The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-17

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| Tbs implies thAI Douglas. Ike another Josss,
IL to be thrown overheard TO sppesss tie
etorm. But 1t b moro easily said than dooe
All the delegations Who supported Douglas 81
Charleston are not likely to prove 80 tssache
rons To him a. that Of Nov York, under the
lead of the Albany Regency. The North ~est
vill stand BY him to the last and 90 will por-
doos of the delegations from New Eosl4nd.
Every where his psrtissns are more vehement
than ever, and calculate upon certain success
by standing drm. and by manufacturing polid,
Cal capital for bin till the 18th of June Such.
fer instance, is the opinion Of the Missouri Re-
publican
But the South, and those journals which re-
fleet the sentiments Of the South, lay far more
stress upon the platform than the man, and
only reject the man because be refuses to stand
upon 1t. Tho Southern people have no per-
soDsl snipathy to Mr.. Douglss; but they
demand the protection of Congress for their
slave property in the Territories. Mr.. Douglas
not only opposes their demand and denies the
power of congress to interfere, butsets up acoun.
ter claim of Territorial sovereignty to annihilats
the rights claimed by every Southern State in
the common territory Of the Union, and to
override the constitution and the laws Of Con-
grees, which recognise the labor Of slaves to be
as much the property of their masters as is the
labor of horses or mules. The majority OF the
Squatter Sovereignty Convention, including the
New York delegation, have endorsed the doc.
triDe which has rendered Mr.. Douglas obaoxious
to the South; and how then can any other caudi
date, standing upon the same principle, be-
come acceptable to the Southern States? Will
this Convention, when it meets again al Balt
more stultify itself, as the hichmond Enquirer
suggests, by voting black white, and white
black? Will it cry peccaui, repudisuog the
platform it has erected, and adopt the oppo
site platform put together by majority of the
committee, formed by one member of each
delegation from the thirty three States, and set
up by the seeding Convention as the ultima
tum of the South
Less than this the seceders will not ac-
cept. 1t was the rejection Of this plat
form by q majority of the Convention that
constituted the ground upon which the
minority seeded. Hitherto platforms adopted
by such committees had been endorsed
as a matter of course by Conventions,
and no minority platform was ever presented
for acceptance. For the first time in the his
tory of the party was platform adopted against
the wishes of q majority Of the States, and one
| which was the deliberate choice of their repre-
sentatives in committee voted down In oper
Convention by the numerical force Of the large
States, thus destroying the check and balsnc'
Of the equality Of the smaller States, principl'
recognized in the composition Of the Uaite'
States Senate, and In the mode Of electing tn
President by the House Of Representatives.
Blu. not merely the practical denial OF tn
equality of the smaller States with the create
stands in the way Of reconciliation, but the M
ture of the propositions rejected by the Cor
vention, after being presented for adoption b
the representatives Of every democratic Stat
in the propositions of protection for tn
property of the South, arising out Q
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troubles the bred Scott decision she nullincs
ion of the Fugitive Slave law Of the North th
John Brown raid, and the organization Of tn
republican party, which goes before the coun
try upon the issue Of destruction to the pecu
lar institution of the Southern States. How
ever these States may differ about q candidate
hey do not differ about their right to squa
protection In the Territories; and upon thi
point there will be no yielding, no concession
on their part As far - we have heard frou
them, the recognized organs Of public opinion
in the South are nearly unanimous In thei
demand for protection. Among them vi
may refer to the Virginia and South Caro-
lima papers, including journals which hav
never advocated this principle before, indics,
ing very clearly the march Of public opinion
at the Sou,h-signs Of the times which th
majority Of the Charleston Convention ig
nored when they attempted to set up a.
platform for the present time the ambiguous
worn out resolutions adopted under dineren
circumstances at Cincinnati in 1856.
IL is advised by the leading organ Of III
Virginia democracy to postpone the meeting Q
the Richmond Convention till after the actio
Of the other Convention at Baltimore, in u
hope that something may be done 70 proved
the fnal catastrophe of the disruption Of th
democratic party. But it is hoping again'
hope, for the democratic party is past prayin
for. The present epoch In Its history Ia but
repetition of the events of 1913 under MOI
disastrous circumstances The breach the
produced by the free soil leaders in this Stat
was partially healed by the compromt
measures Of 1850. In 1852, in the spirit of tn
compromise, the democratic party united upo
poor Pierce and carried his election by q
overwhelming majority. But In 1854 faith WI