Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-21
A rrue pemocra,ic Document.

Such may emphatically be called the address
recently issued by one hundred of the leading
democrats of the State of New York, who have
not, as yet, participated in the Republican move
ment. 1t is long and very able document, &C.
cupying several columns in the New Pork papers.
1t is addressed to the radical democracy" OF
that State, and takes decided ground against the
Nebraska Kanzas swindle, and the action of the
administration, generally, in relation to Kanzas
matters. These one hundred true and firm dem
ocrats who would not " bow the Race 10 Ball.
party has departed from all its original doctrines,
anu 0seo'-.0 s'-s tool IF i-~-r
ism. The address is from the pen of Mr.. Van
Dyck, editor of the late Albany atlas, the organ
of the Van Buren, democracy for many years, and
among the sgners are some of the ablest demo-
Gratis of the State, such Levi S. Chat6eld, Da-
vid Dudley Field, James S. Wadsworth, &c. The
closing portion of their address, which exhibits
its true temper and style, is as follows:
There was time, within the memory of
even youthful citizens, when freedom was
considered as national, and slavery as local
and sectional; but under the concessions of
the present day, slavery has come to be re-
garded as the corner stone of our republican
shibboleth OF National Democrat. The Pc
Rod is not remote when it was deemed strict
ly in accordance with democratic principle,
that the people, the fountain and source of all
political power, should prescribe the measures
of government, and give direction to the con-
duct OF those they placed in public station.
But under the peculiarly democratic auspices
of the present hour, and the existing admin
istration, this wholesome principle lsreversed.
1t is no longer the people who rule, but eoho
are ruled. It is the president, who, under his
own sign manual, declares what measures
shall be approved, to what standard of ethics
the popular mind shall conform, and upon
what terms and conditions men shall be al
lowed to remain within the communion of the
party 1t is the president who reads homilies
to his northern constituents on the immortality
of aiding their less favored fellow citizens to
emigrate to the unoccupied prairies of the
West, and stigmatises the founding of free
State as a crime against the peace of the So
ciety; whilst with characteristic consistency,
he levies, through his subordinRtes, forced
contribution upon the employees of the gov
eminent, for the purpose of influencing the
election in his native state. The Jeffersonian
test, honesty, capability, and fidelity to the
constitution. is no longer regarded. Does
he approve of the measures of my administra-
ton does he stand fairly and squarely on the
Nebraska bill is he without faint on the
slavery question s'-these are the tests of char
acter and condition upon which men are per-
mitted to call themselves democrats. aud par
ticipate in the favors of the present admins.
traton. Nor does it stop here. Men with no
stain upon their personal or political charac-
tiers, whose whole lives Lave been devoted to
the advocacy of democratic principles, are
treated with contumey, and their counsels
spurned, because they arc unwilling to violate
their convictions of right, and join in a cru
SADIE against the best interests of the country,
The most eminent living statesmen of the re-
public, (Van Buren, and Benton1 against
whose devotion to the constitutional rights of
the South during quart% of a century the
breath of calumuy never dared to lisp whis-
per, are now branded with obloquy and re-
proach, for no other cause than a refusal to
enlist under the banner Of slavery extension.
These are the fruits which belong to the
existing order of things, and this the shrine
at which the democrats of New York are COM
manded to bow in humble alteration. While
we refuse compliance with the requisition,
we hazard the prediction, that when time
shall have rpened coming events into history,
the future will belle the past, if President
Pierce do no. prove, in his own ear-bought
experience, that the gratitude OF the slave.
power is as evarescent as its demands are ex-
acting and inperious.
Against the legitimate and constitutional
rights Of the South we wage no warfare
Towards its citizens we entertain no hostility.
Weconcede TO them, within their appropriate
Jurisdictions, tho night to regulate their own
internal affairs in their own way, and accord
ing 70 Their own convictions Of propriety.
But they must cease the attempt to force up-
-.
which there can be no community Of feeling
and no accordance Of action. We warn them
against placing confidence in tho representa-.
tons Of men who have not the power even IL
they possess the disposition, TO control Inc
votes Of the democratic electors of the Elm.
pre- state. These will demand due resnec,
Tor their own rights and proper appreciation
oil the rights Of Others They will require
return TO those principles Of public polity