The southern press., 1851-08-06
Ftom the Nsw York Tribune.
Netice fer WhIg state Conyentlon.

Believing that an expression Of the views and
principles Of the Wings Of this State, as they
are understood by us, In relation particularly to
questions which now agi ate 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 OF the Union,
the State COMMITTEES, appointed at the respect
i've conventions held in 1860 ut Syracuse and
ut Utica, and the committee appointed by the
Wings OF the Legislature ut its recent session,
have agreed upon the following, AZ presenting
what they believe to be the sentiments 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
laws; an honest and faithful performance Of all
obligations made with foreign nations, with a
scrupulous regard for their rights, and firm
and steady defense of our own:
The improvement Of the important rivers
and harbors of the country, so as to render them
navigable and accessible, by prudent and syste-
matte appropriations, founded upon examinations
made by competent and disnterested public
officers.
ucCcSSa-
rily laid upon imports for the support of govern
ment, as shall secure to the industry of our
countrymen Just remuneration, and shall stimu-
late mechanical 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 inter-
change among ourselves of the fruits of our own
skill and labor, which is so well calculated to ce-
ment our Union, and maintain the spirit Of ma
tional independence.
That the Wings Of the State, as body, are
inhexibly opposed to the subsection of any ter
ritory of the United States now free, to laws
imposing involuntary servitude, except as pun
shment for crime; and they rejoice that no pro-
position to that effect is now pending, or is
likely to be presented while, at the same time,
they unqualitiedly acknowledge the r;oht Of
every sovereign State to regulate its own mum.
cipal institutions, in such manner as its people
may deem most conducive to their safety and
happiness, without interference, directly, or indi-
recty, by citizens Of other States, or subjects of
other countries
Thatthe Wings of this State will abide by the
Constitution of the Uni ed States, in all its
parts, and that they will receive it's true meaning
and construction from the judicial tribunals it
has created for that purpose, and will always sus-
tain and defend such decisions, as the atw of
the land, until thew are reversed by the same tri-
bunals:
That the laws of Congress, and of the State
pronounced constitutional by the
judicial tribunals, must be enforced and impli-
city obeyed and that while this is cheerfully
as the duty of all, as subjects Of the
laws, yet that the right of citizens as voters is
equally undeniable to discuss, with full and
mutual regard for the rights and interests of all
LErts OF the confederacy (Which 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 propiety 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 unmpaired, 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 attempts to resist, defeat, or render ineffect
ual, any laws passed by constitutional majorities
Of Legislative bodies, in either the federal or State
governments; and that the Wings Of New York
will ever be found prompt to render patriotic
lcquiescence in all such laws:
That the national administration is entitled
% the confidence and support o. the Wings of
New York, for the eminent ability and patriotism
which have characterzedit its measures for its snc-
,essful management Of foreign affairs the gen.
-rous sympathy it has exhibited toward an op-
pressed people struggling for freedom the force
md dignity with which it has maintained the
light to indulge such sympathy, and with which
has rebuked the threats of an imperious gov
,rnment to violate the immunties of an ac-
'redited pubic agent, and the de ermination it
las evinced to repress and defeat all movements
ending to impair the public faith, and all I'M
awful enterprises calculated to disturb the pub
ic peace and provoke civil war. or to sever or
weaken the relations of any State with the |
Union:
That the administration of this State has fully |
justified the confidence in its capacity, intell- |
,ence, and integrity, which called it into being;
hat the public interests in the various depart
nents Of education, finance, and Jurisprudence,
nd in the extension of the means Of intercourse
md of cheap transportation, have been vigor-
'usly and prudently sustained and promoted
constitutional government, by legal majorities,
'as been indicated, and the gen eral prosperity
# the State has been sedulously and success
ully maintained and by employing the means
which previous expenditures. guided by enght-
HSA
oDsummate the great work Of the age, has pre-
ented vivid contrast to the narrow. unjust
nd wasteful policy of those who would scatter
hose means by such an impotent application of
hem as would postpone to very distant pos
Gritty, If not indefinitely, the enjoyment Of an
stimable heritage Of wealth and prosperity.
That for the purpose Of sustaining these
Jews and principles in the election Of State off.
ers entertaining them at the ensuing general
lection, the committee aforementioned recon-
lend that convention, consisting Of one dele
ate from each assembly district Of the State,
g held at Syracuse, on the nth day of Sep
ember next, at l2 o'clock at noon.
Geo. Geddes, Geo. r. Babcock,
Jas. M. Cook, Howard G. Cady,
Chs. X. Swords. Hamilton Harris,
Committee Of the Legislature.
John L. Schoocraft Samuel Stevens,
Allen Munroe. James Kidd.
Robt. II. Prnyn, Nathan G.. King,
ii. Il. Hayner. b. r. Spelman,
Simeon Draper, Dennis Bowen.
Jas. t. M. Blskeley, W. r. Willard,
VIM. X. Strong, David Grsham,
Geo. M. Sayles, Thos H. Bond,