The family visitor. [volume] (Pruntytown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1858-1860, 1860-04-07

cheeks to blush with shame that
under all these wrongs and Inc.
qualities, we are still a divided
! people, ready with our tens OF
thousands to swell the MAORI
ties of the Democratic party,
which has become wholly pro-
slavery, and but an engine OF
the free white man in the Ter
ri,ories, and against the dlsnl-
ty of white men in our own
State.
| Taking this survey ofour po-
political standing in this State,
and makinga careful eXamina-
ton Of national politics., the con-
clu>ion is. forced upon us, that
we must make choice in the
coming contest between the
Democratic and Republican
parties, believing that every othr
er party will be but one ola day
t.and be crushed out of existence
in the great struggle of 1860,
The Democratic party has
become the champion of slaves
Try, and that institution, which.
at the formation Of our govern
ment, only asked TO be tolerated
until the known wishes ofsuch
men as Washington and Jeffer-
son could be carried out, in the
extinction Of the same from our
coudtrv has, from various eau
ses, which space will not per-
nit to present, grown in power
and in its demands, until it no
longer seeks mere federation, but
openly ayows that all the Terri
tories are dedicated TO slavery,
and asks that Congress snail in
terrier for its protection, even
against the known wishes of the
majority.
Against all these successive
demands and aggressions Of the
slave power. great party has
been raised up throuhgout the
Union, which has taken the APP
propriate name Of Republicans
whose professed object is to re-
store the national government to
the principles Of Washington
and Jefferson, and to dedicate
the vast Territories of the West
to the use Of white men, let
them come from what State
they may. -. -,
Thus has slavery made up
the issue herself, not only in
Virginia, but inthe Union, and
1t is but in self: defence the
freemen undertake to uphold
the rights Of white labor, in OPP
position to slave labor. The
rights Of freemen, in opposition,
to the demands Of an aristocra-
cy. ....
Let our position as Virginians
be fairly understood, and on
that platform let US go before,
The State Of Virginia, and be-
fore the Union, to do battle, in
the cause Of eqnal rights and
! the elevation of the white race,
| the protection'of white labor
and the carrying out OF impair
tial justice OF all,
As an expression Of ourviews
therefore, .-.--...
Resolved, That each and every State issov-
ereign within herself subject only to the Con-
stitution Of the United States, having the
right 10 regulate ito own internal affairs, in
that way which shall seem best to itself, and
that all interference in the affairs Of one State,
10y citizens Of any other State, is to be coz
demned as contrary TO the healthful doctrine
of State rights. go .a.r. .
| Resolved, That the maintenance ofthe prin-
ciplcs promulgated in the Declaration of indie
pcndeuce, and embodied in the Federal con-
stitution, is essential to the preservation of our
Republican institutions, that thu Federal Con-
stitution the rights of the States, and the uni
on OF the States must and shall be preserved.
1.-THE assase of this resolution was signal
lied by the audience unanimously rising to
their feet