Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-09-08

l A'AA' OooiutH.-We ell, III say Siave-tradlng Georgia, then. don't object to the designation - am slave br e ler-I face the music. Come down to my plantauon and I'll show you fine lot of young nggers there. and pure Africans, too. "Coi. Gsulden then proceeded to advocate the revival of the African slave-trade, and believed Massachusetts herself would shortly advocate it. He did not see why he should pay g ,000 for a negro from Virginia when he could buy him in Africa for $50. He denounced the treaty for the suppression of the African slave trade, which, he said, was against the laws of God and natures God. The doctrine of non intervention should be applied to that trade. It was inhuman to send back to Africa the negroes at Key West, half of whom die and the balance be delivered over to cannabalism.''
 SENTIMENTS OF H. V. JOHNSON.
 But in controversy we should go to khe heart of the matter. How will MT. Jt&n- son ring this charge to advance his pros- poets for the Vice Presidency? He was Senator in Congress in 1S4S, and on the 7th of July of that year he made speech to prove that Congress had the power and ought to intervene to protect slave property in the territories. See Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 1st sess. 3Oth Con- gress, page S9l.) Our space forbids ex- tended extracts. He sad:
 "In no event can the slaveholder of the South be excluded from settling in such territory with his property of every description"
 "Since, therefore, as have shown, Congress has no power to prohibit slavery, they cannot dele gate such power to the inhabitants of the terri tory; they cannot authorize the territorial legsla ture to do that which they have no power to do. The stream cannot rise higher than its source."*"* "The institution of slavery is guaranteed by the constitution of the United States, and it has the same protection thrown around it, which guards citizens against the granting of titles of nobility, or the establishment of religion; therefore, Con gress would be as much bound to veto an act of territorial legislation prohibiting it, act vio latng these rights of every citizen of the republic" To show that Mir. Johnson has not aban doned his doctrine of Congressional pro- lection, we qoute the following resolutions drafted and then reported by him to the convention of Georgia, held on the 4th day of last June, which appointed him as a delegate to the national convention at Baltimore:
 "Resolred That we reaffirm the Cincinnati plat form, with the following additional propositions: " lst. That the citizens of the Uneed States have an equal right to settle tcth their property of any knd in the organized territories of the United States, and that under the decision of the supreme court of the United States in the case of Dred
 
 of the constitution in this particular slaoe property stands upon the footing all otker descriptions of property and that neither e general qorernment, | NOR ANY TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT, destroy ipair the right to slare property; that property of all kinds, slaves well as any other species of property in all the territories, stand upon the same equal and broad constitutional basis, and subject like principles of recognition and protec ton in the LEGISLATIVE, Judicial, and Ereca- tice Departments of the Gorernnent.
 "2l. That we wi i'll support any man who may be nominated by the Baltimore convention for the Presidency who holds the principles set forth in the foregoing proposition, and who will give them his | indorsemcnt, and that we will not hold ourselves l bound to support any man, who may be the nomi- nee, who entertains principles inconsistent with those set forth in the above proposition. or who denies that slave property in the territories does not stand on an equal footing, and on the same constitutional basis of other species of property.'
 Mr. Douglas, in his letter to Hon. Wm. A. Richardson, read before the convention, uses this emphatic language: " Lateraention means disunion." Then, according to Mir. Douglas Mr. Johnson. his colleague on the ticket Dih him, is disunionist And ac- cording to the second resolution offered by Mr. Johnson before the Georgia convention, he stands pledged not to support or vote for Mir. Douglas.
 CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY. But in our survey of the field we must not neglect the Constitutional Union party. It is an old party, under a new guise. In 1856 they had platform of the strictest kind, and secret organization protected by tests and oaths Then they waged war upon our foreign citizens and upon cer- tain religious creed. The same leaders now come forward repudiating platforms announce themselves as the only Union party, and ask for votes without any de- caration of their principles. Their plat form is the Constitution and the Union." The republicans assert they are for the Con- stitution and the Union, yet their platform gives an interpretation to the constitution which will destroy that constitution and break mp this Union. For which we have high authoritv-Mr. Fillmore, the candi- date for the Presidency in 1856, of the very men who constitute the Constitutional Un- ion party of the present day. The Doug las democrats avow they are for the Con- stitution and the Union; yet their platform, as interpreted by their standard bearer, Mir. Douglas, tramples under foot the decision of the supreme court, proclaims a higher law, and permits the first squatters in territory to exclude the people of fifteen sovereign States therefrom; reducing them to condition of vassalage, and doing little less injury to the constitution of the coun- try than the platform of the republicans.
 The true democratic party stands on the Constitution and the Union, and their in depreciation recognizes the perfect equality of the States, anl maintains inviolate the genius of the events, necessities, and histo- " which brought into one confederacy so many independent soveregntes. Which of these three interpretations is the inter- pretation of the Constitutional Union par. ty? Or will they scorn each and all, and fall back upon their repudiated and odious platform of 1856? We feel that an intel ligent people will demand at the hands men asking their favor a frank avowal o. their principles We feel that they will recognize as true Union party the organ ization which stands boldly on the consti- tuition of the country, and proclaims the just doctrine of the equality of the States.
 THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
 We have referred to the warnings of Mir. Fillmore against this party. The public mind has become alarmed. The mischiev- ous effect of it's doctrines has been showl fin the John Brown raid, and the recen burnings and pillages in Northern Texas Bold, interruptions and vindictive leaders are at it's head. They have adopted tn once scorned dogma of Garrison, that sla very Is covenant with hell and an agree ment with death. Sumner proclaims the barbarism of slavery. Burlingame the ne cessity of an anti slavery Bible and an anti slavery God. Seward and Lincoln the ir reprcssible conflict. They, with a fanati cism rapidly getting intense as that of Pc ter the Hermit, arc flaming She flames sectional strife soon to break out in intes tine war. They are practically leading crusade against the South. Thanks to th' mercies of the Almighty, brotherly love the memories of glorious history. th common sacrifices of our fathers, the un paralleled progress to empire and renowi of our peOnle. have not lost their influence