Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-07-17

our recognition as sovereign State,
ruth the domestic institutions Of aauery
and polvgaBv. as established by the pa
1 .riarchs and renewed TO the saints of lat
ter days. through Gods chosen rulers
and prophets.
1t is barely possible that the exclusive
privileges Of their Mormon brethren, were
meant in the democratic resolution; but
the home Interpretation is, that it was
hit at Clifford & Co.
/ To show what Getting down there
/ has been OF the so-ealiel democratic par
ty. on the slavery question, and the pow
or of Congress over this subject in the
territories, we rcpublish the following
resolution, adopted by the party in the
State Convention Of 1919 -
| "REsoLvEp, That the institution Of human
slavery IS at variance with the theory Of our
government. abhorrant to the common scnti-
meut of mankind, and fraueht with danger
( to all who come within the sphere of its inhu-
ence ; that the federal government possesses
adequate power 20 inhitit its existence in the
territories OF the Union that the constitutional
ity Of this power hx> been settled bv judicial
construction, by conteinporancous eNposltious.
and that WE en- joan onr Senators and Repre-
sentive> in Congress u make every exertinn
and employ II their influence to procure the
passage Of law forever excluding slavery
from the territories of California and New
Mexico"
It is well to inquire who from Hancock
County voted for the above. BY turning
to the record, We find that of those now
living. Thomas D. Jones, Esq. the pres
ent Collector Of Frenchman's Bay; Eras-
tus Redman. Esq, the superintendent Of
theCus.om Houso in this town. Arno Wis
we'll, Esq, the late candidate for mem
Der Ct Congress; and John Lee, Esq,
the Dep. Collector at Bueksport, voted
for this resolution. OF this number,
Jones. Redman and Lee attended the
last Convention at Portland and voted
for +. K Smart's non-intervcntion reso-
luton, which is intended to deny what
was asserted in the A. resolution. 1t
would be well to ask these facile Han
cock County democrats. Who have mani
tested such an aptness for ground and
lofty tumbling. if the members of the
Convention of lS49 were such eonSum-
mate blockheais that they did not know
what their resolutions affirmed, or such
kuavcS as to say what they did no: mean;
While on the s:eol and IN the attitude OF
confession, ask these national ? men Il
the present party discipline allows the
ri I'll; OF private Judgment At the risk
OF being impertinent again, inquire OF
these patriots il, when they said in Con-
vcntion. that the "constitu,ionali.y OF
the power to inh;bit slavery in the terri
+ tories had been settled by judicial con-
strGction and contemporaneous exposi-
ton any lawyer in the party at that
time doubted such to be the fact ard
if i, is any less the fact to-day than i,
was n 1919: Il they manifest dispo-
sition to make clean breast OF it, in
{ quire if i, would not have better COM
ported with the dignity Of party car.
nest in its claims to be considered a
a straig htforward, Independent, intelli-
gent party. to have hunted up the Judi
cial constructions. and the contempt
raneous exposi,ions, AMI the repeated
acts OF legislation, extending all
through the history of our government
since 1889. and reatfrmed the position
of the party on the only question now a,
issue! To common minds this would
seem to be the true course OF action. and
the path of duty. But we apprehend
that all observant minds have come to
the conclusion that the present duty OF
the so-called democratic party is to
keep step to the music Of the planta-
lion and therefore its former opinions
are discarded, and its old record denied,
wherein Slavery was stigma,ized as being
sectional, and Freedom declared to be
national