The republic., 1851-08-05

/ = now Pleuge myself 10 virginia. ana the
South generally, that not merely is New England.
as was told, coming right upon the Compromise,
but has already come right There is not only
revolution Of her public mind foot, as TO that
subject, but revolution already effected; still in
progress, but needing no further advancement to
make it either effectual secure
The following is the call unanimously adopt
ed by the several committees:
NOTICE FOR WING STATE CONVENTION.
Believing that expression of the views and
principles of the Wings of this State, as they
understood by US, in relation particularly TO ques-
tions which now agitate the country, should be
made in order to induce intelligen honest, and
cordial cooperation among ourselves and with the
Wings of the other States OF the Union, the State
committees appointed at the respective conventions
held in 1850 at Syracuse and at Utica and the COM
mittee appointed by the Wings OF the Legislature
at its recent session, have agreed upon the follow
ing as presenting what they believe to be the
timents of the great body of the Wings of the
State of New York:
An economical administration of the Govern
ment;
The strict accountability of public officers, and
their rigid adherence TO the limitations of power
prescribed by the Constitution and the aws an hon.
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with foreign nations, with a scrupulous regard for
their rights, and firm and steady defence of our
| own;
The Improvement of the important rivers and
harbors of the country, to render them nav
igable and accessible, by prudent and systematic
| appropriations, founded upon examinations made
| by competent and disinterested public officers;
| Such discrimination in the duties neces ,arily
laid upon imports for the support of Government
as shall secure TO the industry of country
| men just remuneration, and shall stimulate me-
chanlcal and manufacturing enterprise, and thus
provide home consumption for the products OF
agriculture which may control and counteract the
| unsteady demands of foreign markets, and as shall
promote that healthy interchange among ourselves
| of the fruits of our skill and labor which is so
well calculated to cement our Union and maintain
| the spirit of national independence;
| That the Wings of the State as a body are in
| flexiby opposed to the subjection of any Terri
tory of the United States now free to laws imposing
| involuntary servitude, except as punishment for
crime, and they rejoice that proposition to that
effect is pending is likely to be presented;
| while, at the same time, they unqualihedly ac-
knowledge the right of every sovereign State to
! regulate it's own municipal institutions in such
manner as its people may deem most conducive to
Il
directly or indirectly, by citizens of other States
| or subjects of other countries;
| That the Wings of this State will abide by the
| Constitution of the United States in all its parts,
and that they will receive its true meaning and
construction from the judicial tribunals it has
| created for that purpose; and will always sustain
and defend such decisions as the law of the land
until they are reversed by the same tribunals;
That laws of Congress, and of the State Legisa-
| tures, pronounced constitutional by the judicial
tribunals, must be enforced and implicitly obeyed
and that while this is cheerfuy recognised as the
duty of all, subjects of the laws yet that the
right of citizens, voters, is equally undeniable
to discuss, with full and mutual regard for the
rights and interests of all parts of the Confederacy
(Which is necessary now TO maintain, it was in
dispensable TO achieve, the blessed Union of these
States,) the expediency of such laws, and the pro-
prlety of any OF their provisions, and to seek by
constitutional means, their repeal or modification
That all who are animated by sincere desire
to preserve the Union unimpaired, and the free
| institutions which it sustains and guarantees-by
which alone individual security and national
| peace and prosperity can be perpctuated-must
condemn all attempts to resist, defeat, or render
| Intellectual any laws passed by constitutional ma
jorities of legislative bodes in either the Federal
| or State governments; and that the Wings of New
York will ever be found prompt to render pa
| triotc acquiescence in all such laws;
That the National Administration is entitled to
| the confidence and support of the Wings of New
| York for the eminent ability and patriotism which
have characterized its measures for its successful
| management of foreign affairs, the generous
| sympathy it has exhibited towards an oppressed
people struggling for freedom, the force and dig
| nifty with which it has maintained the right to in
dulge such sympathy, and with which it has re-
| buked the threats of imperious government to
violate the mmunities of an accredited public
agent and the determination it has evinced to re-
press and defeat all movements tending to impair
the public faith, and all unlawful enterprises cal
| culated to disturb the public peace and provoke
| civil war; or TO weaken the relations of any
State with the Union;
! That the Wing administration OF this State has
fully justified the confidence IN its capacity intel
hgence and integrity, which called it into being;
that the public interests in the various departments
OF education, finance, and jurisprudence, and in
| the extension OF the means of intercourse and Of
cheap transportation, have been vigorously and
Prudently sustained and promoted; constitutional
government by legal majorties, has been vindi-
Gated, and the general prosperity of the State has
| been sedulously and successfully maintained and
| by employing the means which previous expendi-
| lures, guided by enlightened forecast, had placed
| within our reach, to consummate the great work
of the age. has presented vivid contrast to the
narrow, unjust and wasteful policy of those who
would scatter those means by such an impotent
application of them would postpone, to very
distant posterity, if not indefinitely, the enjoyment
OF an inestimable heritage of wealth and pros
| perity.
| That for the purpose of sustaining these views
and principles in the election of State officers en-
tortaining them.a at the ensuing general election,
the committees above entioned recommend that a
convention consisting of one delegate from each
Assembly district Of the State be held at Syra-
cuse, on the nth day of September next at twelve
O'Clock at noon.
GEO. GEDDEs,
| GEO. r. BABcocK,
JAMES NJ. Cook
HOWARD G. Cary,
Chs. r. SWORDS
HAMILTON HARRIs,
Committee Of The Legislature.