The Herkimer Convention

At this meeting of the N. Y. Bnrnburnors, John Van Buren, son of Ex-President, pfesertted a report which is thus noticed by the N. Y. Hernld : " It was an immense document, and would occupy several columns of the Herald. It contnined a practical examinationofihe institution of Slavery, anda solomn piotest against its indëfinite extensión over any territory which ws rnay hereafler acquiro ; it pfotestod against degrading the charactcr of the exisling war, by converting the blood nnd sinews of Nortl ern men into engines for tlie extensión of Slavery ; t recipitulated the procredings of tho Syracilse Convention, and it anathetnatizeel the consëi'vativeS) from tvhom t declared the true democracy of the North were forevercut loose ; it contained an express avowal of the pre-determination of the radical democracy to oppose the elèction of any man to the Presidency who Was no: pledged to sustain the principies errtbodied in the Wilmot Proviso; it declared that the principie coniained in the Afiti Slavery resolution offered at theSyracuse Convention by Mr. Field, wnsone which it was the duty of eveiy Den.ocrat to susiain, nnd the jutice of which the wliole ciilized world would ncknowledge ; it alsu respecifully remindfiri our Southern brethren thntthough the Northern climate was colder than tliai of the South, the hearts of Nonhern men were as warmly opposed 10 the extensión ol Slnvery as were the hearts of Southern men in its favor ; it recommended the democracy of this State to calí a S'.alc Lonvenlion to assemble nt IlerkimVr; on ihe 22d of February ncxU fVVashington's birthrlay) to uppoint tliiify-six delegales tö nitènd the national conveniion at Dfiltimore in Navernbnr, 1848 ; it assumed the reins of thé Government, ihe !-afety of the republic was afichorèd in the Constituiion ; it contained ai pure and lofty èu'.ogy óf the chnincter of Silas VVrighl, nnd it congratulated tho democracy that the staieof Naw York held hïs retiiains in her boson, and that his countrymen hold his mémory in tlieir he'arls. í'he singular and? èxtraordinary and incendiary address hnving been reod, was adopted nemine contradi cente,tnñ with thre8 tremendous chcers." ffT We learn that the Telegrapli wires are completed to Ypsilanti. The Uno will be continued as soon as an additiotial supply of wire shall be roceivec1.