Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-08-22
The sara,os. Convention.

Asynopsis of the resolutions adopted at the lat,
snti>Slavery Convention held at Saratoga, n. Y. i.
given by the New York Tribune as follows:
The restoration Of the Anti.Slavery proviso in
kansas and Nebraska.
II. All the Territories Of the United States shall be
free.
Ill No more Slave States shall be admitted into
the Union.
". This policy shall be held superior to all party
Considerations and every party shall be abandoned
which does not make the same its first object.
Such are the sentiments expressed by a convention
Of Northern people without distinction Of party; but
no sooner has that convection been held than the eff
fort is made in certain quarters to palm it of at the
South as exclusively Wig Anti-Nebraska Conven-
ton This is an old trick to which the peculiar guar
dams of the rights of the South have been so long
accustomed to resort that at all surprise,
at their effort to play at it this Ii would
have been o matter Of much more surprise had they
allowed this opportunity to escape unimproved But.
let how far their representation of it as Wing
convention is to be credited. It was neither gotten
~ rs a convention Of Wings was it composed OF
Wings more than Democrats. 1t was called expressly
ms convention Of men opposed to the repeal of the
Missouri compro mse-Democrats as we'll as Wings
and such men it was who responded to the call Let
the names Of the prominent Democrats who took an
active part in its proceedings show how far it was
confined to the Northern Wings. Among the
stsunch Democrats acting conspicuous part in the
convention we find enumerated Vice. Chancellor Nc
Coren, President Of the Convention and Preston
King, Gen. E. F. Billiard, the Rev. AdOlphus Skinner
Judge Rockland Hiram Barney Geo. p. Benedict, and
many others-all Democrats of long standing in the
Democratic fraternity.
1t would be pleasing, we know, to our Democratic
friends at the South to relieve themselves from the
disagreabe conviction that there are scores Of their
own party in the Northern States Just as rotten on
this question of slavery as they striving to make
out the Northern Wings, but the record, unfortu-
nately for them, deprves them Of any such consola
ton. They have struggled long and hard TO barter
of their Northern allies as men with Southern
principles, but it won't do. They show the clovtn
foot whenever favorable opportunity is presented,
just as they have done in this great an-slavery con,
vention, and they will continue to do so despite the
jealous exertons of their Southern apoogsts to cloak
up their anti slavery propcnsities.
We make no pretensions to a concea!ment of the
fact, thatthere were leading Northern Wings engaged
in this movement-and among their number men
from whom, in past days, better things might have
been expected, but we protest against this effort to
tue SIN Oh u NJ the doors OF Northern w hgS
To do so is to seek to deceire the South Southern
citizens have hosts of anti-savely opponents TO con
tend against in the Democratic ranks at the Nortl
as well as in the Wing ranks there The results o
recent elections at the North furnish ample prof
this. How is it, that in the very strong holds Of De
mocracy Nebraska candidates have met with suc,
disastrous defeats of late if the Northern Democracy
are so extremely sound on the slavery question p
And in connection with this subject we would respect
fully submit to Democratic contemporaries of thi.
quarter the consideration of the uncomfortable fact
that in n convention Of the "reyuLrr Democrats,
last Thursday, of the first Congressional district il
the State Of Maine, the present representative Messrs
Mcdonald, who voted for the Nebraska bill, did moi
get single vote for denomination.
When they have cleared up the ugly records o
their own Northern associations, which stand again
them, it will be time enough for Southern Wings Il
listen to their pious admonitions about the imp,o
priety Of longer cooperating with the Northern VIII
party