The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-08-17


President, necessary to preserve ou.
identity as a:party.
Mr.. y. said that in considerinn
the first Of these questions, the OH
ronents of the proposed policy had
been too apt to forget the avowcd
policy of the party, and to base their
arguments upon policy now formal,
ly abandoned.
The late March convention. de.
clared that we are constrained,
in Difference to the unanimous de.
cision Of the Southern States, not
TO urge secession on account of these
measures meaning the colnpro.
mise acts and in the 18th resolu-
tim already quoted, decided that we
were free to oppose 10th, or to CO.
operate, from time TO time, with eth.
cr, COT the national narties,) accord.
ing as their doctrines may, more or
less, coincide with our own
These principles might be thus
W " Nv Nuui tIiCh u ~
/. The preservation of the rela-
ti"n of master and slave, III such
States as choose to recognize the re-
lation as a part of their fundamental
law and in the territories of the
United States mo which the master
may choose to emigra;e.
.. State 50, n,crciguty in all matters
of Internal l"licv.
3. The right Of secession for any
infrac'i"n Of thar sovcrcignt, or vio-
lati"n Of he constitutional compact.
MIR. Y. insisted that Gen'l. Pierce
was a fair representative of these
doctrines. lie spoke of him as ha-
wing been educated in the Woodbury.
school Of p"litics-.-as pupil of that
pure and distinguished statcaman,
whose elevation to the chief exccu-
tive Office of the United States would,
at any time within the last fifteen
years, have been hailed BY the Soutl.
as an evidence that her constitution.
al rights would have been lesI cctcd
during his administration.
re reviewed the votes AMI speech
rs OF General Pierce III the House Il
Representative and i'll the Senate.
dnrluS The 'ncIi"nry and growth H.
'na;nr'' "t tie a:ll slavery a"itati II:
an' Z" Il ,c'l !."m ties ;'sn r:l
ll"ryn ~" u'.i vrHu
>'''", ana Mr.. III Che. :,
sfs"r''n, and a2als' ,nc j.
',": Adams, on ever 1850 res ~.
c' hy the Ahullt'"is'S, uTus.
l'' question t" r"ce',e'hri' ','"ns
ana tnat w!'.. ''c t";ri - rec I've.
"S, y his o!ls.'pn. n"'ly NJ The ''@h,
1T ."''h,", i" :! '!a"Gncea liz aims
II tn" ."''t'"'crs III decided -"rms
Mr.: Y. read Al'. Pinckne s rclc.
hra''d ,"s"ln''"ns, reported in S36.
~ a size, c"nn'lttcc to whom had
h'''" + ,"'r"1 all papers relating t."
the s." Jer' 1t slavery, and OF which
committee General Pierce was a
nc'nner lh"se resolutions were
"litea un"'' o. the Southern Repre-
sen'atlves' us resrn''nS the best is.
sue upon the slavery question, and
we're he'ceIy asSailcd hv the entire
A'"l'''"n party. General Pierce ad
voca'e' inc resolutions IN the CON,
'"'''ee ana J" the lionsc--m al sta,
ses',
Nif. J.. showed that IN 81, MIR.
CaIhonn brought forward ms ceIchrl'
sea resolutions on the same Questions.
covering WIDER view OF the issues
presumed thah even Mr.. Pihckney's.
O"e OF those resolution asserted that
inc c"o.ts OF the people OF the States,
or Oh inc Htates themselves, to pro.
cure tne abolition OF slavery IN the
otates or territories were direct
ana DANGEROUS attacks on the 'nstitu-
tions OF the sIavehoid,ng States
zen; r1erce voted tor and advo-