 1850 Taylor, and $4,000
Cass votes. In New York, Massachusetts,, and
Vermont, Van Buren, bad a plurality ofvotes over
Cass, and in the Free States, his supporters
mustered nearly 100000 strong
Flee ion Of Senator Walker.
AT the meeting of the Legislature, the Cass
members, having majority, elected Senator for
six years, Isaac p. Walker, who had perambula-
ted the State, and by falsely representing that
Cass would not veto the Wimot Proyso, had
contributed largely to the success of the Cass
electoral ticket
action of the State Contention.
The Free Democracy met in Convention, at
Madison, January 18th, pursuant TO adjournment
and adopted a platform, substantially the same
as that embraced in the resolutions of this State
Convention. They affirmed the Free Soil creed
of the Baffalo Platform, and specifically main
tanned the principles of Homestead Exemption,
Land Limitation, and the free grant OF Public
Lands, at the cost of survey and transfer, to
Iande,s actual settlers. They also declared
their willingness to unite with any party, or the
members Of any party, that adopted, in good
faith, their principles.
Resolutions Of Instruction to Senator's.
The next movement, was the Introduction into
the Ass mbly. by Mr. Hastings, Of Geneva, of
the Free Soil Resolutions Of Instruction. affirm
ing the distinctive principles of the Free De-
mocracy on the slave question, and requiring our
Senators and our Representatives in Congress,
10 maintain thos' principles as members OF the
National l. .gi~ature. Those resolutions were
thoroughly discussed and ably defended by Mr.
Hastings and others, and opposed and emascu-
lated by the Cass majority and in this state were
sent to the Senate, which restored them to their
original proportions and returned them TO the
Assembly. where they were passed 81 to n, two
thirds Of the Cass memb1rs--20 to I0--rotiRg
a2uiRSi them.
Progress Of Free Soil Principles
But the principles Of the Free Democracy
were making rapid progress in all the Free
States. The election OF Salmon p. Chase, of
Ohio, to the United States Senate, in place Of
William Allen, and the union Of Free Soil rs ard
Democrats in the support OF three ngressional
candidates in Connecticut, were regarded as a
great triumph for Freedom, and the current set
so strongly in favor Of Free Democracy, that
public men and the public press spoke openly Of
union of the Democratic and Free Soil partie
On the basis of Free Soil principles.
Iai1u Increment IN WaubeSAa.
In the early part Of February, a cali was issued
to the True Democracy OF Waukesha county"
10 meet in convention, at Waukesha, the 9TH Of
March, and reorganize. The call. drawn by 4.
w. Randall. embraced no principles or basis Of
union. save opsosiuon to the present Administra-
ton. and was vaguely worded, that it might not
prejudice and vet draw together Cas- men and
Free Soil men into one organization. By pre-
Arrangement, the officers were all selected from
the Cas- party, and the subsequent proceedings
of the m seting plainly showed thati its managers
design ID to transfer The Free Democratic party
into the hand, Of the Iunkcrs. Accordingly a
union was made at the outset, and those MEM
b,rs OF the Free Soil party, formerly belonging
10 the Wing and Liberty parties, should have no
voice in the convention, which was modified by
the additional proyiso, unless they would pledg.
themselves to sustain the Democratic party and
votcthe Democratic ticket This motion failed
The resolutions were drawn by Mr. Randall and
were similar TO those adopted at Madison. with
the omission of one on Land Reform, which was
inserted By vote OF the convention. The COM
mittecs appointed by this convention for the re-
organization OF the union party IN that county
were all Cass men, or members OF the Cass party,
a strong proof OF the Interior Objects coutempla-
ted by the oriLinatora Of this movement.
Detection If Senator. IFalter-Cnioa Rcs0yit-
ii0ns.
The course Of Senator Walker in disobaving
the positive instructions of the LEGISLATURE by
Offering and advocating, in the l ). Senate, his
amendment. organizing Government IN Ca.iIor-
MA. without Incorporating IN II the provisions OF
TIE Ordinance OF 81. was threatening to defeat
the EaTlN itaL tltCllu itliI, dtll tte4-lo
themselves earnestly to the task of relieving
themselves from burden which they could not
carry. and of strengthening their position for the
future They proposed a nnIon with the Free be
mocratic party on the basis ct the Madison Plat
form adopted by our State convention in Janaa-
~. and after passing the Union Resolutions, the
3Dth of March. in joint Legislative caucus, they
united with the other members OF the Legisla-
ture-niue Cass men disaeuung-in censunng
Mr.. Walker Tor djs>obedenCe 10 their viii. and
instructed him forthwith 10 resign. Both Of
these acts were generally approved by great
ma orrv of the presses and the Cass party in this
State. and the union was spoken OF a. already
cousummated.
Propositions If tis Free Democratic Committee
FIR Union.
The Free Democratic State Central commit
toe. at their meeting the 9th Of May, invited the
d mocratic State central conmi Tee % unite with
them in calling q Union STATE convention. the
l2th Of ) ,ptemb,r, fIr the purpos1 Of nominating
ticket tur State officers in accordance with the
recomm ndat0us Of the Union legislative NEE
tinr. This would have eT'ct d Z union Of the
people at the primary meetings.
The Cas- STATE Cammnittss roget tae Proposal
for UHlaB
To this proposition. the ID mocratic committee
returned fiat refusal, declaring that they had 10