Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-07-20
Landmarks of Democracy.

n lhAt hhiuVti vi lHt w uNulu4lRu sNtVH
publishes the proceedings Of certain Demo
cratic Conventions at the South, aud among
them series Of resolutions adopted at
Democratic State Convention of Louisiana,
held at Baton Rouge on the 18Th June. 1t
accompanies these resolutions with the fol-
lowing editorial comments:
"The resolutions adopted at these meet
iurs show an untaltcring adherence TO the
recognized principle, and landmarks Of the
democratic party, a calm, cheerful and abid-
inc confidence in the future, and nj the same
time the occasion IS appropriately embraced
TO nay a fitting tribute to the wisdom, patri-
otism and fidelity Of President Pierce's adj
ministratlon."
Here are two of tho landmarks of the
Democratic party adopted at Dayton Rouge,
as Published aud endorsed by the Union:
q" Resolved. That we approve md endorse
the action of our last Congress IN the Ne
braska Kansas act, aud the principles
therein established and IN conformity with
these principles, the people of Kansas have
tho right whom the number Of that popu-
lstion lustifies II, 10 form republican state
constitution, with or without slavery. as they
NAV determine, g. be admitted into the Union
upon an equal footing with the other states ;
and that her rejection by Congress on account
of slavery would be a just cause Tor the DIS
ruption of ali the ties that bind the state oil
Louisiana to the Union.
Resoired, That We sympaihizo with tho
friends of the slavery cause IN Kansas IN
their manly efforts to maintain their rights,
and the rights and interests of the Southern
people, and that we rejoice at their recent VIC
tories ovcI the paid Adventures and Jesuit
cal hordes of Northern abolitiouism; that
the deep interest felt and taken by the people
of Missouri in the settlement Of Kansas and
tie decision Of the slavery question in II. is
both natural and proper, and that 1t is their
rirht and duty to extend their Southern
brethren IN that territory every legitimate aud
honorable sympathy and support"
Upon these proceedings the n. Y. Eve
ming Post, democratic paper, remarks as
follows:
upon what strange times have we fallen,
when declarations like these are set down as
recorntons OF the ancient landmarks Of the
democratic party to tyrannizc over peaceful
and unframed men, to wrest the right OF sui-
fraqe from those who are justly entitled to
II. 10 dog, to cheat, to make false returns OF
elections, arc these the recognized tokens OF
democracy?
Ii is clear that no honest man at the North
can act with those who thus shamelcssly d.
dept a fraud, and avow a settled determine
ton to uphold it and profit by II. If we
we're to support nominations made under the
eyowal of such principles, we should fee
that we entered into a partnership with
rogues.
|, IL remarkable with what holiness the
friends Of the administration at the South np
proach this Kansas question. We gave, the
other day. some extracts from their now5pa
pers, iustlving the fraud, and declaring the
determination of building upon that fraud O
plan for the admission Of Kansas as a slav,
state. The resolutions passed at their State
Convention IN Georgia make the same dec
larati1us as those Of Louisiana. These pol
ilcans stick at nothlng-shnnk not from the
assertion Of the rights OF slavery, however
broad, and when there is no pretence o
right, they fall buck, withou, hesitation, upon
the title OF the strongest, the doctrine tina
the territory belongs to those who are euda-
cious enough to possess II by violence. They
are frank, spoken they keep back moth
ing; they are determined 10 lose no adyan
tage Of any sort by the failure to claim II
early and boldly.
While the friends Of the administration al
the South make these declarations and ad-
vance those pretenslons, without asking
whether Mr.. Pierce and his Cabinet are
pleased with them or not, the friends of the
administration at the North are seeking pre-
texts for either meeting the South half way,
or slurring the matter over by expressions
that mean nothing The arrogance of their
Southern brethren is met by tlnId tracking
or by passive silence. The Washington Un-
ION gives them their cue: II informs them
that their Southern associates have adopted
the true democratic doctrine, aud of course
there is no alternative for them but TO eX'
prcss like views or TO be silent
If this folly be persisted m, the admins
tration will see It's supporters IN the free
States diminishing to more miserable and
sqnalid remnant than even the late elections
have shown them to be-"
Col. Benton on The .1dminisirdiiop.- Col
Benton has written letter slowing the sac
consequences Of the removal Of Mr. BealC
from the office of Superintendent of lndiaI
Affairs in California. We copy the con
Guiding portion of the letter:
have said the Indians in California ar,
killed like snakes and dogs. OF this yOt
may see accounts IN every paper but ! mus
give YOU one which read IN tho S1anisl
part Of Los Angeles paper. II recites tina
the Judge OF the district, on his way HON,