The true Democrat., 1856-02-19
Important Action of the New
 York Democracy,

The following are the resolves entire which were passed by the state convention of the soft shells, 50 called, in session last week at Svra- cuse, for the appointment of 70 delegates to the national convention at Cincinnati. The | editor of the Springfield Argus who is recently from New York, and familiar with the politics of that State, remarks:-
 "Our prediction relative to the action of this | convention, which has been looked to by de- | mocrats, in all parts of the Union, with deep interest, has been fully realized. The prnci- 1 pie of popular sovereignty has been fully and
 unequvocaIly endorsed by that branch of the
 New York democracy heretofore regarded most
 hostile to it, and endorsed too, in a State con-
 ventlon held in view of the near approach of
 the presidential contest. upon which we are
 about entering. It may be regarded as an in- dication of the change in political sentiment,
 which is plainly visible in all sections of the
 country.
 | We rejoice at this position of the democrats
 6f New York, in which both branches of the
 party are agreed in principle, and which, in | that in most of the States of the Union, l will be triumphantly sustained at the polls. It Is an unfortunate circumstance. and one scarcely reconcilable with consistency, that the two branches of the democracy of New York, while agreeing in principle, and prepared to oc- cupy national ground should remain divided ln organization, and waste their efforts in use- less and unprotitable strife, when cordial union would enable them to carry the State, and pos slblyto determine the result of the presidential election. We trust that wiser counsel. will prevail, and that we shall soon be able to speak of the democracy of that great State, without qualifying our language, or designating their shell, as either soft or Aard.''
 The resolutions were introduced by MT. l.. B. Shepard, of New York city. The sixth is in the same language of the resolve adopted by the caucus of the democratic members of Congress on the 1st of December:-
 "ResOlved, That our federal government be- ing restrained by the constitution to specific functions, the legitimate province of national politics is confined within the same limits; and that every popular agitation or movement that aims to transcend these constitutional bounds. and to avail itself of the organic force of %. vernment to accomplish its purposes, is a per version of the uses and objects of party. tend ing to great and serious usurpations in govern ment, and when unjustly enforced against any particular section of the country is tyranny that should be resisted by all good citizens.
 Resolued, That the agitation of the slavery question by the people of the non-slavehold- Ing States, with view to impair the security Of the domestic institutions of the south whe- ther pursued in demonstrations by political conventions or by discussions and legislation in Congress falls within this category; and that the experience of the past has shown that. while It has compassed no good, it has resulted Tn serious evils, weakening the brotherhood of the States and that mutual and unconstralned association that was once their chief bond of union, and substituting in their place the do mneerng influence Of political parties, and the coercive power of the federal government
 Resolved That the recent manifestation of thls evil spirit Tn the organization of the so.cal- led republican party, by showing to what trea- sonable head 1t has already arrived. demon. slrates the unfortunate tendency of all it's an. tecedent steps in this agitation. And that we point to its avowed doctrine of hostility to the constitution, its imputatons upon the spirit in which 1t originated, its denial of the equality ot the States, and its invocation of higher law than the constitution, and it's whole scheme of civll dlscords to be accomplished by political usurpatlon, as the natural result and consum nation of the lattudinarian doctrine and false and erroneous policy which, since the founda- tlon of the government, have characterized the creed of the opponents of the democracy. ResOtced, That the determination of Conoress | avowed in the Kansas Nebraska bill to re;sct from the national councils the subject of slave. ry in the territories, and to leave the people | thereof free to regulate their domestic institu
 tlons in their own way, subject only to the con- stitttion of the United States, is one that ac- cords with the sentiments of the democracy of | the State, and with the traditional course of le- gislaton by Congress, which, under democratic auspices, has gradually, in successive territorial | bills, extended the domain of popular rights, and limited the range of Congressional action. And that we believe this disposition of the question will result most auspciously to the peace of the Union and the cause of good go- vernment. N Resolusd, That Gin the language of the recent message of President Pierce to Congress- the people of the territory by it's organic law pos