Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-09-23
The National Democracy.

We publish below the admirable resolutions unan-
imously 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-
vention, and the result is 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.
The Democracy of Ohio, of Iowa. of Pennsylvania,
and Of other free States have recently adopted reso
lutions of similar character and breathing the same
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 onslaveholding States A revolution in senti-
ment has commenced, founded upon investigations
into the nature of slavery and its 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 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 consumnated
by that party; and the crownng act of all, the res
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souri, restriction, was brought forward, sustained
and passed under Democratic auspices.
The late letter of the President, to which have
lust 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,
as such it was received by the South with voice
ofapproval and commentator. 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, one could not have told, if the locality of the
press had not been indicated by its title, whether
the extract had been made from a Southern or a
Northern journal And this is so not because the
party, as national organization, is pro slavery OF
anti slavery in its character but because occupies
the broad ground of the common Constitution
which protects slavery far and as fully as the
Southern people could ask or desire, and at the
same time leaves it to be established or interdictec
in pew regions as the people themselves in framing
the, organic law, may decide 1t is this great Con
.itutionaz principle that gives oneness and force
and harmony, and perpetuty to the national Demo
cracy and so long this principle is maintained
Justice will be done to all sections of the country
and the Union will be preserved in its original char
acter and spirit
Resolutions of the New York Democracy.
Resozced, That we congratulate the people of thi
Union upon the election of James Buchanan to tn
Presidency of the United States, and that we poin
to his wise and patriotic course in the chief magls
tracy not only as refuting all the predictions OF ev
with which his opponents endeavored to darken tn
public mind, but as vindicating the theory of ou
republican system, by proving the instructive cor
rectness of the popular judgment, which, at crsl
of peculiar nature threatening the peace If no
the existence of the Union, sought and called to tn
executive chair the statesman whose irmness, fear
lessness and sagacty was equal to the emergency.
Resolued, That we depore and denounce, as tn
source of unmtgated evil, that sectional agitation
which has so long disturbed the public mind; tina
we repudiate the doctrine that the people of on'
State have the right of nquisition into the domesti
institutions of other and independent communities
or can properly make them the subject of their OWL
internal politics and that we equally deny the as
sumption that the people of any Territory, present
ing themselves at the doors of Congress with Stat
Constitution, republican in its character, and sima
in it's organic element to those OF the original thlr
teen States can be refused admission into the Unio
on the ground of non-conformity to modern and sec
tional tests; and that congratulate the people
Kansas upon the opportunity which they now have
unawed by external dictation and undist urbed b.
sedtious combinations at home, of carrying out tn
principles of the organic act establishing the Terri
tory, by adopting Constitution which shall leav
to their own people the right of deciding upon tn
character of their domestic institutions and policy
Resolyed, That while we depreeate all partizan at
tempts to provoke slavery agitation and excitement
we approve the position and applaud the spirit Q
the recent admirable letter of President Buchanan
in answer to the communication from several cleri
cal and other residents of Northern States; that il