The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-08-05

ures as "fnality,' and the Fugitive oiaNe
Law as al is, and are unworthy the support Vi
every Democrat or Wing who Is not Wiling "
sanction and uphold the pro-slayery uocIrlhe'
thus openly avowed and made the TEST oi Dein-
ocratic and Wing orthodoxy
5. That, however strongly our syinpatnleS
and principles as Democrats might nave ini-
PEELED us to unite with our protested Dehio-
Gratis in the support of principles common -
all Democrats, and in the maintenance oil winch
all could cordially unite, yet the action OIL 'ne
Baltimore Convention by adopting as te>S q
fellowship principles which are SecIlohal III
their nature-in relation to winch there Is al
irreconcilable difference among the pehiocra''
and which are abhorrent to all our notions vi
what constitutes true Democracy ana "hch
we cannot support without dong violence 10
our consciences and to the mandates Oh Id"
higher and holier than any when man can
enact, has left us no alternative buttorenouhce
these principles as anti-repubhcan, undemo-
cratic and worthy only Of defiance and execra-
ton.
6. That the shameeSsnesS and prottigacy OF
the abandonment. by the Wings OF the free
States, and especially of Vermont, IN 1913 ana
subsequently, of all the Anti-Slayery principles
and measures which before that time they had
supported as part of the Wing creed, and which
they claimed rendered their party the only
true Anti-Slavery party, can be equalled only
by the unblushing recreancy of those Demo
Gratis who in 1913 and subsequently embraced
the doctrines of the Free Encouragement
ed upon their banner, free SOIL free speech, free
labor. and free men 7-resolve that under that
banner they would fight on and fight erer,
until triumphant victory should reward
their exertion.D and who now sustain plat
form and candidates whose support involves a
direct reputation of all the Anti-Slavery SEN
timents they ever professed. To such recrean-
cy we can never be parties neither shall we
adopt as part of our code of political moral
ity that it is either honest or honorable to put
forth platform of principles rs mere expe-
dent to catch votes and secure political VIC
tory, and to cast off that platform and It's prin
ciples as old clotheS,' when the expedent for
which it was adopted fails
I. That our thanks are due to Messrs. Hale,
Chase, and Sumner, of the United States Senate,
and to Messrs. Giddings, Townshend, Cleve
land, Mann, Allen, Rantoul, Durkee, Bartlett
and others of the House of Representatives, for
their learlessness and fidelity in the support OF
the interests of freedom against the encroach-
ments and domination Of the slave power; and
we recommend to our friends in all parts of
the State to secure general circulation among
the people of the speeches of MesSrs. Giddngs
and Townshend against the platforms and
nominations of the Baltimore Conventions, and
of Mr.. Rantoul against the Fugitive Slave
Law, demonstrating its uncOnsttutonallty
and its incompatibility with. the Democratic
doctrines of State rights and strict construction,
and with the principles laid down in the Ken
lucky and the Virginia resolutions of 799 and
1898, and the report of Mr. Madison to the
Virginia Legislature in 1879
s. That little respect is due to the teachings
Or examples of those public journals which,
Even'ng Post, support candidates whose prin-
;iples they repudiate, and while, in the language
If the former journal, they defy execrate,
md spit upon" the test portions of the plat
Orms upon which those candidates stand.
g. That Z" to secure life, liberty and the pur-
uit of happiness Governments are instituted
imong men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed that whenever any
orm of Government becomes destructive of
hese ends, it is the right of the people to abol-
sh it, and to institute new Government laying
is foundations on such principles and organi-
ing its powers in such FORMS as to them shall
eem most likely to effect their safety and hap
Diness; that any interference by one Govern
nent with the people of another, to restrain or
prevent the exercise of this right on their part,
s violation of international law, and danger
ous to the rights of all nations, especially those
in which Republican institutions prevail {; and
that it is the right of all, and both the right
and duty of our own, to demonstrate against
such interference, and to take such other meas
ures to arrest it as justice and sound policy
may dictate. WIN P ,BRIGGs, President.
p WEIGH