The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-09-04

pose resort is had to the largest and most compi-
Gated means order to effect it with certainty and
success Various countries have differed about
their forms of government; but with all these diff
ferences, the purpose has been ever the same-the
protection of persons and property.
The second resolution stands infexibly upon
this proposition. Our Government has done
much, from earliest history, to protect the
lives and the property of its citizens its public
domain. Where are our armies sent? To protect
our Territories. For WHAT To protect persons
and property, and nothing else The citizens of
our Territories who have been environed by In
dian foes, ana have fought their way through In
dian wars, realize the importance of this protec-
ton. Why our Navy sent to Paraguay? 1t
was on account of citizen of one of the free
States-a citizen of Rhode Island 1t was a case
of ofense to property; and the Navy sent there
in order that our government might do its duty in
protecting that property. A Government is de-
relict to the very purpose of its nstitutlon 1t is
derelict to its obligations to the individual citizen,
if it fails or hestaes in acting promptly to protect
the property we'll the person of that citizen.
These resolutions, taken together, do not estab-
lish slavery in the Territories, or recognize the
principle Of the establishment of slavery; but they
declare that the rights of property of the citizens
of the several States shall be protected by the
Federal arm They declare, in substance, that if
citizen Of a southern State shall go to our COM
mon Territories with his slaves, his property in
those slaves shall be protected. They declare, in
substance, that this provisional. and temporary
government of Territory shall not modest or in
terfere with the right of southern man to hold
his slaves property in the Territory They de-
clare in substance, that if the Territorial Legisla
ture thus interferes it is the duty of the Federal
Government to interpose and prevent this unau-
4 hOrIz cd nj sctI kut no
intimaton, there can be no inference, from the
three resolutions, that the old policy, that Con-
gress can neither establish nor prohibit slavery
has been departed from in the slightest degree
1t is purely question of property; it is purely
question of the protection of the rights of southern
men equally with the rights of northern men. 1t
is concession of the North; they yield none of
their rights. 1t is simply act of justice upon
the part of the North it is demand of right upon
the part of the South.
AND LANE FALSELY CHARGED
WITH DISUNION SENTIMENTS.
The effort is made to charge dsunion sentiments
upon Breckenridge and Lane, because some indi-
viduals now supporting them have at some period
of their lives given utterance t. extreme senti-
ments. See with what weight and point the
charge goes home to the Front Street Theatre
candidates, Douglas and johnson. One of their
of the convention, was Colonel Gaulden, of Ga,
who at the Charleston sitting advocated the re-
opening Of the African slave trade. We quote
from the official report:
"Cul. Gaulden said he would do all he could to re-
concile his friends in Georgia this doctrine and de-
nounced congressional protection an abstracion.-
In the of his remarks he referred Virginia rs
slaye-trading and slave-brceding Virginia"
"a delegate from Virginia objected to the desgna-
ton applied to that State
'Mr Goulden.-Wen, I'll say slave trading Georgia,
then. don't object TO the Designations am slave
breeder face the music. Come down to my planta-
ton and I'll show you fine lot OF young niggcrs there,
and pure Africans, too.
'Col. Gauldcn then proceeded the revival
Of the African slave trade and believed Massachusetts
herself would shortly advocate it, He did why
he should pay $1,000 for negro from Virginia when
he could buy him in Africa for $50 lie denounced the
treaty for the suppression of the African slave trade
which, he said, against the laws of God and
lures God The doctrine of nom intervention should
be applied to that trade. 1t inhuman to send
back to Africa the negroes Key West half of whom
would die and the balance be delivered canni-
Oalism."
SENTIMENTS OF H. V. JOHNSON.
But in controversy we should 60 to the heart of
the matter How will Mr. johnson ring this charge
to advance his prospects for the Vice-P Presidency?
He was a Senator in Congress in 1949, and on the
9TH of July of that year he made a speech to
prove that Congress had the power and ought to
intervene to protect slave property in the Terri
tories. (See Appendix to the Congressional
Globe LIST sess., Both Congress, page S9l) Our
space forbids extended extracts He said:
ain event the STAKEHOLDER of the South be e1-
uded from settling in such Territory with his property
If every description"
"Since, therefore. | have shown, Congress has no
power to prohibit slavery, they cannot delegate such
,ower TO the inhabitants of the Territory they
authorize the Territorial Legislature to do that which
hey have no power to do. The stream cannot rise
ligher than its source"
The institution of slavery is guaranteed by the Con-
ution of the United States, and il has the pro-
ection thrown around it which guards citizens
gainSt the granting of titles of nobility, the esab
ishment of religion; therefore, Congress would be as
much bound to veto of Territorial; legislation
it, violating these rights of every
tzen of the Republic
To show that Mr. johnson has not abandoned
his doctrine of Congressional protection, we quote
he following resolutions drafted and then reported
BY him to the Convention Of Georgia, held on the
Eth day of last June, which appointed him as a
delegate to the National Convention at Baltimore:
"Rcsolpsd That we reafirm the Cincinnati platform
With the following additional propositions:
'lSt. That the citizens of the United States have an
EQUAL right to settle rci their property of anu kind in
he organized Territories the United States and that
lnder the decision of the Supreme Court the United
States in the of bred Scott, which recognize
the correct exposition of the Constitution in this
Stare properly stands upon the footing
III otter descriptions Of property and that neither the
General Government NOR ANY TERRITORIAL GOV
destroy impair the right slave pro-
'erty in the common Territories any more than the
light any other description Of proper that property
If all kinds slaves well any other species of pro-
lerty in all the Territories stand upon the equal
md broad StutOual basis and subiect tn