The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-06-12

TO consider the foreign policy resolution.
Mr. Petit. / cali to order. sal
MIR. Chair. The gentleman from Kentucky is
eut of order. -
MIR. Phelps, of Missouri, moved an adjourn.
ment to 3 P. NJ -'-'
The Chair decided such a motion could not
be received while a vote was pending.
Mr.. Phelps appealed from the decision of the
Chair. lf,a.'a4- sl.lelse 5.Hl.aI-
MIR. Richardson, of Illinois, stated that the
motion TO adjourn was in order when a vote was
not actually being taken.
| The Chair reversed its decision.
The motion to adjourn until p. M. was
| negatived but the question being raised, the
vote by States was taken, and the Convention
refused to adjourn by vote of yeas 70, nays
| 1873.
Mr.. Meade, of Virginia, moved recess of
| one hour; which was negatived.
The Virginia delegation asked and were per-
mitted to retire, to consider the five remaining
| resolutions.
The Party which annexed Texas for the
purpose of extending the area of Slavery !;
| which wrested from Mexico the Territories of
California and New Mexico, and sought to
plant Slavery therein; which resisted the ad-
mission of California, because its People, driven
L,
! excluded Slavery from its soil which repeal
ed the Missouri Compromise for the purpose of
| allowing Slavery to obtain foothold in all
territory north of the line of 800 3O>, as well as
south of it; which, since then, has practically
subverted the Principle of Popular Sovereign.
ty, urged as the ground and justification of
that repeal, by encouraging armed invasion of
Kansas, and subjecting the actual settlers,
through the active intervention of the Federal
Executive, to the power of the Slavery Propa-
ganaa, sanctioning all the fraud and violence
resorted to for the establishment of Slavery
throughout that Territory-the Party which is
| responsible for all these measures, pregnant
with "Savery agitation" constituting in fact
q complete system of Slavery agitation meas
ures designed and calculated to build up an
arrogant, imperious, sectional Interest, has the
audacity to set itself up, as the only consttu-
tional and national Party, stigmatizing the
men, who uphold the faith of solemn compacts,
who contend that the Union is formed to estab-
lish Justice and extend Liberty, who insist that
the Territories should be consecrated to Free
Labor and Free Laborers to the exclusion Of
| Slave Labor and Slave Laborers whose pres
ence curses the soil and makes honest indus
| try badge of degradation-as "a sectional
Party, subsisting exclusively on Slavery agita-
| ton /"
Let things be called by their right names.
The Cincinnati Convention represents class
of men, which subssts alone by Pro.Slavery
agitation, and whose highest mission is, to cir
cumscribe the area of Free Labor, and enlarge
that of Slave Labor. The Philadelphia Con-
vention, of the 18th June, will represent Par
ty, which, to defeat this detestable object, to
enlarge the area of Free Labor, and limit that
| of Slave Labor, is compelled to resort to Anti
| Slavery agitation. Let the American People
decide, which is more patriotic, national, benef.
cent-to agitate for Freedom, or to agitate for
Slavery?
The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, a
measure which few of the State Conventions of
the Democracy at the North have had the
temerity to approve, is distinctly sanctioned as
right-but General Cass and his disciples will
look in vain among these cumbrous resolves
for an affirmation of the Principle of Popular
Territory to determine for themselves the char
acter of their own domestic institutions. The
Principles of the Nebraska Bill are fully en-
dorsed-but not word is spoken in definition
of those Principles The right of the People
of Territory when they come to form State
| Government, to establish or exclude Slavery,
Is recognised, but not their right, achile in a
Territorial condition. So, the principle of non
interference by Congress with the subject of
Slavery in Territories, is affirmed, but not the
principle of non-interference by tile Federal Er-
ecutioe.
In word, these resolves, adopted by a Con-
vention representing the Slaveholding OH
garchy and its Free State Allies, pretending
to be the Democratic Party, concede the full
demands of the former. The South Carolina
and Georgia platform is endorsed as national,
and the Democracy, so-called, of the Free
States, is at length openly marshalled as the
posse com'tatus of Slavery. South Carolina
and Georgia rule in Kansas, and in Cincinnati
| They dragon Massachusetts men in Lawrence
and destroy their property, and compel Massa-
chusetts men in Cincinnati to applaud the
| decd and denounce the victims Hallett of
Boston exults over the subjugation of Massa-
chusetts men by Buford of Charleston.
Third Day-Atlernoon ISession.-The Con-
vention proceeded to vote by States on the five
resolutions touching the foreign policy of the
country.
The first resolution passed-ayes I'll noes
| 49. The second-ayes 49, noes %.
The third-ayes 1879, noes So. MARYLAND
and Rhode Island voted nay on the preceding
| resolutions.
Tia fourth passed-ayes 22I, noes IS
| Rhode Island, Delaware, MARYLAND, South Car.
DINA, and kentucky, voting against it. The
| fifth resolution received-ayes 225 noes 30.
The vote was, then taken on a supplemental
resolution reported by the committee as fol-
lows;
Resolocd, That the Democratic party recog-
misses the great importance, in a political and
commercial point of view, of safe and speedy
communication, by military and postal roads
| through our own territory, between the Atlantic
and Pacific coast of this Union and that it is
| the duty of the Federal Government to exert
promptly all its constitutional power for the at
tainment of that object.
Mr.. Thompson, of Mississippi moved to lay
| the resolution on the table. Carried-ayes l39,
noes 100. Cheers and Kisses followed the an
| nouncement of this vote.
A. Fl. Colquitt, of Georgia, moved to recon-
slider all the resolutions in reference to the for
eign policy of the Government, and recommit
them to the Committee on Resolutions.
delegate from Indiana moved to lay the
matter on the table. Carried-ayes l79, noes