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of imitating—o_ur-{Ballots and-.1
thee fnaieé’ o'.ff _s’¢ii:ié1«€*iis:Z°;r.’ more of i
own‘ Candidate's.f?“~Examine' your =.tiek--’*-? . 5 ;
as .c1ose1y’,anu‘ése. that ‘each name ‘eds-‘ :_
responds withitliose on‘7the poster in
the adjoining;bblu§nn;,'-JVhich.QifiEffriendB
would do well-ito’c'ut'out and post
on Mondayi ' “ we
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From the New Haven Courier. ‘
The Issues. , ,
‘iTlAfci'tinie nonbiéd"iisage or Loco Foco
State Conventions was somewhat ‘broken,
in npou this year, by-two. memorable dé-_,..»
parthres’from jestablished precedent.
leg7{Child,. the Windham County sage,-.
was_"n‘ot appointed“ _Chairman of ,the'_‘ ‘ "'
Committee of the..Who1e,’_ s:ma_ Wm. Jae...
H‘ame‘rs'le'y,, the f Hartford _postmaster,'‘J : '
w‘ss’-net; Chairman of.‘ the Committee ,on_lf._'_
Resolutions. -The” first of these‘ omis- _
sions accounts for,the -_cel_erity with which ;
the business of the Convention was dis‘-i-I i
patched, 'a‘ndi.the“ second explains
shortness‘ of ' the: . ‘resolutions ado‘pted.- ‘
sun {itis' not , difl_.i_c_u'l_,f to'mgc¢_';in the Rest;
lutions"the:' genih‘§ or the“II‘artford Post-
maste1}f,":wl1osefniantlefhas evidently ‘deb: v_
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cende‘d‘upon‘ " some h'umbler' imitator.—‘— I
There is the i“p'iifl' preliminary” for Buy
chanajn_',‘,the'. “ reply’ churlislr’. ' for Kans_as,_3 V
Maine Law, ‘and. -Hard Cider, the ire-
proof valiant" for-“the” _Know Nothings,
and Iiepublicansf the “ couute-check ‘ 4 L‘ ‘_
quarrelsome” for’ “old federalismf’ the.‘
“lie c!_rcu1_nstantial” for poor Pierce and _
his adniin'ist1'ation,and'the “lie Adirect’?
about;Sta'te=1e‘conomy. All the ingredi- 1
cuts of Hammersle‘y’s series arepresented
us, except the American. Eagle and the
Star ,Spa,n_gled Banner, but they are evi-
‘1°*1.i_1‘x-' ..“.-“,.<51’.l5‘.'.5*l1 .'ii5’l3}3’f iii: _inferi0r_?»hen€1-.
Such as theyare, weraccept them as the 5
of the "principles___of ,t"he_B'u-i
chana-uparty. The first resolution en-i
dorses’ the ' Cincinnati . platform. That
groundwork of Buchaneerism declares an " ‘‘
u‘nco'mpromising‘ hostility to internal inn-i
provements, to the assumption of State» . pl
debts, to the protectionvof American _Il_n-'
ceeds of public lands, to the abridgement A
ofnthe vetopower, to‘ the restriction of ,
the facilities of. making citizens of. for- if ;
eighners, and declares an unwavering con-
fidence in the present "national, Bank, oth-
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erwise‘ called the, Sub-Treasury, which , ' i ‘
now‘locks'up,some°'thirty millions'of‘dol- ; 1..
lars which ought to, be circulating among .-
the people. ' It also f endorses the iniqui- '
tons repeal of the Missouri Compromise
by" the passageof the Kansas-Nebraska '
bill, and declares that- as -Congress,’ by
that bill, has enabled the people. of Kan-. ' C
sas and‘Nebraska to. admit slavery, it
now has no right, by" . subsequent enact-
metI':,'to, prevent its admission. These,"
with a declaration in _ ‘favor of stealing A -
Cuba -alld Cen,tral,America, are the fea-
tures of the_ Cincinnati platform.’ _ _
The people of _ Connecticut and of the
-North".ftek§. iss§u¢.iv_ith‘ th€Buchie11.éer per:
ty on these 1 points,_,b_ut.more . especially . ' ' ‘ ‘ All
upon the questions of Free’ Labor . and l
National faith involved in the repeal -of
the Missouri Compromise. Three years
ago We were told by the. leading men in
the so-called Democratic party,_ that the ,'
Kansasulebraska bill was not a test of V
Democracy, but that Democrats might _
support or oppose it as they chose. Thou-
sands of Democrats did ‘choose to oppose '_
it.‘ They denounced it as a villainous '
violation of good faith, a betrayal of the
pledges‘ entered into‘ -by the Missouri .
Compromises, anda wanton and wicked _
renewal of the slavery agitationpfor the ' _ ,
purpose of making certain so-"called De'm- .
ocrats popular with the South. Even _,
the Custom House organs of the Admin 1
istration dare not insist upon applying
the Kansas-Nebraska Bill as a test ;- it
was not then a principle of the Demoerat-
ic party. But th'o'Cincinnuti Convention 3 -
under the good of its Southern managers,
din declare and adopt the’ principles of '
the Kansas-Nebraska bill as the princi- E
ciples of the Buchanan party, and made «
them the great issue in the "last contest. ' ’
After that, no ‘Democrat, who was un-
willing to endorse a measure so full of i
wrong and injustice, no Democrat, who ;
believed that the Compromise of 1820 by
which Slavery compacted with Freedoui ; A
to relinquish to Free Labor -all, our Wes-
tern territory north of the southern line 5 ,
of Missouri, was-a_ compact madepsacred,
not only by the pledge of national faith,
but by its recognition of the fundamental ’
principle that all men should be free and
equal, no Democrat, who ' had honestly
pledged himself .to._a_bide by the final set-
tlement‘ of the slavery question by .‘~th8
Compactvof 1850, could tender his sup-
port to Mr. Buchanan and his forsaking
his faith and abandoning principles which .
had only a short time before been recog-
nized as Democratic. ' They, . with the
great body of Northern freemen, united
in support of the old principles, not only
-of the Democratic. but the VVhig party.
