The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-07-11
The Ground-swell for Breckenridge and
Lane The Opposition Of Alabama
Wheeling into Line in a Body!i

The Opposition party of Alabama have
wheeled into line, as solid, compact organi-
cation, in the Breckenridge ard Lane move
ment This was the unanimous resolve of
their State Convention which met in Mont
gomery on the ID, to determine what action
ought to be taken in view of the existing
position Of affairs. As tribute to the sound
principles upon which the Democracy are
fighting the Presidential battle, it is not the
less remarkable than deserved. AS sign OF
Southern union and harmony in favor Of the
ticket, we hail it with unspeakable joy. The
Douglas faction will be without a corporals
guard to stand by it in our sister State.
We publish below the resolutions adopted
by the Alabama Oppositionists:
1. RESOLVED, That the Convention hereby
avows and reaffirms the principles laid down
in the platform of the American party of Ala
hama, adopted on the 9th of February, 1856,
| at Montgomery, without change or abate-
ment."
2 RESOLVED. That since the adoption of our
Aforesaid platform, the Supreme Court of the
in announced are correct and thus, it is seen,
we are asking only what the highest judicial
tribunal declares to belong to US. And if
"the conservative men of the North" or their
allies at the South, are unwilling to insert these
principles an the party platform upon ichich
their candidates are put Let0re the people, we
can not consistently with our aforesaid plat
form Of 1856 give our support to candidates
thus significantly left uncommitted to that
platform.
8. Resolued, That among the principles an
nounced in our aforesaid platform, is the es-
sential one, that the citizens of each Territory
have the right to all such legislation as may
be necessary to protect them in the possession
and enjoyment of their slave property. This
principle is essential, because it is but the as
sertion of the equality in rights of each citizen
of the Southern States with each citizen of the
Northern States, and the equality in rights of
each Southern State with Northern States
Whoever denies such protection thereby de-
MES such equality.
4. ResolUsd, That the question of protec-
ton for slave property in the Territories, as
substantially laid down in our ak sad plat
form, has become, and is, THE PARA
MOUNT QUESTION in the pending Presi-
dental election; and one that can not be ig-
nored without q surrender of Southern equal
ity. That question has disrupted the Nation
al Democratic party. One portion of that
party, after the disruption, assembled in con-
vention, and unanimously adopted platform
asserting the principle Of protection for slave
property in the Territories, substantially as
laid down in our aforesaid platform, and put
forth John c. Breckenridge and Joseph Lane
as candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency upon the platform thus unani-
mously adopted. No other party Convention
which has made nominations this year for the
Presidency, has avowed in the platform upon
which it has put its nominees before the pub
lic the principle of protection for slave proper
ty in the Territories, substantially as laid down
in our aforesaid platform. And as we deem
said principle OF protection vital to the South,
and as we feel bound by the high obligations
of duty to our country to do all we honorably
can to have that principle carried out in the
administration Of the Federal Government,
we hereby declare it is our deliberate purpose,
not as Dem Gratis, but merely as the deter
mined friends Of Southern equality and
Southern institutions and as allies of those
who, by placing their nominees upon a plat
form substantially asserting our own long
cherished principle Of protection for slave
property in the territories, have given signal
proof Of their devotion to Southern equality
and Southern institutions, to support Breckin-
ridge and Lane, if in their letters ofacceptance
of the nomination, or otherwise, they give their
unqualified sanction to the platform upon
which they have been nominated.