Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-06-15
Friday, June Is, 1850.

BA5' Douglas, in his late speech in the Senate,
denounced the Tennessee platform as cheat and
Yancey and others, North and South, have done
the same thing. St there arc southern democrat
lie editors and speakers who insist upon its adoption
ns amply protective of southern rights That plat
form asserts that it is the duty of Congress to pro-
tect the citizen and his property in the States and
Territories and, to green-horn, this seems all fair
enough but to expose the cheat, let the word,
Slaves" be substituted for property in connec-
ton with Territories and then see how many
northern democrats would vote for it. Adopt it,
however, az it stands, and how will it be used in
the canvass2 The southern leaders will boast to
their deludcd followers that their northern allies of
the democratic party, have boldly and magnanim-
ously-as in the case Of Kansas-endorsed the doc
trne of Congressional protection to slaves in Ter
ritories--because slaves are property whilst the
leaders Of northern democracy win tell their follow
that there is nothing in the platform bearing the
slightest affinity to such Congressional protection
because slaves are not property according to north
construction, and therefore do not come within
the meaning of the resolution.
That such would be the game is deducible not
only from the wording Of the resolution, but from
the antecedents Of the democratic party 1t is well
remembered with what apparent pride southern
democrats boosted of the magnanimity which
prompted northern democrats to tender the repeal OF
the Missouri Compromise and the other provisions
of the Kansas BILL the olive branch of peace and
earnest of devotion to southern rights nor is il
forgotten with what exultation Pierce, Douglass,
and host of northern leaders proclaimed that same
bill rs better measure of freedom than the Wimot
provso Yet in the face of this treachery, southern
democrats persisted in proclaiming the avowed and
transparent swindle a full and honest concession
of all that the South demanded in the recognition
and protection of its rights. By means of this
criminal fraud upon the credulity of the people,
Buchanan was elected and the spos were Partition
ed as per programme, and what is the sequeR A
disruption Of the party which practiced the inam-
fraud. A portion ofthe leaders of the southern
wing, profting by the lesson taught them in the
Kansas hill and the Cincinnati platform, went into
Convention at Charleston resolved upon such de-
Claraton and endorsement of southern rights as
would admit Of no misconstructon, and were met
by portion of the leaders of the northern wing
we're equally resolved to repudiate the southern
demand and secure an unmistakabe endorsement
of squatter sovereignty. Seeing no prospect of a
compromise between these two factions and fear
ing spit-n disorganization of the party, a third
faction, composed of northern and southern dele
gates, came forward and endeavored to heal the
breach by the application of poultc made up o
the Ingredients of the Kansas and Cincinnati swim
die, and know the Tennessee recipe. But botl
the other factions denounced it ms the very SAINT
trick under new disguise, and, repudiating it as
cheat, resumed their quarrel and finally "busteC
up the Convention. So the matter now stands
Il I'd ifharmony be restored at Baltimore, next Mon
day, it will be on the basis the Tennessee resolu
ton, and at the cost of southern honor and south
ern rights