Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-04-23
POLITICS IN PENNSILT 1NLi.


The action of the late democratic convention
in Pennsylvania, as manifested by the resolu-
tons that were adopted for the purpose of boil
stering up the President, led to meeting of
those democrats who do not believe in the i'm
maculatc purity of the present administration,
under call for democratic State's-Rights
Convention This meeting was held at Har-
risburg on the 18th inst, and was largely at
tended Resolutions of the following tenor
were adopted with great enthusiasm:
That we are here to-day to resist every at
tempt to weaken or overthrow the creed of the
Democratic Party--to unite for the purpose of
restoring in all their yigor and purity, the
great truths that have heretofore made the De-
mocracy the conquer!:.s organization who have
contributed to the enduring welfare Of the In
ion that this Convention most soemnly de-
clares its warm attachment to the Union of the
States, to maintain which it pledges all its pow
ers and that for this end it is our duty to op-
pose every infraction of those principles which
constitute the only basis of that union, because
faithful observance of them can only secure
its existence and public happiness; that We are
bound TO regard the Administration as having
forfeited the confidence of the people and to
denounce it as unworthy of the support of the
Democratic Party; that the attempt of the ad-
mnistration to disregard the covenant of 1856,
and in its stead erect despotic test to compel
obedience to doctrines subversive of republican
liberty, was the work not of the Democratic
party, but Of men who had resolved upon am
bilious purposes: that We re-indorsc the prin-
ciples of popular sovereignty, non-intervention
in the Territories by the States, non-interven-
ton by Congress with Slavery in the Terrific
ries, and non-interyention by the Federal Ex-
ecutivc with the franchises of the people of the
States that we repudiatc the platform of the
Convention of March and that no matterwhat
the decision of the Supreme Court may be on
that abstract question, still the right of the peo-
pie to make Slave Territory or Free Terri
tory is perfect and complete under the Nebras-
ka bill.
Hon. John Hickman, one of the most relia-
BILE anti-Lecompton democrats in the last Con-
gress, made an able and scathing speech, which
is as fine a piece of political invectve as we
have seen for long WHILE and which we would
give our readers entire would our space allow.
AS it is we will serve up several extracts which
fully indicate the nature and flavor of the re-
past:-
"At this day resolutions complimentary to
the present National Administration may be
pardoned, when proceeding from official syco-
plants, but they can do neither good nor harm.
The history of Mr. Buchanan's Executive life
has already been written, and too plainly to be
!bliterated by bribed eulogy, or to be misun-
derstood by the people of this State and nation.
Neither political conjuration nor party magic
can make them forget the wicked violation of
pledges, the arrogance of bloated power, the
prostitution of Congress, the prohigacy of de-
partments, or the rapid and marked encroach-
mernts upon popular constitutional rights
Judgment, final Judgment, has been calmly and
deliberately passed upon this treason to the de-
mocraey, this assassination of common honesty,
and it is as irreyersible as the DEGREES of God.
II is wise, therefore, in this Convention TO speak
the truth plainly, and to avoid the folly of an