The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-04-28
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nTWe would call the attention of our
readers to the following Resolutions a
dopted at the late Convention of Anti-Ad-
ministration Democrats at Harrisburg, in
the sentiment of which it is needless to
say, we most heartily concur.
The Members Of the State Central
Com mittee, We observe by the Press, are
requested to assemble at Altoona, Blair
County, on the 4th proximo. No doubt
the call will be generally responded to;
and we trust that one member at least
from Stroudsturg will attend.
Resolved, /. That, regarding this
Convention as to all intents and purposes
a Convention Representing the patriotic
sentiment Of the Democratic party, aud
avowing ourselves members of that party
upon those we'll known principles whlob
have constituted its creed since the be-
ginning of the Government, we are here
to- day to resist every attempt to weaken
or to overthrow that creed, and to unite
for the purpose of restoring, in all their
vigor and purity, the great truths which
have heretofore made the Democracy a
couquering organization, and contributed
to the enduring welfare of the States o!
the Union.
2. That this Convention most solemn D.
ly declares its warm attachment to the
Union of the States, to maintain which
it pledges all its powers. and that for this
end it is our duty. and the duty of the
Democratic party everywhere, to watch
over and oppose every infraction OF those
principles which constitute the only basis
of that Union, because faithful obser.
vance of them can only secure its exist,
ence and tho public happiness.
e g. That holding the General Admin
istraton responsible for certain grave de-
partures from public duty and Democrat,
ic principles, VIC are bound to regard the
Administration as having forfeited the
| confidence of the people, and to denounce
2 it as unworthy OF the support of the Dem
ocratic party.
: d. That when the Democratic party
in 1856 was solemhly committed in Ma
tional, State, and county conventions to
the fundamental principle that the peo
ple of the Territories, like those of the
, States, were to be left perfectly free to
decide for themselves whether slavery
: should or should not exist within their
: ii;..its. subject only to the constitution Of
the United States, We entered into a GOV
enant. which, notwithstanding the con
dust of faitblcss pubic servants, We hold
ourselves bound to N mainta:p at ail haz
yards, and to carry ont IN letter and
spirit.
5. That tue attempt of the General
Administration to disregard this cove
naut. and in it's stead to erect despotic
test to compel obedience to doctrines sub,
versive of Republican liberty, was not The
work Of the representatives of the Demo
cratic party, but of men who had resolV
, ed upon the destruction of that orgaui2a
ton for their own ambitious purposes
/, and that this reputation ofrigbt and en-
dorsement of wrong was 6tly followed BY
J remorseless war of Federal power upor
= State Sovereignty, and by an arrogant
! prescription of all Democratic organiza
tons and Democratic champions who
: would not follow the shameless example
: 6. That We deliberately and heartily )
7 re assert and re-endorse the great princi
D pie of popular sovereignty and non-inter
veption, as we'll in the Territories as il
the States, non Intervention by Congress
with slavery in the Territories, and non
} Intervention by the Federal Executive
D With the franchises of the people Of the
!, States; aud that every effort to force the
Democratic party of this country upon a
ny other platform should be rebuked es
t preparation for lasting disgrace in th'
! irst place, and for lasting and deserving
: defeat in the second.
7. That this principle Of popular SOW
ereiguty and Intervention, lying, a.
it does, at the basis Of all our free institu
r tions, enunciated and accepted, North
o and South, by legislatures and courts, b.
( Congresses and candid ates, substituted il
1880 for an obsolete Congre ressional rule
and re-asserted in 1854 after the Nilsson
ri Compromise, is the only principle tha
: will for ever remove the question of slave
t ~ from the halls Of the National Legisla
f ture, and prevent the triumph of the enc
uies of the American Union.
8. That we regard with uudissembled
indignation and alarm the attempt of the
! Federal Administration, backed by it,
dependents in the North and the disun
ionists of the South, to commit the De- IN
ocratic organization to the scandalous doc
trine, that, 10 defiance of the pledges Of
the Democratic party 10 $50 and in dis
: regard of the legislation of 1850 and Is
S sd, the people of the Territories shal
q have no control over the question o
slavery, but that slavery must be protect
ed against the popular will, not merely
by the courts, but oy Congress, and pei
consequence, by the Army and the navy
aud that, regarding the resolutions Of The
Convention which assembled at Harris
burg, on the 18th of March, as having