Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-07-15
Alllmon0 Enqulrer.
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FRIDAY MORNING. July Is, 1859.
INTERVENTION.

FRIDAY MOhNISG, JULY 10. 1859.
INTERVENTION.
The MONTGOMERY daily Advertiser rec.
ring To an article in the Examiner in resar
to the !neXpcdiency oi demanding rccosnitio
by The Charleston Convention Of the right 1
Congressional protectors for slave property il
the Territories, says:
We q!iOie the above from the Richmor,
"Examincr,' which journal has lately assumes
the tone Of some which wc might Indicate nearc,
home. 1t will be >rcn that while ayowinc tn
duty of Congress to protect slavcry in the Ter
ritores, it is opposed 10 making the question
an issue in the Charleston Convention, undc,
the belief that when the occasion arrires fol
the protection by Congress Of slavery in tn,
I Territories, the Northern Democracy will nObly
unite with the Democracy of the South" Thi!
/ l., NJ would bG, were there any foundation .ol
II. al least better reason Cor prctrrmitting thi
In;,tcr in the Convention, than that assignee
/ by tic other journals referred Ia, which seen
. 10 need nothing more Ia induce them to cm
brace this policy, than the simple danger o
producing disco.d in the party.
We confess ourselves somewhat at 4 loss {.
IlpLpUN lllt
bases It's confident hope that ut the proper time
the Northern Democracy will he ready to ac
cord 10 the South lis rights in this particular
Surely il can not have been persuaded OF
this by the tone Of the Northern Press, which
universally declares against it-nor by the cx-
prcssons Of Northern Democratic aSscniblagcs,
whici are equally unanimous in their condcln-
nation Of the principle whose Justice the "Ex.
amincr' acknowledgements BY the declaration
Of the !ca'crs of the party in lha; section, from
Mr.. Pugh down.
AS the most recent aud authoritative ute.
RANGES on this subject. from Northern source,
wc publish h"low the Resolutions adopted By
the late Democratic State Convention Of Maine.
and one 81 the Resolutions passed by the Ohio
State Convention and sanctioned by Mr.. Push.'
Af;cr quoting the resolutions rcicrc,l 10 ti,.
advertiser proceeds:
In the face o., such Open and unIisguisci
cnuncation Cf tl.c doctrine that Congress shall
not intervene to protect slavery in the terrific
rics, how is it possible that any man in hi
.ciiSes can for one moment belicvc that il the
assertion Of this right lie iorborne in the
Charleston Convention the North will unite
with u> in Congress To obtain it: And this.
too when the docrncs declared ly these two
States arc echoed by cvlry press and every
public man. aud every Mass nccting in the
North,
The iica is p;cpOstcroue.
in another part of the same article, the "EX-
a,niucr cXprc,scs it, willingness to accept the
Cincinnati platform. ''as sufficient guarantee
of the fidelity of the Northern Democracy. -
W. own We think it very easily satisfied. but
there are not lacking those right here a; home
who back ii in that position. The "Coniede-
ration warns and condemns those who de-
nouncc the policy Of passing by this question
in the Convention. and reminds them that the
least that rs said ho,', the soonest will DC
,ncndcd then
We can conceive nothing more pucrlc than
would be the farce of the Charleston Conven-
ton readoptine. unexplained the Cincinnati
platform. no policy more imbccie than the
South'S assent TO such a procec linz.
We accepted the Cincinnati platform once,
and with its southern Interpretation we might
be willing TO take it again. But VIC I'll know
that the Southern construction ci the Kansas
Act, embodied in that platform has been dis
;vowcd iy lis author, and that it is disclaimcd
and icrird by the entire North. What folly
ilc;ix tn rc,at"h; u ;:S " Stihu' .,nv.r, vHUMc
thought it did II does not secure you protec-
ton for your slave property in the Territories
bv Congress On the contrary. it empowers
,Lc Territorial assembly 10 legiSlatc your
slaves out OF the Territory. and Congress has
no right to help you. We civ" yon fairly to
understand that this is the sense IN which we
receive it. and in which We will carry it out.
Tia, Is what the North tells Us. Does not Mr..
Douglas say 50: Does not tn" Northern press
saw so: Do not the Northern Democratic Con
yrrtjors say ,o--as witness those above citcd !!
And vet we are asked TO content ourselves
with the re.adoption OF platform th'iS con-
Strucd hv our Northern allics-and southern
Journals ,ci Us of their confidence that when
the emergency arises, Northern Democrats Will
.Ssis, lis in the assertion Of our right TO have
cur slave property protected in the territories
How can ,hcy do so in the teeth OF their declared
princir!.s without stulti(ying themselves =
il seems almost an insult to the intelligence oil
the Examiner to ask. if it seriously believes
that the Democracy of the North. having re-
sisted successfully : in Convention, the t"'trr"'
L,,;on. "a, incy call H. ot any recognition OF the
right ol the south to require Congress TO m
,erycnc for the protection Of slave property IN
the territories, and tic South having submitted
would afterwards "rtuaiiy come forward IN
Conrrcs, and assist The South in the assertion
O; a right which the North had jus; triumphant
" repudated: ,.,
II i, not the ahoiition<lS Of the North whom
we have 10 fear. 1t is those at home VINO
through timidity or luke" armncsS or whatever
other cause. embrace submission to wrong. ana
,lrcrv III. assertion oi our rights.