Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-05-11
From the Louisville journal


have spirit enough to declare against the reso-
lutions adopted by the Locofoco conventions
in Alabama and Virginia. These resolutions, it
will be remembered, pledge the delegates to
the Baltimore convention from those States to
oppose the nomination of all men for the Pres
idency and vice Presidency who do not openly
declare their hostility to the doctrine that either
Congress or the people residing in territories
can exclude slavery from territories The n.
York Evening Post in noticing these resolu-
lions says:
Have those who thus make allegiance to sla-
very an indispensable qualification for the Pre-
sidency reflected that if this compulsive purga-
ton of the candidate from all suspicion of dis
like to slavery may help him at the South it is
likely to hinder him at the North? If they in
sist upon giving us candidate with this test
in his mouth, cannot they see that we shall GER
tainly return him upon their hands? They de-
clare that they will support no man who does
not submit to make the abjuration they require.
WE SHALL SUPPORT NO MAN WHO
MAKES IL. To insist upon thissnew qualifi-
cation for their candidate, is to insist that he
shall not be elected
In subsequent number of the same pa
per, the editor returns to the subject, and
says:
We should be glad to know among what
class of people the Southern politicians expect
to obtain votes in the Northern States for the
candidate who comes fettered with such a
pledge. If the candidate be a Southern man,
it is true he might give such an assurance
without the suspicion of making dishonest
IL
would be regarded by the Northern Democrats
as direct insult-as an assertion of Southern
authority, in the imposition of political tests,
which they would Indignantly repel. Party
attachment will carry men to great lengths, but
there are limits to what the most Jealous par
tisans in free country will endure. The Dem
ocrats of the North would say to those who re-
quired this ignominious acknowledgment of
subseryiency-
$50 tell your slaues how choleric you are,
And make your bondmen tremble''-
but they would remind them that beyond the
precincts of their own plantations their prerog
alive of authority was at an end.
If, on the other hand, Northern man were
to take this oath ofalIegiance to slavery in Or
der to qualify himself to become the candidate
of the South he would be regarded as one who
had made public sale of himself. He would
come before the people with an advertisement
of venaity written in staring characters on his
forehead. Such a candidate, deprived as he
would be of all public respect, and shrinking
from the public contempt, would meet with
an infinitely worse reception from the people
than if he were a citizen of the South.
This is very plain language indeed. 1t is
too ineligible to admit of misconstruction,
and we have no doubt it will find res
ponse in the heart of nearly every Northern
man.
The editor of the Augusta Age, the leading
Locofoco paper in Maine, in the course of
the Alabama convention, says:
Such arrogant assumptions will wholly fail
to remove from the minds of Northern men
the strong aversion now entertained towards
the Institution of slavery, and cannot fail to
react upon those who indulge them with fatal
effect
The Democracy of the North will go into that
convention upou no terms of inequality. Nor
will they consent to have their representatives
or other members of the party prescribed and
excluded from posts of honor or influence, in
consequence of having given free utterance to
the sentiments and principles of the North up
on this subject.
The New York Globe, another strong Loco
foco paper is fierce i'll its opposition to the
resolutions. 1t declares:
The South will have to abandon his rickety
platform. The idea that the sovereign power
as regards slavery in territory, resides exclu-
sively in the slaveholding position of the Union
and that the Northern section of the confeder
acy, the people of the territory or the people
of the whole Union, through Congress have no
voice in the matter, will never stand for mo-
ment.
The South, so far as Alabama, South Carroll
ma, and Virginia are concerned, assert that they
will not abandon the platform" they have
proposed, and that if the North refuses to adopt
it, they will not cooperate with the people of
that section. On this subject therefore the Lo-
cofocos of the North and South are at logger
heads. One of the factions must back out
from its position, or there must be discord.-l
We shall see which of the two exhibits most
facility in the very fashionable business of
crawfishing.
On the evoked question of slavery it is ex
tremely probable the Locofoco national con-
vention will exhibit much discord. The ul-
ira Locofocos of the North and South cannot
easily unite on any candidate. The sentiments
of the leading Presidential aspirants are well
known, and not one of them comes up to the
full measure of pro-sIavery faith required by
Alabama resolutions. Messrs. Cass, Dallas,
and Buchanan have all committed themselves
to doctrines that are repudiated as utterly un-
sound and unconstitutional by the authors of
the resolutions. If the delegates from the
States that have adopted the resolutions abide
| by their instructions; they must protest against
the nomination of either of the prominent as
pirants. On the other hand, TO nominate a
candidate who will endorse the doctrines con-
tanned in the resolutions will be the sure way
ofdriving from the party thousands of men
who are not willing slavishly to comply with
the Southern dictation. Under such circum-
stances, the Locofoco convention will proba-
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