Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-14
ImPoRTANT FRom ALABAMA.
OPPOSITION STATE CONVENTION
Enaor.smsn. q E.ses.n..aas and Lar

Endorsement OF BreckInridge and Lane.
From the New o leans Delta.
The State Convention of the Opposition
Alabama was held at Montgomery on the I'd instant.
The following PLATFORM indOrsing the National Dem
ocratic nominees, Breckenridge and Lane, was en-
Enthusiastically adopted:
l. ReSolued, That this convention hereby avows
and reafirms the principles laid down in the plat
form of the American party Of Alabama. adopted
on the 6tn of February 1856 Mt Montgomery
without change or abatement"
2 Resolved, That since the adoption of our afore-
said PLATFORM the Supreme Court ofthe United States
has decided that the principles therein announced
correct and, thus, it is seen, asking only
what the highest judicial tribunal declares to be-
long to US. And if = the conservative men OF the
North or their allies at the South are unwilling
to insert their principles IN the party platform upon
loich their candidates put before the people, we can
not consistently with aforesaid platform OF 1856
give our support to candidates thus significantly left
l,sconmtted to that platform
g. Resolved That among the principles announced
in our aforesaid PLATFORM is the essential one that
the citizens of each Territory have the right to all
such legislation may be necessary TO protect them
in the possession and enjoyment OF their save prop
erty This principle is essential, because it is but
the assertion of the equality of rights OF eeh 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 de-
MES such protection thereby denies such equality.
A. Resolved, That the question of protection for
slave property in the Territories AS substantially
laid down in our aforesaid platform, has become,
and is THEPARAM0UNT QUESTION in the pend
ing Presidential elections and that cannot be ia
nored without a surrender of Southern equality
That question has disrupted the National Democrat
ic party One portion of that party, after the dis
ruption assembled in convention and unanimously
adopted platform asserting the principle of pro-
lection for slave property in the Territories snb-
stantally as laid down in our aforesaid platform
and put forth John c. Breckenridge and Joseph Lane
as candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presiden-
cy upon the platform thus UNANIMOUSLY adopted
No other party Convention which has made nOmina.
tons this year for the Presidency has avowed in the
platform upon which it has put its nominees before
the public the principle of protection for slave pro
perty in the Territories, substantially laid down
in our aforesaid platform. And deem said priJ,
chile of protection vital to the SOt and feel bound
bg the high obligations Of duty to country to do al
zoe honOrably can to hdCe that principle carried o,d u
the administration of the Federal Government here
6y declare is deliberate purpose, not as Democrats
bId merely as the determined friends Of Southern equal
tn and Southern Institutions and allies Of hose chO
bu placing their nominees upon platform substantially
asserting our o,on long cherished principle Of protection
for sqve property IN the territories, haze giCen sigma
proof of their deuoon to Southern equality dlld South
era institutions, to support Breckenridge and Lane, If u
their letters of acceptance o. the nomination, Or other
loise they gire their unqualified sanction to the platform
| atDOp rhich tleu haze been nominated