The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1856-10-18

strife between brother and brother +; to nst
enmity among those who should live in peace
and fraternal love. From 1920 to this day,
they have been industriousy working to spread
the antslavery feeling Of the North with an
engine, not of political power to the black
man, but ofpotical power to themselves,
The following are the resolutions which were
adopted on the occasion:
Resolved, That the attachment Of the City
of New York to the Union of these States, is
founded on her long experience of the nesti.
mabe benefits which it confers Oh the intimate
fratcrnal relations that her metropolitan posi-
ton has created between herself and the men,
hers of the confederacy, and on her resolute
devotion to those great principles of liberty
and freedom of intercourse which are at once
Tie offspring and the source OF the glorious
Constitution under which we live.
Resolved, That the Union is compact be-
tween states greatly differing in climate, in
productions, il the application Of industry to
labor and in the modes and habits of life; and
that it can only be preserved by maintaining
in their original honor and equal dignity, every
member of the Confcdcdcracy
Resolved, That the Constitution Of the
United States, the work Of patriots and sages
whose equals the world has never seen, has fol
its basis and corner store the great idea of O
compromise between various and conflicting
interests of the most delicate and complicated
character that every year We live adds t
the proof of the wisdom and patriotism OF thos'
who framed it, and at the same time leads tt
the conviction that no better or wiser form o
' f,,1sa ifc ale
Resolved, That the great motives OF intercs
which led to the adoption of the Compromise
of the Constitution, were the dread OF foreg
interference aud Of domestic turbulence am
anarchy; that these reasons now exist in thei
full force, and that every consideration OF hoi
or interest and affection OF reverence for on
, srcs and attachment to our children, teachc
rs to cling to the Union as the true source
our dignity, the great spring of our prosperity
and the sheet anchor of our safety.
: Resolved, That the Compromises of the Coz
, st,nton were dictated moreover by the spir
Of hrothcrly attachment engendcred by TIL
common tolls, perls and sacrifices Of the Wa
: of the Revolutions; that the Government ca
| only be carried Oh in the spirit which create
e it, and that any set of men who systcmatcall
draw inyidions comparisons between the di
! fcrcnt members Of the Confcderacy, and fomel
: discussions between the States, are in realit,
. if not, in design, traitors to the Governmcl
c under which we live.
: Resolved, That the Government cannot |
B carried on upon any idea of the infcriorty
| one portion Of the Conledcracy to the othc
} and that my organization of parties on a Sc
| tional basis, which must inevitably divide I'll
+ Union by geographical lines. and array OF
Y part of the country against the other is FIJI
Y damcntally hostile to the whole spirit of ii
( Constitution of the United States, and to thu
4 frntcrnal attachment which is its life-blood.
| Resolved, That the election of Presidel
/ by onc-half of those States against the oth'
G on q question purely sectional, would be
y triumph of might over right, and an excrci
c of mere numerical strength franght with INN
o ncnt danger to the peace and safety of o
l. glorious Union.
i Resolved, That the issue in the present elc
/, ton is not whether Kansas or any other I,
1 ritory shall be a free or slave State, but whet
err the people of each Territory shall deci
y and establish for themselves their own organ
: laws by which they shall be formed into
J. State equal in sovereign power to the origin
y parties in the Federal compact.
Q The resolutions were then put and unal
e mously carried.
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