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The Demooratic Party Of Georgia.


In the correspondence of the Charleston
Courier, we find an accounBsof recent
meeting of Democrats in the Hall of Rep
rescntstivcs at the State Capitol, Gov HI :
". Johnson presided, and the Hon, A. H.
Stephens was the Chairman of the Com
'niittcc that offered the resolutions append
ed. The remarks of tho President and the
resolutions are commendable in matter and
tone:
Before taking his seat, the President
made a very appropriate address to the
Democracy, urging on them to be firm il
their principles, and not to exult over their
vanquished opponents, but, on the contra
ry, to argue and urge them to give up their
party strife under the name of Americans,
for they must now feel satisfied that they
could accomplish no good for themselves
or the country by keeping up an opposition
to the Democratic party, the only organiz-
ed party in the country to whom the South
could look for aid and assistance in prcserv-
ing their rights under the Constitution and
the Union. He urged the American party,
in feeling terms, to bury the hatchet and
join the Democracy, and thus present sol
id and bold front to our Northern foes
Gov. johnson was listened towith mark
cd attention, and took his seat amidst rap
turous applause. A Committee of three
from each Congressional District was then
appointed, to prepare business for the meet
ing, of which Committee the Hon. A. III.
Stephcas was Chairman Aftera short alb
sence, they returned and reported the fol-
lowing resolutions, which were adopted
with Tut dissenting voice:
ReSotUcd, That this meeting re-affirms
their appreciation of and an ardent attach
mcnt to the principles of the Kansas and
Nebraska Act and of the Cincinnati Plat
form ir relation thereto, and that in view
of the state of affairs in Kansas, we rccur
with especial emphasis, to the following
resolutions of that platform
J.. RcsolUeR, That claiming fellowship
with and desiring the cooperation of all
who regard the preservation of the Union
under the Constitution as the paramount
issue, and rcpudiating all sectional parties
and platforms concerning domestic slavery
which seek to embrol the States and in
cite to treason and armed resistance to law
in the Territories, and whose avowed pur-
poses, if consummated, must end in civil
war and disunion the American Democra-
cy recognise and adopt the principles con-
tanned in the organic laws establishing the
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, as en-
bodying the only sound and safe solution of
the "slavery question" upon which the
great national idea of the people of this
whole country can reposei in its determined
conservatism of the Union -non-intcrfer-
ence by Congress with slavery in State and
Territory, or in the District of Columbia.
2. That this was the basis of the com
promises of l85O-confrmcd by both the
Democratic and Whig parties in the Ma
tional Conventions-ratifed by the people
in the election of 1852, and rightly applied
to the organization of Territories in 1854.
3. That by the uniform application of
this Democratic principle to the organiza-
tion of Territories and to the admission of
new States, with or without domestic slave.
ry as they may elect-the equal rights of
all the States will be preserved intact--thc
original compacts of the Constitution main
tanned inviolate, and the perpetuity and ex-
pauslon of this Union insured to its utmost
capacity of embracing, in peace and har-
mony, every future American State that
may be constituted or annexed, with re-
publican form of government.
ReSot016, That we recognize the right
of the people of all the Territories, includ-
ing Kansas and Nebraska, acting through
the legally and fairly expressed will of a
majority of actual residents, and whenever
tho number of their inhabitants iustifes it,
to form Constitution, with or without do
mestic slavery, and be admitted into the
Union upon terms of perfect equality with
the other States
2. ind be n further Re~lUc4, by this
meeting, that the principles and sentiments
embodied and set forth in President Blu
chanan's inaugural address, being in con.
formity with the above and foregoing reso.
lutions, meets our cordial approval, and his
general administration thus far meets pur
like approval.
3. Resotced, That the position of Gov.
Walker in his inaugural address, iuthrow-
ing the weight of his official opinion, found.
ed upon climate, &C., against the Southern
side of the question in the Territory; in
proclaiming that the Constitution of Kan
sas should be submitted for ratification az
the only mode Of adoption, when the legal.
ly and fairly expressed will of majority of
the actual residents of the Territory might
determine upon another, and in declarine
the class ofvoters to whom only it should
be submitted, when tha Legally end fairly
expressed will Of tho majority of the people
might determine otherwise, was 10 plain,
palpable and dangerous violation of tho
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