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Democratic state Convention"
At.mss,;ny of the Democratic State Central Com
mi,tee held al The Democratic Reading Room IN Boston,
Wsdoesay June 49, the following report submitted BY
,ha uon Caleb Gushing. on behalf OF the executive
comm tee was unanimously adopted, the question there
IN being taken BY yeas and nays;
COMMONWEALTH MASSACHUSETTS.
n. Democratic State Central COMMITTEE, 18th June
1851.
The executive committee, instructed by the State CEN
trail committee consider and prepare plan OF organl.
zaon OF the democratic party throughout the Common
wealth. and to carry the same into effect report:
Tue executive committee have reflected carefully ana
have arrived settled convictions the subject referred
10 them; but nasmuch as since the time when the rel
erence made, indications OF possible division
OF sentiment questions OF paramount consequence nave
appeared in the Commonwealth, the executive commit
tee before proceeding action have deemed 10 De due
TO candor and sincerity their part and an act oil proper
Difference and respect Tor the STATE commee 10 present
for its consideration the views hey personally entertain
and IN ASK of IL further and decisive instructions IN
the premises. sn =, -,
of the United States have been distracted by the discus
sion OF public question which, independently OF other
relations of it, is OF vital moment to the inhabitants OF
one hall OF the States OF The Union, because il affects
directly their lives and fortunes
The discussion OF this question has elected more than
the usual warmth of feeling on both sides, not only be-
cause OF it's intrinsic importance TO The South, but sui
more because involves claim on The part OF the North
to change, by volunteer intervention the social and po
ltca institutions OF the South, and because the North
manests the subject passionate ardor, kinded by
force OF conviction, on certain points OF moral and po
Thus il has come to pass that the and the
effect OF the agitation OF this question, we have wit.
nessed the following stages the progress OF the dsn-
teeration and organic dissolution OF the Union, namely
j. A severance of most OF the churches OF the United
States into two distinct and hostile religious nalonaues
in place OF that their previous unity OF religious ogan
cation which had constituted of the strongest moral
bonds Of the political nationality Of the Union.
q The gradual separation OF the educational lnstitu
of tho ptrV
cessation of the previous Practice the part OF the young
men OF the South, OF pursuing the higher branches OF ed
ucation at the North
g. Violent conflict of political nieres-he North srug
Cling continually acquire facilities of attack, and the
South to obtain vanage-ground OF defence
4. The growth OF spIt OF elimination and Iecrmna.
ton-the North heated by exaggeation of theory and
opinion the South by sense OF peril arising from their
numerical nferorly in Congress-; and in both
of the Union personal ambition making the emotion of
the day instrument OF power and inlaming and i'm
differing the popular passions to promote lis own inter
ested object dlsregardtu OF the general good
S. Following upon this more or less personal es
trang and reciprocal hard feeling indicated al the
North by the vituperalve language OF debate, newspa
pers public meetings, and Official bodies, towards the
citizens of the South, and manifested the South in the
introduction of manufactures and shipping OF their
in place of in the encouragement OF colleges for
education at home, and in abstinence from accustomed
acts OF social intercourse al the North
6. The Reorganization of those great parties which
have served hitherto 10 impart to political action gem
eraliy of and nationality Of scope Neither
between the North and the South al the North
the South, does that concert cordially exist Acts
of Congress are passed by combination OF democrats
and wings against a combination OF wings and demo-
Gratis In of the States OF the South the distinction
of wing and democrat has ceased appear in public
affairs In the North, each OF the old parties itself
subdvied, and both are held in check by third party
the free soers-wElch is organization hostile TO both
In States the wings reproach the democrats for
operating with free soeTs; while the wings themselves
in the in other States, have coaleced with tree
soileTs Others and thus endeavored TO bold the domn
ion Of the State This partial disnlegraton OF parties
is the important, nasmuch the constitution pro-
vides means OF concert IN electoral action. which
has been secured under only by national conventions,
something OF that nature and the tendency OF this
party anarchy, therefore, 10 produce political anarchy
In fact, such is already the Reorganization OF pare
that, without combinations OF sort IN many OF the
States it would be impossible 10 accomplish the annual
continuation and renewal OF government which the State
constitutions require.
T. Not to swell much this enumeration of the pro
OF dissolution OF the Union already apparently in
train OF action, II will suffice to add more, the
summation OF the Others and that is the general discus
sion going on as 10 whether the Union ought
TO be preserved, and The deliberate proposition and advo
cacy both ends Of the Union well Massacbu
in South Carolina OF notification and dissolution, by
presses individuals, public meetings. associated bodies
and authorizes OF States
He who denies that there danger 10 the Union in all
this must be lmpefecty acquainted with the facts
prejudced by feeling position 10 suppose that
halt Of the States OF the Union will submit passvely 10
unlimited aggression and incessant attack from the other
States.
The exgency calls upor deliberately to inspect and
measure lne danger and calmly 10 decide what Is the duty
OF a good citizen in this emergency
The discussion OF the slavery topic has obviously
sumed phssis since The close OF the late Congress
That body disposed of the question: relates
the territories acquired from Mexico-tha s far il
was question whether the domain OF slavery IN the
United States should be augmented not, leaving this
De decided by the people inhabllng the new States or
Territories Congress also surveyed the whole subject,
and sought 10 dispose OF il entirely BY the adoption OF
system OF for the legal adjustment of the slave
relations OF the North and the South which, the
controversy the North has become for the exn.
punishment OF negro slavery iselfno previously for
ITS restriction merely within assigned limits.
ms new form OF the question appears in the debates
relating TO one OF The paris OF that system OF adjustment
And the only part beneficial TO The South-nsmey, the
amendmen; OF the law concerning the extraditon OF iugi-
tive slaves
con'ended by many persons at the North that this
law unconstitutional II has been formally resolved by
puolc oodies thai whether constitutional or not the law
shall not be executed; aud The nuhcation OF it has in
some places been attempted and effected either by
osce. by the non action OF the officers charged with ts
execuhon or by me abusive application OF legal devices
and conrvances.
IL, then, the extradi,ion act OF 1850 unconstitutional
The answer TO The question is two-fod. First, the
consuu,ionalty OF this particular law has been consld
cred already, and affirmed by the proper judicial authority
IN several OF the States Secondly the objections to III
consulionay, alleged in argument, such the hobeo
corpus question and the al-by jury question, have been
many tunes considered and oveTruled by The Supreme
Cou, Of the United States and by the higbes, judicial
tribunals OF many OF the States-Massacbusefls among
tne reson occasion OF process arising under the extra
OF law.
To this many persons chiefly men altogether I'M
skleo I'D .he science OF law, reply that in their iudg
men the ACTS unconstitutional and thefsiore they will
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