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The National Democracy.
We publish below the admirable resolutions unan-
mously adopted by the New York Democratic Con-
vention recently in session at Syracuse. For the
first time for many years all portions Of the Democ-
racy of the Empire State have fraternized in Con-
venton, and the result is q series of resolutions
on the slavery question to which no Southern
man can make objection. They embody the true
doctrine of the States rights Democratic party, and
they endorse in the fullest measure the late great
and patriotic reply of President Buchanan to the
Connecticut clergymen. -. ....i
The Democracy Of Ohio, of Iowa, of Pennsylvania,
and Of other free States have recently adopted
lutons of similar character and breathing the
lofty spirit of devotion to the Constitution and the
Union.
1t is very evident that the cause of the South and
of Constitutional Union is gaining ground in all
the non-saveholding States A revolution in senti-
ment has commenced, founded upon investigations
into the nature of slavery and it's bearings upon the
commerce and the substantial prosperity of the
whole country but MUCH if not all Of this is to be
attributed to the attitude maintained on the ques-
ton by the national Democratic party. Every
measure which has had for its object justice to the
South, has originated with and been contaminated
by that party; and the GROWING act of ALL the res
toraon of the Constitution by the repeal of the Mis-
souri, restriction, was brought forward, sustained
and passed under Democratic auspices.
The late letter of the President to which we have
Just referred furnished occasion for testing the
nationality of the Democracy. That letter was fully
up to the largest requirements and expectations of
the most decided States rights Southern men, and,
SUCH it was received by the South with voice
orapproval and commendaton. Yet the voice which
came from the true men North was not less warm or
emphatic in approval and commentator, than that
uttered here by gratifed slaveholding people and
looking at the numerous extracts published for ex
ample, in the Washington Union, from the Demo-
cratic press of the whole country in relation to that
letter. could not have told if the locality of the
press had not been indicated by its title, whether
the extract had been made from Southern or
Northern journal And this is so, not because the
party, national organization, is pro slavery
anti slavery in its character but because it occupies
the broad ground of the common Constitution,
which protects slavery as far and as fully as the
Southern people could ask or desire, and at the
same time leaves it to be established or interdicted
in pew regions as the people themselves. in framing
thel organic law may decide. 1t is this great Con-
stitutional principle that gives oneness and force
and harmony, and perpetuity to the national Demo-
cracy and So long as this principle is maintained,
Justice will be done to all sections of the country,
and the Union will be preserved in its original char
aeter and spirit
Resolutions of the New York Democracy.
Resolred, That We congratulate the people of this
Union upon the election of James Buchanan to the
Presidency of the United States, and that we point
to his wise and patriotic in the chief mags-
tracy not only refuting all the predictions of evil
with which his opponents endeavOred to darken the
public mind, but indicating the theory of our
republican system, by proving the instructive cor
rectness of the popular judgment, which, at crisis
of peculiar nature, threatening the peace if not
the existence of the Union sought and called to the
executive chair the statesman whose irmness, fear
lessness and sagacity was equal to the emergency.
Resolced, That we dep!ore and denounce, as the
source of unmitigated evil, that sectional agitation
which has so long disturbed the public mind that
we repudiate the doctrine that the people Of one
State have the right of inquistion into the domestic
institutions Of other and Independent communities,
or can properly make them the subject Of their own
internal politics; and that we equally deny the as
sumption that the people of any Territory, present.
ing themselves the doors of Congress with State
Constitution republican in it's character and similar
in its organic element to those Of the original thr
teen States can be refused admission into the Union
on the ground of nonconformity to modern and sec
tonal tests and that we congratulate the people OF
Kansas upon the opportunity which they now have,
unawed by external dctation and undist urbed by
seditious combinations at home, of carrying out the
principles of the organic act establishing the Terri
tory, by adopting Constitution which shall leave
to tn cir people the right of deciding upon the
character of their domestic institutions and policy.
ResOlued, That while we depreeate all partizan at
tempts to provoke slavery agitation and excitement.
we approve the position and applaud the spirit OF
the recent admirable letter of President Buchanan,
in answer to the communication from several cleri.
cal and other residents of Northern States that in
our Judgment this entire Kansas question-whether
of historical fact or governmental acton-is placed
therein upon its true basis the obligations of the
government and the rights of the people of the Ter
rilory clearly defined, and the essential principle
which lies at the foundation of our whole scheme Of
territorial organization rightly to enforce the prnci.
pie so readily ayowed by Congress as the true in
tent and meaning of the "Kansas Nebraska Act
that it is not the design to egisate slavery into
any Territory or State to exclude it therefrom,
but to leave the people thereof free to regulate their
domestic institutions in their own way, subject to
the Constitution of the United Ststes"-this Con.
vention declares its unqualified adherence, as the
groundwork of the adjustment of the dangerous
slavery controversy, in the only form sanctioned by
the Constitution, consistent with it's compromises,
with the rights of the States and with lust recog