The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-06-27
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES AND
PLATFORM.


but deep, throughout the South against the nom
nations and platform Of the late Sag NIGHT
gathering At Cincinnsti. il
A few weeks ego, the Charleston Mercury,l
alludihg to q conspiracy on the part Of certain
treachercus Representatives Of the Southern
Democtatic party to sacrifice the interest of the
South for the sake Of mere party success,
said at is not enough for the South that the
platform be sound. for bitter experience warns
US Of the vorthlessness of party pledges, but zoe
must haze a man s0hose past, open, and and avoped
course upon slavery is a guarantyof the future,
and whose reputation and consistency secure
her against treachery."
This is the feeling Of the great mass of the
Southern Democrats. They will not be con-
tented with any other action of the Convention. |
They have been most treacherousy betrayed by
their delegates in the Convention. Instead of
obtainining a candidate whose past open and
avowed course upon slavery is guaranty of the
future, the Freesoi wing Of the party has forced
upon them James Buchanan. whose political
record is guaranty to the Freesoilers that he
will favor the Northern Interpretation of the
Constitutional power of Congress over the slav.
cry question, who is opposed to the extension
of slavery into the territories, and believes that
Congress has the power to abolish it in the
District of Columbia.
The Southern Democrats have not even the
poor satisfaction Of having secured platform
unequivocally protecting the rights OF the slave
holding States. They have been obliged to
submit to the juggery of the political tricksters
in the convention. who by superior skill in con-
vention tactics, have crammed down the throats
E of the Southern delegates platform that is ex-
plcit only in regard to the old and obsolete is
sues of the bank, the tariff, the distribution OF
. the proceeds of the public lands, and the inter-
nal improvement policy. In regard to the sla-
very question it is vague, indefinite, capable oil
either northern or southern construction, and
has boldly and equvocally incorporated into il
the odious and infamous doctrine of squatter SOW
ereignty, by which the North is enabled to real
all the benefits of the Kansas N ebraska bill
and Southern shareholders are practically ex
cluded from the protection of the General Gov
eminent for their slave property in any of thu
Territories.
: Both in the adoption of the platform and tn
: selection Of the candidate the South has beef
g utterly, treacherously, shamefuly sacrificed, an
). when Southern Democrats come to conside
s the treatment that they have received at tn
hands Of the INSCRIPTIONS ofice-seekers VIII
controlled the convention they will repudiat
its action and refuse to endorse the platform o
: to support the candidate thus sought to be for
= ced upon them by Freesoil faction.
d But by this treachery of the Southern delegate
a far more has been lost to the party than hu
r. been gained by it. The candidate whom the
have chosen is more vulnerable and the less abb
ID 10 rally to his support the enthusiasm of tn
m masses than any Of those whose names wer
submitted 20 the convention. He has alway
been not unacceptable but really odous to til
= great mass of The party in the Southland a
a. though he is the least obnoxious to the Ere
Of sellers Of the North he cannot gain particle
is strength for the party there.
II The Cincinnati Gazette Freesoil and ant
he American paper thus comments upon Buchal
ce ans availability:
~ We are not of those who regard Buchanan ;
lte a stronger man in the Presidential race tn,
D ,ugas. He may gain here and there so
weak ked and We kkneed ,syllabub politician
- who would not vote for Douglas; but he will Fl
ui 10 draw to his earnest support the earnest actv
tn leading spirits of the D mocracy, who give Ii
ad and soul to Presidential canvass. There is
:" Stare IN the North uctih Buchanan en- car
ad that Douglas could not save, perhaps, Pennsylv
MIA, can he Offset in part by Illinois. We belle
49,. that the Republican party have as good chan
20 of carrying Pennsylvania with good candida
'ne as Buchanan has; and when We take into conside
er- alton the fact that the Benton men in Nilsson
re. are determined to support Buchauen, and clai
his nomination as triumph of their side over
IN old line d .mocracy, he can see what an adva
-. tage the American party in the Southern Stat
"a will have in the canvass with Fillmore as thu
''e; candidate and the Philadelphia platform as
[" groundwork of their faith. The Democrats, wi
lad Douglas as their candidate could and would ca
ion ~ every Southern State and California. Wi
,us Buchanan as the nominee, and the fact that
nomination a0as en,.sed BY that portion ofthe I
nocracy iDho i0ished to skulk the Nebraska Ka
am sas issue, there Is great probability that FiHmo
- WiH carry Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, NJ
y" souri, and Delatodre. On the part of the Repu
icans the elections will be fought upon princip
ave They will no more vote for Buchanan, "with
md platform annexed than they would for Dougl
or any other representative of Border Rufian I
mocracy.
ea' Nor is it too much to believe that the wal
ow friends of Douglas and the long line of Office no.
the ers in the service of the government knowing ii
i'm the triumph OF Buchanan would be the person
NV. triumph Of the "outs,' and cause the einsp 10
he'd enrolled among tie gnobe army Of martyrs, wor
sorrow much over the defeat of Buchanan II
,voll Lnovv, that tho frson1, ofV Won puror