Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-08-14
Reunion Of the WING Party or y.

particularly to questions which now agi-
tate the country, should be made, in order
to induce an intelligent, honest and cordial
cooperation among ourselves and with
the Wings Of the other States ofthe Union,
the State committees, appointed at the re-
spcctive conventions held in 1850, at SYRIA
cuse and at Utica, and the committee APP
pointed by the Wings Of the Legislature at
its recent session, haveagreed upon the fol-
lowing, as presenting what they believe TO
be the sentiments of the great body of the
Wings of the State ofNew York
Aneconomical administration ofthe Gov
eminent
The strict accountability Of public OIL
GERS, and their rigid adherence to the limi-
tations Of power prescribed by the cons,i-
tuition and the laws; an honest and faith
full performance of all obligations made
with foreign nations, with scrupulous re-
gard for their rights, and firm and steady
defence Of our own.
The Improvement ftheimportant rivers
and harbors Of the country, so as to render
them navigable and accessible, BY prudent
and systematic appropriations, founded up
on examinations made BY competent and
disintcrested public officers.
Such discrimination in the duties ne
ccssarily laid upon the imports for the sup
port of Government, as shall secure to
the industry of our countrymen just re-
Enumeration, and shall stimulate mechanical
and manufacturing enterprise, and thus
provide home consumption for the pro-
ducts Of agriculture, which may control
and countcract the unsteady demands Of
foreign markets, and as shall promote that
healthy interchange among ourselves Of
the fruits of our own skill and labor,which
is SO well calculated to cement our Union,
and maintain the spirit ofnational indepen-
dcncc:
That the Wings Of the state, as body,
are inlexibly opposed to the subsection Of
any territory otthe United States now free,
to laws imposing involuntary servitudc, cx-
cept as a punishment for crime; and they
rejoice that no proposition 10 that effect is
now pending, or Is likely to be presented,
while at the same time they unqualGedly
acknowledge the right ofevery sovereign
state to regulate its own municipal institu-
tons in such manner as lis people may deem
most conducive to their safety and happi-
ness, without interference, directly or indi-
rectly by citizens o! other states Or subjects
Of other countries.
That the wings Of this state VIII abide
by the constitution Of the United States in all
its parts, and 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.
Thai the laws Of Congress and Of the
state legislature, pronounced constitutional
by the Judicial tribunals, must be enforced
and implicitly obeyed, and that while this
is cheeriully recognised as the duty of all,
as subjects of the laws, yet that the right
ofcitizens, as voters, is equally undeniable
to discuss. with full and mutual regard
for the rights and interests of all parts of
the conlcderacy, (Which it is as necessary
now to maintain, as it was indispensable
to achieve the blessed Union Of these
states,) the expediency Of such laws and
the propriety Of any oftheir provisions, and
to seek by constitutional means their repeal
or modification.
That all who are animated by a sincere
desireto 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 perpetuated. must condemn all at
tcmpts 10 resist, defeat, or renderinelfectu-
al, any laws passed by constitutional ma
jorities oflegislativc bodies in either the
federal or state governments, and that the
Wings of New York will ever be found
prompt to render a patriotic acquiescnce
IN allsuch laws.
That the National 4 administration is en-
titled to the confidence and support of the
Wings Of New York, for the eminent abil-
ity and patriotism which have character
lied its measures, for its successful man
agement of our foreign affairs, the generous
sympathy it has exhibited towards an OPP
pressed people struggling for freedom; the
force and dignity with which ithas MAIN
tanned the right to indulge such sympathy,
and with which it has rebukcd the threats
Of an imperious Government to violate the
Of an accredited public agent
and the determination it has ever evinccd to
rcprcss and defeat all movements tending
to impair the public faith, and all unlawful
enterprises calculated to disturb the pub
lie peace and provoke civil war, or to sew
er or weaken the relations of any State
with the Union.
That the Administration of this State
has fully justified the confidence in lis ca
pacity, intelligence and integrity, which
called it into being; that the public interest
in the various departments of education,
finance and Jurisprudence, and in the ex-
tension Of the means Of intercourse and of
cheap transportation, have been vigorous
ly and prudently sustained and promoted;
constitutional government, by legal major
tics has been indicated, aud the general
prosperity Of the State has been sedulous-
ly and successfully maintained; and BY
employing the means which previous ex-
pcnditures, guided by enlightened forecast,
the greatwork Of the agc,has presented Vi
vidcontrastto the narrow,unust and waste
full policy ef those who would scatter those
means by such an impotent application of
tEcm as would postpone to very distant
posterity, ifnot indefinitely, the enjoyment
Of an incstimable heritage Of wealth and
prosperity.
That for the purpose Of sustaining these
views and principles III the election ofstate
officers entertaining them at the ensuing
general election, the committees above mem
toned recommend that 4 convention CON
sisting of one delegate from each assembly
district of the State, be held at Syracuse,
on the 18th day Of September next, at II,
o'clock, at noon.
Geo. Geddes, Geo II. Babcock,
Jas Nj. Cook, Howard G. Cady,