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

we have not room TO review them Scriatim.
They 60 on to endorse all the former Baltimore
and Benhallett resolutions and pledge the par
ty to the endorsement Of the Fugitive Slave
Law ana 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 thTetel resis.s;n,,.s
and hostility t9 ever ...,,iemnt to discuss the
lion IN Congress or ut your own fresde
IN whatever shape or color it is made And
this perpetual oath for the sustaining of ETER-
NAL HUMAN SLAVERY is called DEMOCRACY.
and the Democratic party is pledged by their
resolutions to carry ont the sentiment or else
it is 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
crs 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 as
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 hOwsoeyer 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 Siaueryin The States,
through the action of Congress or of other
States has been the target of denunciation ;
but these new resolves denounce all agitation ;
adverse to slavery, anywhere or on any ground
whatever To have been friend to the Will
mot Proviso in lsl7-Sl9 is to have been some
how implicated in slavery agitation and 50
to be obnoxious to the anatbemas here thun-
dered Nay, if the Slavery Propaganda were
now to send AN armed colony of shareholders
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 of
rebukc for the noisy and persistent agitators
in behalf Of slavery, scores of whom were mem
bers of the Convention. IL is only Liberty not
Slavery, that ncurs the proscripti of false
Democracy! !"
That the improvements of oil the harbors
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 is
partly Il question of policy, and dollars and
cents, and Democrats can properly entertain
different views but that the whole principle OF
Democracy, in the question of HUMANITY, MAN.
HOOD and human RIGHTS, should not only be
ignored, but secuted and despised, and its ad-
yocates threatened and insulted was more
than any Democratic Convention had power or
authority to do. Since they have done it. let
them take the consequences and the wrath to
come.
Here are the resolutions in full. Read and
digest them aud then act like man