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-
ceedings in our next issue. We trust sincerely
that the sound national Democrats who com
posed this meeting viii unite with themselves,
and not las we believe they do not) indulge the
vain hope of erer again fraternizing with the Van
Buren, Freesoil party, known the :" Softs." 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 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 dismember 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 our party, by the fortunate ascendency Of
which, during three-fourths of our national career
true liberty and national progress have been
secured the rights of the States preserved, the
| Union perpetuated, domestic dscord banished
| and the assaults of fanaticism, intolerance, and
sectonalism dehed; and that in reviewing the
past we are encouraged all the moro trustfully TO
rely for the future upon the great democratic or
| ganzation of the United States as the safe homo
geneous and national party-the only one calcu-
lated to forward the interests Of every section of
our common country, and TO insure our union and
| prosperity as people.
Resolved, That Congress has no power to inter-
| fere with or attempt to dictate or control the
domestic institutions of States or Territories and
| that its power to do so 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 adj
/ here TO as Just and constitutional, the existing
| legislation upon the subject of the rendition OF
fugitive slaves, and the principle Of the acts or
4 ganizing the Territories Of Utah, New Mexico
1 Kansas and Nebraska, we demand, in the name
of the sound Union feeling Of the country, that
| all insane sectional ejudices-unfraternal agi-
| tations-and hypocritical aggressions, fomented
| by designing and dangerous men, shall cease.
| Resolved, That we utterly ropudate and disa-
vow the demand of Northern abolitionists-frst
enunciated by the Buffalo Convention, which
nominated Van Buren, and Adams in lS4S-that
mo more slavcholding States" shall be admitted
into this Union; believing that the position thus
| assumed is one which finds no warrant in this
constitution, or in the example set us by our rcvo-
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.
Resoired, That these principles are not new to
us, and are but the repetition Of the views cnunci
ated by Daniel $. Dickinson, in the United
States Senate, in December, l847 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 may con-
ducc TO that end, and that neither in such acqusi
ton nor in the territorial organization thereof,
could any conditions be constitutionaly imposed
or institutions provided for or established incon-
sistent with the right of the people thereof to
/ form a free sovereign State, with the powers and
privileges Of the original members Of the con-
| federacy."
Resoired, 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.
Resoired, 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 abrdge the
privilege Of becoming citizens and owners Of the
soil among us ought 10 be resisted in the