Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-23
Business Notice.

counts to make prompt settlements.
Georgia Democracy and the National Conven-
ton.
The State Convention of democrats and an.
IL Know IN othings' which assembled at Milledge-
vile, Georgia. the 9th inst, adopted resolu-
ton recommending the appointment Of twenty
delegates TO represent the State in the Demo
cratic National Convention for the nomination
of candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pres
idency which is TO meet in Cincinnati next Spring,
and additional resolutions to the following eff
feet:
"Resolred That our delegates to said Conven-
vention ought. in opinion. to be instructed by
those who shall appoint them 10 insist upon the
adoption of a platform Of principles the basis of
a national organization prior to the nomination Of
candidates and that said platform shall. amongst
other things, include in substance the following
propositions:
. : .Ist The recognition and adoption Of the
principles established in the Kansas Nebraska
act
I'D. That neither the Missouri co npromise
nor any other anti-slavery restriction shall here
after be extended over any territory the Uni
ted States.
I'D. The yromp, and faithful execution of the
fugutive slave Law and its permanent con,inu'
ance upou tho statute book.
skaesoiped That no man ought TO be held and
considered me mber Of the national Democratic
party who does not recognize, approve and adopt
the foregoing propositions, and that the Demo
cratic and anti Know Nothing party Of this State,
through its said delegation, ought not to affiliate
or aef in said Convention with any delegates who
shall disapprove and vote against the same.
Resolved. That il said propositions shall not
in substance be Incorporated in the platform
adopted by said Convention the delegates from
Georgia ought, in the opinion of this meeting. to
withdraw from the Convention and take no furth-
er part in tho nominations or other proceedings
Of the same, and that our delegates be instructed
80 TO sct.
These propositions are satisfactory as far "a
they go-bat, to prevent cavil and foreclose
trickery. it should have been distinctly set forth
as one Of 'the principles established in the Kan.
sas- Nebraska act" that no territory becoming a
State shall be excluded or delayed in its a1iniss-
ion into the Union in consequence of having in
corporatel slavery among its organic in,,tu-
tons. This is 10 be the future tactics of the
ffse-soers. John Van Buren,, in his late oswe
60 speech, pointed out this power of resisting
the admission of slave States as n means by which
the anti slavery party of the Union might recoy
or tie ground they had lost by tho repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. We have seen enough
of the facility with which politicians interpret
platforms and construe resolutions to suit very
latitude, 10 dstrustthe valae efal such rs leave
any thing to he inferred. Should Kansas ask I'D.
mission into tho Union as slave State, it is GER
tain that the great bulk of the Northern repre-
sentatives will oppose it, in spite of 1.-The prnc-
pies Of the Kansas Nebraska actn-and If
South prepared to submit to such course, we
see no advantage in further resistance to the
Wilmot Proviso. or any offer legislation which
looks to the final overthrow Of the institution of
slavery
But falling short as these resolutions do, Of
most important point open to double interpre-
tation, stiIT we hazard'but little in the conjecture
that the national convention will refuse to come
up to the mark they prescribe. They cannot
bind the Northern Democracy by any such
pledges and if they attempt it, they will shi,er
into fragments the loosely cemented congomme
ration which bears that name Success is too
dear to spoilsmen to be be perilled by so blunt
and open handed proceeding One of two or
three things will result: Tho Georgia delegates
will be permitted to retire from the convention
those who remain having faith in tho cohesive
power of public plumber" TO bring them in even.
tually to the support of the nominee, or some
ounningly ambiguous substitute will be present
ed and accepted, with which the Georgians may
satisfy their constituents and which may be ex-
planned away to the people of the north. Thus
e Ia A
Georgia proceedings they will bring up tho
question of slavery in the national convention of
the Democracy, and will enable tho country to
determine whether that party is willing to meet
the issue fu-front, and deal with it without
evasion, equivocaion lodging of any sort.
BY the last arrival of intelligence from Russia
it appears that the Emperor has issued decree
authorizing new levy of troops in the ratio of
ten men to every one thousand souls. This,
with the previous levies made during the past
two years of the war, will, il is stated, make an
aggregate Of fifty three levied to every one
thousand souls in Russia two and half per cent
of the entire adult population, male and female.
According to the New York Tribune. the aver
age levy in time of peace is about five men for
every one thousand souls for one half the empire.
the ethar half furnishing recruits the next year.
These figures serve to show the gigantic nature
of the struggle 10 which Russia is engaged
France has also suffered from the same absorb
ton of her able bodied male population, but there
il is not much of an evil as in Russia, in con-
sequences Of the redundanoe Of the French pop
ulation, Still, as the main source Of supply for
tina ranks Of the allied armies is French, the pro-
longation OF the war must gradually convert it
into drain Of the Preach as we'll as of the Ras-