Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-30
DEMOCRATIC DEMONSTRATION

We publish the resolutions Of the great Demo
cratic demonstration at the Metropolitan Theatre,
in New York, on Thursday evening. We will
give to our readers the other portion of the pro-
ceedngs in our next issue We trust sincerely
that the sound national Democrats who com
posed this meeting win unite with themselves,
and not las we believe they do mott indulge the
vain hope Of erer again fratenizng with the Van
Buren, Freesoil party, known as the {" Sohs. F" In
this latter party, we never have had any conf
dence and never can have any confidence. A
greater miracle than St. Paul's conversion can
not purify them. The step was a fatal one to
the Democracy Of New York, and many other
States, TO give them consequence, BY attempting
to conciliate them. II was this step Of the Ad-
ministration that did more to disnember the uni
ted Democratic party of the Union, than all other
acts beside
The following resolutions were read BY Mr.
Genet:
Resoired, That as national democrats Of the city
of New York, we cannot too often re-affirm our
adhesion TO, and support Of those great principles
Of party, by the fortunate ascen6ency Of
which during three-fourths of our national career
true liberty and national progress have been
Union perpetuatod, domestic discord banished
and the assaults Of fanaticsm, intolerance, and
sectionasm dcfed and that in reviewing the
past we arc encouraged all the moro trustfully 10
rely for the future upon the great democratic or
ganization of the United States, as the safe homo
geneops and national party-the only one calcu-
lated TO forward the interests Of every section Of
our common country, and 10 insure our union and
prosperity as people.
Resolved, That Congress has no power to inter-
fere with or attempt 10 dictate or control the
domestic institutions Of States or Territories, and
that its power to do in the District Of Columbia
being gravely disputed, ought not TO be exercised
that we dePrecate and oppose the agitation Of the
subject Of slavery in Congress, under any shape
or form; and while we approve OF, and will ad-
here 10 as Just and constitutional, the existing
legislation upon the subject Of the rendition Of
fugitive slaves, and the principle Of the acts or
ganzing the Territories Of Utah, New Mexico,
Kansas and Nebraska, we demand, in the name
of the sound Union feeling Of the country, that
all insane sectional rejudces-unfraternal agi-
tations-and hypocritcal aggressons, fomented
by designing and dangerous men, shall cease.
Resolred, That we utterly repudiate and dsa-
vow the demand Of Northern abolitionsts-hrst
enunciated by the Buffalo Convention, which
nominated Van Buren, and Adams in ls4s-that
mo more savcholding States" shall be admitted
into this Union; believing that the position thus
constitution, or in the example set by our revo-
lutionary fathers, and remembering that the first
State admitted by act Of Congress, approved by
George Washington as President, was the slave
holding State of Kentucky.
Resolved, That these principles are not new 10
us, and but the repetition Of the views enunci-
atcd by Daniel $. Dickinson, in tile United
States Senate, in December, l547, in which he
insisted "that true policy requires the government
Of the United States to strengthen its political and
commercial relations upon this continent by the
annexation ofsuch contiguous territory as ma con-
duce to that end, and that neither in such acquis
ton nor in the territorial organization thereof,
could any conditions be constitutionally imposed
or institutions provided for or established incon-
sistent with the right Of the people thereof TO
form free sovereign State, with the powers and
privileges of the original members Of the con-
federacy."
Resolved, That we are in favor Of the annexa-
ton of the Island Of Cuba to the United States at
the earliest moment consistent with our national
honor and treaty obligations, as demanded both
BY the political and commercial interests Of the
country, and that we charge upon the secret and
ineradicable hostility Of William l.. Marcy, the
Secretary Of State of the United States, the utter
failure OF all attempts directed to that end since
the present Administration came into power
Resolved, That the liberal principles embodied by
Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration Of lndepen-
dence and sanctioned in the constitution, which
make ours the land Of liberty and the asylum Of
the oppressed Of every nation, have ever been
among the cardinal principles of the democratic
faith and that every attempt TO abridge the
privilege of becoming citizens and owners Of the
soil among us ought 10 he resisted in the same