Nebraska advertiser., 1860-08-02
still They Come.

The Piqua O.. Enquirer, for ten years
past the organ of the Democracy in that
county Miami, has hoisted the Lincoln
and Hamlin fagaHeFe are the editors,
reasons foy so doing:
at will be seer that we this week,
place at the head of our paper the mama
Of Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, for the.
Presidency, and Hannibal Hamlin of
Maine, for Vice President; and, as our
course in this matter demands explana-
ton. we therefore giEe OuEreasonstothe
public.
1t has been known here for years that
we demanded pure Popular Sovereign
~ platform and candidates honestly den-
tifed with the doctrine, as a guarantee
for our support of, the nominees of the
Baltimore Convention, and that we could
not IN any event. support any gentleman
for either President or Vice President,
who held TO the doctrine thatthe Consti-
tuition protected slavery in the Terrific
ries. This has not only been our posi-
ton but it has been the position of the
leading Democrats in this city, and we
were not prepared TO see this great prin-
ciple sacrificed to appease the demands Of
the Southern delegates.
We demanded as a condition precedent
to our support, OF the Charleston-B alti-
more nominees, that the Platform adopt
ed should recognise the great doctrine of
Popular Sovereignty. After hoping even
against hope, this principle was repudi-
aIcd by both wings Of the party to which
we had for long years given a cordial
support, the one boldly avowing the doc
trine that the Congress of these United
States were bound to enact laws for the
protection of slavery in the Territories,
and the other accomplishing the same pur-
pose by making the bred Scott decision
a part Of their political creed. On these
two platforms are placed nominees, and
cur support demanded.
The position we have occupied for
years on this question has been familiar
to our quondam political associates. We
have openly avowed our most unqualified
opposition to the principle that the Con-
stitutIon recognized or protected slavery
in the Territories, and to that other more
modern political heresy q Slave Code, in
no unmeasured terms. We demanded
the most perfect freedom to the people
in the Territories with the right guar
anteed to them not only to regulate their
own affairs in their own way, but to elect
all their officers from Governor down,
thus giving them Popular Sovereignty in
the truest sense of the term; bat we
have got neither, and are now required
to swallow Breckenridge and Lane with
a Slave Code, or Douglas and Johnson
and the bred Scott decision with the
Southern Interpretation, or go out of the
party to which they had ever belonged
We have chosen the latter.
We find ourself without political sym.
pathies with our former political asso,
ciates. We are driven to the necessity
of seeking new; and we find in casting
our eyes over the political field, an hon.
est man entertaining honest sentiments
uncontaminated by a contact with politi'
cal tricksters and a life long struggle fol
the Presidency, representing all the gen.
erous feelings Of his party in>favor o.
free Territories. We ndhim represen,
ing the sentiments which we have in vair
sought TO make the sentiment of the par.
ty to which we have belonged, we there,
fore place the name of Abraham Lin.
coin at our mast head and proclaim hin
our choice for President Of the United
States, believing that a generous public
will sustain US in thus adopting the right.