The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-24

DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

ELECTION or pyLE6ATEs.-We very glad to see the
promptness and spirit manifested by the democrats Of Mas
sachuset in the election of delegates the State coDven-
ton This convention trust will be composed of men
who maintain definite political and party prnepewho
will hesitate those principles and their resolu
ton sustain national administration which has glo-
rousy fulfilled the purposes Of its Inauguration The dis
appointments of personal aspirations the malgny OF par
an envy and ambition the combinations of trading POI
cal Adventures may enjoy local successes and strut
their brief hour in fanced victory the democracy of
the country but succeeding tide win sweep them into
those depths where pummet touched and the voice
of these United States will speak the sentiments OF the
heart Of the land in repudiang the cksters of the
ment and proclaming the triumph Of the democratic
partya party true to the constitution Union and
the progress of those great principles of equality and of
civil and religious liberty which have distinguished
government above all others the face Of the earth
SoUrH READMG-At meeting of the democrats of South
Reading called for the purpose of choosing delegates to the
State convention f. A. Sawyer esq, in the chair the fol-
lowing resolutions adopted;
Resolved As members Of the democratic party have
adopted and viii strictly adhere to the principles involved
in the Baltimore platform Of 1852 as textbook and
guide.
Resolred That we have full confidence in the wisdom
and sagacty of the President of these United States be-
eyug do, that all of his official acts have been die
tated by honest patriotism, consonant with his life
and professions strictly democratic and will be
knowledged as such by every impartial citizen.
ka b-nothng more nor less-a great principle of hui
liberty essential to the freedom of every weeguated
and independent community has been asserted princi
pie first proclaimed and maintained by fathers in their
act of eternal separation from the dicatora power of
Great Brain principle possessed and constantly exer-
cised by every State in the Union both north and south,
and sacredly guaranteed to All the States by the constt
ton of country That the great agitation OF
the public mind in consequence Of legislation is wanon
and gratuitos whether by designing and sectional poti-
clans or by ministers of religion whose conservation to
higher and hoer calling should have saved them from
mpuaton fatal to the great purpose Of their sacred
cation.
Resolred That the doctrine thai every political
nifty, possessing in itself the elements of free State and
audaby aspiring become of the States of this great
conederacy doctrine plainly republican in its nature
that it and will prevail and that the sober second
thought of the American mind will place this Just and
senta feature of system in clear light that he who
runs may read and that the opponents to it, whether
cergymen laymen, WILL when the storm of prejudice
passion and interest shall have subsidized it plainly
and papaby that they will call upon the rocks and
tans to fall upon and hide from the ken of history the
memory of their mistaken and prensed opposition to the
only sound principle of human rights, viz that every
community is the best and only Judge of what constitutes
/ its essential freedom and welfare.
Resolped That the fathers of republic regarded
of the oppressive of the king of Great Brit
ain his prevention of emigration shores they well
coined with open the champions who from for
egn lands seal with blood their devotion the
liberty Lafayette Monyomery Seujen and Others equally
lustriouso having proved their wisdom in the
of years, ready still to welcome country,
and participation in political rights all who fly
hther from the tyranny of the Old World that regard
hostile to the spirit of institutions all parties who
would restrict the privileges enjoy only born
upon our soil
1.-THE Post contains proceedings of the different ward
meetings in Boston, and of towns in the Interior where
similar aud quite strong resolutions have been adopted