The Evansville daily journal., 1856-02-16
q Specimen Of ''National Delegates to the Gin
cinnati Convention.

cinnati Convention.
There will be some delightful Delegates in
the Cincinnati Old Line Convention, to repre-
sent the unterrifed Democracy" and help Sc
lect a candidate to represent that immaculate
political conception before the people, for the
Presidency The Soft Shell Democrats Of
New York have held their State Convention
and nominated their Delegates to this Nation
al Convention of their party. 1t will be rec
objected these Softs are the real Adn.inistration
party in New Yorll-that division which Pres
ident Pierce so handsomely patronized at the
expense of the Hards, by filling important
Offices with Soft men. Dennis Mccarthy is a
fair specimen of the Delegates appointed by
the Softs, and here is the kind of a bold boy
Dennis is.
! On the 18th day of February 1854, meet
ing was held at Syracuse under the following
CALI
NEBRASKA MEETING
The people of Syracuse, irrespective Of par
ty, are invited to meet at the City Hall in Sy-
racuse, on Saturday evening" Feb. Is, 1854 to
utter their protest against the infamous bill of
fered by Douglas in the United States Senate,
to doom the territories of Kansas and Nebras-
ka to perpetual SlaUery.
Let the united voice of old Onondaga be
raised in opposition to this outrage upon the
rights of a free people.
| (Signed) DENNIS MCCARTHY,
and about l25 others.
Dennis Mccarthy presided at the meeting,
and made speech, in part, as follows:-
''But for the Missouri Compromise slavery
would have acquired an ascendency that
| would have been destructive to our nation
l individually care not whit for Compromi-
ses. IF [ alone were concerned, | would throw
them all aside and declare war against slavery
to the knife. Applause. And if the Compro-
misses are to be set aside at the convenience ot
others, feel at liberty to agitate so far as my
conscience and the laws would permit. The
attempted repeal Of the Missouri Compro
mise is bad move for the South, and the day
will come when they will rue it. My objec
! tions to slavery are these. First, 1t is wrong
! under the laws of God and the laws of the
universe, that any man should be held in bond
Iage. Second Labor the great lever that
moves men and sustains the welfare Of man.
t kind, is by it degraded and debased. Repeal
/ the Missouri Compromise, and where are oul
, young men and adopted citizens to go IN the
future? Slavery on the South and slavery or
the West would confine them within two mar
row limits. We cannot interfere with slavery
at the North but shall the Great West be Civ.
en- up to its perncious influence? lto0 hare mad
mental reservation aoit5 regard to the Te8o5tio
of the Democratic State Contention last Falg, aac
on that question Joined in Tie protest made bs
Y Preston King. do not condemn the Presi
d dent so severely as | do some who entertain
I anti-slavery views like my own. canno
; believe without stronger evid"uce than has
d yet been adduced, that Fra1lin Pierce il
It committed body and soul to the interest o
: slavery. No son Of glorious New Hampshire
e could be so recreant to the cause offreedom.
look to the House of Representatives to inter
, pose check to this last scheme ofslavery ag
n grandisement But if worst comes to worst
G and Franklin Pierce and his Administrator
b seek to make it a test of partisanship, all h
: (McCarthy) could do, is to break loose from
= his partisan connections, and go to that part.
g which would best sustain the rights of man
e Great applause"