Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1860-09-06


very. Where shall we look for secu-
rity from these impending evils
Mr.. Polk thinks we can look 10
Douglas. We can not do il. He was
not regularly nomiuated----ne neither
was regularly nominated The con.
vention was disrupted ard broken
so nearly in the middle, that neither
party was regular. The Douglas
convention made three halves count
three whole votes frem this State,
and from Massachusetts ten halves
count ten whole votes, &c, and in
this way they disrupted the cenven.
lion.
AS to Judge Douglas, he admired
him in every respect, but, the motto
ofthe Democratic party has always
been measures not men, and thinks
they should notsnow leave the party
TO goal'er Mr.. Douglas or auy other
man, What States can ne get?-
Running him in this State can but
give the State to Bell, our old enemy,
who has fought us for 90 years.
Stand by the party then and lei = not
split it up Nins.ienths of the De-
moeraey in this State are evidently for
Breckenridge. Is it not rsas enable
and proper then that the one-tenth
or minority should go over and vote
With the majority and thus give tho
State as it is Our duty to dc,to a good,
sound Democrat? What can MIR.
Douglas do North7 Mr.. Lincoln II as
a mortgage on ii States. The
rest to cay the least are uncertain;
all claim them In the South it
cannot be claimed bv even bis most
sanguins friends that he can get any
thing like the number of States that
MIR. Breckenridge will. Mr. Doug,
las then has not The strength in the
U. 9. that Mr.. Breckenridge has and
IN view Of this it is certainly the
duty Of the Democracy to unite up.
'on Mr.. Breckenridge, Mr., Douglas
served six months notice to US that
he would only accept the nomination
with his own construction of the
Cincinnati platform. He (Col. H.
disliksd to disagree with bis fellow
democrats, but he stood where be al
ways had done, for non. intervention
aud popular sovereignty. Judge
Douglas thinks territorial legisls-
ture can prohibit but he thinks not,
He himself was not for Territorial
Intervention any more than Con-
gressionat intervention, bnt be defen.
ded the old doctrine OF non-inteyren.
ton aS it has always been understood,
viz; that nsitber Congress nor
Territorial legislature has the right
to abolish slavery in the Territories,
but that the people may do it when
they come TO form a state constitu-
ton, and to sustain the correctness
of tbis position he read from the
decision of the Supreme Court, which
was substantially that neither Con.
gress nor Territorial Legislature
could prohibit slavery in the Terri,
tories. Negroes are property ard as
much entitled TO protection as any
other species of property, IT a Ter
ritorial Legislature can prohibit, this
is Intervention and hence u departure
from the old Democratic doctrine Of
nOn-interpeniisn. Congress has juris.
dlction over the subject Of crimes,
has sxercisedit ever since the year
l7S0-it can punish a negro thief
as we'll as hog thief. What law
yer would deny it2 What il squat.
ter sovereignty Mr. Polk contends
that a man carries it with him in
his bosom. Be this as it may, We
capnot certainly exercise the sover-
eighty, right, !bsrty,or what not that
has been delivered up to the CON-
mon trustee, the general government,
and then II in this we have bound
ourselves not to exercise this eover-
eighty, how can we still have it unless
there is a higher law; aud Congress
not having the power to prohibit it.
cannot certainly delegate to an agent
what she never had herself. When
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