The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-08-16
NO. $50.
Ia THE FREE DEMOCRACY OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK.

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"a Convention be this year called, on the part
,be Free Democracy, for the Nominating of
- Ulcers. but that they cordially unite with
,Iers in organizing County Conventions on the
Il &c AUGUST, or some subsequent day, for
Lection of two delegates to represent each
,,arlly district in the Republican Conven-
= 70 be held at Syracuse on the Goth Sep
pmber. :,
ark that the Republican party in this State,
sugust and September, 1854, openly pro-
I'd is adherence to our great principles
he question of American Slavery.
Thy nledged themselves in the spirit and
n &c our fathers to struggle for the recon-
ton of Kansas and Nebraska to the en-
I'M occupation and use of free labor and
rec men.
They demanded of Government, as prima-
dnty pernetual intervention on the side of
,yt;ce. eauality, and liberty, and in vindicatlon
each innocent mans sovereignty over him
Ell
They declared that all territory of the United
,stes must henceforth be free territory, and
\ States hereafter must come in as free
s,es They distinctly repudiated the Balti-
,ora Conventions, both of the Wing and Dem
srat;c parties, and denounced the Fugitive
ave Law as unconstitutional, and an usurpa-
on by Congress on the sovereignty OF the
iaies
The time has come for union of the coun-
y on one broad constitutional basis. Thou
,pds of Wings. and Democrats, and Americans,
arrled from their dream of compromise with
avery bv the Nebraska perfdy and the Kan
invasion. recognise at this eventful crisis
higher duty than that TO party, and wait to as
St us in rescung our country from the usurp-
ion of a sectional and aggressive power,
iicl ancient compacts no longer bind.
Whatever claims the Slave Power may once
ave been supposed TO have to the confidence
nd respect Of the North, are gone forever.
led bv Northern renegades, but in defiance
the known will of the people of the North,
ey broke the faith pledged in the Missouri
,mpromise, on the hollow pretence of a tender
,ard to the popular sovereignty of the Terri
res.
The compact broken, the pretence was dis
arled and the Slave Power forthwith imposed
non the free settlers in Kansas the sham
srislaiure that now sits-a burlesque upon
p,ubican institutions, and an insult to the
American people.
That Legislature, as the world knows, was
rauduenty elected by "border ruffians," head
4 the President OF the United States Senate,
sho. amid the applause of the Southern press
anil the complacent sufferance of the Federal
governmental Government that issues proc
.maions and calls forth the army of the
noa to assist a STAKEHOLDER to recover his
slave with armed violence-at the first election
that infant Territory, Frustrated the freedom
t;he citizen and the purity of the franchise.
The invaders, alarmed by indications that
b. Governor would probably observe his oath
,ai protect the sovereignty Of the people, were
,ary assured by the Secretary of War* that
the Administration had regarded him as lean
Is toward the other side, and that the mistake
sluIl be speedily corrected by his removal.
That prOmsehas been kept-Reeder has been
removed, and the present helpless subsection of
be settlers in Kansas to their lawless invaders
tue act long intended and now deliberately
c1nsummated by the Federal Cabinet, in obe
ieuce to the mandate of the Slave Power.
Ia the presence Of crime Of such magni-
lde, striking at the first principles of our Con-
ituiion, and at the liberties and fame of our
lHtry-a crime upon which the attention of
lp nation is now fixed, as the treason is daily
l-reOplng before our eyes-it were needless to
are.l upon the lesser outrages, fast multiplying
30 oar midst, upon personal liberty and the SOW
eTeyuty OF the States.
While the Executive and Legislative branch
rs Of the Federal Government are openly on
the side OF the Slave Power, the Judiciary no
longer stands as it once stood, the faithful and
impartial guardian Of the constitutional liberties
OF the people. Convenient Judges, who have I'M
learned IN the service Of the shareholders the
lrSi lessons Of the common law, painfully recall
10 Us the niolent brutality of Jetfreys, and the
Illegal tyranny which he perpetrated at the bid
i.Hs OF has master The right of the States to
punish crimes committed within their borders
against their laws, under color of Federal au-
torty, Is denied. ConStables indicted in
N4'e Court for attempt to murder have been
i''rsied by Federal Judge Citizens of a Sis
'eT State are now immured in prison for a pre-
ended contempt Of a Federal Judge, but in re-
any tor having, on behalf of the society founded
y rankin, advised strangers of legal rights:
--l the State Courts profess to be impotent to
" them justice.
Ia The same case it was coolly intimated from
'L' bench that the Federal Judges are thinking
!. ehauShg, Tor the benefit of the Slave Power.
,-r ''''II and glorious principles of the common
t''recognSed and established in the Courts of
,.43ani' the Courts of our Union, and the
l''T Il. even OF our slave States They propose
"-il-use' Il public opinion will permit, that
a. oious and sectional system of mean tyranny,
u '-e introduction of which even the South
-, 0y Z, accustomed to curse the avarice of
- ~, h'tlsh ancestors, shall be converted into
"ieTaI institution so as to allow shareholders
ylhs their slaves into our free neighbor-
.'''' ID defiance of the will of our people and
-r =, ''eFe'gnty of our States.
'Hr long submission of the free States to the
-''''t sncroachments of the Slave Power has
:, =" n-e chiefly to the compromises into which
-. l"l been deluded, in the belief that we
- ifsloSe with confidence upon the faith
-e4 y the Representatives of the Southern
80. 60 mat belief exists no longer, and can
~.-I Ssaln revive. The Slave Power has dis
~ 'ne last shred of the garb of chivalry,
,- ,. II once seemed to wear-it glories in its
IsrIi over our credulity, and stands boldly
d.. '"e world as talthless to its honor with
IT, ', NJ as TO humanity with the slave.
~, Sorlh consequently is less hampered
mas trimming Its course than at any for
P,r.fr ''.oo' All ITS compacts with the Slave
AM ouSide OF the Constitution are at an end,
drguSnt lnterteres with the right and the
Fr.ia. !eSVoTing the Government to its original
'.1'Cl, on the truths declared in the Decla-
Is =. u Independence, and embodied anew in
iror Ira 'era Constitution. Nothing forbids them
Limits II restricting to its own territorial
sja3 IL, ne sectional faction that, in seeking to
rro, te authority and the resources of the
l.tnrj -. rs own advancement, so constantly
o., S,o,. our peace, impugns our rights, insults
60. sovereignty, and furnishes our nation
Cor@,,nh.;e publican party, standing upon the
LETT s-I and the great truths which under
e aa -u holding to the principles of its found
Cd am, f'5 Us the opportunity of uniting, as
c- -soe restore domestic tranouilitv. and re-se-
u 5IPosterty. '-'e-'' ''' 'Di ''i''' '-'O
,,, Vim common and righteous purpose. wise
,.--selS, and trnstr nandidaIoa fairln saiantad