The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-07-15
THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC CON
VENTION

We have not room to review them scri0iim
They 60 On to endorse all the former Baltimore
and Benhallett resolutions and pledge the par
! ty 10 the endorsement Of the Fugitive Slave
Law and Compromise measures; and bind the
party by the virtue of its most solemn resolu-
tons, promises, and oaths to the protection and
fostering of the whole system of human sla-
very through all time, and threateps
'nu io''H"'y " fsR ..ttempt to discuss the
Ton IN Congress, or ut your own freside
| in whatever shape or color it is made And
this perpetual oath for the sustaining of ETER-
NAL HUMAN SLAVERY is called DEMOCRACY
ana the Democratic party is pledged by their
resolutions to carry out the sentiment, or else
it is a cheat and lie
They oppose the distribution of the proceeds
of the public lands, and refuse to give the land
less man home; and they ask of land reform
ers their votes They endorse the plundering
Of Mexico, and its atrocious war and ask you
to make one of its tenth-rate generals Presi-
dent of the United States
They denounce national banks, as mere us
sertion, and these same men at home are Pres
idcnts and Directors of banks chartered by the
States in which they live, or it may be have
just hurried from Legislature making a
bank law to Baltimore to denounce bank
ing. This is all wind they don't believe the
resolution, if it is designed to mean anything
But hOwsoever little the bulk of them were
designed to mean, and however much of mani
ty and wind they were designed to contain,
their browning infamy is embodied in the at
tempt to silence agitation against slavery, while
they are willing that the world should be turn
cd upside down in efforts to foster, strengthen,
and perpetuate it.
" Hitherto The ABOLITION Of Sldueryin the States,
through the action of Congress or of other
States. has been the target Of denunciation
but these new resolves dcnounce all agitation
adverse to slavery, anywhere or on any ground
whatever To have been friend to the VIII
mot ProvisO in 1917 SO, is to have been some
how implicated in slavery agitation and 81
to be obnoxious to the anathemas here thun
dered Nay, if the Slavery Propaganda wer,
now to send an armed colony of STAKEHOLDER,
into New Mexico, Nebraska, or California ex
pressly to establish slavery therein, these re
solves interdict and denounce any agitation
in hostility thereto Yet here is not hint o.
rebuko for the noisy and persistent agitator,
in behalf of slavery scores of whom were mem
| bers of the Convention. 1t is only Liberty, not
olaNclS 'h"o Ih'uIS the proScriPIioh vi Hlst
Democracy"
! That the improvements Of all the harbor'
and rivers in the Northwest should be singled
out and prescribed as inconsistent and undem
ocratic, is not so much to be wondered at it il
partly a question of policy, and dollars ant
cents, and Democrats can properly entertain
different views; but that the whole principle o.
| Democracy, in the question Of HUMANITY, Man
HOOD, and human RIGHTS, should not only b,
ignored, but secuted and despised, and its ad
vocates threatened and insulted was more
than any Democratic Convention had power on
authority to do. Since they have done it. LEI
them take the consequences and the wrath tC
como.
Here are the resolutions in full Read and
digest them, and then act like man