The National Era

From the Kuaska (Wis.) Telegraph-Democrat.

THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

We have not room to review them seriatim. They go on to endorse all the former Baltimore and Benhallett resolutions, and pledge the party to the endorsement of the Fugitive Slave Law and Compromise measures, and bind the party by the virtue of its most solemn resolutions, promises, and oaths, to the protection and fostering of the whole system of human slavery, through all time, and threatens resistance and hostility to every attempt to discuss the question in whatever shape or color it is made. And this perpetual oath for the sustaining of Eternal Human Slavery is called Democracy, and the Democratic party is pledged by their resolutions to carry out the sentiment, or else it is a cheat and a lie.

They oppose the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands, and refuse to give the landless man a home; and they ask of land reformers their votes. They endorse the plundering of Mexico, and its atrocious war, and ask you to make one of its tenth-rate generals President of the United States.

They denounce national banks, as a mere assertion, and these same men at home are Presidents and Directors of banks chartered by the States in which they live, or it may be have just hurried from a Legislature making a "bank law" to Baltimore, to denounce banking. This is all wind: they don't believe the resolution, if it is designed to mean anything.

But howsoever little the bulk of them were designed to mean, and however much of inanité and wind they were designed to contain, their crowning infamy is embodied in the attempt to silence agitation against slavery, while they are willing that the world should be turned upside down in efforts to foster, strengthen, and perpetuate it.

"Hitherto the Abolition of Slavery in the States, through the action of Congress or of other States, has been the target of denunciation: but these new resolves denounce all 'agitation adverse to slavery, anywhere or on any ground whatever.' To have been a friend to the Wilmot Proviso in 1847-'8-9, is to have been somehow implicated in 'slavery agitation,' and so to be obnoxious to the anathemas here thundered. Nay, if the Slavery Propaganda were now to send an armed colony of slaveholders into New Mexico, Nebraska, or California, expressly to establish slavery therein, these resolves interdict and denounce any 'agitation in hostility thereto.' Yet here is not a hint of rebuke for the noisy and persistent agitators in behalf of slavery, scores of whom were members of the Convention. It is only Liberty, not Slavery, that incurs the proscription of false Democracy!"

That the improvements of all the harbors and rivers in the Northwest should be singled out and proscribed as inconsistent and undemocratic, is not so much to be wondered at: it is partly a question of policy, and dollars and cents, and Democrats can properly entertain different views: but that the whole principle of Democracy, in the question of Humanity, Manhood, and Human Rights, should not only be ignored, but scouted and despised, and its advocates threatened and insulted, was more than any Democratic Convention had power or authority to do. Since they have done it, let them take the consequences and the wrath to come.

Here are the resolutions in full. Read and digest them, and then act like a man.