The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-23

"ReSotred, That the surrender OF those Ierrl
tories to Slavery would be at once a natlona
crime, a national disaster, and national shame
and thai every American, whether in the North
or in the South, who lives or whose posterity
must live by any other industry than that o.
enslaved, benighted, and imbrHted human chat
tells; ev,ry one who does not regard those who
live by b ,nest muscular exertions, as necessarily
the mp i.sills of society," has deep personal
interest IN the triumph of our cause.
Res Iced That our attitude of activity, posi-
tive, res lutte resistance to Slavery Extension,
is that Il our Revolutionary Fathers, and the
foundera of this Republic-that our doctrine
and practice Of Legislative prohibition of Sla
very in the Federal Territories was first pro-
pounded by Thomas Jefferson, and heartily sp'
proved ~ George Washington, along with q
great M iority of the distinguished Patriots and
Ssstesm h of the South as we'll as the North,
and tia, New York, now happily Free State,
cannot ithout dishonor take lower ground in
OPPOSITE IN to the spread of our great national
cancer, han she deliberately assumed and un-
finchint " maintained throughout her forty
years of independent existence as q slave State.
Res lDed, That in thus proclaiming our de-
terminet and unalterable repugnance to the
extentie of Slavery, We disclaim all unkind
feeling r ungenerous purpose toward our
brethren of the South. We disclaim all intent
or wish . war upon or harm them we insist
that the have no right to regard as invidious
or hosti our persistence in a policy which
their fat first traced out for our fathers and
themseh % and We hold that the true interest
and enc airing honor of every portion of the
Confede acy require the conservation of every
remain, acre of National Territory to the
uses of zee labor and free men.
:" 81 ned, That the dicts propounded by the
Suprem, Court of the Republic in the bred Scott
decision making every square mile of the Fed
eral teri ,ory prima fdeie slave territory, by in
creasine the facility with which such extension
may be fected, deepens the obligation resting
upon rs o resist the extension of Slavery and
despite uch dicta of the Supreme Court, We
affirm Il power and duty of Congress to ex-
clude 81 very from the Territories of the Uni
ted Stat ,.
Res, fped, That we point with pride to the
history I'D present attitude of Kansas, as evil
dence th It Northern resistance to Slavery ex-
tension, even though struggling against the
full pow. r and determined exertions of the Fed
eral Elk, ,utive, Judiciary, Senate, and for the
most pa !, of the House also, is not Intellectual
nor fruit ess, but certain, if earnestly and stead
tasty m intained, to be crowned with a benef.
cent ant far-reaching triumph.
pioneers of Kansas we tender assurances of our
admiral N of their courage and fidelity, our
profoun sympathy for their most unmerited
trials al sufferings, and our congratulations
on then triumph 30 nobly and now so nearly
achieved in the face of unprecedented embar
rassmen >, perils, and sacrifices and We hold
up their Example to the imitation of their and
our bre aren, who are going forth to people
Arizona and the vast uncultivated regions
which o q the sway of our Unicn.
Res, fred, That the attempt Of the present
Federal Administration to force Kansas into
the Uni q under slave Constitution, never
authori2 d by her people, but Indignantly repu.
dated q q usurpation and as fraud, is but
the natu al climax of q long series of wrongs
and iniS aities, instigated by the same spirit,
and EN-, pating from the same source; and
while rel ,icing over its defeat, we realize that
the blow was none the less felonious, because
the ensr y and address with which it was par
ried and it's purpose bafhed.
Res, ICED, That we demand the prompt ad-
mission If Kansas as q free State, upon the
applicat IN about to be made by her people,
and We sotest against any respect or Difference
to the ,vidious conditions of admission i'm.
posed OF her alone by the English bill, as un-
just to ,elf and insulting to every free State in
in the L lien.'
There 8 mind and heart in these resolutic ms.
They sh, clear appreciation of great princi-
Piles, anc "a hearty devotion to noble purpose
they 81 20 living issues without disguise or
abateme It, They confront the Slavery De.
mocracy fairly, openly, fully. Men who vote
for cand dates on these resolutions will know
precisely what they are doing, and if they sue
coed, the 8 chosen agents will know precisely
how to a t.
Such , course ought to have been pursued
in New York, and every other State from the
beginnin T. To hesitate, to vacillate, to palter,
to invite coalition, was to betray weakness,
raise up adversaries, revive other organiza.
tons, WI ch would have dwindled under the
pressure Of a prompt, decided, an uncompro-
missing l''rty action by the Republicans. 1t
was not accessory to be supercilious, uncon-
ciliatory, PARTISAN in temper: but they had the
field, the issues were defined, they had pro-
claimed heir principles, they embraced the
great m, 'ority of the voters opposed to the
course o the Slavery Democracy. Why did
they not IN every case, avoid all trading, all
bsrgaini, {, and, confding in their principles
and posit on, carry their appeal directly home
to the Pc pile, and let other organizations stard
or fall ON heir merits.
Let US 2joice that in a majority of the States
they havypuraued this manly course, and, as
the result show, with success. In a very few
they have adopted different policy, but it will
fail. The Republican Party is the Party of
FreedomHps it is nothing at all. Strip it of
his attribute, as its chief characteristic, adul-
terate it Ntsh Know Nothingism, make it Con.
servative, -or Tariff, or an Old Wing, or
Squatters Sovereignty" Party, and from that
hour it dies to the root.
Mr.. DGsart, of Penn, who distinguished
himself IL Congress last winter by being
against tbs Lecompton bill up to the day of
. vote up,H it, and then wheeling into Admin.
stration iiae, has been renominated for Con-
yress by BIS partisans.
NEW ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP LINE.
Mr.. Lever a Manchester, England, merchant,
,as starte new ocean line of steamers.
"The sheme CT the corporation embraces
.hese details:
"The purchase or construction Of ten FIRST |
class steai ,ers, to ply between Galway, Boston,
Quebec, aad New York.
"The Establishment of auxiliary coastwise
ines for Ireland and England, with line pos |
'ibly for France, as feeders to the transatlantic
vessels.
I" The il stitution Of two thousand booking of.
icea in IL A Limited Statea Canada and Great