New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-09


iti0sl position:
81 intend reCiously 10 support The Union Of tn.
State in the principles on which IL was organized and
the Constitution by which II il maintained Iiemand for
the North and will concede 20 the South al that be
claimed under the Constitution. | regard Free Labor
as the cornerstone q our prosperity ard the obser
Of the reserved rights Of the States the oun
dston OF our success as Government. l resist any
interference with Slave Labor in the States where It
exits, bu, am ufeIby opposed to lts extension; to
the admission of other Slave States, or the acquisition
of territory for the formation Of Slave States. enter
tain DO doubt OF the power OF Congress to prohibit
Slavery ip the Territories that ought to exercise
that power. IprOtest against the usurpahon OF the
Courts in assuming to decide as judicial Questions
propositions which are in their nature, and from the
foundation of the Government have always been re-
garded as popular and political questions. As your
representative, will demand that something OF the
power Of the Government of the States shall b. d.
rected to the development Of Christan-like and
cviizing industrial pursuits rather than to the re.
institution of barbarc customs and the propagation Of
African Slavery"
AS to tue American platform, Mr. Banks says:
81 DO rot hesitate to pronounce my recorded opin
iOps think il may be stated general truth, be-
yond question that the right to govern this country
belongs to the American people. speak in no pro.
suiptse sense, but in the free and generous spr in
which If was spoken by American Statesmen in the
Convention that framed the Constitution, to those Of
foreign birth who had incurred with them the peris OF
Uc htNOlutlOD. W lHul c4trud ~ lOleIBucIs
OF participation in Government, but We ought not
to surrender under any circumstances, right to ao
solute control. In other times, they came in small
numbers and the ardent friends Of Liberty. Now
they cone in CLOUDS, aud while they claim our sympa.
thy as refugees from OPPRESSION, which has driven
them from III, r hcu :. they become here, with some
exception, via Intentionally or not, the supporters
of pol that think Is likely TO fasen upon our en-
tire continent the worst system OF oppression the world
knows, and which threatens the existence OF repubL
can liberty here in it stronghold think there should
be established in some manner higher test OF the
capacity Of applicant for citizenship; that the
manner Of ConeirDg citizenship shOu d be made more
solemn and impressive and that legislative safeguard.
should be thrown around the ballot box to protect the
rights of the public from the gigantic frauds which
have been committed; in which fresh, uninstructed
voters are perhaps unconscously made participants
in gre at violation of public right. am opposed TO
military organizations composed exclusively of for
eigners and believe that the term Of residence re-
qured before citizenship or the night to vote is con-
ferred should be materially extended.
Several other speeches were made, aud series Of
Republican resolutions adopted.
The meeting dissolved amid tn. most tumuItuou'
cheering for Banks, Wilson, Sumner and others