They took issue upon the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise,’ upon" the breach
of faith, upon the reopening of the=Slave-_
ry agitation, and upon the restrictions of-
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A the rights of his children.
were successful throughout the N orth.-—
By a sectional effort on the part of the
part of the South, thejustifiers of the
Kansas: Fraud succeeded in electing a
President, but they utterly -~ and.signifi-
cantly failed .in zobtainiing. from the be-'
trayed and swindled - inhabitants of the
feee States their acquiescence; in. the
wrong done them by restricting free la-
borand repealing the Missouri Compro-
mise just -when, it promised tobe valuable
to freedom. Thus though they. elected
their candidate, the Buchanan men" failed
'to “subdue”. the North, and we still
stand shoulder to shoulder with ranks un-
broken, a.s_"1ii}1i_1 asqever in‘ _91l_Ij repudiation“ _' ‘A ,
of the baarsiih and 'tre.ténesy::uc:rierce-+j.--
and Doug,-lass, "endorsed ‘now as it is by
Buchanan." The -policy of the Nebraska
bill, which is the policy of allowing slave-
ry to go wherever slaveholders may .
choose to carry it, and to drive out free
white laborers by its degrading competi-
tioiu-—that policy cannot be established-
until the North is “ subdued.” We must
acquiesce before we are conquered, and
we do not intend to_ acquiesce. The
truth we contended for in the . Presiden-
tial election are none the less. truths now,
and when the Buchaneer party of Con-
necticut agaiu offers us the Kansas and
Nebraska bill as an issue i_n the fight, we
will meet it as we did in 1856. The
thousands of free white laborers in Con- A
necticut, who earn their bread by their
own toil, are no more willing than they
were six months ago to consent that the
Western territories, which have been con-
secrated to free labor, shall be opened to
slavery, sothat they or their children can
not go into v them to earn their living
without having to work by the side of V
slaves, and for the pitiful wages paid for
slave labor. Free labor has a right to
p the same wages in Kansas that it has in
Connecticut. It has a right to be pro-
tected against the competition of negroes
who work without pay, -and when the so-
called Democratic party violates that
C a right of free labor by breaking the Com-
promise by which slavery was excluded
from the territories, every free white la-
borer is attacked in his own rights and
Upon this is-
sue then, we, the people of Connecticut,
' are again invited by the Buchanan party
tomeet it at the polls. If they can beat
us they will rightly regard it. as a defeat
of theAFree Labor cause-—-an overthrow
of the = “ greasy mechanics and small fisted
farmers,” who have presumed to set
themselves up on an equality with nth-
ern advisersin the iniquitous and persist-_
tent attempts. to fasten slavery securely
upon Kansas and build up another State
-to ‘oppose the progress of free institutions.
Another, and the only other issue pre-
senteditotheit people of Connecticut by
the Buchanan party this Spring, is the
endorsement and approval of the Admin-
istration of Franklin Pierce. The Bu-
v chnnan Convention unanimously resolved
“ Thatwe cheerfully acknowledge the
ability and integrity which has distin-,
guished the Administration of Franklin
Pierce, and that it is 3" with feelings of
peculiar pride that we-point to the fact
that every’ measure of the present Ad-
ministration has been in harmony with
p. the Constitution and has been dictated
by a sense‘ of fidelity to the obligations it
imposes.’’‘& ~
Here then, for the first time, the sham
Democratic party of Connecticut has
boldly taken ground in defence of the
Administration of Franklin Pierce-—an
administration which no honest and intel-
ligent man can think of without sorrow
and contempt. The sham Democracy of
Connecticut say to the people, you must
unite with us in giving an unqualified ap-
proval to every act of the Administration
or you must vote against us. We offer
you no half way ground, we make that
thorough approval the issue in the contest.
You must approve of the Ostend Confe-
rcnce, at which our Ministers united in a
declaration that the United States ought
to steal Cuba-—-you must approve of the
repudiation of that. Conference by the
Administration as soon as it has found
that the Americae people opposed such
doctrinc—must approve of the destruc-
tion of the defenceless Nicaraguan town
of Greytown—you must approve of the
destruction of the defenceless Nicaraguan
town of Greytown—you must approve of
the attempts to prevent \Valker’s filli-
bustering operations in Central America,
and again, you must approve of the . sub-
sequent encouragement of these attemps
———you must approve of the conception of
the Nebraska fraud, of the means used
to force its passage through Congress, of
the appointment of Shannon, Locompte,
Doualson, Titus, and the horde ofrufiian _
oflicials sent to govern‘ the territory, of
the supoport given by the Administra-
tion to the Bogus laws, to the sham in-
dictments for treason, to the destruction
of Lawrence, to themurderers of Dow,
Barbour, and others, to every act of
wrong perpetrated under the sanction of
of the Administration in that unhappy
territory.--you must approve of Presi-
dential speeches, in which half the nation
is characterized as “disunion fanatics.”
“ abolitionists.” “ factons disorganizers,”'
“mock sympathizers for a few slaves
rather than for twenty million of white
men,” and which are filled with the bas-
est partizanship and most unfeeling jurti-«
'fications of oficial wickedness, by an
Norwalk Chronicler