The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-08-05
From The Louisville Courier.
The New York Democracy, in respons
to Gen. Pierce's inaugural.

The New York Democracy, in response
to Gen. Pierce's inaugural.
With view to show the Democratic vote
on the three resolutions of the Hon. d. B.
Taylor, introduced by him in the New York
Legislature in response to the doctrine and
principles Of Pierce's inaugural, we make a
correct analysis of vote given. tits important
as "show of hands" of the "United Democ-
racy" of that State, as it undeniably pro-
claims that there are among them those who
Eprofessing to have abandoned the freesoilsm
and abolitionism OF ls4S, still cling to those
mischevious and dangerous heresies.
1t shows that there are those pretending to
be Democrats, who repudiate and spit upon
the great measures of Cancellation and Peace,
known as "the Compromise Measures" with
which the National Administration stands
identified before the American People-and
who, sympathising still with the freesoil and
ant-slavery sentiment of the North are ready
and eager to unite with the natural enemies
of the Democracy, in crusade against the
constitutional rights of the South and the in
tegrity of the Union, whenever the occasion
presents itself.
The resolutions were originally introduced
by d. B. Taylor, an ultra Hunker, from New
York city, at an early day of the present ses :
sion of the Legislature, but were allowed to
slumber in quiet until Friday last, when they
were called up by Wing member. The
Wings regarded the transaction as one where
in "the Hunkers were holding the noses of
the Barnburners to the gridstone, while the
Wings turned the crank"
The first resolution is in these words:
Resolved, That the State of New York con-
graduates her sister States of the Union on
the doctrines avowed by President Pierce in
his inaugural address to his countrymen, be-
lieving that the doctrines are sound expos.
tions of our duty as one of the powers of the
civilz ed world, and of the duties of the sever
al States to each other under the constitution
of the United States.
Which was adopted by ffty-nine Democrats
voting for it; nine Wings and sixteen Demo.
Gratis "dodged" by not voting.
The second resolution reads:
RESOLVED, That the people of the State of
New York coincide with the President in his
opinion that "it is not to be disguised that
our attitude as a nation, and our position on
the globe renders the acquisition of certain
possessions not within our jurisdiction, emf
nently important for our protection, if not in
the future essential for the preservation of the
rights of commerce and the peace of the
world"-and also with the prin ciple which
we all should regard as fundamental that the
rights security and repose of this confederacy
reject the idea of interference or colonization
on this side of the ocean by any foreign power
beyond present jurisdiction, as utterly mad
mssible."
Those who voted for this were forty-nine
Democrats and one Wing. The dodgers and
fugitves' were twelve Wings and twenty five
Democrats!
The third or test resolution was as follows:
Resolved, That the State of New York re-
affirms the doctrines of the Inaugural, "that
involuntary servitude, as it exists in different
States of the Confeeracy, is recognized BY
the Constitut:on--that it stands like any other
admitted right, and that the States where it |
exists ere entitled to efficient remedies to en-
force the Constitutional provisions
"the laws of 1851, commonly called the "com-
promise measures" are strictly Constitution
al, d to be unhesitatingly carried into effect"
that "the constituted authorities of the Re-
public are bound to regard the rights of the
South in this respect as they would view any
other legal constitutional right-and that the
laws to enforce them should be respected and
obeyed not with reluctance encouraged by
abstract opinions as to their proprety in
iifferent state Of society, but cheerfully and
according to the decisions of the tribunal to
which their exposition belongs;" and that the
State of New York pledges her faith to the
Union, that every law adopted by the consti-
iuted authorities Of the United States, includ-
ng the Fugitive Slave Law shall be faithful.