Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-08-19

useless jabbering, all of which is duly set down
BY the reporters. it was permanently organized
by the election of the following officers
PRESIDENT.
WILLIAM McCANN.
VICE PRESIDENTS
II. N. Havens, Luke Hitchcock,
Edward Pie, Lewis Kingsley,
Eli Perry, Freeman Clarke,
F. 3. Bellinger, George b. Benedict,
SECRETARIES.
J. J. Chambers. John B. Howell
William Stewart, A. Il. Noble.
j. Fl. Kimberley,
At the afternoon session,
Mr. Greeley from the business committee,
reported the following:
Whereas The present Congress, by vote OF
the minority of the members elected to the
House, has deliberately and wantonly re-opened
the controversy respecting the extension OF
slavery under our national jurisdiction, which
majority Of the people had understood to be
closed forever, by the successive compromises
OF 1870 and 1850; and, whereas, this Congress,
aided and implied by the federal executive,
has, by the act currently known as the Nebras
ka BILL designedly subverted so much of the
promise, as excluded slavery from that vast
region OF our continent stretching from the
Mississippi TO the Rocky Mountains, and from
parallel of &c degrees 80, to the northern boun.
Diary OF our Union, the State of Missouri alone
being excepted; and, whereas, the people OF
our State, through an unbroken series oil
seventy years, during the former half of which
they were slaveholding community, have
soemnly tested through every channel of popu
lar and legislative action their determined and
emphatic purpose that the extension of slavery
be forbidden, INSTRUCTED, and prevented b,
positive action
Resoleed, That the State of New Y ork, now.
rs ever, atirms and maintains the right and
the duty of the general government to prohibit
and preclude the extension, establishment, or
perpetuation Of human slavery in any and every
territory of the United States, and in any terri
tory, possession, and country over which this
Union now has, or may hereafter acquire, ex-
elusive Jurisdiction and IN support of this DO
stion we appeal to the uniform opinions, ex
pressions, and acts of our statesmen, legislators
and people, from 1884 till this day.
Resolred, That the doctrine affirmed by the
Nebraska bill and gilded over By its advocates
with the specious phrases of non-intervention'
and popular sovereignty" is really and clearly
complete surrender Of all the ground hitherto
asserted and maintained by the free States with
respect &c the Limitation Of slavery, is plain
confession of the rights of Shareholders to trans
fer their human chattels to any part of the
public domain, and there hold them as slaves
30 long as cupidity may tempt, and force shall
suince 10 cetain them in servitude.
RssoLced, That unbroken experience attests
that free labor aud slave cannot CO exist on the
came soil; that wherever slavery is tolerated
there free labor dies out or sinks into mere
satellite and convenience Of the plantation and
It's Inasters-so that the admission of slavery
into Kansas and Nebraska involves the prac,i.
cal exclusion therefrom Of ourselves aud our
children through all coming time, with that
paralysis of invention, Introduction Of industrial
progress, and degradation Of the slayeholding
system.
Resolred, That against the doctrines, tenden-
cies, and natural consequences involved in the
Nebraska bill, so calculated to dishonor our
country IN the eyes of mankind, and to discour-
age and confound the champions Of liberty and
progress throughout the word, we declare I'M
compromising war; and, in the spirit and faith
Of our fathers, will struggle to the last for the
reconstruction Of Nebraska and Kansas TO the
ennobling occupation and use Of free labor and
free men.
Resolred, That we denounce the abuse Of the
term {" nonintervention,r which is intended TO
uphold the Intervention Of the State between
the oppressor and his victim. In behalf OF the
Save power we denounce' that abuse Of the
phrase popular sovereignty which makes il
cloak for legalizing the absolute subjugation OF
a part Of the human race 10 the will aud pleasure
OF others and We demand of government, as a
primary duty, perpetual Intervention on the side
Of justice, equality, and liberty, and in yindca.
ton OF each innocent mans sovereignty over
himself
Resolred, That the deliberate Reputation, by
the slave power, on the very first opportunity.
OF the solemn compact forced upon our fathers
by its representatives, whereby the Territories
now known as Nebraska and Kansas we're con.
secrated forever TO freedom, has absolved us
from all compacts or agreements outside the
federal Constitution, with reference 10 slavery.
and we now take our stand distinctly on the
principle that all territory of the United States
Izust henceforth be free territory, and all
States hereafter must come in as free States.
Nine cheers.
Rssolced, That we heartily approve the course
Of the freemen Of Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa,
Ohio. Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan, post
poning or disregarding their minor differences
Of opt or preference, and acting together
hiaA ha@SshEif III oaCttu Nduse OF
freedom, Of free labor, and free soil, and we
commend their spirit 10 the freemen of this
and other States, cxhorting each TO renounce
his party, whenever and wherever that party
proves unfaitbful 70 human freedom.
As the vote was called on this last resolution
Mr.. Billiard, Of Waterford, moved an amend.
ment, as follows;
And we propose to follow their example by
Illuminating a State ticket made up of ali
parties.
be said this convention was a scrap-book OF
oil parties, and it must act true 10 the cause.
Tremendous confusion and hubbub now
followed, and. amid cries Of order aud shouts
Of question, Mr.. Billiard was compelled TO SIT
down.
The vote was called on the amendment, and
tae yeas and nays attempted to be taken. il
va. fuslly tabled, and the next resolution read
aud voted on.
Resol0ed, Tha; the thanks Of this convention
are hereby rendered to our secretaries, and the
great majority Of our representatives in Con.
gress, for the ability, fidelity, and courtesy
wherewith they upheld throughout the long,