The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-06-14

Pro-. lavery Pla,form-Geergia Wins the Day.
With the exception Of single plank in
the platform which has been erected by the
Pro-Slavery party in Cincinnati, there Is
nothing to ataract attention or excite sur
mise The Baltimore Platform of lS4S and
1852 has been re-adopted with various sup
Elementary clauses, among which we find
the following, that may be considered as the
very latest progression of the progressive
Democracy:
Resolred, That we recognize the right of
the people of all the Territories, including
Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the
legally and fairly expressed will of major
ity of actual residents, and WHENEVER
THE NUMBER OF THEIR INHABI-
TANTS JUSTIFIES IT, to form a constitu-
ton WITH OR WITHOUT DOMESTIC
SLAVERY, and be admitted into the Union
upon terms of perfect equality with other
States.
This, says the Chicago Tribune, is most
artfnlly and ingeniously framed. While it
seems to affirm the Northern construction OF
the Kansas-Nebraska bill, it is a direct and
uneauivocal endorsement of the South Caro-
linn and Georgia dogma" Slavery may GO
wherever the American flag goes" 1t is an
assertion that there is no power in the Legis.
lature of Territory to prohibit slavery
Mark the language /" the right of the peo-
ple. whenever the number of inhabitants
justifies it, to form a constitution with or
without slavery"-and not until then That
is the embodiment of Calhounism it is the
voice of the Nullifers is the faith Of the
most ultra and incorporating champions,
the universal legality of slavery. The pow
or of the people of territory to form con-
stitution when the number of inhabitants
justifes it, nobody questions. The dispute
is about the power of the Territorial Legis-
lature or of Congress to prohibit slavery
while tue territory is yet in its infancy. The
Democracy have heretofore, or at least up to
the passage. of the Nebraska bill, held the
opinions of Jefferson and the Fathers, on
this point. Gradually they have been Civ
ing way before the demands of the South
and now we find the party placed on radical
pro-slavery ground. Resolutions identical
in meaning, though dissimilar in language,
which passed the South Carolina and Geor-
gia State Conventions, are the bases of the
one we quote. When Georgia and South
Carolina spoke, they declared that the Ma
tioDal Convention must come up to their
mark or their delegates would withdraw
That they are yet in the Convention, and
that they voted for the plank to which we
refer, are proofs that they are satisfied-that
the Convention has acceeded all their con
stituents instructed them to demand To
show that we do not err in the principles
which the committee maintain, we mention
the fact that resolution affirming in plain
terms the existence of slavery, by virtue o.
the constitution in all territories of the
United States was lost by only one vote
This isacomment upon the resolutions finally
passed, and which may be tortured by inge
NOUS doughfaces to mean an affirmation Of
the principles of Nebraskaism, too significant
to be overlooked. What they dared not dc
in terms, they have done by dodge too
palpab'e to deceive any one but natural
born Know-Nothing.