The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-09-14
THE ADMINISTRATION CONVENTION IN NEW
Y0RK-BREAK-UP.

This Convention, which met at Syracuse.
September 5th, was controlled by the partisans
and dependents Of tho Administration. Cant.
RYNDERs was tho ruling spirit, being chief
speaker and manager. The business and the
movements Of the meeting were regulated by
him, acting as General Pierce's vicegerent.
More than four hundred delegates were in at
tendance. The Committee on Resolutions
made their report the second day of the meet
ing; the resolutions endorsed unqualifedIy the
Baltimore platform of 1882 This of itself was
enough to damn the whole concern They
then bestowed absolute and fulsone praise ON
the entire Administration of Franklin Piorce :.
and, to cap the climax OF folly and wickedness
the following endorsement was given to that
masterpiece of the Slave Power, the Nebraska
Bill:
RESOLVED, That We consider the Introduction
of tho clause in the Nebraska and Kansas bill
repeating the Missouri Compromise, as inexne-
dent and unnecessary; but we are opposed To
any agitation having in view the restoration of
that line, or tending to promote any sectional
controversy In relation thereto; and We con.
graduate the country that the results TO GROW
out of that measure are likely to prove benef.
cial to the people Of tho Territories; and that
while We maintain our position that opinions
in regard to the power of Congress in this
matter are not tests in regard to Democracy
we regard tie act of remuneration by Congress-
of the power it has heretofore exercised over
the subjects as the practical surrender of a
formidable function on the part of the Federal
Government and the accession of a right on
the part of the incipient sovoreignties that arr
to constitute the States of the Union, the exer.
else of whioh can in all probability result only
auspiciously to the people of the Territories
and the peace of the Union"
That is-we admit that it was "inexpedient
and unnecessary to introduce the Nebraska
Bill, J" but it has worked well, we arc now salts
fed with it, the country is the gamer and we
fully approve of the remuneration by Congress
OF all power of legislation over the Territories
the real policy of the bill. Mr.. Abijah Mann
attempted to introduce the counter resolutions
OF the minority Of the committee, but he was
choked Oft; by the application of the previous
question, all attempts to amend were prevent
ed, and the whole batch of resolutions was
forced through. The vote on the adoption of
the Nebraska Bill stood-yeas 245, NAYS I49.
Alter this, the minority, headed by Preston
King, seeded from the Convention, refusing to
recognise it as fair exponent of the Demo
cratic party The result was, that the MAORI
ty became mortified and disconnected, and
could hardly proceed in the work of nomina.
ting their ticket. On some of the votes COST
for the candidates, scarcely two hundred dele
gates voted.
The New York Evening Pos, speaks of the
Convention as Democratic, as rep, esenting the
only Democratic Party of the State and really
finds matter of sslf-congratulatio in the terms
of its Nebraska resolution, because it pro-
nounces the introduction of the Nebraska Bill
"inexpedient and unnecessary ignoring the
fact that it then proceeds to stamp with sppro-
baton the whole policy and workings of it
1t remarks that Preston King and others re-
tired frOm the Convention because the resolu.
ton was too gentle in its condemnation of the