Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-02-05
The Albany Convention.

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Ths Albany Convention.
In our Geographic report OF our
Thursday's issue, our readers will re-
member that we published synopsis
Of the proceedings Of an abolition as
uniou convention held at Albany, New
York, on the first day Of the present
month.
Among tho resolutions passed by
the convention was the following
r., J,.d In advo .a,ing the dissolution CT
a.. ITuon. Abo'i,,onists are Justified hy ey
s,v nrrcep, Of tn. Gospel. every principle
al myslity. every claim Of humanity, That
su.b Union 1, ~ covenant with death. ~hich
ou,ht TO he annulied, rDd an agreement
with he'll which ju-t God cannot permit
IN aand and it il the paramount duty oil
Ali 10 geek its immed overthrow.
A few years since, gatherings OF this
Kind were almost wholly unknown
and the expression OF such sentiments
In public would hardly have been toll
Grated in any section Of the country.
Any one 90 foolhardy as to declare
himself q dlsunlonlst, was at once
marked A q traitor and a candidate
for the gsllows, or as a tit subject tor a
mad house: but now a-days, a year
never passes which is not marked and
bIotted by tho holding Of half dozen
as.emblys Of crazy fanatics, in which
the most vile and reasonable scn'l-
ments are freely and openly declared.
With the advent OF the Republican
party they grow more frequent, and as
that party has increased in power,
their members have been augmented.
A few years since such resolution as
We have copied above would have re-
ccived the universal and united con
domination Of every press OF every
party in this country but now the re-
publican pa 'ers copy it with remark
of approval, or without word OF con-
domination. The democratic press
alone Is left to battle against those who
woul1 break in pieces the glorious
structure of the Union. Can the oft
repeated assertion, that rcpublcanlsm
and abolitionism 60 hand in hand be
longer doubted.
The same spirit which breathes in
the di.graceful resolutions of the Al
bany convention, actuated those who
contributed to the Kansas Relief
Funds, to tho purchase of rifles to be
placed in tie hand of the ragamafiins'
sent out by the massachusetts Emi-
grant Aid Society" 1t created aud
aggravated the difficulties in Kansas,
and actuated the violent opposition
against tho Supreme Court OF the
United States, because it has been
governed in its decisions 10y the law
and not by populent excitement.
Towards aboiitionism and dlsunlonlsm
tho Republican party is surely tending
and upon the platform of the Albany
Convention it must sooner or later
stand. Its leaders, who started the
stone in motion, for their personal az
grandisement, doubtless never intend
ed that it should go so far: but they
have now lost all control of it. They
have let loose the winds and now can
not govern them.
In this connection it is not ont oil
place 10 state that the prosecuted free.
men OF Kansas, as VIC learn by late adj
vices, having now the control of the
Territorial Legislature, are engaged IN
the praiseworthy task OF charging the
names of the Counties IN that territory
and calling them after Ciddlngs. Chase,
and Seward, and after Garrison, Phil
lips, and other persons who took q
prominent part in the Albany Con-
ventlon.