Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-05-28

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Dsnoetasic Cosssasion d New Yssk signed n
: iarks nunbes q leaAfng old Hhs Democafa.
has been pahSshed u seward Of ~ papers q
that State. The pvotcstsuts sho~ beyond the
rsach Of controversy that the party has desert
ed It's principles that has either adopted plat
form in opposition 70 its sentiments that ts dele
Cation may be admitted 10 seats In the Cincin-
nafi Convention, or that It's leaders have attempt
ed 10 sell the masses to the slavery propagan-
dists and that the attitude in which the party is
placed by the Syracuse platform Of january 10th
is in direct antagonism with the recorded senti-
ments Of Silas Wright and other revered depart
ed leaders Of the New York Democracy. The
protest concludes with the following emphatic
and patriotic declarations:
Against the legitimate and constitutional rights
1 Of the South we wage no warfare. Toward it,
citizens we entertain no hostility. We eoncede
| to them, within their appropriate Jurisdictions
the right to regulate their own internal affairs
/ in their own way, and according to their own
| convictions of propriety. But they mnst cease
the attempt to force an agreement In principles
| in regard to which there can be no community
| Of feeling and no accordance of action. We
warn them against placing confidence in thu
/ representations of men who have not the power
even ifthey possess the disposition, to contro
the votes Of the democratic electors of the EN-
pire State. These will demand a due respect fo
their own rights and proper appreciation o
the rights of others. They will require return
to those principles of public policy which shal
i give to the Democracy of the States their tru
weight and position in the direction of affairs
and secure them against the abuse of fedora
power. They win ask that the aggressive polio
which has marked the onward march Of SLAYER
shall cease. They will demand for their brethre
in Kansas the just protection to which the.
are entitled against border rufianism, aud q ces
sation of that anomaly which, under the appells
ton Of popular sovereignty, imposes upo
them government upheld by the bayonets of
federal soldiery.
: Speaking for ourselves, in view of the circun
stances VIC have detailed, we unhesitatingly br
!, firmly declare that in no possible exigency {
party relations, by no act of omission or con
mission on our part, will we consent that tn
fair and fertile prairies of the West shall be mad
to echo to the lash of the overseers whip or tn
J clank Of the bondman's fettcr. The experienc
of the past and the hopes Of the future all poiI
US to an infexible adherence to the doctrine s
often promulgated by the Democracy of tn
: State, of .suncompromising hostility to the e,
tension of slavery into the free territory" I'll
recognition of which can alone secure the SUI
port of the democratic masses and insure the st,
bility ofour republican institutions.
There are hundreds of thousands of Dem,
Gratis in the Union who, in their hearts, have a
ready made similar protest against the attem]
of INSCRIPTIONS leaders to render the polite
organization to which they have always been a
tached an instrument for the propag andism
slavery. The ballot-box will make full revel
ton of the fact