Des Arc citizen., 1860-05-12
The Charleston Convention.

readers with the entire proceedings of this Convention, in supplement, this week ; but it will now be out of our power to do so, until our next issue.
 The failure of this Convention to nomi- nate a candidate for the Presidency has created sensation throughout the coun- try unprecedented in a political point Of view. The delegates of nine States spurned the insulting proposition that the South should sign, seal and deliver her equal rights in the Union, and take MT. Douglas with his Squatter Sovereign ty. The States 10 which we allude, are Delaware, South Carolina, Florida, Ala bama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas. They demand nothing but what is right, and will accept of nothing that is wrong.
 There is a faint hope that the two Con- ventions which are to assemble al Rlch- mond and at Baltimore, in June, will do something that will restore harmony. But our object, at present, is to present the position assumed by the Arkansas dele gation in withdrawing from the Charles ton Convention Maj. T B FLouRNoy, was the only man in that delegation who dIssented from the course pursued. The Major is Douglasite, dyed In the wool,' and since the adjournment of the Convention has made a speech in Mem phis, severely censuring his delegation and upholding the heineous doctrine Of Squal,er Sovereignty.
 Among the " Protests Of the Southern States, on withdrawing from the Charles ton Convention" we find the following from
 ARKANSAS.
 MT. Burrow, of Arkansas, then read the following:
 HoN. CALEB CUSHING, PRESIDENT OF
 
 The undersigned, delegates accredited by the State of Arkansas to represent said Democracy in the Convention of the Democracy of the United States, assembled on the 23d of April, l 1860. beg leave to submit the following pro- test agaiust certain actions of this Convention, and a statement of the causes which, in their | opinion, require them to retire from this Con vention
 1st The Convention of the Democracy of the State of Arkansas. convened at Little Rock, on the 2d day of April 1860, passed, among other things, the following resolutions, viz;
 1st. RESOLVED, We, the Democracy of Ar kansas, through our representatives in Con- vention assembled, proclaim our confidence in the virtue and intelligence of the people, and unabated faith in the principles of the Demo- cracy.
 2d We re-afiirm the political principles in the Cincinnati platform by the of the United States, in June, 1856, md assert, as illustrative thereof, that neither Congress nora territorial legislature, whether ,y direct legislation or by legislation of an indirect and unfriendy character, possesses he power to annul or impair the constitutional ights of any citizen of the United States to ake his slave property into the common ter itories, and there hold and enjoy the same. nd that if experience should at any time rove the Judiciary and executive power do ot possess the means to insure protection to rights in Territory, and if the territorial government should fail or refuse ) provide the necessary remedies for that urpose, it will be the duty of Congress to lpply the deficiency.
 3d. That the representatives of the Demo- | 'acy of Arkansas in the Charleston Conven- on, be instructed to insist upon the recogni- on by said Convention of the purpose here before declared, prior to balloting for any lndidate for the Presidency; and II sad onvention refuse to recognize the rights or e South in the Territories of the United ates. the representatives of the Democracy
 Arkansas be instructed to retire from said onvention, and refuse to aid in the selection any candidate whomsoeVer by said Conven- on.
 4th. That the unity of the Democratic party Id the safety of the South demands the adop- on of the tWo-thirds rule by the Charleston onvention of the Democracy of the United ,ates and that our delegates to said Conven- on be required to insist upon and maintain le adoption thereof as an indispensable ecessity.
 In accordance with the instructions con lined in resolution third, one of the under gned had the honor, on the second day Of le session of this Convention, to offer to the
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 < RESOLVED, That the Convention will not roceed to nominate a candidate for the Presi- ency until the platform shall have been lade"
 Which said resolution was passed by he Convention with great unanimity. subsequently, the Committee on Resolu- ions and Platforms, appointed by the Con- -ention, m accordance with the uSages md customs of the Democratic party of he United States, agreed upon and re- ported 10 this Convention a platform of recognizing the principle con aimed in the resolutions of the Democracy ,f Arkansas, above rected, and fully as- 'erting the equal rights of the Southern States in ,he common Territories of the United States, and the duty of the Fed sral Government to protect those rights when necessary, according to the usuages md customs of the Democracy of the Uni ed States, as developed by the practice of said Democracy assembled in convention on former occasions, and in strict accord ance, as believed by the undersigned, with the compact and agreement made by md between the Democrats of the several States, upon which the Conventions of the Democracy of the United States were