Des Arc citizen., 1860-10-03

H. Ncp9oes are property, and are to be regarded as other properfy
 III. Any citizen of tbe United States has right to go to a territory and take there whatever pro perty he may possess.
 ". Neither Congress nor territorial legislature can infringe upon the rights of property of any kind in territory.
 V. That while the territorial government con tinues to exist, the inhabitants in ther persons and property must be protected.
 This was all that the national democracy eyer| contended for-all the South ever demanded-an acknowledgment of the right of property in slaves that neither congress nor the territories posses sed any power 1t, to alter oI destroy t--that the territories were the common property of all the States, and that planter from Georgia or from Arkansas had the same right to go and settle there with his negroes, that Yankee has to go there from Connecticut with his clocks, and that Congress is bound to see that he is prolecled while there in his person and his property.
 Did Mir. DoUGtAs abide by his agreement and acquiescng in the opinion of the court, give up his "squatter sovereignty" thus shown to be po- litical heresyl Did he say to the South go to Kan sas, New Mexico or Utah--take your slaves with you, you have the same right to go there with them under the constitution of the United States, that the Yankee has to go there with his peddling cart, and you shall be protected equally with him in your person and property? Let his own record answer this question, and it will explain more fully why he opposed the admission of Kansas with slavery. He desired to make it free State, and wanted time to bring it about, aided by unfricndy legislation In his speech at Bloomington, 9th July, 1858, he said: q Under the principles of popular sovereignty Che uses the word popuar) slarery has been kept out of Kansas." And again he said: " If this princ- pie of popular sovereignty, asserted in the Kansas Nebraska bill be fairly carried out, by letting the people decide the question for themselves, by fair vote, at fair election and with fair returns sldpe ry ,ciU not erist dag or one hour IN ANY TERRI. ha r1nip ,oA nxtor lNo the practical result of his squattersovereignty doc trne; and when pressed by Mir. LINCOLN, who showed that squatter sovereignty in conflict with the decision of the Supreme Court, he said in his speech at Freeport:
 z No matter what the decision the of Supreme Court may be on that abstract question, still the RIGHT of the PEOPLE to make stave territory or free territory IS PERFECT COMPLETE UNDER THE NEBRASKA BILL"
 Here he boldly aflirms that the people of ter. ritory have the right to nuify, set at nought and trample not only upon the decision of the highest judicial authority inthe world, but the constitution -the only bond of union, and he reiterated the same sentiment on every stump in Illinois. His ambition to be President has made him desperate, and caused him to resort to species of demagogue ism unworthy the dignity of Senator of the United States, much less a candidate for the Presidency; by claiming to be the only man in the democratic party who is in favor of selfgovernment. This is the beginning, the middle and the end of his cleo tioneering song-this is his excuse for arraving himself in hostility against the national democracy, who advocate the true doctrine of self government i. e. when the people meet in convention to form State constituon--then, and not till then, are they clothed with sovereignty. Again in his speech at Chicago he said:
 "My objection to the Lecompton contrivance was that undertook to force slavery the people of Kansas against bter aciH."
 And thus the attempt has been made by him to create the impression that the democratic party, and the southern people, oish to force slaeery where te people do not aoapt , and where it is not desra ble or profitable for it to go. Now no one knows better than Judge DOUGLAS that such an imputation is a libel upon the democracy anG upon the south ern people--all they ask all they have ever asked, was recognition Of the principle of. Sdte equality
 of the rights of all under the constitution, and the right to enjoy them equally, any and every where within the limits of the United States--the States and Territories This right the abolitionists deny--this right Judge DOUGLAS denies, and adyo- yates in lieu the odous doctrine of SQuatterisDs, der which he says ' slavery will not exist day an hour in any territory"
 CHARLESTON CONVENTION.
 Since the adoption of the Cincinnati platform in 1S56-Kansas has applied for admission as a sover- egn State-and been defeated. The Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case has decided all doubtful sttutional questions ill regard to the tights and the equality of the States and of the people, and ow- ing to the fact that Mr. Douglas and those demo- crats North, who were of his way of thinking had asserted that under the Kansas act, and the Cncin- nati platform which had ndorsed that act; the peo- pie of territory during the territorial existence had the right to exclude the owner of slaves from going there with that species of property; it was demanded by the entire democracy and the whole South, that the Charleston conven- ton when it met should in their platform assert the cqdality cf he States, affirm that they had an equal right to go to the territories with their pro pcrty, and that under the constitution they were entitled to protection while there under the terri torial government
 "The democratic convention of Alabama, as. sembled at Montgomery in January, 1860, to ap- point delegates from that State to the Charleston convention. It chose to declare the opinions en- tertained by majority of it's members, that no ter ritorial legislature had right to prohibit the insti tuition of slavery, and that the Congress of the United States under immediate obligation to maintain and protect that institution every where; in the States-in the territories-and in the wilder ness in which territorial governments are yet un- organized. To such declaration of opinion by the State of Alabama there could be no reasonable ground of objection Douglas address to the democracy of the U. S.
 The sentiment embraced in the foregoing was the sentiment entertained by the entire South and by national men every where was based upon the opinion of the Supreme Court, and, to it, Gin the language oI the sdlu cOullulleS,( V tnere cOuiu pc no reasonable objection"
 Yet Mr. Douglas seeing the tide of popular senti- ment in that direction advertised his friends long before the meeting of the convention, that if sen timents such as those adopted by the Alabama con vention were incorporated in the platform at Charleston, he would not accept the nomination; and thus for the first time in the history of this country, has an aspirant to the Presidency unso- licted attempted to dictate to the democracy, the kind of platform he wanted them to make for him to stand upon. The time however arrived-the convention met, and as usual, committee consist ing of one from each State was appointed to pre- pare platform of principles; majority of that committee composed of the members of each of the l5 southern States and the members of the Pacific states-Oregon and California, agreed upon the following:
 ist. That the Territories afe common property held in trust for al the citizens of the United States.
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