Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-22

oui o'oIthIliNo plliClPIeo dIlu fi0"''' W.
invite the cooperation Of all citizens,
however differing on other questions.
who substantially agree with us in their
atirmance and support.
THE DOUGLAS PLATFORSE.
The following is the Platform adopted
by the Douglas wing of the Charleston
Convention, on the vexed question of
slavery.
"Resozced, That we, the Democracy of
the Union, in Convention assembled,
hereby declare our affirmation of the res
olutions unanimously adopted and de-
clared as platform ofprinciples by the
Democratic Convention at Cincinnati in
the year 1856, believing that Democratic
principles are unchangeable in their ma
ture when applied to the same subject
matter, and we recommend as our only
further resolutions the following:
THAT inasmuch as differences of opin-
ion exist in the. Democratic party as to
the nature and extent of the powers of a
Territorial Legislature, and as to the
powers and duties of Congress, under
the Constitution Of the United States,
over the institution of slavery within the
Territories,
"Resolced, That the Democratic party
will abide by the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States over the in
stitution of slavery within the Terrific
ries"
It will be seen that it is the Cincin-
natl double faced swindle over again, with
the addition of the Dred Scott Decis-
ion. A deeper dive therefore could not
we'll have been made, and it is not the
platform therefore, but the dishonest
uses intended to be made of it which
blowed up the Convention
True, the Southern Democracy de-
manded a straight forward, honest ex-
preston of sentiment, declaring that the
time had come when the party should
come out before the world and announce
the principles on which they intended
to administer the Government That the
Cincinnati Platform, and the Taney De-
cision was all they wanted, but, that they
would have it in such shape that the
people might know what they were
voting for. That they did not choose
| to permit the Northern politicians to
give it an Interpretation never intended
to be put into practice, for the purpose
of deceiving the people of the free States
that demagogues might ride into Office
in the North and then charge the South
with bad faith, when the administration
as it necessarily would, should repudi
ate the swindle.
Their argument was! ''Gentlemen ol
the. North, you know very we'll that il
the Democratic candidate is elected il
must be by oar votes. We give the
party the vote of fifteen States. All you
can hope to do, will be to give it the vote
of two or three. You know that the
President, when elected, must and will
do as Buchanan and Pierce have done
They could not do otherwise. We, who
elected them would never have permitted
them to administer the Government on
any other principles. They never in
tended to do otherwise than they have
done You knew when they were nom
mated, that they would do so. But you
chose, for your own selfish purposes, tc
represent to the people Of the North that
they would act differently and in ac-
cordance with the sentiment of the
North. The Northern Democrats, be-
lieved your false Interpretation of the
platform, and when the President and
Administration pursued the line of pol
| icy laid down in the platform you were
constrained to denounee that policy be-
cause it was in opposition to the false
and dishonest interpretations which you
put upon it for demagogical and dis
honest purpose. And now the North
ern Democrats are made to believe that
aoe of the South, have departed from the
faith Of the party because we could not
and would not adopt your shams, as you
we'll knew we would not And, now sirs
we will not permit another such swindle
You propose another campaign on the
same two faced platform. You will &C
before the Northern people and repeat
your fraudulent speeches of 1856. You
expect us to give the candidate the vote
of fifteen States, while you hope to give
him two or three. Every voter in these
fifteen States would be outraged, if the
President, when thus elected, did not
follow in the footsteps Of Buchanan
He would necessarily do SO. You, gen
tlemen, know he could not do otherwise
But having made the canvass in your
districts on false pretences, you would be
compelled, to save yourselves from the in
dignation of your deceived and disap-
pointed people, to denounce the new ad-
ministration as you do the present, and
did the past, and charge us with depart
ing from the platform. To this we will
notagain consent. Wemean that the peo-
pie shall not again be deceived by you,
for your special benefit, and then be
taught to denounce us as the authors of
their disappointment. State, then, in e1-
plicit terms, the principles Of the plat
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