Semi Weekly North Carolina Standard

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRACY.

The following sound and excellent Resolutions were adopted by the late State Convention of the Democracy of New Hampshire:

"1. Resolved, That we reiterate our devotion to the great principles and measures for which the democratic party of the Union have been contending for the last quarter of a century, and which have become the settled policy of the country, being recognized and acknowledged as sound and wise by a large portion of our political friends.

2. Resolved, That we cordially approve of the principles so eloquently enunciated by the President in his late inaugural address, believing them to be sound, judicious, and democratic; and that if they are faithfully carried out in the practical administration of the government, as we believe they will be, they cannot fail to result in permanent benefit to the country, and republican principles, here and elsewhere.

3. Resolved, That, with respect to the great national issues presented by the resolutions adopted by the late National Democratic Convention at Baltimore, upon which the recent presidential election was so gloriously fought and won, the Democracy of New Hampshire remain unchanged; that we reiterate our attachment to the constitution and the Union, and our hostility to all parties and movements having a tendency to weaken the fidelity of any portion of the people to those great safeguards of our rights and liberties; that we recognise the equal rights of all the States under the constitution, and their power to establish each for itself, without hinderance or molestation from the people of the other States, such domestic institutions as they may deem best for the promotion of their interests and happiness, not inconsistent with the provisions of that sacred instrument; and that we will hold no political fellowship with those who may seek to reawaken the slumbering spirit of abolitionism, or to resuscitate the dangerous fires of disunion.

4. Resolved, That, in the judgment of this convention, the platform adopted by the late Baltimore Convention cannot be regarded as a compromise of principle, nor as an amnesty to factions that have for years been arrayed against the democratic party and the Union, except upon the condition of unqualified recognition of and adhesion to its principles, and undoubted assurance of future fidelity and devotion to the democratic cause.

5. Resolved, That the administration of Franklin Pierce, as manifested by all his official acts, is worthy of the hearty support of the democracy of New Hampshire.

6. Resolved, That the democracy of New Hampshire have always favored the reasonable expansion of the area of freedom, and hence they were in favor of the annexation of Texas and the recently acquired provinces of Mexico; and hence, also, they are in favor of the acquisition and annexation of Cuba and the Sandwich islands as soon as they can be obtained without violating the honor of the republic or the rights of other nations.

7. Resolved, That to the policy and prowess of the democratic party the Union is indebted for the acquisition of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico, thus extending the dominion of the republic from the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Pacific, increasing its area to more than treble its size at the close of the revolution, and advancing it to the first rank of nations in dignity, power, and grandeur.

8. Resolved, That the people of New Hampshire are in favor of frugality and economy in the expenditure of the public money; that they are opposed to too much legislation for special and private interests; that they view with alarm the multiplication and encroaching disposition of corporations; and that they earnestly desire those who represent them in the legislative councils of the State to watch carefully in the present crisis over the true interests of the people, taking care that they be not put in peril by the continuance of a course of legislation which tends more to benefit the Few than the Many, and which must in the end result in the transfer of the political power of the State from the people to an allied band of soulless and irresponsible corporations."

The Democracy of New Hampshire, it will be seen, indulge no "timid forebodings of evil from expansion."