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

B. That we meet these mblushng and profit
gate attempts OF these parties to bind the
people OF the North to the ear of slavery--to
make the free States slave-hunting grounds and
their treemen slave-hunters forever---to stihe at
once, and for all time, all discussion of slavery
and It's encroachments upon the rights and
principles of the North, with bold and reso-
lutte defiance, and we tell them plainly
That, with MS the Compromise measures are
not a "fndhtyn
That we will resist with all the means that
Iod and the Constitution of our country have
put into our hands, the extension of slavery
into any of the Territories of the nation, or
ganizcd Or unorganized, now owned or which
may be hereafter acquired by the United States;
and will demand that whenever any attempt
Is made to establish it in such Territories, the
power of Congress shall be exercised to abol-
lsh and destroy it:
That with our consent, no new States shall
ever be added to the Union with slayehoding
constitutions
That we will not cease to demand the exer-
clse OF all the constitutional powers of Congress
10 abolish slavery and the slave trade, wherev-
er they exist under its jurisdiction, whether on
the high seas, or under the walls of the Cap
itol:
That we will never become slaye.hunters be
the cost or the peril what it may and will
never adhere to- "abide by or insist on
the strict enforcement" Of the Fugitive Slave
Law:
That we will never cease to assert the right
of free discussion, in and out of Congress, in
relation to slavery and all other subjects of in
terest to the welfare Of the people, and will
never hesitate to pronounce that Democracy
sham Democracy, aud that Whigism Torn
Whlgsm, which demands the people to be 81.
lent upon any question of public concernment,
and seeks to stlilc free speech and shackle a
free press
That IN relation to all these attempts by the
old parties TO lay the spirit and principles and
people OF the Tree States bound and gagged
ana polluted ut the feet of the slave power, we
say, with that fearless champion of freedom.
Joshua Ia GlddngS Ne hold them in unutter-
able eontemPi-tre hdmpie them under our feet
zee SPIT upon them
T. mat FRANKLIN PIERCE having, while in
congress practically and systematically denied
and trampled upon the right of petition, and
having accepted the Democratic nomination
Tor President of the United States, in his own
language, upon the platform adopted by the
Convention not because this is expected of me
~ candidate, but because The principles IL en-
braces command The appreciation of mn Judgment
and p'h them, ibeiieue can safely say there
has been no rord nor act Of my life IN conflict :"
and WINFIELD ScoT'T having, a. he has boast
ed, been Instrumental in securing the passage
of the Fugitive Slave Law through Congress,
and having accepted the Wing nomination for
President "wth The resolutionsp of ths WA,g
platform "annered" and having pledged his
character Tor a "ar'd adherence 10 he prince
PIES q NE Wig party as oppressed IL. those
"rsoiufions have both virtually bound them
selves to maintain, by the use Of the patronag 20
Of the Government and the exercise Of the
vstopower, if necessary, the Compromise meas