Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-07-03
LIkCHBijRG IIRGINilN.
Democratic soism in New York.

An address breathing unplnEated hosthty 10
,hp administration wrs delivered by the chair.
man. Hon. San1 Beardsle7. the .'0ld Roman
National Democrat" who was followed by DIN
iel Sickles. Judge Morton Of Virginia aud nth
ers. Letters from Hon. Daniel ;. Dickinson md
others were also read amid mach applause. "
Bnardslev confessed the overthrow of the Demo
cratic party. and Indignantly repudated the
scheme of Messrs. Guthrie \ Cn~ for fo-isn
with sectional and frec.soil ag;taiars. Hc said
The democratic party is nj now in power.
as it was few wears ago. aud cannot Predtri
that Il trH be rerV spesditg. hut a. "" thlnk aaf
prinriplrs f. he right, We shall net uP to thep.
whatever others may ia. It's net possible that
th,ro eau he any onaitj n het@eeR ~. ~ long a.
we ~t.>rsacf ON owp principles, and tnose whose
object i unlv - seek Office. And until men can
plant themselves en- the ~aaa principles which
art,,a..i I. 'fsr>,l. aud pave enrh State and Ter
,itarr g., .leier.n.ne ia itsris whether it shol
law layer, al=net; nothing Ike harmony cnu
-. vo,c,al sIw,zn us. We know what is tho
.,r,' .,.i. 81 contention N TIE ~ mocratlc party
~ .h hts drvid,v aud 1SrrEanicrd il, and
aatil ~. oau plant ourselves "a the isiit"rm TINT
C1ngre-s shall not lruislate en the question, hut
leavc each State Territory IA dee,de for Itself
Ho harmnneY can h. expected amongst us.
Tho mi. ortnnes which have befaIou national
Democracy are attributed hy tbc speaker 90 Gen.
Pierce. into whom bot slot tlu- poured
mir Pierce was chn-en az H. PRINCIPLES IF
the nati1na democracy, and j. b. pr we'd himself
IL he sound. tka democratic ply would d, 1ew ia
ihe .-rnlant aud world u1i have been put down
by party which sprung up III the night. Bhl
in defiance Of all principle Of the party. he went
10 work, not 10 uphold The national prlnoiplss.
but to put down the onse a msn who uphold
them; with as much carnesiuess rs if he Ma
himself an aho.itoni-t from tn, beginning
Among the resolutions adopted by the meeting i
one of special oongratulation 10 the Nueinia
Democracy. which uncover. truth the sud
Democracy would much prefer We doubt MT.
that their indiser,,t Northern brethren had KEEP
in the dark We attribute their success" the,
say, in offering congratulations To - the Demoe
racy Of Virginia upon their late victory" It
the absence ofaay endorsement by them If tn
!. ADMINISTRATION. the contrary course having pr.
,luced the absolute overthrow Of oar party IA.
other States in the late contests and wc RECON-.
mend" they add, that in our ogH STATE. with
vieg 10 future success, REPUTATION Of tn
4 dministgdtio. be insisted upm by which
means and by union upon The ..an intervention
platform can a consolidation Of Democrats alone
be secured, and triumph obtained for our cause
The resolutions adopted ON the slavery ques
ton are sound, patriotic aud national, fully
sauaring up to those of the National Know Moth
ing Convention in Philadelphia But uniorto
nattly the authors Of the resolution a distinct
organization are IN woful m.nnity in the State. |
an encnnteung the opposition of the nd
mini. r,tion and the free soil section of the |
party, there can scarcely be hope of success 10
thpmin their present isolated action. Embed
4 10 ~
the old Democratic Organization, as do the VA.
tioual Know Nothing and Silver Greys the same
material of tn old Wing party, we zee No. good
cause why minor considerations should not he
merged by each of them, in a union in which they
now all agree. to breast the destructive elements
of sectional agitation by which they are surround
ed Such union of the friends of the Union i'm
n York would at once arrest the onward march
Of Aboltionsm in that State aud in tina NORTH.
and postpone AT leest for time the threatened
crisis Of hostile and united South against an ag.#
lressve and united North.
The following are the resolutions touching sla.
very and the rights Of the South. and we ask
what faith any party, particularly in the slave
holding States, should place in tae national I'D
minstration that has withheld and still with
holds its sympathy and support from tho patriot
ic men who adopted them:
Resoieed, That congress has no power to in
Ter ere with or attempt to dictate control thu
domestic institution at States or Territories. aud
TINT its power To fp 81 ia the District of Columbia
being gravely disputed, ought not to he exercised:
that We deprecate and oppose the agitation If the
subject of slavery in CuugI ess under any shape
form; and while WE approve OF, and will adher,
to as Just and constitutional the eHStiug lcgislu
ton upon the subject Of the rendit on of fugitive
slaves, aud the priaciple Of the acts oreauj lug
the Territories Of Utah, New Mexico, Kansas
and Nebraska, demand, IN the namc of the
sound union feeling Of the country, that all in
sane sectional prejudlces-u ntraternal ngitations
and hypoeritcal aggressions tomented 10y de-
signing and dangerous men, shnll cease.
Resoired, That utterly repudnte and dis
avow the demand Of Northern Aholitioni>ts-frsi
enunciated by the Buffalo Convention, which
nominated Van Buren, and Adams in lSlS-that
- no more slaveholdng States shall be admitted
in this Union believing that position thus as
sumed is ono which hnds no warrant in the Con
stitution, OF in the example set US by own
dictionary fathers, and remembering that the
first State, admitted by act of Congress, approx
ed by George WASHINGTON as President, was the
Slaveholding State of Kentucky.
Resolved, That these principles are not new to
and are but the repetition ofthe views enun-
ciated by Daniel S. Dickinson, in the United
States Senate in December, ls47. in which he in.
sisted that true policy requires the Government
of the United States to strengthen its political
and commercial relations upon this continent by
the annexation of such contiguous territory as
may conduce to that end, and that neither in such
acquisition nor III the territorial organization
thereof, could any conditions be oonstitutionullv
imposed or institutions provided for or establish