Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-09
NOTICE OF A wHIG STATE CONVENTION.

NOTICE OF wHIG STATE CONVENTION.
The Waigs Of New Fork.
Believing that an expression of the views and
principles Of the Wings of this State, as they are
understood by u.s. in relation particularly 70 ques-
tons which now agiate 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 respective Conventions
held in 1850 at Syracuse and at Utica, and the
Committee appointed by the Wings of the Legisla-
ure at its recent session, have agreed upon the fol-
lowing, as 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 Government
The strict accountability public officers and their rigid
adherence the limitations Of power prescribed by the Con-
stuton and the laws an honest and faithful performance Of
all obligations made with foreign nations, with scrupuous
regard for their rights and firm and steady defence Of our
own:
The improvement Of the important rivers and harbors Of
the country = 70 render them navgabe and accessible by
prudent and systematic appropriations founded upon exam
nations made by competent and dnseested public officers
Such discrimination in the duties necessarily laid upon
imports for the support Of Government shall the
industry Of countymen just remuneration, and shall
stimulate mechanical and manufacturing enterprise, and thus
provide home consumption for the products Of agriculture.
which may control and counersc the unsteady demands Of
foreign markets. and shall that healthy interchange
among ourselves Of The fruits Of skill and labor
which well calculated to cement our Union and main
tain the spirit Of national Independence; y,
Tha, the Wings Of the STATE as body are inasTiby op
posed the subcon Of any territory Of the United States
free to laws imposing involuntary seryude except as
punishment for crime, and they rejoice that proposition
that effect pending likely to be presented whie
the time. they unqua6edy acknowledge the right
every sovereign State to regulate it, municipal insu
ons in such manner ito people may deem conducive
their safety and happiness without interfaence directly
indirectly, BY citizens Of other sae subjects Of other
countries:
That the Wings Of this State will abide by the Constu-
ton Of the United States in al its parts and that they will
receive ts true meaning and construction from the judicial
tribunals has created for that purpose and will always sus-
tain and defend such decisions the law of the land until
they reversed by the same tribunals
That laws Of Congress and Of the State Legislatures pro-
nounced constitutional by the judicial tribunals must be
forced and implicitly obeyed; and that while this cheer
fully recognised the duty Of all subjects Of the laws yet
that the right Of citizens, voters, is equally undenisbe
discuss, with full and mutual regard for the rights and ine
rests Of all parts Of the Confederacy (Which necessary
to maintain il indispensable achieve the bless
cd Union Of these States the expedency Of such laws and
the propey Of any Of their provisions and SEEK BY con-
stutional means, their repeal modification
That all who animated by sincere desire to preserve
the Union unmpared and the free institutions which sus
tans and guarantees BY which alone individual security and
national peace and prosperity be pepetuated
denim all attempts to resist deeat render Intellectual any
laws passed by constitutional maoes Of legislative bodies
in either the Federal State Governments and that the
Wings Of New York will be found prompt render
patriotic acquiescence in all such laws:
That the National Administration is entitled to the conf
dence and support Of the Wings Of New York for the emil
ability and patriotism which have characterized its mea-
for its successful management Of our foreign affairs
the generous sympathy has exhibited towards oppressed
people struggling for freedom the force and dignity with
which has maintained the light to indulge such sympathy
and with which il has rebukedhe threats Of an mperious
Government to violate the mmunes Of accredited public
agent; and the discrimination it has evnced toepre and
defeat all movements tending impair the public faith and
all unlawful enterprises calculated to disturb the public peace
and provoke civil war weaken the relations Of
any State with the Union Ese. |
That the Wing Administration Of this State has fully jus-
titled the confidence its capacity intelligence, and ineg
y which called into being that the public interests in the
various departments of Education, Finance and Jurisp
dence and in the extension Of the Of intercourse and
cheap transportation been vigorously and prudeny
tanned and promoted Constitutional Government by legal
maories has been vndcated and the general prosperity Of
the State has been seduousy and successfully maintained
and by employing the which previous expenditures
guided by enlightened forecast had placed within our reach
consummate the great work Of the age has presented
vivid contrast to the narrow, unjust and wastefu policy
those who would scatter those by such impotent
application Of them would postpone very distant pos
teriy if not indefinitely the enjoyment Of nestimable
heritage of wealth and prosperity
That, for the purpose Of sustaining these views |
and principles in the election Of State Officers en-
tertanng them at the ensuing general election, the
Committees above mentioned recommend that a |
Convention, consisting Of one delegate from each |
assembly district Of the State, be held at Syracuse
on the 18th day Of September next, at 10 o'clock
at noon. GEO. GEDDEs,
GEO. r. BABCOCK,
JAS. M. COOK,
HOWARD G. CADY,
CHS. r. SWORDS,
HAMILTON HARRIS,
Committee Of the Legislature.
John l.. Schoolcrat, Samuel Stevens
Allen Munroe, James Kidd,
Robert H. Pruyn, Nathan G.. King,
H. 2. Hayner, B. r. Speman,
Simeon Draper, Dennis Bowen,
James T. M Blakeley, w. r. Willard,
VIM. X. Strong, David Graham,
Geo. M. ssyes, Thos H. Bond,
Franklin Townsend, T.evan vechteu, Jr
Frederick HolLser, Arthur H. Root