New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-07
TO THE FREE DEMOCRACY or THE
STATE or NEW-YORK.

The Free Democratic League in the City Of New
York respectfully recommend TO their fellow citizens
throughout the State that distinct Convention be
this year called en- the part of the FREQ Democracy
for the nominating Of State officers, but that they
cordially unite with Others in organizing County
Conventions on the 18th OF August or some subse
Suen day, for the election Of two delegates to repre-
sent each Assembly -Distrct in the Republican Con
xenton to be held ct Syracuse the Goth September
In behalf Of this suggestion they would remark that
Abe Republican party in this State which was organ
lied OF Saratoga and Auburn in August and Septem-
bor, 1854, openly proclaimed its adherence TO our
great principles the question Of American Slavery.
They pledged themselves " in the spirit and faith of
our fathers to struggle for the reconstruction of Kan
sas and Nebraska to the ennoblipg occupation and
use Of free labor and free men,"
They demanded of government as primary duty,
"peIpetual Intervention the side Of justice, equality
sand liberty, and in virdicaton Of each innocent
" mans sovereignty over himself
They declared that all territory of the United States
must henceforth be free territory, and all States here
zaer must come in as free States. They distinctly re-
pudiatcd the Baltimore Conventions, both of the Wing
and Democratic parties, and denounced the Fugitive
Slave Law as unconstitutional and an usurpation by
Congpss on the sovereignty of the States.
The time has come for union of the country on
one broad constitutional basis. Thousands of Wings
md Democrats and Americans startled from their
dream Of compromise with Slavery-by the Nebraska
perfdy and the Kansas Interchangeable at this
eveutfu crisis higher duty than that to party, and
wait TO assist in rescuiDg our country from the
usupaton of sectional and aggressive power which
ancient compacts no longer bind.
Whatever claims the Slave Power may once have
been supposed to have TO the confidence and respect
of the North, are gone forever. Aided by Northern
renegades, but in defiance of the known will of the
people of the North they broke the faith pledged in
the Missouri Compromise, on the hollow pretense of
tender regard TO the popular sovereignty OF the Terri
tories.
The compact broken tho prctense was discarded and
The Slave Power forthwith imposed upon the Free set
Tiers in Kansas the sham Legislature that now SITS
burlesque upon republican Institutions aud an in Mt
10 the American people.
That Legislature as the world knows, was fraudu
lently elected by border rufians headed by the
President of the United States Senate who amid the
applause of the Southern press and the compliment
suAerance Of the Federal Government Government
that issues procamatons, and calls forth the army OF
the UIon TO assist STAKEHOLDER to recover his slave
with armed violence at the first election IN that infant
Territory Frustrated the Freedom OF the ciuzen ana
the purity of the franchise
enor would probably observe his oath and protect the
sovertigniy Of the people, were early assured Dy
the Secretary of War that the Administration had
that the mistake would lie speedily corrected by his
removal
removed and the present helpless subsection OF the
settlers in Kansas their awcss invaders Is Inc act
long intended and now deliberately c0nsummated by
the Federal Cabinet in obedience to the mandate OF
the Slave Power.
striking at the first principles of our Constitution, ana
al the liberties and fame of our county, crime upon
which the attention of the notion is fixed, as the
treason is daily developing before our eyes-u were
needless 70 dwell upon the lesser o1irages ias mai
iplyng in our midst upon peTsonal liberty sn0 '"o
Sovereignty of The States.
While the Executive and Legislative branches Of
The Federal Government are openly on the SIDE OF tue
slave Power, the ud oary no longer standslas II once
stood the faithful ana impartial guardian OF the con
suuonM liberties of tie people. Convenient judges,
who have unleamed in the service of the SHAREHOLDERS
ne ms Lessons OF tie common law, painfully rec All
70 Us te msoent brutality Of Jeffreys, and the lega
tyranny when nc pCrpeiratod az the bidding OF his
master The night Of the State 10 punish crimes COM
mitte0 within Their borders against their laws under
color OF federal authority, is denied Constables in
ac'ed IN sts,e Court Tor attempt TO murder have
been liberated by Federal Judge. Citizens of q sis
Ter State are now immured 10 prison for pretenied
contempt OF Federal Judge, but in reality for having
on behalfof the society founded by Franklin advised
srengcR Of legal rights, and the State Courts profess
10 he impoent to do them justice.
In the same case il was coolly iniimated from the
bench that the Federal Judges are thinking Of chang
Ing for the benefit Of the Slave Power the great and
GLORIOUS principles of the common law recognized and
established in the Courts OF England the Courts Of our
mon, and the Courts Of our Slave States. They
propose to sdiudge, if public opinion viii permit, that
an ocious ard sectional system Of mean tyranny, for
he introduction OF which the South has been ac-
customer 70 curse The avarCe of their British ances
tors, shall be converted into federal institution so as
See the reported speech Of Colonel Jefferson Davis ysks-
oiha STATE IA printed letter dated Nsutown Mia H.