Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-14
Georgia pemeeratic Convention.

ceeded to ballot for governor, with the following
result
H. " johnson. . go VIM H. Stiles.
John f. Wand -. 3 Hiram Warner. 49,.
Joseph Day....... 3 Jno. w. Lewis. -. 10
1t was then announced by the Chair that
Herschel v. Johnson, of Baldwin, having re-
ceived more than two-thirds of the ballots cast,
was duly nominated the candidate for governor.
The committee on business reported the follow
ing preamble and resolutions: 4 g
Democratic principles and Democratic mea-
all the questions Of national policy, in
volving the subjects of finances and taxation,
and appropriations OF money, and of constitu-
tional power in reference thereto, have become
the fixed and settled policy Of the country. The
issues therein involved, which formerly divided
Souther Democrats and Wings, no longer afford
ground for continued separation and conflict
among them. Now, other questions Of practical
and paramount Importance are pressing upon the
earnest attention Of Southern men, and are of
such nature require cordial and frnternal
concert of action among all who concur in senti-
ment upon those questions #s a
In view Of these obvious truths, and to secure
this concert of action, the Democratic party of
Georgia. in convention assembled, submit to their
fellow citizens the following platform Of prnci-
Piles, and cordially and earnestly invite the CO.
operation Of all ctitizens Of Georgia, regardless
of party distinctions, who desire TO see them
established as the basis Of the constitutional
and just action Of this Government
l. ResolUed, In the language of the Georgia
convention Of 1850, that we hold the American
Union secondary in Importance only to the rights
and principles it was designed to perpetuate
that past associations, present fuition, and flu
ture prospects, will bind us to it SO long as it
continues to be the safeguard of those rights and
principles.
aT,.oI hat L. l., n
and unqualified adhesion to the following resolu-
ton of the Georgia convention of 1885, and our
unalterable determination to maintain in its let
ter and spirit:
4th observation-disclosures Platform.
That the State of Georgia, in the Judgment of
this Convention, will and ought to resist, even
Gas last resort) TO disruption of every tie
which binds her to the Union, any action of Com
gress upon the subject of slavery in the District
of Columbia, or in places subject 70 the iursdc-
ton of Congress, incompatible with the safety,
domestic tranquility, the rights and honor of the
slaveholding States; any refusal to admit as a
State any Territory hereafter applying because
of the existence of slavery therein, or any act
prohibiting the introduction of slaves into the
Territories of Utah and New Mexico, or any act
repeating or materially modifying the laws in
force for the recovery Of fugitive slaves
3. Resotred, That we approve and endorse the
action of our last Congress in the passage of the
Nebraska Kansas act, and the principles therein
established; and in conformity with these prin-
ciples, the people of Kansas have the right when
the number Of their population iustifes it, to
form Republican State Constitution, with or
without slavery, as they may determine, and be
admitted into the Union on equal footing with
the other States, and that her rejection by Con-
gress, on account of slavery, would be lust
cause for the disruption of all the ties that bind
the State of Georgia to the Union
A. Res0[red. That we adoDt as orr our oyun tba
following resolution, passed unanimously by the
last Legislature of Georgia.
'Resolred By the General assembly of the State
Of Georgia, That opposition to the principles of
the Nebraska bill, in relation to the subject of
slavery, is regarded by the people of Georgia as
hostility to the people of the South, and that all
persons who partake in such opposition arc unfit
TO be recognized as component parts of any party
or organization not hostile to the South
5. Resotced, That in accordance with the
above resolution, whilst we are willing to act in
party association with all sound and reliable men
in every section of the Union, we are not willing
to affiliate with any party that shall not recog-
nize, approve, and carry out the principles and
provisions of the Nebraska-Kansas act; and that
the Democratic party of Georgia will cut off all
party connection with every. man and party at
the North or elsewhere, that does not come up
fully and fairly to this line of action.
/ g. Resolued, That the National Democracy of
the North, who have patrioticay fought for the
Kansas and Nebraska acts and the maintanance
of the Fugitive Slave Law, against the com
bined forces of Know-nothingism and Abolition
ism, which seek their repeal, and who stand
pledged to support the admission of Kansas into
the Union as a slave State, should she ask it,
merit the heartfelt sympathies, thanks, and en-
couragement of Southern men in their patriotic
position.
7. ReSolrsd, That in the National Democratic
party Of the North alone have been found those
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of the South; and judging the futux by the past,
that party is the only organization at the North
that now exists or can be formed with which the
South can consistently cooperate.
| 8. Resolved, That we sympathise with the
friends of the slavery in Kansas, in their
manly efforts to maintain their rights and the
rights and interests Of the Southern people, and
that we rejoice at their recent victories over the
paid adventures and iesuitical hordes of North
ern Abolitonism. That the deep interest felt
and taken by the people of Missouri in the settle
ment of Kansas and the decision of the slavery
question init, is both natural and proper and
that il is their right and duty to extend TO their
Southern brethren in that territory every lepiti-
mate and honorable sympathy and support
9. Resolred, That we are uncompromisnply
opposed to the political organization commonly
called the Know-nothing order, or American
party, having no sympathy with their secrecy,
their oaths, their unconstitutional designs their
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and their abolition associations at the North
10. Resolved, That we hail with delight the
late signal triumph in Virginia of the Democratic
party, and of the patriotic Wings who co-opera-
ted in achieving that result over the Know-noth-
ing organization, as conclusive evidence that in
the great practical questions involved in that con-
test, Southern men may honoraby and success
fully combine, without regard to past political
distinctions, TO save the Constitution from desc
Grafton, and the South from being prostrated be-
fore the power of Northern fanaticsm and mis-
rule.
IL. Resolrcd, That political necessity and the
embarrassments constantly arising from our com
mercal relations with Spain, alike dictate the
policy of the annexation of Cuba 10 this country,
at the earliest period, compatible with our ma
tionnl honor and treaty obligations.
IL. ResoiUed, That the democratic and national
principles declared and set forth in the inaugural
address and annual messages Of President Pierce,
meet our cordial approval, and that he is entitled
to the thanks Of the country for his enforcement
Of those principles, in the signature and approval
Of the Nebraska Kansas bill, his faithful execu-
ton Of the EnGiiiYn Slave Inv his nrinns vctocs