The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-20
unnIeaaant Records.

charge that the Democracy OF lS4S-9 were
4 opposed to the extension of slavery into the
4. Territories, that only few Northern States
among which Indiana was most conspicu-
4 ous-were infected with the disease. The
Democratic party is a national party says
that paper, " and the true place to look for
an exposition of its views, is to their Ma
tional Conventions
Being directed where to search for the
only true faith, we turn to the proceedings
of the Convention of l848, where Gen. Cass
was nominated for President We find that
j the majority of the committee on Platforms
reported the old time honored creed of the
party as follows:
. "TEat Congress has no power, under the
constitution to interfere with or control the
domestic institutions of the several States
/ and that such States are the sole and proper
judges of everything pertaining to their
own affairs not prohibited by the Constitu-
Z ton"
But, strange as it may seem, there were
hot heads IN that Convention who thought
the doctrine of non-interveniont should ap-
ply not only to States but to Terratories.-
The grating of this new shoot on the old
stem was pet idea with John C. Calhoun,
\ and his school of politicians, and was acqui-
esced in by Cass in his celebrated Nicholson
letter. But let US see how the new dogma
of non-intervention as applied to the terri
tories was disposed of in that Convention.
We copy from the official proceedings of
the Convention the minority report, and the
action of the Convention on it
"The undersigned a minority of the Com
mittee upon Resolutions, ask leave respect
fully to submit minority report to this
Convention. Believing that the success of
the Democratic party will depend solely up
on the truth or untruth of the principles
avowed by this Convention, and by the
nominee thereof, the undersigned cannot
| give their assent to the report of the major
ity. The nominee of this Convention is
understood to entertain the opinion that
Congress has no right to interfere with the
question of slavery in the States or Terrific
ries, but that the people inhabiting Terri
tory have the exclusive right to exclude it
therefrom. The majority of your Commit
tee have only adopted the principles as far
rs applicable to the States, and have thus re-
! fused, in the avowal of the cardinal princi-
pies of the Democracy to express any opin-
ion upon what is really the most exciting
political topic now before the county, leav-
ing the people to find exposition Of the
views of the great Democratic party of the
Union, and of the probable course of its rep
resentatives in Congress, in the avowed
opinions of their nominee for the office of
President.
L.,
mentally wrong.
" In order to obviate such construction
in order to give assurance to the public
mind of our entire country that the Demo-
cratic party of the Union will preserve the
compromises of the Constitution, not only in
the States, but in the Territories-that it
recognizes entire politial equality to exist
among the people, and their right to people,
unmolested in their rights of property, The
vast territories which the Union holds but
as trust until sufficiently populated to be
erected into States-the undersigned have
agreed to present to this body, for its adop-
tion, the following resolution:
"ReSoLUed, That the doctrine of non-inter-
ference with the rights of property of any
portion of the people of this Confederation,
be it in the States or in the Territories by
any other than the parties interested in
them, is the true republican doctrine recog-
nized by this body.
"W. L. YANOEY, of Alabama.
"JOHN G. MCGEHEE, of Florida
81. M.COMMANDER, NJ. of South Carolina
"The question was taken on Mr.. Yaucey's
resolution, and it was by States, rejected
81 to 236 as follows:
Yeas-Maryland / South Carolina 9
Georgia 9; Florida 3 Alabama 9; Ar
kansas 3 Tennessee l and Kentucky
! lac.
Nays-Maine 9; New Hampshire 6;
Massachusetts IL; Vermont 6 Rhode
Island 4 Connecticut 6 New Jersey 7;
New York. Pennsylvania 26 Delaware
3 Maryland G; Virginia II North CARROLL
na II ; Mississippi 6 Louisiana 6; Texas
4 Tennessee IL; Kentucky IL Ohio %
Indiana II Illinois 9 Michigan s Iowa
4 Missouri 7, and Wisconsin 4-236.
I Here we have Democratic National Con-
vention, distinctly and Overwhelmingly re-
pudisting the doctrine of non-intervention
Every Free State and majority of the
Slave States put their condemnation upon it
But the Democracy are progressive. In 1856
they take Yancey's doctrine of 49 and in
1864 they will in all probability accept the
views held by that gentleman in 60. The
Douglasites are abusing Mr.. Yancey as
disunionist. The main difficulty, however,
seems to be that he keeps from four to eight
years in advance of his party; and judging
from the past has good reason to believe
that the doctrine he now contends for will
yet become the creed of the party.
Perhaps the Enquirer will enlighten Us
as to thecauses that impelled the Democratic
party to take up in 1856 the doctrine they
repudiated in 184S. OF course, so un-
changable party wouldn't have shifted so
suddenly without some plausible reason.
Er More than a hundred papers have
stated the alleged fact that Mr. Guthrie, the
Louisville Curriers' late candidate for the
Presidency. pronounces the nomination of