Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-08-28
Mass. State Convention.

The Boston Post saws that the best evidence
it can have of the wisdom of the proceedings of
the convention which assembled at Worcester
on the Goth inst, is presented in the fac, that
they are entirely unsatisfactory to the oppo-
nents of the democratic party generally. 1t
was the largest convention of delegates ever
convened in that State. There were, probably
ii or 1900 regularly elected delegates in the
convention. After long elaboration, the
committee on resolutions, through It's chair
man, Hon. B. F. Hallet, of Boston, reported
the following resolutions, and they were adop-
ted BY large majority .... bad a...
1. Rcsolred, That the democratic party is
prominently national, anti-sectonal, and for
the union as whole union-that ii has ALWAYS
sustained, and can only retain its supremacy in
the union, by adhering to its own men and
measures; reposng on its fundamental princi-
pie of excluding all tests marked BY sectional
lines, South or North, East or West and bv
leaving to the sound sense of the people of each
state and territory, their domestic policy and
Institutions '..-r ---.r 8..-..i - .--.
2. Resolued. That this convention recon-
mends to the National Democratic Committee,
and TO the democracy of each state, the call of
National Convention to be held in Baltimore
in May, 1852, for nomination of candidates
for President and Vice President of the United
States. - -.r 5au-.-.erf s..- q. p- .-. BIG
3. Resolred That this convention, being now
called together for the purpose of eectng del
egates at large to the National Convention, il
is the especial duty of the representatives of the
democracy of Massachusetts here assembled
frankly, distinctly and fully TO lay down the
National Platform upon which those delegates
are to represent in that convention, before
proceeding to their election. 4ss4 7r-
A. Resolred, That this convention reaffirms
the resolution passed BY the Democratic State
Convention, Sept. Is, 1916, in Faneuil Hall,
in these words, viz g Resolved, that we hold
to the integrity of the union as established by
the constitution, and therefore rre deprecate as
disunion IN its ,co' st FORM The attempts of any
party or class of men to stigmatize and denounce
one portion of the union for its domestic insti-
tntions, with which the constitution does not
interfere, and of the propriety of which each
state is its own independent Judge"
5. ResOlred, That this convention approves
of and adopts the national principles and sound
reasoning of the address issued by the Demo-
cratic State Committee calling this conven-
ton. s... tl-- Hlt s 1a.r
6. Resohred, That the democratic party ofthis
Commonwealth is national, and not section
al party, and fully and uu'eseruedly adopts the
resolutions of the National Democratic Conven-
ton at Baltimore in 1913, as the only true
democratic creed.
Z. Resoired, That the Baltimore Platform
covers, and was intended to embrace, the whole
question of slave agitation in congress, and we
therefore go for faithful execution of, and ac-
quiescence in, all the compromise measures set
tied by the last congress. 4a
8. Resoired, That Charles g. Greene, of
Suffolk, Henry w. Childs, of Berkshire, and
Isaac Davis, of Worcester, be appointed the
two delegates at large, and one from the New
District that they be instructed to act in
conformity with these resolutions-and that it
is recommended to the several congressional
districts in the Commonwealth, to elect dele
gates respectively, who will harmonize with
the National democracy of the nnion on these
principles. e' -i7sF i Il.