Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-21
ArrERNooN SESSION.

Mr. Andrew, of Boston, from~the committee
on resolutions, presented the following -
l. Resolved, That the Republican party of
the United States had its origin in the obvious
necessity for resistance to the aggressions of
the slave power and maintaining for the states
respectively their reserved rights and sover-
eighties In the contest of 1856, by the presenta-
ton and advocacy of the true science of gov
eminent, it laid the foundation of permanent
political organization grounded in the doc
trines and principles of which party, and hold
ing them to be, in the truest sense, national,
democratic, and American, contiding in their
justice and truth, the Republicans of Massa-
chusetts, here in convention assembled, main
tain full belief in their ultimate and universal
adoption by the people OF the United States.
2. Resolved, That the opponents of free la
Dor and free institutions are by logical neces-
sity the opponents of freedom itself and of
Republican government; that the congress
sional repeal of the Missouri restriction mob
invasions of Kansas and the war ON her set
tiers the efforts of the last administration to
"cruSh out" her freemen; and of the present
administration to establish slavery therein by
means of constitution adopted by the Presi-
dent of the United States but rejected by the
people of Kansas the efforts of certain men,
bers of the federal Judiciary in concurrence
with the President and his cabinet to democrat
ize liberty and render slavery the only institu-
ton peculiarly American the war on the
rights of the states to protect their own people
on their own soil the threatened COMPRESSION
al slave code for the territories the slave trade
already ostentatiously re-opened and the at
tempt about to be made to repeal the laws pro-
hibiting that traffic are evidence that no po-
litical guarantees, no constitutional privileges,
no right of the states, or the people white or
black, will ever be safe until slavery shall be
made impossible in any territory under exclu-
sively federal jurisdiction and until freedom
and not slavery shall be recognized as the poll
cy of the nation.
3. Resolved, That we believe in the Jefier-
sonian ordinance of 1887 and in its application
to all the territories of the Federal govern
ment. We hold it to be the duty of Congress
to secure to all the inhabitants thereof, the
free ownership of their own bodies, and their
right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi
ness, without which. it is impossible that the
people should be left free to form their own
institutions in their own way.
4. Resolved, That while we hold the final
and unreserved judgement of judicial tribunals
| to be binding upon the parties and causes be-
| fore them within their jurisdiction, we deny
that the opinions of the judges are binding
upon the consciences Of men and we especial
ly ueIy ulldt tHe JuuScS Vi Jlt DupItinc reueT-
al Court have any authority to bind the opin-
| ions of Congress or of the people, and we be-
lieve that the national safety and prosperity de.
mand that the Supreme Bench should be SO
composed that it shall reasonably represent
the majority Of the people, and not merely a
| section or a class.
Resolved, That besides the other wrongs
perpetrated by the administration of James
Buchanan, it has crushed by Presidential
veto the Agricultural College bill-a Republi-
can measure, which would have established an
institution in every State for the practical edu,
| cation of the SONS of our farmers and mechan-
les in the callings of their fathers. 1t has de-
feated by delay the Homestead bill, which
would have withdrawn the public domain from
schemes Of speculation, and devoted it to the
erection of free homes for the landless. 1t has
abandoned our foreign fellow citizens sojourn-
| ing in foreign lands, and refused to them that
prompt and fearless protection which is the
right corresponding to their duty of allegiance.
He has nearly doubled the annual expenditure
raising it from $60000,000 to 500 1000, 900 per
a9num, and II has squandered surplus OF
S20,OO0,0O0, which il found in the Treasury
in 1897, and has run the country $40, 600 900
In debt in 1859. And this it has ac-
compished, not only by systematic
expansion Of the disbursements for ordina-
ry purposes Of government but by ex-
traordinary contracts, which, there Is too
much reason TO believe, have been con
nected with schemes to enrich cabinet minis
tiers and their friends, to force a pro.saverv
J constitpiif<INpon the unwilling people Of Kan