New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-20


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e vSsb without reference t" iho'e P'''''A 10 Myself
One point il now setted: Whatever State Equality,
o, As he resolution has IT, the Equality OF the States,
NV mean Mr. Buchanan heartily Sdopts It! Let that
~ remembered These resolutions and Mr. Bu-
sAsasn. acceptance Of them, may be found in the
speech Of the Hon. J. CLANCY Jones Member of Con
sress from Pennsy Ysnia, delivered in the House of
Representatives May 49, 1856. He who has noted the
progress Of the Democratic party for the last few yea
and has discovered who are it, leading spirit, has
observed its reflections and gradual tendency South
ward and niggerward, might, on the morning Of April
e. 1856 If he had scen The Richmond Va ER9urer,
have safely predicted that the Cincinnati Plstf rm
you'd contain the doctrine Of State Equality though
he might not then have known what II meayt. The
following editorial is from that paper
Fyo~ The Riohmond EnsHi,e' Ag1fi-S 10 III,
Ihs oisolshAIi si'i''s L.~
.beh impossible to svoii OF evsde The Opposition j. 60
SsSyis act and tkc Fss.ite ssyc Law f hereby de
avs State Equality The Democracy oppose be repeal o. nos
room Tor doubt or cayI must removed We must. in ,he
Cnnns P'io, RepSS"s squ as dc ib /. the
Of the General Government 20 see tbaf no n'do OF u
ou. distinctions made between the pQge or zoe PP
cry Of oneent se%ons IA me IcIIfe Oh, PAN Of the
ss.r.e, prOposSn Of STATE Equality NAV .afs along
,n.9,s5 b.s nee %is
ssuuer sovereignty and that sqn+t NaeT democrat.
have maintains ed hi. ground Now this gun must be spiked
mus, from or P atfor that maintain practical
Safe Fa1ay and repudsie thai construction Of ne hansas
Kebaska act which would defeat H. The south only demands
No Sjnyidious or injurious distinctions must be
allowed between the people the property of different
sections-in other words the Shareholder must be al
lowed to go into the Territories with his nlggeIs
for that il what they mean at the South by property
the ,srse ~ the man from the North is allowed to 90
with bin hore or his wagOn-ctherwise there would
BE- an "inyidious7 and luxurious distinction And,
to carry out the doctrine, the same unbounded liberty
:. tho IN Ike oh
INTO the Free States, in spite OF local laws and Court
decisions or set up "Odous,' " invdious," and
"ipurious" distinctions between the people and
"property Of different sections This is State Equal
ny-"tbe equal rights of all the States" But let
zee if il is TO be found in the Cincinnati Platform. In
the bo section of the first resolution of that Platform
We read: THAT by the uniform application OF this
democratic principle to the organization OF Terrific
ries and to the admission Of new States, with or
without domestic Slavery, as they may elect, the
equal rights of all the States will be preserved intact
And again in the third resolution 81 high and sacred
"duty ia devoved upon the Democratic party of this
country, as the party Of the Union, 10 uphold and
"maintain the rights OF every State, and thereby
the Union of the States You know the
Southern prOpagandists of the peculiar Institution
saw If they can't have their "cqua rights State
Equality, or the right to carry their slaves wherever
Northern man may carry his horse they VIII dissolve
the Union The Democratic party being the Union
party" of course il "deyOlves upon it to grant them
these rights" and thus save the Union. The doe
trDe of State Equality you perceive Is contained IN
be understood by the intlated-as The Richm0nd En-
qu,rr said, ste carry along with it the consequences
% which we desire yet in such language aud such
connection not to attract the att nton excite the
suspicion of those unacquanted with its meaning.
But let us hear what this Richmond Enquirer
thought about it, after the platform made. One Of
ats editors mr.. Rtche) attended the Convention as
delegate from Virginia and served as one OF IT. Secre
tared. Immediately after the adoption oi the plat
form, he sent home TO his paper its three principal
solutions which were published IN the leading editorial
sf In 1xrfb Tho fol
ed statement:
'Wihe utmost possible precision and emphasis language
constitutional guarantees of slavery and secondly Of the
equality OF the States With respect to their dignity aud
irns of Squaer Sovereignty rePadAed BY the platform oil
the Democratic party"
Let is be borne in mind that The Richmond En-
srer is the great leading, standard organ OF the Dem
ocrafic party in the Southern States that not only
reflects the sentiments of the party at the South, but
gives to it tone and orection it is the great dictator
and Grand MOgu of the party. And let 1t be II rther
borne in mind that is the boast OF the Democratic
party everywhere that ITS sentlments are the same
North and South. The party papers throughout the
Southern States echo the sentiments of TIE Rich mOnd
Enc urer boldly, while at the North and West they
do TIE same they dare. No Democratic paper
of any note has dared TO deny controyert s posi-
tion nor will any do The Democrs cy of the South
may be sarded the Democracy of the nation, for
il not only constitutes fully two-thirds OF the entire
psry, but has for years gwen to 1t shape and direction
as well az platforms. The party being according to
its own averment, exclusively national II must OF
necessity be the same North that it is South. The
Richmond Enquirer being, therefore, the standard or
gan Of the paper choose to quote from in preference
10 other papers, touching points of doctrine ques
tons Of party policy. II can hardly be supposed that
this party can be mistaken to what is the true issue
IN the canvass--what is meant by State equality
whether it is contained in the Cincinnati Patform-and
what is Mr. Buchanan's position in regard to the same
To settle the question, then, should there st be any
dosbt, whether the platform contains the doctrne
quote again upon that point.
The Richmond En9psyer ~ dug n, 100
"CAs Any soUrHIRS Man DoUsr lit is almost work OF
further proofs upon the entire soundness
.S. Of the scHR 1hS A. Sesn & upon
Argument the South has decided cast her vote, for the Gin
eupsti nominees whose past history aud present attitude
sbow b. thoroughly reliable What reason there for
.se ls south 90 for HIM upon PIm Of the
equality the States and OF full and exact justice to every
ssoped By the united Democracy TePre.enuns
every Of State Of the Union Tbs Democratic
Yty the only maintains the ground IN every
STATE in the Onion The EroAi features of the Democratic
pstform which James Buchanan has fully aud squsrey in
Sorsed and of which be fair embodiment, Ee The equal
rshts Of all and the quietns Of the Anti
Slavery excitement and the guardianship Of the honor aud in
Having shown that the doctrine OF State Equality is
in the Cincinnati Platform, and that Mr.. Buchanan
fully and squarey indoses il, proceed to show what
it U.s. and that does according 10 the statements oil its
own friends constitute the issue. have said that the
South demands the right under the Constitution, to
cany their slaves wherever Northern man may carry
what IL regarded property in the Free States Let me
make that good. quote now from speech published
in The Charleston Mercury Is. C.) April 49, 1856,
and delivered in the House of Representatives April
4 1856 by the Hon. L. M. Keitt, NJ. c. from South
Carolina. 1t may also be found in The Congressional
Globe of April & He is speaking of the Presidential
4" contest"
Sir the Will be one 1t will turn
upon the question of Slavery and the constitutional nights of the
,Aa, the night of Southern hi. slave il equal in it's
length and breadth TO the sht Of Northern man TO his horse.
She should make the recognition OF the nsh' s complete and
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