Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-07-12

A very large portion Of The democracy Of

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the south-a decided majority of the party.
perhaps-are in favor of the enactment of
! laws by Congress to protect slavery in the ter
ritories. Their leaders demand that this pro-
position shali be Incorporated in the platform
of the party by the Charleston Convention.
Mr.. WISE, OF Va, is one of the most active
as well as determined supporters of this pro-
position; and in Mr.. Brown, of Miss. be finds
| an able coadjutor. In late speech in Mis-
sissippi, TO a portion of his constituents. in
| speaking of the matter, NIB proclaimed that
the only hope of the Southern Democracy
was to make fight IN the Charleston Con-
vention-to 60 there determined TO have their
views incorporated in the creed of the party,
or burst UP the concern in a rotc. He had no
| doubt, as they had heretofore controlled the
| party on all great questions, that the North
ern Free-Soil element toould yield in graceful
submission again. If they did not-why. then.
apply the torch to the great temple of Demo-
cracy, and blow the concern to flinders. Rath-
er than see The party destroyed, the North. WHICH
DIDN'T CARE FOR PRINCIPLE. scotad Glios0 any
thing 10 be ,ntzpoldted into the creedf'
The movement here proposed is a bold one.
| How it will be met by the Northern demo-
crazy, we have an indication in the response
| of the State Convention of Maine, which
adopted resolution pledging the democracy
of Maine to "resist all attempts''to interpolaie
new issues into the party creed; and to re-
sist likewise all attempts 10 reopen the Afri-
| can slave trade or to enact a Congressional
| slave code for the Territories. and appointed
| delegates to the Charleston Convention to
| carry out these views. The convention was
addressed by Mr.. GEO. H. SHELLEY one of
| the administration ticket voted for as dele
| gates to Charleston. Mr.. S. said the plat
form adopted by the convention. was but
repetition of the Cincinnati platform which
| had laid down The "true doctrine of our insti-
| buttons" as enunciated by Gen. CAss in lS4S
Ito wit: Squatter Sovereignty. now covered
up under the term of Popular Sovereignty
He said further:
We have incorporated in these resolutions
which have been adopted. no elements
| in the Democratic creed. | hold that the
platform laid down by the party at one ma
tional convention, is good enough aud strong
enough and broad enough for ibe party until
another Democratic convention assemblies
(Applause.) If tberei is anything in those re-
solutions which we have passed to-day which
is inconsistent with that platform, it is some
thing which the Democracy of Maine will
not sanction us in doing. 1t is something
which we cannot Justify ourselves in doing
hereafter; and would not have lent any aid
in the support or countenance of those reso-
lutions. if had supposed, or supposed now,
Il H. Ina
trines which we asserted through our repre-
srntatives in Cincinnati, in the Convention
that there assembled. (Applause.) Ibelieve
the Convention is satisfied that in passing
them, it is not doing, and does not intend to
do, any such thing or in any way 10 deviate
from or alter the platform there laid down.
believe that we have no right 10 intrrpoate
a new plank into the Democratic creed. |
believe that while we have no right to inter
polate a new plank into the ID mocratic creed.
we have a right to say to persons in other States
You have no right to interpolate plank
into the Democratic creed" (Applause)
When, therefore, we say, as we have said in
those resolutions, THAT WE WILL NOT SANCTION
THE Interpolation INTO THE DEMOCRATIC
CREED OF THE DOCTRINE OF SLAVE CODE FOR
THE TERRITORIES. we say what we have a ight
to say as men. what we have right to say
as Democrats. what we have a right to say as
Democrats in full communion with the great
national party, and in full fatty and devo-
ton TO the Cincinnati platform. CHEERS
and cries of good. good.'O
These, gentlemen. are the views which en-
tertain, and which have expressed at greater
length, perhaps, tAan is agreeable to you, at
this late hour of the afternoon; but they
have been expressed imperfectly, even now,
for the question is an intricate one, and one
that cannot be intelligibly or accurately dis
cussed in so brief space of time. would
not have advertrd to il now. if il had not
been that / hold that the same doctrines
which we enunciatcd in this Hall before. hold
good to-day, and will hold good until the as
semblng of the Convention at Charleston.
(Applause) And. by the blessing of Provi-
dence, and by the efforts of those men whom
hope the democratic party will send there.
there shall be inserted there. in there. platform
of that Convention. no neto ARTICLES IA The deaocrd-
tic creed. (Applause.) ". shall stand ,chere ,ce
hare stood before. We shall stand upon those
doctrines in which in the last campaign
we went ont so proudly TO victory. in the
election of James Buchanan. We shall asset
those doctrines. We will concede to orr
Southern brethren all the rights which they
have. and all the guarantees which they have.
by the terms of the Federal compact We
will not invade their rights; will not ut
tack them in those rights which are secured
and guaranteed to them; we will 90 th re in
the spirit of compromise under which our
fathers formed this great Federal Constitution.
aud will yield to them, our fathers
Yielded to them. all their just rights and all
their just projections. But we will not yield
to them the doctrine that Congress has the
right to prohibit or the right to est blish sla-
very in the territories OF the United States.
cloud applause. and cries of ''good) We
will hold there, as we have held heretofore
and "a we hold now, that the great settlement
of this vcxed question which was made hy
those territorial bills. and especially by the
Kansas Nebraska bill, has removed it from
the halls OF Congress; and having once got it
out we will keep IL out, and leave the people
to fight this battle. upon their own soil, with
regard to their own matters at home. Gap
plause) Aud We will no longer have the
whole North convulsed by this seuseless agi-
tation OF the Black Republicans.
We will no longer have the Wlmot Proviso
men coming here to tn North and asserting
the d ctrine of Congressional intervention;
nor ,riH ,re haze Me lape cote men Of The South
going INTO Congress and asserting The dOctriRe of
Congressional Intervention there. (Applause.l
We will repudia'e Wilmot-Provisoism at the
North in the same way that repudiate Stare
codeism at tie South for il is just precisely he
same doctrine. matter fchether you preach 4. IN
Name or IN Mississippi; and no man can stand
up here on the soil of Maine and assert the
doctrine that Congress has power to prohibit
slavery in the territories, without admitting
the whole question of the power of Congress
to legislate upon the subject No man who
believes in any such power in Congress has
any right to call himself an advocate of Po-
puler Sovereignty. He is its most dangerous
aud treachcrous opponent. He believes in a
doctrine that would give Congress the right
and the power 20 enact and establish slave
code over the territories-the very doctrine
which we deny with regard 10 establishment.
and which We deny with regard to prohibit
ton.
/ believe, and this Convention believes, that
wherever, over any domain of the United