East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-07-26
Address Of the National Executive
Committee.

The National Executive Committee at
Washington City have addressed circu
lar in relation to reports in circulation
that the friends of Douglas and johnson
intend compromising with the Seceedcrs
in several States. The circular states:
$50 far as is known to the members of
the resident Executive Committee, no
person who supports the action Of the
National Democratic Convention at Bal
timore-no person who desires the cleo
ton of Stephen A. Douglas to the Presi-
dency, and of Herschel V. johnson to
the Vice Presidency, has ever expressed
wish for any such arrangement, or en-
tertained, or even countenanced, for a
single moment, any suggestion or pro-
position tending towards it. Nor does
the committee believe that any such ar
rangement can with propriety be made at
any time, in any place, or under any cir
cumstances, with those who have placed
breckenridge and Lane in nomination,
and are now their avowed supporters in
opposition to the regular nominees of the
Democratic party.
"The Democratic party, as national
party, stands now where it has stood for
years, upon the ground of non-interven-
ton by Congress with the subject Of
slavery in the States or Territories
Those who seeded from the Baltimore
| Convention did so because they were I'M
willing to stand on that ground. They
have again and again rcpudiated that
principle, and both at Charleston and
Baltimore declared that they would sever
their connection with the majority of
the delegates assembled in Convention in
accordance with Democratic usage, un-
less they, too, would solemnly repudiate
it in obedience to their demand. Whep
the majority of the Convention refused
to yield to their dictation, and make their
actions conform to the will of the minor
ity, these gentlemen seeded, formed
themselves into minority Convention,
and nominated candidates who are the
open and pledged enemies of the princi-
! pie of 'non-intervention' by Congress, as
recognized by the majority Convention,
and as advocated by their candidates.
!
the committee that if the antagonism be-
tween the Seeceders and the majority of
the Democratic Convention was such that
the Seceders could no longer take part
in their delibcration, and were constrain-
ed to set up candidates in opposition to
those selected by the majority, that an.
tagonism still continues, and is such as
must preclude the possibility of any union
between them in the support of COM
mon electoral ticket in any State, no
matter what may be the probable result
of the election in it without such a union.
The Democratic party which is now
united in the supper, of Douglas and
johnson, stands upon the only principle
which is capable, if maintained in its in
tegrity, of preserving and perpetuating
the Union of the States. The Seceders,
and their candidates, are opposed to this
principle. Their course, if sustained in
the South, necessarily tends, though it
may not be so designed, to the breaking
up of the National Government In the
view of the committee, there is no room
for doubt, in the mind of any National
Democrat, as to the path of duty in the
present crisis. The 'Seceders,' by with
drawing from the National Convention
and setting up their candidates, have ar
rayed themselves in opposition to the
principle of Congressional 'non-interven
ton National Democrats should every.
where meet the issue now rendered them
by nominating and supporting electoral
tickets, in their respective States, pledged
if elected, to vote for Stephen A. Doug
las for President, and Herschel V. John
son for Vice President Of the United
States. If the Seceders and their friends
choose to separate permanently from tn,
Democratic party, and run a ticket in OPP
position to the regular nomination, LEI
them do SO. Upon them be the response
bility Of the result
.