Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-09-23

us the privilege OF removing to the com mmon
Territory Of the Union with our property,
and restored the true principles of the Con.
stitution in the organization of territorial
governments. It has settled the policy of
the Government on this subject-no inter.
ference by Congress with slavery in the ter
ritories-the people, when they form State
Constitution, are to determine the question
for themselves. The decision of the Su-
preme Court in the Dred Scott case protects
our rights during the existence Of the Ter
ritorial Government. Although we have
not added another sla te State by the Kansas
bill, we have secured an important principle
which is to result most benefoially in preser-
wing the rights aud securing the tranquility
of the country in future legislation. e.
x X 49,
say to you fellow. citizens, thatthe Dem
ocratic party is entitled to your cordial sym
pathy as we'll as your Jealous support. tits
the only exponent Of the principles you have
cherished for many long years. and is the
only party willing and able to maintain your
rights in the Union. When it is defeated
or disintegrsted, you must choose between 3
submission to sectional tanatical domination
and dissolution of the existing Government.
It's principles have received the sanction Of
my judgement from my earliest manhood,
and since 1852 I have acted in full harmony
and fellowship in its organization, and whyf
There had been in 1850 and 1851, in most
of the Southern States, contest between what
was called the States Rights and Union par
ties, growing out Of the passage OF the Com
promise measures. 1t results in a determina-
tion on the part of the South to aequiesce
in it ; and when the convention met at Bal
timore in June, 1852, TO nominate candi-
dates for the Presidency and Vice Presiden-
cy, found there Gas spectator, and not
as delegate both wings of the Democracy
the States Rights and Union. They afilia-
ted in making the nominations, and both
heartily united in adopting platform Of
principles. The contest oe'50 and 81 had
revived into living issue the old States
Rights doctrines of '98 and '99. Except
perhaps in Virginia and South Carolina pre-
vious to that time, they had nearly become
vital article in the Democratic creed: 1t
was unanimously conceded, and the resolu-
tons of '9S and '9s-the very cornerstone
the highest exposition of~States Rights,
was incorporated in the platform. 1t made
the Democratic creed perfect, and from that
moment, determined upon hearty and
cordial afilation with the party in its organ.
ization. In 1858, at Cincinnati, these prin-
ciples were re.adopted, and the Democracy
from Maine to Texas, and from the Allan
tic to the Pacific, are pledged in the most
solemn manner to the support and mainten-
ance of the strictest reading of the States
Rights doctrines. Every man, therefore, Of
that faith, must affiliate with the Democracy
if he expects aid in inforceing bis views Oh
the administration of the Government. The
Democratic party, if it continues true to its
creed and principles, is as good a States
Rights party as desire to associate with
I 20 further-no conscientious man can be
Democrat standing on that platform who
is not States Rights man. With these I'm.
deniable facts before US, does not the as
sumption of few persons in the South that
they are par excellence the States Rights
Democrats, rest upon narrow basis .? The
feud between the two wings was buried at
Baltimore in 1852 by all uniting on COM
mon platform; the treaty of anity and friend
ship was re-afirmed at Cincinnati in 1856,
and is it good faith in either Of the former
wings to make peculiar appropriation of
any of the tenets of the common party? If
Madison and Jefferson are authority, then
the Democratic party is imbued with all the
elements Of States Rights. If their views
are considered too moderate for any modern
statesman, then such may except to the creed
of the Democracy; but believing as l do,
that it is the only principle upon which this
Government can be safely or justly admins
tered, lam perfectly content to take the Iex::
position of the able and patriotic men who
formed the Constitution, and who elucida-
ted its principles during the administration
of Mr.. Jefferson.
Mr.. Pierce placed himselfon the platform
of 1852, when he accepted the nomination.
Did not every act of hia Administration ex-
hibia answering fidelity to its principles? !?
Mr.. Buchanan did the same thing in 1856.
In what single act Of his Administration has
he repudiated the platform, or ignored any
article of the State Rights creed? So it
will be in 1860, and will continue as long
as the Democratic party maintains its organ
ization. 1t could scarcely be otherwise
the Executive, upon his nomination, solemn
ly pledges himself to his friends and oppo-
uents that he will administer the Govern
ment in strict conformity to the principles
laid down by his friends; if those principles
do not reflect his sentiments, and cannot
carry them into execution, every sentiment
of honor would impel him to decline the
nomination. When he accepts, to prove
faithless 10 his pledges, would entail on him
such deep dishonor as to drive him in shame
from the face of society; and l undertake
here to say, that no man who will ever be-
come the standard bearer of the Democracy
for the Presidency will have the temerity to
traitorously abandon the principles aud plat
form upon which he is elected. What has
the Democratic party done to manifest its