Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-04-25

the ragings OF the sorm--they have.stood
unmoved. while malignancy and fanati-
eisnl have poured their torrents -supon
them. ! take them to my heart as politi.
cal brothers aud wear and cherish them
s!.ere.
How stands the Democratic parry? l
have given you the resolutions of Con:
Sress.
Listen /; to cohio; stepped as she has
been in Free Soilism in Safe convention
assembled with the boldness OF right
with the candor of manhood. they de.
olared on the 9th day of january iast,Tas
follows: 80 ..s ,es,l ...rf ,s.-.st.5s
Resolved. That slavery. being the
creator ofIposiliye law, cannot exist with.
out it is domestic institution. and that
Congress has neither the power to legis-
late it into any Territory or State, nor to
exclude it therefrom. but to leave The peo-
pie thereof perfectly free to form and reg
ulate their domestic institutions in their
own way, subject only to the Constitu7
ton Of the United States.
50. Resolved, That the right of the
people of each Particular-State and Ter>
ritory to establish their own constitution
or form OF government, to chose and reg
ulate their own domestic institutions of
every kind /; and to legislate for them>
selves, .is q fundamental principal of all
free governments and thatit is the self
same right 10 secure which our ancestors
waged the war of the Revolutions
right lying at the very foundation of all
our free institutions, recognized in the
Declaration of Independence, and estab-
hshed By the Constitution Of the United
States; aud we hereby endorse and re-
affirm this now disputed principle"
Contrast this with The resolves of tho
Kuow-Nothiug convention at Ciucinnati.
Listen to Indiana, as she, too, speaks
In her Democratic State convention. She
says: ,-.-.-.,s e.-f .s,
.Resolyed. That we approve the prln~
eiples OF the compromise measures OF
1880, and their application, as embodied
in the. Kansas-Nebraska bill, and will
faithfully maintain them" ..s.
Hear the Democracy of,New York, as
thew, too. in convention declare ~
a. Resolved, That the determination OF
Congress, avowed in the Kansas-Nebras>
ka bill. to reject from the national coun-
ellis the subject of slavery in the Terrific
ries, and TO leave the people thereof free
in thcir own way, subject only to the
Constitution OF. The United States, is one
that accurds with the sentiments OF the
Democracy of the State. and with the ira,
ditional course Of Legislation by Congress,
which. under Democratic auSpicies, has
gradually, in successive territorial bills,
extended the domain OF popular rights
and limited the range of Congressional
action and that we believe this DISPOSE,
lion of the question will result most au-
spiciOusly TO the peace OF the Union and
80 the cause of good government"
All, everywhere. from Maine to Texas.
speak the same languages declare the
same principles ndrally under the same
flag ! Is not this party national ? Con.
Grast these resolves with the fact, that the
know-nothing party, but two years old
has, managed, within that short time, to
be in favor Of secrecy, in favor of test
Oaths against test oaths--in some States
Tor the Catholic test, in others against
the Catholic test-on, one side Of the I'M
ion for the twelfth section, on the other
against the twelfth section and in their
late conveniion,:a at one time the southern
shivAlry bolt, al another the northern Free
Sellers bolt, and tell me if you can support
such party, even though Willard Fill
more is its candidate for the Presidency!
AS to the Black Republican party, it
now has the speaker of The House Of Rep
rssentativcs. Encouraged by past sue.
cess, it has become insolently bold, and
grasps with an eager-hand for the reins
of Government. fit succeeds, it elects
President. and gets possession of both
Houses OF Congress, it will carry out It's
Infamous circle of measures the repeal
of the fugitive slave law, the abolition OF
slavery in the District of Columbia, inter.
dict the inter slave trade between the
States. restore the Missouri restriction,
and refuse to admitany more slave States!
Who is it.that does not know the Union
would not survive an hour? Our
danger is not from the Pope, not from
foreigners. but is from the Aboitionists.
What then is our first solemn, patriotic
duty 1t is that we should band to-
gether as one man. It is that we should
each bring our former prejudices and lay
them down supon the altar of our country
that we should leave the past to ~ bu.
ry2its own DEAL" and look 10 and fight
clone for. the preservation of the Constitu.
ton and the Union. have seen the De-
mocracy cOme.dowu from the North, and
up from the South, and gather in solid
COLUMN aroundIthe Constitution, declare
that the rights of the South, the just
equality OF the States, the capacity of
man for self>govelnment, are their bonds
of brotherhood that they will protect
that Constitution against all the assaults
of ali isms in the land. While they con,
tinue to occupy this proud position, l am
with them Under God, l believe that