The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-08-03
The Vermont Democracy.

The telegraph, with its usual hippancy, an
nounced that the delegates chosen to the
Charleston Convention from Vermont were
douglas delegates = but the Boston Post mas
'highest authority for saying that there Is not
the slightest warrant for the report Inc
gentlemen selected rs delegates to Charleston
are well known as firm Supporters oil the VA
tional Administration. and in respect. to a
nominee for the next Presidency, are commit
ted to no man, by instructions or otherwise
Mssissippian.
The article in the Boston Post, alluded TO-
was no doubt, well intended, and the "hlgh-
est authority it Is fair to think, aimed to
state facts, though it did not. The reports Oh
the Vermont State Convention given IN the
Boston papers, were essentially correct. There
was regular, and systematic rally OF the
Democracy and the Cow BOYS at the conyen-
ton The thing was fally and fairly under
stood by every democrat and Cow Boy IN the
State and the latter, especially, rallied to the
last OF their ability The issue was distinctly
made up before the observation-disclosures and
Popular Sovereignty, against the Cow Boys,
and slave code. The democracy turned out
to see that the first were endorsed, and the
Cow Boys to See that they We're repudlated'
The Cow Boys were most ingloriously beat
en- and annihilated. For the slightest author
lty,' through the Boston Post or any other
paper, to say that this is not the truth, is to
say what the entire democracy of the State
know Is entirely outside the fact Vermont
Patriot.
The Patriot then proceeds to say that
though no instructions were given to the
Charleston delegates, they were understood
to be committed to Douglas and his odious
heresy of squatter sovereignty. 1t says more
over, that out of 1888 protesting Democrats
in the State @l3, 800 are Douglas men" The
phplse Cow Boys ased in tie aboveparagrsph
weinterprett 20 be q tenn Of Tepfoaeh for those
who are in favorof executing the DEGREES, or
maintaining the decision of the Supreme
Court for the protection of the property of
Southern citizens in the territories
We cheerfully correct the error of our orig
inal paragraph. If it is really the purpose of
any considerable portion of the Northern De-
mocracy to foist Douglas upon the party as a
candidate for the Presidency, we prefer 70
know the fact, and to let the South know it.
If we are forewarned, we can be forearmed.
In return for the information which the Pa
triot deigns to impart, it is due to candor to
say that if the New England Democracy sue
coed in nominating douglas, the agreeable
duty of electing him will devolve upon them
and as they are in a hopeless minority in every
State, we suppose they will have "a good
time'' of it. Under no circumstances will he
receive the votes of Mississippi and the other
reliable Democratic States of the South. The
Vermont offiee-hunters can help to nominate
him at Charleston but how many electoral
votes will they give him in the electoral col
lege
The Southern Democracy will go to Charles
ton pledged to faithful maintenance of the
principles of State equality which constitute
the groundwork of their creed these princi-
plies they hold subordinate to all else; and to
ask them to support . candidate for the Pres
idency whose position upon the practical issues
of the day is equally odious to them as that Of
Seward-a candidate who is the very embod-
iment of doctrines which they universally re-
pudiate as more dangerous and destructive Of
their rights than the exploded dogma of the
Wilmot Proviso-is to invite them to commit
an act of folly and establishment from which
the basest slaves would instinctively recoil.-
If the Vermont place hunters desire the
South to help themto the federal offices, they
Douglas is selected