The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-03-21

win supply its lack of patriotism In Virginia,
matters do not work smoothly. Loadoun county
refuses TO send delegates. General Beale's dis
trict declines, and sustains its Representative.
we believe, has not yet decided. Kentucky has
decided to have nothing to do with the movement
An immense Benton meeting In ST. Louis accepts
Mr.. Calhoun's speech as proof conclusive that
Mr.. Benton was right in charging him with con-
spring against the Union and it issaid Missouri
will not be represented in the Nashville Conven-
ton Meantime the National Laslligenesr devotes,
occasionally, some eight or ten columns to an es-
say on said Convention, and in its last effort it
showed, pretty satisfactorily, that it was little
worse than the Hartford Convention of odorous
memory.
The North is taking things quite coolly, rely
ing, rashly enough, we opiue, upon the fidelity of
its representatives in Washington. 1t may wake
up, one Of these days, to find itself betrayed. We
fear it will We do not like the tone of many Of
its prominent party presses. 1t is tame and time
serving. We have alluded elsewhere to the re-
action of Hunkerism in the Democratic party.
1t is not universal In Rhode Island, we observe,
the Democrats and Free Soil men have united
upon one candidate for the Governorship-the
Hon. B B. Thurston, a worthy and faithful men,
Der of the last Congress. In Philadelphia, deter
mined not to be misrepresented by Messrs. Bu-
chanan, Brown, and Co, the Democrats held a
poble meeting in the Chinese Museum, week
ago. which, judging from the labored effort OF the
Pennsy lUo,ian three columns long, to counteract
the effects Of the meeting, we judge must have
been a most imposing display. Judge Petit pre-
sided and the assemblage was addressed by seve-
raj speakers, among them J. M. Read, and Mr..
Carter, member of Congress from Ohio, who
made, it is said, very vigorous speech on the
occasion. The following resolutions were adopted
unanimously:
Resolved, That Congress has the power to es-
tablish Territorial Governments and to prohibit
the extension of slavery into the free Territories
of the United States.
"Resolped, That the Territories acquired by
conquest and by purchase, from Mexico, came to
us free, are now free, and should forever remain
free
"Resolped, That Congress, possessing the power
over the Territories, and also the power to admit
new States into the Union, it is their bounden
duty, with the examples of Tennessee and Michi-
gan before them, to admit California with her
present Constitution and boundaries into the Con-
federacy.
"Resolued, That patriotism, sound policy, and
a just economy Of the public treasure, and the
universal desire to bind our citizens on the Paci-
fc to our glorious Union with bands of iron, de-
mand the Immediate and unconditional admission
t,a ipto bo oiato of
States and that our Senators and Members of
Congress from this State are earnestly requested
to use every honorable means to effect this most
desirable object.
Resolved That in the opinion of this meet
ing it is the duty of our State Legislature to pass
resolutions in favor of the immediate and uncon-
ditional admission of California into the Union.
"Resolped, That Pennsylvania frowns indig-
nantly upon all attempts to weaken or dissolve
the Union, and that she regards all conventions,
whether in the North or in the South whose OBJ
ects are open or secret separation or dissolution
to be reasonable and all the actors in them to be
moral traitors
Resolved That we recognise, to the fullest ex-
tent, the binding obligation of that provision of
| the Constitution of the United States, that de-
clares that no person held to service or labor in
| one State under the laws thereof escaping into
another shall be discharged from such service,
but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party
to whom such service or labor may be DUE
Resolred, That our watchword and ralying
cry is, The Union, it must and shall be pre-
served rD
The Mem York EUenmg Post remarks:
"They are bold, certainly, and far more direct
and unequivocal in their assertion of the right of
Congress to legislate for the Territories, and its
duty 30 to legislate to exclude from them the
calamity of slavery, than we had expected at
meeting at which we knew that numbers of those
who supported Mr.. Cass at the last election were
expected to take part These men, although they
gave their votes to the candidate whose nomna-
ton had in their opinion, the usual regular FORMS
are vet determined to say an honest word on the
great controversy which now agitates the people
of the United States"
Meantime we say to the friends of Freedom
everywhere, stand to your arms. The moment
for the final struggle approaches. You may be
deceived-it may now be beyond your power to
prevent the contamination of the Treason long
meditated against the cause of Freedom-but, it
is not beyond your power to punish the traitors.
You shall hear of them, and then-the places that
now know them will know them no more forever.