New-York daily tribune., 1856-01-15


OF Fleedop regardless OF their origin, their object or
their extent that in the anticipated detection Of the
Senate W. Mace our reliance on the other branch OF
Congress but shcpd the hope OF ilyoi, ne leai o'
uunf s ut or the schemes OF political ambition, ae-
compl .b the enactment OF law for the extension Of
Slavery over a single square nIe Of territory nov free
| we hereby pledge ounelNts Immediately to enter ,t
tho tssk of it, repeal and increasingly to labor for inc
ac,omplsLneat II of this object Loud and enthusiasts &c
| LGITaL-.
ON rhe 18th OF September. l5i5, the Bsrnburner
or Free. SOL Democracy OF New-York, as they now
began 10 call Themselves, met again in Convention
st tea passed the strongest sort OF Free-Sol and
Anti-slayery resolves, and agreed to run Mr..
| Van Buren for President. with Charles Francis Ad-
ans. son Of ]. Q. Adams, and recent seceder
fIom the Wing party, as Vice President. OF the
resolutions passed at this meeting the two follow
| ing may be taken as specimens
| " Rssolred. That Useful Labor. being essential not
merely to the subsistence health and comfort of man.
but also to his highest happines his moral and inte
lectua elevation should at oil times, and IN all places
he esteemed respectabe and honorable. One of the
great evils of Slavery il the false degradation OF La
bor whereby in slave countries, the free aborer Is In
effect excluded from all those branches OF industry
usually carried on by slaves Thus the accumulation
of national wealth and the progress of civilization arc
greatly retarded for the want of that energy ntel
gencc and inventive sk which result from the COM
petition OF freenen.
- PrsoIred That by permitting Labor TO be de-
graded by the introduction and spread of slavery
throughout the extensive territories OF New-M' xco
and California. we should perpetrate an act OF gro''
Injustice against the free laboreTs of our own conn
try and OF over-popuated Europe, in this and succeed
ur generations whomay desire to seek for themselves
ard their families homes in those regions.
Such was the lofty position, the table rock
as it we're, upon which this party originally
planted itself But if they had emlated Sam
Patch, in climbing up to this most elevated
position merely for the impetus it might give
them in leapng from il, they certainly did not
show quite his courage and alacrity in TAX
ing the dreadful leap. They stood hesitating for
years looking down in the fosming torrent beneath
them, straining their eyes, it may be- TO discover
| the exact position where the CustOm-House KEYS
lav at the bottom, but still keeping up such show
of consistency pass for several years for Free
/ Soil and Anti-Extension-Ot.Sl party.
Even while taking an active part in favor OF the
election of Franklin Pierce TO the Presidency, the
soft. still kept up show of standing on their
old Anti-Slaycry platform; nor was 1t till they
could fairly see into the open doors OF the New
York Custom-House that they made any active de-
change in their political sentiments the subject OF
slavery. From that moment all their hostility to
compromise disappeared. They were ready 10 ac.
auiesce even in the Compromises OF 1850. They
would have been perfectly willing to divide the
Custom House with their old opponents, the Hunk
err, aud even TO give up to them the hons
share of the spoils, aud the whole control of the
G.. J,ot a
they might have been permitted quietly to perform
the iaekalls part. But while they had been be-
coming softer the Hunkers were becoming harder
They scorned to enter into any such compromise
Relying upon their original and uniform orthodoxy,
they claimed oil the Federal Offices for themselves;
| and even the discipline administered upon them
| from Washington in the removal of Judge Bronson
from the Collecoship because he refused to recoe-
nizc the Softs a. Democrats, and as such entitled
to share of the spoil, 80 far from reconclllng the
/ Hards only made them violent enemies of the Ad-
/ ministration which they accused OF taking part
/ with AbolitiOnists.
The Softs lad been hatterug themselves the
Anti.Slayerv agitation was diving cut. when 1t was
revived again in more than all It's former yehe-
This placed them in a very awkward predicament.
To oppose the bill would be to quarrel with the
| Administration. whose bread they ate; but how
could support of il he recOnciled with their former
Anti-Slavery pretensions Under these clrculn-
stances. at their Convention held at Syracuse on
Sept. s. 1853 by wayol trying 10 please both sides,
they adopted the following;
Resoircd bat we consider the Introduction of the
c'arsr in the Nebraska and Kansas bill repeating the
Missouri Compromise. as inexpedient and unnecessary
bul we are opposed to any agitation having Ia view
the restoration of that line or tending to promote any
sectional controversy in relation thereto, and we con-
nratulate the country that the results to grow out OF
that measure likely to prove beneficial to the peo-
! ple of the Territories and while we maintain our
rosition that opinions in regard Ia the power OF Con-
eress in this matter not tests IN regard to Dcnoc-
| rncv We regard the act OF rcnunciaon by Congress
Of the power il has heretofore exercised over the SUBJ
Cot a. the mtCtica surrender OF formidable Junction
con the part of the Federal Government, and a. the
accession OF ight on the part of the ncipen
eighties that are constitute the States of the Union,
the exercise Of which cannot in all probability result
nau-pciousy to the people OF the Territories end The
peace OF the Union.
This, however wa too slippery place for
cur Soft Sam Patch politicians 10 stand upon, and
st their State Convention, held on the lst of Sep
tember last they slid down to the following:
Resolred That the National Administration has
l-atty concurrence and cOmneudatiOn in the mana ge-
ment of the public fDances-in the exercises OF the
veto power to protect the treasury from being made
the spo Of spectators, and 20 arrest improyidcnt and
corrupt expenditure that the system OF rgd account
| ability 10 which diSbur!ng officers have been held,
The scrutiny with which dclalcations have been be.
tected ami the attitude assumed in support of the
American name abroad well as tho important trea-
tirs with foreign Governments, extending the stem
| cf commercial rtcprOCtv aud freedom OF trade, are
| l. l.,.. and fpf ful 1r1iu