The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-07-19
DEMOCRACY NORTH AND SOUTH.

DEMOCRACY NORTH AND SOUTH.
The recent Democratic State Conventions Of
Vermont and Georgia were held on the same day.
The time of holding the two conventions was not
more concident than the doctrine declared by
each. The Vermont Conv ention resolved:
"That the Democracy of Vermont, in the Ian
cuage of the Cincinnati National Democratic Con-
vention of 1856, recognize and adopt the principles
contained in the organic law establishing the Ter
ritories of Kansas and Nebraska, eubodying the
only sound and safe solution of the slavery ques-
observation-disclosures by Congress with slavery
in State and Territory, in the District OF
Columbia"
The Georgia Convention resolved as follows
THAT the Democratic party of Georgia con-
tinues to adhere to the princi Piles announced by
the National Convention of Cincinnati in 1856,
and its determination to insist upon their being
carried out in the administration of the Federal
Government"
The example of Vermont will certainly be imi-
tated by the Democracy of every Northern State,
and no doubt the Democracy of most of the South
ern States will initiate the example of Georgia.
And the event Will be that the representatives of
the Democracy of the whole country assembled at
Charleston, will re-afirm the Cincinnati Platform,
and place the Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency fairly and fully upon it.
And this action by the Charleston Convention
will be the gate to triumph. n vast majority
of the people of the United States believe in the
Cincinnati platform, and they only desire to know,
as a condition of adhering to the Democratic
party, that the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by the platform.
1t is not impossible that there will be secessions
from the Democratic party i'll the South, as there
have been in the North, of men who insist not
only upon the power but the duty of Congress to
especially interfere with the question of slavery in
the Territories. The opposition there, as here,
will be ready to receive all such. The opposition
there is very generally embracing the doctrine of
Congressional intervention. The Southern Democ-
racy will be strengthened, rather than weakened,
by these sccessons and with the opposition in one
section insisting upon Intervention for the protection
of slavery, and III the other insisting upon it for
prohibition of slavery noninterventon will be the
Rock of Gibralter Of the national Democracy.
1t is proftless for the Democrats to discuss the
question Of the power of Congress over the legis-
lation Of the Territories. No matter if the power
be entire, or If it be circumscribed. The Democ-
racy of the North and South agreed at Cincinnati
that, without regard to the question of the power
Of Congress, the whole legislation of the Terrific
res should be handed over the Territorial Legis-
latures, to be exercised of course, within the Con-
stitution. That was the simple bargain between
the Democracy OF the North and the South. 1t
any Territorial Legislature shall pass an unconsti-
tutional law, still Congress must not interfere
That would be contrary to the bargain. The
remedy in that would be in the courts, where
the remedy for unconstitutional legislation by
Congress lies. The Democratic doctrine of nom
intervention does not rest on any contingency
whatever 1t is complete doctrine covering and
dsposing of the whole subject to which it applies.
Therefore it that the Cincinnati Convention
said of it, that it would "ctfectually and forever
defeat and put down sectional legislation and agi-
ation, protect the rights of all the States and the
citizens of every portion thereof and maintain the
peace and harmony Of the Union. -
Detroit Free Press