New-York daily tribune., 1856-07-30
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ADOPTED BY THE DEMOCRATIC REPCBLtcASs
ASSEMBLED AT SYRACUSE JULY "a, 1856.


mea,ures and The candidates Of the Democracy That
party of glorious memory which once spoke and acted
for Freedom. has fallen into the hands OF office holders
ard political adven.urers, serving as the tools OF
.syeholdipg oigarchy. For more thsn ten years the
measures Of the General Government hsve been di.
n cted mainly to the increase of Slave States One
measure hiss followed upon another, each bolder thsn
the last, until we have violence ruling IN the Feders
Capitol, and civil war raging in the Territories
For the consumn alton OF each measure, the Veh"l
have been purchased the timid frgdtenet ny threats
OF csunion, the peace.loyng sootbed by promises Of
future quietness, aud the reluctant and resisting 81
enced or overcome by the camor and force OF party
Each success has led TO aggression, until at last
the weak man now at the head of the Government
stimulated by Senator from Illinois, in rivalry f1
Presidential nomipation, and believing the best
means OF reaching was to secure tie entire Southern
VOTE aid the best means of obtaining that new sac
rce to Slavery, attempted TO force through Congress
the repeal of an existing law, by which compromise
had been effected by faths more than third of
century pact. These rival demsgosues succeeded in
etcting the repeal, though they lost their re ward.
BY this act of crime unparalleled even In our day of
political crimes one Of the fairest regions of our coun.
Try and indeed of the world, has been converte into
field of battle, where citizens of common country
are fighting with each other Tor the Introduction or
exclusion Of hunsn ssrvitude Sach another specta-
Gle the world does MT present Aud the end of il is
dependent uponthe event of Presidential election
To excuse themselves, the authors Of the measure
put forth the plea, tbst the peops of the Territories
had tie right to govern themselves. If fthi. were
true, il would lot have justified the kapsas-Nebraska
&C., for that was mere abandonment OF Congression
al nsrposition in favor Of Presidential ineposi,ion
leaving the law making power to the people, bui
serving the executive azd judicial to the President
his nominees. II abdicson by Congress Of its
legislative functions in favor of ths executive.
But the plea was as untrue III fact as II was unwcr-
thy in motive. They who put il forth have already
abandoned IT, The Senate has passed bill proposing
10 az nu of the most obnoxious acts OF these Jaw
makers, and the authors of the mischief, shrinking
from the quences of their own acts and 10 getting
that Others will remember their srgversat n, attempt
10 escape some OF the condemnation by undolng part
o: the evil.
II the people of the Territories have the right to
govern Themselves, they will make their governors and
Judges as well their legislator. II they have not
the right Congress has 1t; and il Congress ha. IT, 1t
must be exercised according to the judgment and con
sc nee Of the country. TIE true question, theref ne,
is What lee ation on the subjec; Of Slavery in the
Territories do the judgment and conscience of The coun
try require
The present question IL, indeed narrower than tn
for re ses merely to the Territories of insas and
Neb,aika. These, the egilation Of Co. gless, per-
feced in 1920 by the votes of the Nor and Sou h
chiefly South -toemny AID forever set apart Free
so That dedication of the so to Liberty the deg
eracy of the present Jay has annuled. Aud the egs
lsiion which s now required ishat when IS necessary
whsfever il may be, to make Kansas fee
This is demanded alike by every consideration past,
present and future. If Kan-as, winch tbs past mafe
ree is now TO be chang to slave there must be an
end of compromises and of cOnclatory legislation; the
faith which prompts one legislature or one generation
TO respect the engagements Of another mas. disappear;
and how long government can be carried on without
that faith and confidence, wltbou. something more
than write constitutions, worked by mere m.orlties
regardless of everything but their own strength and
will, they who have read history can answer.
If the pre- sent struggle is 10 end as the Hi lois SEN
stor bss boasted in the subugstOn of those who op-
posed bis mschievous bill, then, indeed IL the spirit
Of evil let loose, init nidsion and violence are in the
10 be- despis d, con.eence may be laughed at, and i
il Of no in portaLce to the r.sdent Congress wha
the people tf the North may think; II the Sou;h car
be secured, with the northern office holders and Pur
ehaseable members Of Congress, any measure may bt
| sfely carried and maintained. How such stare
hipes commena tsel to the spirit or selfrespect
| northern electors we ask them to answer.
But what shall we say Of the future ! Kansas los
10 freedom, and as home for the oppressed of all ma
tons; free labor dIvtn her bordes aud ths
| pob,e domain of the New World broader and fsire
thar many realm Of the Old, made no. prospsrou;
AMI itch like Wisconsin and lowe, but half baroaro1 Is
| like Western Missouri.
That, however, is no. the worst consequence. The
same spirit which contrived the Kansas conspiracy
aready hints that the prohibition of the slave trade il
an unjust discrimination against the South And why
not II Slavery be evil, or If Federal legislator
msy not legilste the idea that /, is an evil why
should he make it piracy to bring slave into the coun-
tryl Why not let each man buy, according TO his own
conscience what he finds TO be property, or, which is
the same thing wha. he finds everywhere to be sal Y
BILE The same principle which jas.i6es the Kansas
act must justify the slave trade and condemn as an
inf ement upon the equal rights of the South, the
exclusion of the foreign traffic. That step being taken,
and h is the next if the present succeeds then Slavery
is virtually established in all our States for according
to the high Federal or, as the phrase the National
doctrine Of some of our courts Whatever Congress su
thOrzes to be imported may be sold, any law OF any
| State TO the contrary Notwithstanding.
No, fellow Democrats, our only safety s 70 stoT
where we are-to make Kansas a Free State-to pan
sh the authors Of the present agitation, and 10 that
way 70: that is the only way in which it can be done
put an end to the Slavery agitation.
How is this to be accomplished Byrjecting the
Cincinnati Convention and its nomineesor they arc
psepai able. That Convention met while the country,
or, at least, all but the Southern part OF it, stood
greved and shocked by the violence and awessness
in Washington and in Kausas Bot not word of dis.
appreciation did the Convention utter They resolved
upon certain trusms which nobody has ever DISPUTED
passed q resolution against Bank of tho Uated
Statee as if ybody had dreamed Of such thing for
yesr-a subject just pertinent to our present CIR
cur stances as the Virginia or Kentucky resolutions
al then gravely resolved that every new State must
form its own institutions, by mputation denying boto
20 Congress and 70 the Territorial Legislature the right
to exclude Slavery. II must also be born in mind,
that the author of the Kansas act and the nominees OF
the Cincinnati Convention have, to tb, day declined
to say that the people Of the Territories have the rgh.
70 exclude Slavery.
Who does not know that no free State has ever yet
been admitted into the Union into which, a. terri
tory. Slavery was admitted Who does not know
tba. Save win go wherever slsveholder goes, If
be is permitted to take it with him. TIA, Slavery ex-
lite in Ktn:ucky, in higher latitude than some coun:
ti.s of Ohio and lLdahs, and in Missouri, several
1.a1 beru tha m
tie free State of Illinois; that it is an institution
easily pantsd in the infancy of settlements, and most