Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-09-14

1HE NEW YORK BLACK KEPUBLICANS.-Ihe OlacK
Republicans of New York held their State Conven-
ton at Syracuse on the 7th instant The atten-
dance was large. They nominated men of their own
stripe for State officers, and made overtures to
the Know Nothings. The main reason for this ap-
pears to have been the fear that by coaescing with
the "Americans" they would diminish their chances
for obtaining the foreign vote. .~o. -
The following resolutions were unanimously adj
opted. They are utterly and bitterly antslavery.
The black Republicans of New York, it will be
SEEM are quite upon the administration of
Mr. Buchanan as the Southern "oppositionists are.
These black Republicans also declare that the ma
tional Democratic party is the peculiar friend of the
"saye power, the Southern "oppositionsts de-
clare that this party has proved faithless to
slaveholdng interests If the latter declaration be
true how is it that the black Republicans have not
found it out? The resolutions are as follows:
"Resolred, That the republican party of the State
OF New York, in convention assembled, reassert
their interchangeable faith in the truth, justice and
practcability of the principles and purposes enunci
ated by the National Republican Convention at
Philadelphia, on the 18th of June, 1856.
Resolced, That freedom is universal and national
and slavery exceptional and local and that the gov
eTlineIlI OI Tie ClLeQ StaeS IN tne exercise OF us
powers, whether executive, legislative or judicial is
bound to adhere in substance and in form to the
generous and noble spirit of this important maxim
Resored, That the Territories of the United States
are the property of the people of the United States
that the constitution has conferred upon Congress
the power to make all needfu rules and regulations
! respecting the said Territories, and that it is the
right and duty of Congress- the guardian of their
welfare, to preserve them free forever from all poll
teal and social instances, and particularly from the
Infamous and debasing institution of domestic sa-
| very.
| Resolred, That the countenance and support
which has been given to the slave power by the po
ltical party which calls itself the democratic party
has encouraged that dangerous and aggressive oil
| garchy to put forth schemes for the enactment by
Congress of slave code for the Territories and for
the revival of the barbarous nhuman and detestble
traffic IN African slaves against which schemes the
republican party hereby pledges itself to contend
with earnest and unrelasing energy.
Resolred, That the administration of the existing
| President James Buchanan, has been marked
throughout by a reckless prohigacy of expenditure
which has raised the annual expenses of the federal
government to nearly one hundred millions of dol
lars by extravagant schemes which proposed an ad-
ditional outlay of thirty millions of dollars to corrupt
public sentiment on important questions of foreign
policy, and by entire, wanton and disgraceful
abandonment of the great principles of State rights
glorious characteristics of the American republic.
Resolred, That we hold it to be the duty Of the
general government to set apart portion Of the
public lands for the free and occupation of the
emigrant in accordance with the provisions of the
bill introduced into Congress at the last session by
Mr.. Grow, of Pennsylvania, which bill was support
ed by the republican members of Congress general
ly and opposed generally by the representatives
of the slave power.
Resolred That American citizens all over the
world, as SUCH are entitled to the prompt, perpetual
efficient and fearless protection of the federal gov
ernment that consequently we abhor and reprobate
the doctrine of the present federal administration
which abandons the adopted citizens who may be
sojournng in foreign countries, either for purposes
of business or pleasure, to the tender merces o.
French drill sergeants and Austrian jailors and
that rejecting We do all class or discriminating
legislation unequal and unjust we adhere to the
principle of the Philadelphia platform Of 1856
which proclaims that the spirit of our institutions
as we'll as our fundamental guarantees-liberty O
conscience and equality of rights to all citizens