Gazette and sentinel., 1860-05-12
THE RESULT AT CHARLESTON.

Southerner can fail TO applaud the action Of
the Southern Seeding Delegates, in their re.
firing from the original convention and meet
ing in convention among themselves, the mo.
ment it was discovered that their legitimate
rights and privileges, sought to re embraced
in the platform, were to be dj-regardcd and
repud'ated. They demanded the plain con-
stitutional rights Of TIE South, and were de.
termIncd to be satisfied with nothing less
They, the Souttern delegates, went TO Charles.
ton for no Chi.d's play. The harmony Of the
Democratic party and the glorieS and bless
InGS OF the Union were as dear to them and
those they represented as either could posi-
bly, be TO those North Of Mason and Dixon's
Line but both were valueless if thew must
be sustained at the sacrifice of our vested
rights, our honor, and ultimately Of the insti.
tuition itself which distinguishes us from hall
the other States of the Union. They were
determined that the issue should there be
met-whether the Southern citizen, in the
programme Of principles submitted to the
people of the Union and W which the Demo.
cracy were to be guided, were or were not,
in the territories and all our future possessions,
to have rights and enjoyments of property
coequal with the citizens Of what are termed
the Stree StateSf They were tired of con-
ceSsionS-tired Of platforms that could be
construed either way, and out of which moth.
ing definite or pointed establishing Southern
rights could be extracted-tired of ever yield
ing a nervous submission to cloaked phrases
for the sake of policy and on account Of the
prJudiceS supposed TO influence cur Northern
allies. They demanded, in fine, nothing but
what was right and were resolved to submit
to nothing that was wrong. Their constItu
ertS bad stood long enough on the altar of
concession and submission, and the time had
at last come TO demand their simple rights, in
plain but definite language, as aid down by
the letter Of tie Constitution, and cert fed
to by the common blood and treasure of the
country which have been split and spent for
that country's glory and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Nea are happy to say, that as far as we have
had the power OF ascertaining, the action of
the seeding delegates meets with the entire
APPRECIATION Of all true Democrats in this Pa
rish. Il had previously been admitted On all
hands, long before the Charleston Convention
met, that the time for "minc,n. matters and
submitting to equivocai expressions in a De-
mocTatic platform Of national principles, in
reference to Southern constitutional rights,
had passed. 1t was the prevailing sentiment,
everywhere in the South, for a long time pre-.
vious to the event alluded to, that the rights
Of the Southern people aud the protection OF
their slave property in the Territories under
the guarantees Of the Constitution, WERE TO
RE MET AND DEMANDED in the platform of prin.
cip|es, as the first and foremost consideration
and duty Of the Southern delegations. This
was the sane que non, so far as we understood
public sentiment, in the mind of every South.
ern delegate who went to Charleston to rem
resent Southern feeling and Southern rights.
How then can the Southern Democrat and
citizen object to or feel chagrined at the part
which our delegates acted in quittin. a body
which refused in the general platform a clear
and unequlvocal expression Of Southern eoua
lily in the Union, and the equal and inaliena.
bic enjoyment Of their various rights, pro.
perties and privileges, of every nature what
Soever, with those of other States. as laid
down in that declaration of rights which pro
nounced us a free people, and union of SOW.
ereign and independent States1
'lf we yield" says an Alabama cotempo-
rary, in noticing the action of the seceders,
after failing to obtain the acknowledgment of
what was due to the South, 1--WE and our
slaves are shut up in our present limits, while
the North goes on in a rapid series of expan.
SionS. If we resist, we shall either compel
the North to concede the right, or we will
take it with the strong hand"
The correctness of this sentiment cannot
be denied. Where our clear and definite rights
are refused, is submission to such a wrong the
course of action TO be expected from the rep.
resentatives of a people proud of their honor
and their chivalry
The Democracy of Louisiana stands up
with unbroken front in defence and support
Of the action Of its delegates at the National
Democratic Conventionl