The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-19
From The Ms,c York Erening Post.

vENTIos.--The nomination of candidates made
last week for democratic party, at the Syracuse
Convention, will meet with very general sup
port among the democratic party. The Wings
themselves admit the probability Of its finding
favor with the people, and some of their journals
are cndeavoring to awake their readers to what
they call the extreme danger of its success.
! The assent which the nominations of the con-
vention will command will be withheld from
some part of the resolutions adopted by the con-
venton. These however, to speak strictly, are
merely an expression of the opinions OF those
who proposed them They were drawn up by
Il committee in which the bunker faction had a
majority not q very courageous one, and they
We're hurried through the convention under the
pressure of the previous question, without ex-
animation or co, sideraton. So far as they re-
late 10 the Slavery question, they are The merest
and most piiiabls drirrning in The rorld, and IL
,ooud be manifestly unjust 10 make the convention
generally responsible for them.
The second resolution, for example, in which
the country is congratulated on the recent set
Element of that question by Congress- aflirms
what the proceedings of Congress, on the very
day when the Convention adopted the resolu-
ton, prove to be false. They were quarrelling
about the slavery question, in Congress, at that
very moment they had been quarreling about
it for weeks previous they are quarrelling about
| it yet. Besides, the measures adopted by Com
gress do not themselves, even, purpOrt to settle
the question. As regards the admission OF Cali
fornia, that, to be sure, is measure which cam
not be undone; AMI so far, the country may
| well be congratulated on what Congress has
DONE The boundary of Texas is also virtually
! fixed by Congress, and in manner for which
we have reason to take shame, rather than ex-
press satisfaction.
But with regard to the other measures, the
| Of f,r al hill hy which tho
citizen of the Northern States, arrested on a
false charge of being slave, is stripped OF the
! right of trial by jury, and carried Oft to re-
mote part of the Union, where it may be inn
possissible for him to procure the proof OF his
freedom, is no settlement of the controversy,
and no subject of congratulation. This law-for
we take it for granted it has MIR. Fimores sig
nature by this time, nasmuch as MIR. Fillmore
has not the courage to put his veto on a bill of
the kind however Objectionable may be its pro-
vsions-this law is, like Others open to revision,
to alteration, to repeal; nor is it of such ma
ture that it can be allowed to stand as it is
The metaphor-makers on the floor Of Congress
often talk of frebrands, but here is a firebrand
which threatens to keep Congress in flame for
many sessions to come.
The bills for the government of New Mexico
and Utah also settle nothing permanently. The
governments provided for these territories are
open to examination and amendment The
question, what regulations are needful Tor their
welfare, is a question which may be brought
under the notice of Congress ut any time and
| there is nothing to prevent its being made
the staple Of another controversy, as tedious ms
the one which has occupied the present session.
1taen there is the question of admitting New
Mexico into the Union rs State 1t will I'M
questionably be again urged upon Congress at
the next session, and it cannot be uncerenioni-
ously set aside.
! The second resolution is therefore as silly an
affair as if it feicitated the country upon the
abolition of the typhus fever or the dysentery.
No doubt it would be cause Of congratulation,
and of most hearty cOngratulaton, if we could
see this cause of contention removed from our
midst, by the adoption of some liberal and
humane measure favorable to freedom, and this
is probably all that the majority Of the Con-
vention meant when they passed the hasty vote
on these resolutions.
The resolutions referred to are as follows:
Mr.. OConor, chairman of the COMMITTEES on
resolutions, presented the following
l. Resolued, That the Democratic party of
| New York are proud to avow their fraternity
| with, and their devotion to the great principles
of the Democratic party Of the Union, as de-
cared in the National Democratic Conventions
held at Baltimore in 1910, "A and 48, and they
look forward in hope and confidence to the COM
pcte triumph of that party in 1862.
2. Resotred, That we congratulate the coun-
try upon the recent settlement by Congress of
the questions which have unhappily divided the
people of these States.
g. Resolved, That the Democracy of the State
of New York, appreciating the value of union,
fraternity and concord, standing upon their
ancient principles, present their candidates with
confident reliance upon the united and cordial
support of all who desire the ascendancy of
those principles in the State and National coun-
ellis.
| a. Resolped, That whilst we wage no factious
war against the constituent authorities, and as
American citizens, will stand firmly by our
country by whomsoever its government may be
administered, we regard the action of the Wing
National Administration, from the first exhibit
tons of its proscriptive and ntolerant course, to
the climax of the Galphin claim as worthy Of
the false prctences under which it came into
power, and of professions which have been in
variably violated.
s. Resolped, That the wing administration of
this State is reiteraton of the series of extra
vagances in the public expenditure, and violations
of the constitution, and of an unsound and y
lavish policy which have signalized the course of
the party which aided by discussions in the de-
mocratic ranks brought that administration in
to power, and that the interest of the people and
the character Of the State demand speedy re-
turn to the wise, safe and approved policy ofthe
democratic administrations.
g. Resolred, That devoted to the principles
and form of our confederation, ever mindful of
the blessings il has secured to ourselves and to
mankind, and regarding the citizens of all sec
tons of our country as members of a common
brotherhood, we cherish the union Of the States
as the ark of our political covenant, and that we
deprecate all sectional agitatiors at the North or
South, calculated to impair its sacred obligations,
or-to threaten its pcrpetuity.
Greens.
The Editor of the Boston Post perpetrates