Daily American organ., 1856-02-19
SAG NIGHT HARMoNY.

The Detroit Free Press copies the following res
olution of the Alabama Democratic State Conven-
tion, held at Montgomery on the Sth of January:
10. That, if said National Convention shall re-
fuse to adopt the propositions embraced in the
preceding resolution, our delegates to said conven-
ton are hereby positively instructed to withdraw
therefrom." ...t .#
And, while admitting the propositions" of the
Alabama Democracy to be "good and such as it
can approve up in Michigan" it adds
But we have to advise the Southern Democracy
or such portion of it as has adopted similar Ian
guage with that contained In the foregoing resou-
tion, numbered 10, that should any considerable
number of delegates come into the Democratic
National Convention under instructions to Insist
upon any particular order of business and to with
draw from the convention in the event of that par
ticuar order OF business not being adopted, the
harmony of the convention win be seriously en-
dangered. The tone of the foregoing tenth reso-
luton, taken in connexion with the preceding reso-
luton, if not positively insulting to the Northern
Democracy, is obnoxious in the extreme It's atti-
tude is that of distrust and menace. The threat
is distinct, if we get the sense of the resolu-
tons-and this threat is uttered by convention
Of one of the smaller States addressed to the as
sembled delegates of the whole Democracy of the
nation--that unless resolutions embracing certain
nominations-Ct will not answer il they shall be
passed afterward )--tbe delegates of this smaller
State will withdraw!
No State whose Democracy has the selfrespect
and spirit of louise go into the National Con-
yention and submit to such predetermined terms
imposed by other States. And the sooner this
fact is understood the better. 1t is not matter
OF the slightest consequence in itself whether res
olutons shall be adopted by the convention before
or after nominations have been made But il is a
matter of very grave consequence whether small
minority of delegates shall be permitted to say to
a large majority these things must be done so
and so, or we win bolt from the convection and
break it up If possible.
IL Alabama shall persist in this attitude, the Ma
tional Convention should not hesitate moment to
give her delegates an opportunity to withdraw.
Very good, Mr.. Free Press, but remember that
the Alabama delegates are instructed to 90 for f.
Pierce. II they do withdraw, they may take
fancy TO go and unite with the South Carolinians
in the State Convention by which the Charleston
Mercury proposes to renominate Pierce, and so
the Democratic candidate for President, put up at
Cincinnati, may be defeated. IA.
The Buffalo Courier, which turned Soft last sum-
mer, is surprised to find how many of its new
friends there are who express desire to continue
to act with the Democracy, who make stumbling
stone of this doctrine of non-interyeution not from
any radical objection TO the principle itself, but
because they surmise that it was brought forward
with bad motives, and that slavery will be bene-
6ted by it's adoption by Northern men.
The Saratoga IN. ~ Sentinel, Soft paper, is
pitching into" the doctrine Of nonintervention
by slavery. II speaks the views Of Joshua NJ.
Todd, the Frse-soil delegate to Cincinnati in the
following paragraph:
When we contrast the condition of the slave
states and Territories with the free Strates and
territories, and see how, in the of the former
prosperity and plenty are inyariable accompsni
ments, and in the other, that desostion marks the
progress Of slavery, we are utterly surprised that