Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-03-07
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| ports. when j. H. floyd. from the committee oii
resolutions, presented the following series OF res
| ouions:
The Democratic Republicans of Virginia, in
convention assembled, following the time honor.
ed usage in declaring the principles which BIND
them together as party, do
l. Resolve, That the true relations between
the States aud the Federal Government, aud the
true rules for the construction OF the tonsfitu=
ton are correctly set forth in the resolutions
and report Of l79S aud 90 of the General As
sembly of Virginia. and the doctrines therein
expounded are hereby adopted aud realirmed'
=. Resolved. That Congress has no power to
appropriate. directly indireotly.tho proceeds OF
the sales of the public lands 10 the purposes OF
internal improvement.
Sd. Resolved, That specific duties, taxing rs
they do. the low priced necessares OF the poor
ms heavily as the costly Injuries of the rich are
unequal. unjust. and odous; that duties designed
| for protection foster one branch of industry and
cherish one section OF the country at the ex-
pense of others. and utterly Inconsistent
with Justice. sound policy aud Democratic prin-
cipIes, aud that we ARE opposed 10 any increase
of the duties on imports, especially ON articles OF
general and necessary consumption. such AS
! iron, coal. sugar, salt aud course cotton.
4. Resolved. That the Federal Government
ought to adhere in is foreign policy 10 the max
inns nculcatod by .the Father OF his country.
and by the Father Of Democracy.
3. Resolved. That we reafirn the resolutions
of the Baltimore Convention of 1852 as far n APP
plicable to the present condition of the country.
&. Resolved. Tint the vote of the State in the
Cincinnati Convention ought to be given for
such candidates will command the greatest
strength in the Democratic pnriy throughout the
Gnion,an whose principles are knownio conform
most strictly 10 the cardinal tenets of the Dem
ocrntc Republican faith.
Z. Resolved, That this Convention feel that
they could not more cmphaticay express their
condemnation of the obnoxious tenets and prac.
tees of the Know Nothing party. ,hnn was done
by the Democracy Of Virginia at the polls, the
eth day of May, 1880.
&. Resolved, That we approve Of the act known
as the Kansas Nebraska act repeating rs 1t did |
the Missouri restriction. which was unjust ia the |
South and in conflict with the Constitution and |
the equality of the Siates.
o. Resolved, That this Convention approves
fully and endorses cordially, tho principle con
tanned in the aforesaid net which secures to the
citizens of n territory, in applying for admission
into the Union STATE, the right 10 establish |
their own form of government, with such powers
limitations and restrictions ms they may think !
proper, subject only to the Constitution of the |
United Statas, which requires the form Of govern
lnent to be republican.
10. Resolved, That while this Convention dis
claims any knowledge of preference Of the Dem
ocluty oi tlllh among luf uNilnRulsllu sfl
tlemen who may be presented for the Clncin-
matt nomination, they havo no hesitation in
declaring their cordial approval of the cardinal
measures. and the bold and able State papers of
President Pioroe, by which the fundamental prn
ciples of the Democratic faith have been illus
trated.
Col. VIM, II. Hartman Of Augusta, moved TINT
the resolutions be adopted unanimously
whole and by acclamnton.
Mr. Mnntuotta do f,s, D., b,,ou ,i,o l,s
resolution designed expressing n preference for
any man.
Mr.. John Il, Floyd assured the gentleman that
the resolution des .ned expressly 10 avoid all
personal preference, aud had been carefully pre-
pared with that object.
Mr.. Montague was satisfied with the assurance
thus given and should Withdraw nil objection.
The resolutions were then put 10 vote and uu-
animously adopted.
The fact that Major Donclson was the editor OF
the Washington Union during portion of Mr..
Fillmore's Presidency, aud that he opposed aud
spoke horshy of his administration is gravely nj
leged,by the Democratc,press an objection to
the American tioket;and the columns of The Union
are rolled on to furnish munitions of war for the
campaign. The reasons assigned by Maj Donel-
son,in his n. York speech, published yesterday,
furnish sufficient ground for hi. change If party
association. On the camcr ref elton tor which
private life afforded an opportunity, and more
dispassionnte observation Of the movements of
that party with which he has heretofore been con.
nectcd, he has come TO think better Of MIR. Fill
more's administration, and now cstecms it "a high
honor'to have his name associated with his. lie,
with thousands of others, left the old parties ,eho
uerc unable to franquiii>e the idnd' and united
on platform national from beginning to end and
American in every feature of it." 1t was thus
tina, his relations towards Mr.. Fillmore were chan
ged. But without any expla lnton,n Major Dom
elson's behalf, we should think the Democracy
should he very careful how they refer to old opiu-
ions Mr.. Hunter, one of their prominent can
! didatcs for nomination, WAS once Whig-und
may have said things of the party with which he
is now identified. that il would be- very cmbarass
ing to have revived Mr. Buchanan, another
cons pcuous aspirant for that honor. is said, in
his holy horror OF Dem 1cracy, once to have de-
carcd that if he had drop of Democratic blood
in his veins he would open them and let it out
Mr., Wise, the favorite of numbers OF the marty,
in Virginia at least. made terrible in,inuation
against the Democracy, when be sud that .Whirs
knew each other by the instincts of gentlemen :,
Our friends, on the other side, these things con.
sid'red, had better. for the present. keep silen,
on the subject of oldrecords. Itmny be that they
will yet find themselves much more anxious Ia
avoid them, than Major Donclson and his hi.
friends.
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We are daily looking for Democratic ionr,al.
to reproduce the letter written nv Mr.. Fillmor,
twp Il, H.,
for Congress, hastily assentiug 10 opinions on