Washington telegraph., 1854-09-13
The Saratoga Convention.

svnopsis of the resolutions adopted at the
- anti slavery convention held at Saratoga, n.
- I1'' ;s given by the New York Tribune" as fol-
lowS: IL. .1.,,,u,, ,,,,,;s, =;
Kansas and Nebraska
All the territories of the United States shall
be tree. ul,..;...1
the Union
"a This policy shall be held superior to all par
=, considerations, and every party shall be aban-
doned Whlch does ho' liaAe '-e '"''ie US iii''
ect ..4. o,-,,u,ssoa h., 49,,
,.,nton of northern people without distinction of
.r4v. but no sooner has that convention been held
han tbe effort is made in certain quarters to palm
;+oF at the south as exclusively ioaig anti-Ne-
h-asta convention This is an old trick to which
tba neculiar guardians of the rights of the south
have been so long accustomed TO resort that we
a not at all surprised at their effort to play at it
an this occasion. L! would have been matter of
nch more surprise had they allowed this oppor-
unity to escape unimproved But letus see how
ar t6eir representation of it as whig convention
K 10 be credited. 1t was neither gotten up
convention Of wings, nor was it composed OF
b,ys more than democrats. 1t was called ex-
nressIy as convention OF men opposed to the re-
nnoaI OF the Missouri mpromise-democrats as
LIrel as wings and such men it was who respond
al 10 the call. Let the names of the prominent
democrats who took an active part in its proceed
inc show how far it was confined to the northern
wRigs. Among the staunch democrats acting a
c,nsncuous part in the convention we find emu
merated, Vice Chancellor McCoren, President of
tbe conventions and Preston King Gen. f. F. Bul-
lard the Rev. Adolphus Skinner Judge Rockland
Hiram Barney, Geo. P. Benedict, and many others
all democrats of long standing in the democrat
ic fraternity.
It would be pleasing, we know, to our demo-
cratic friends at the south to relieve themselves
from the disagreeable conviction, that there are
scores of their own party in the northern States
lust as rotten on the question OF slavery as they
are striving to make out the northern wings, but
the record unfortunately for them, deprives them
of any such consolation They have struggled
long and hard to barter off their northern allies
as men with southern principles" but it won't
do. They show the cloven foot whenever ia
vorabe opportunity is presented, just they have
done in this great anti slavery convention. and
they will continue to do so despite the Jealous
exertons of their southern apolo9ists to CLOAK up
their anti-slavery propensities
We make no pretensions TO a ccncealment of
the fact that there were leading northern wings
engaged in this movement-and among their
number men from whom, in past days. better
Things might udNe Deeu e2 pecleu- out we protest
against this effort to lay all the sin of it at the
doors of northern wings. To do so is to seek to
dscsre the south. Southern citizens have hosts of
anti-slavery opponents to contend against in the
democratic ranks at the north as well as in the
whIgran there. The results of recent elections
at the north furnish ample proof of this. How is
it. that in the very strong holds OF democracy
Nebraska candidates have met with such disast-
Tous defeats of late, If the northern democracy
are SO extremely sound on the slavery question?
And in connection with this subiect we would re-
spectfully submit to our democratic contemporaries
Of this quarter the consideration OF the uncomtor-
table fact, that in convention of the regular
democrats last Thursday, OF the first Congress
aonal district in the State of Maine, The present
representative Mr.. Mcdonald, who voted for
the Nebraska bill, did not get single vote Tor
denomination.
When they have cleared up the ugly records of
their own northern associations, which stand
against them, it will be time enough for southern
wings to listen to their pious admonitions about
the improperly OF longer cooperating with the
northern wing party. Ricina0nd Wing.