The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-02-23
TIE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.


The Democracy of the city of New York
has recently published resolutions endors-
ing, in strong language, the course of the
President with regard to the admission of
Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution
The resolution express the opinion that it
would have been wiser for the Convention
to have submitted the whole Constitution to
the people for ratification yet, as the Con-
vention was elected by the people, and
vested with the power of deciding upon
the extent of the submission; and as the
question of slavery-the only one upon
which the people were divided in opinion
was submitted and passed upon, the State
| should therefore be admitted under that
Constitutions, and thus loealize the slavery
fquestion in Kansas.
| The resolutions further say:
Whatever may have been the differ
ence of opinion among the Democracy of
New York ia past years, in respect to the
power of Congress over the subject of
| slavery in the Territories of the United
States, and the expediency of the exercise
! Of any power that night exist, they have
accepted the doctrine that territory acquir-
| ed by the united means and efforts of the
|, eonfederated States is common property,
I and should be open to settlement by the
| citizens of the seneral States, upon All equal
| basis, and without interference, during
| their inchoate existence as a Territory,
with the material rights of property which
| the settlers possessed in the States from
which they respectively emigrated."
This is the correct doctrine precisely,
and if maintained and carried out, as we
believe it will be, it establishes the great
principle of intervention by Congress
in the affairs of the territories. and their
| admissibility into the Union as States, as
we'll when they recognize slavery as when
they please to ignore it.
We make the following extract from that
sterling democratic sheet, the New York
Daily News:
"The Know Nothing scufles in Balti-
more are far more significant, bloody and
| terrible than any that have been reported
or imagined by the freedom shrekers in
Kansas, but they produce no effect on any
State or ON the Legislation of Congress
Maryland beng sovereign stare the
quarrel is exclusively her own; and when
Kansas shall enjey the same sovereign con-
dition, the strife of contendng factions
there will at once dwindle down to mere
themes of letter writer's and telegraphic re-
perters.
Let our Representatives in Congress who
have so nobly stood by the National Adj
minstratien OF James Buchanan, continue
firm; let them not turn TO the right or left,
or suffer their strength to be wasted by
specious compromises suggested by our
common enemies. Strength is not merely
in numbers, but also in the character of
men composing party. The lines of de-
narration must be drawn distinctly and
clearly, if we would preserve our National
organization. Bruce went into battle with
the men he could rely upon-not with an
army interspersed with eowards-and he
won it,
The South has friends at the North whe
are willing to see her rights acknowledged
and maintained. Let her be true to her
self Let her stand firmly by that party
and the men that stand by her, and all
will yet be well.