The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-03-01

or assumption. lie has calmly maintain
ed the rights of bis own State, under
standing we'll that great principle that,
if We would have others to respect US,
we must respect ourselves.
We ask with confidence, then, in what
respect General CAMERON fails of meeting
the precise wan. of this timel Strong as
adamaDt at home: capable of carrying the
States esteemed as doubtful in this con-
test; without one characteristic which is
obnoxious to the OPP ositioD party In any
quarter; man ever calm, cool, able,
clear, successful, patriotic, we ask bis
nomination By the National Convention
as tue certain presage of his election By
the people of the United States.
ReSolved, That the following gentle.
men be the Delegates at large, viz:
David Wilmot, Henry D. Moore,
Samuel A purviance, Andrew II Reeder,
Thaddeus Stevens, Titisn j. Coffey,
John Fl. Ewing, Morrow b. Lowry,
Resolred, That Gov. James Pollock,
and tho Hon. Thos. NJ Howe, be the g.
lectors at large.
Res0IUed, That the present National
Administration, ty disregardiDg the just
claims OF the industrial interests of the
whole country, by fostering sectional ex-
citements aud antagonisms, by conniving
at scLemes Of land piracies, and By the
rankest corruption diffused throughout all
the department of the government, has
forfeited the confidence and respectof the
people. has disgraCed Republican institu-
tiols in the eyes OF all observers, whetb
er at home or abroad, and deserves sig
nal rebuke from the friends of consttu-
tionsl order and of political justice.
ReSolUed, That corruption in the Ad-
ninistration of the general government,
combined with federal usurpaton, both
the delegated rights of the State, and the
reserved rights OF the people, have become
50 hagrant and audacious as justly to ex
cite TIE most serious apprehensions in the
breasts Of the intelligent and thoughtful
of our citizens .nr the stability of free in
stitutons, and especially for the main
tenance of personal liberty and State
sovereignty.
Reso1yed, That believing Slagery to be
an element Of political weakness, and Of
social nfeisity, we are unaltersbly op-
posed 10 its extension into free Terrific
res
ReSolued, That the dogma that the
Constitution. of its own force, carries Sls-
very into all or any of the United States,
is new and dangerous political heresy,
at varisnce with the explicit provisions Of
the instrument itself, with contemporane
GUS exposition, and with legislative and
judicial precedent, that it is revolutinary
in It's tendency, and subgeraive of the
peace and harmony of the people.
ReS0lUed, That the African Slave Trade
is relic of barbarsm. condemned alike
by the civilization. the humanity, the
laws. and the religion Of the age; and
that the attempt to re open it is an effort
of the powers OF darkness to bring again
the reign Of "Chaos and old Night
which patriots, Philabthroqists and chris
tians are under the most vel zhty and sol
emn obligations to oppose.
IitSGICGU, i udt N0 NiGn v lbu lu0b
prehension and alarm the reckless extrae
agsnce 10 expenditure which perVades ey-
cry department of the Federal Govern
ment, and the steady and persistent de-
parture from the principles and policy of
the founders Of our institutions, that the
restoration OF system of rigid economy
aud accountability is indispe nsable to re-
strain the plunderers who feast upon the
Treasury and to prevent our politics from
degeneratipg into wild and shameful
scramble for the spoiIs. in which personal
dccenoy aud public morality shall be O.
verthrown.
ReSo2Ued, That to maintain inViolate
the rights of the States, aud especially
the right Of each State to order and
control It's own domestic Institutions ac-
cording to its own judgment exclusively,
is essential to that balance of powers on
which the perfection and endurance OF
our political fabric depends, and We de-
uounce, now as heretofore, the !awle5s in
vasion by armed force of the soil of any
State or Territory, no matter under what
pretexts, as among the gravest Of crimes
ReSoZUec2, That it does not enter into
the scheme of the Opposition party to
seek the abolition of slavery in the States
where it now exists, but to leave the anne.
lorstion and ultimate abandonment OF
the system to the moral, religious and eS
couomic forces which pertain to the slave
holding communities, assured of the final
prevalence of justice throughout all the
land, among all the inhabitants thereof.
ResozUed, That to the union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
crease in population, its surprising devel.
opmcnt of material resources, its rapid
augmentation of wealth, its happiness al
home and it's honor abroad, aud that, con
sequently. We hold in abhorrenee all ma.
cbinations for disunion, come from what
ever source they may.
RoSolved, That the threats of disunior
in case the Republicans and their afhliant'
shall elect the next President, repeatedly
made in both Houses of Congress by Dem