Gazette and sentinel., 1860-09-01

"ln no event can the STAKEHOLDER of the
South be excluded from settling in such terri
tory with his property OF every description.
.Since, therefore, us l have shown, Con-
gress has no power to prohibit slavery, they
cannot delegate such a power to the inhabi-
tants Of the territory they cannot authorize
the Territorial Legislature to do that which
they have no power to do. The stream cannot
rise higher than its source y
The institution of slavery is guaranteed
by the Constitution Of the United States, and
it has the same protection thrown around II,
which guards our citizens against the granting
of titles of nobility, or the establishment OF re-
ligion therefore, Congress would be as much
bound to veto an act of territorial legislation
prohibiting it, as an act violating these rights
of every citizen of the Republic"
To show that Mr.. johnson has not aban-
doned his doctrine OF Congressional protection,
we quote the following resolutions drafted and
then reported by him to the Convention of
Georgia, held on the 4th day of last June,
which appointed him as II delegate to the Ma
tlonal Convention at Baltimore:
I" Resolrea. That We reaffirm the Cincinnati
platform, with the following additional PROPOSE
ton
Il. That the citizens of the United States have
an equal right to settle ruth their property q any
hind, in the organized territories of the United
States. and that under the decision OF the supreme
Court of the United States in the case of bred
Scott, which we recognize as the correct EXPOSE
ton of the Constitution in this particular, Stare
property stands upon the same footing as all other DIS
~criptions Of property, and that neither the General
Government, NOR ANY TERRITORIAL GOV
EMINENT, can destroy or Impair The right Of Stare
property in the common: territories, any more
than the right to any other description Of property ;
that property of all kinds, slaves as well as any
other species of property, in all the territories,
stand upon the same equal and broad ConstItu-
tional basis, and subject to like principles OF re
~cognition and protection IN the LEGISLATIVE,
judicial, and EIecutire Departments Of the Govern
ment.
I'd. That we will support any man who may be
nominated by the Baltimore Convention for the
Presidency, who holds the principles set forth in
| the foregoing proposition, and who will give them
his Endorsement, and that We will not hold our
selves bound to support any man, who may be the
nominee, who entertains principles inconsistent
with those set forth in the above propositions, or
who denies that slaves property in the territories
does not stand on an equal footing, and on the
same Constitutional basis of other species OF
property"
Mr.. Douglas, in his letter TO Hon. VIM. A.
Richardson, read before the convention, used
this emphatic language: intervention means
] disuRion.p Then, according to MIR. Douglas,
| lr. johnson, his colleague on the ticket lcith
him, is a disunioniSt. And according to the
second resolution offered by Mr.. johnson be-
fore the Georgia Convention, he stands pledged
not to support or vote for Mr.. Douglas.
CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY.
But in our survey of the field we must not
neglect the Constitutional Union party. 1t is
an old party, under a new guise. In lS56they
had a platform of the ~strictest kind, and u
secret organization protected by tests and
oaths. Then they waged war upon our for
eign citizens and upon a~certain religious creed.
The same leaders now come forward repudi-
ating platforms-announce themselves as the
only Union party, and ask for votes without
any declaration of their principles. Their
platform is the Constitution and the Union"
The Republicans assert they are for the Con-
~stitution and the Union, yet their platform
gives an Interpretation to the Constitution
which will destroy that Constitution and break
up this Union. For which we have high
authority-Mr. Fillmore, the candidate for
the Presidency, in 1856, Of the very men who
constitute the constitutional Union party of
the present day. The Douglas Democrats
avow they are for the Constitution and the
Union ; yet their platform, as interpreted by
their standard bearer, Mr.. Douglas, tramples
under foot the decision of the Supreme Court,
proclaims u higher law, and permits the first
squatters in a territory TO exclude the people
of fifteen sovereign States therefrom reduc-
! ing them TO a condition of vassalage, and do
ing little less injury to the Constitution of the
country than the platform of the Republicans.
The true Democratic party stands on the
Constitution and the Union, and their inter.
probation recognizes the perfect equality of the
RI
| the events, necessities, and history which
brought into one confederacy so many in.
dependent sovereignties. Which of these
three interpretations is the Interpretation of the
Constitutional Union party? Or will they scorr
each and all, and fall back upon their repudiated
, and odious platform of 1855? We feel that on
intelligent people will demand at the hands o.
, men asking their favor a frank avowal of theil
| principles. We feel that they will recognize rs G
true Union party the organization which stands
boldly on the Constitution of their country, and
proclaims the just doctrine of the equality Of the
States.
i THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
We have referred to the warnings of Mr.. Fill
more against this party. The public mind ha,
become alarmed. The mischievous effect of III
doctrines has been shown in the John Brown raid
and the recent burnings and pillages in Northern
Texas. Bold, INSCRIPTIONS, and vindictive leaders
+ are at its head. They have adopted the ono,
scorned dogma of Garrison, that slavery is 9
covenant with hell and an agreement with death
Summer proclaims the barbarism of slavery. Bur
lingame the necessity of an anti-slayery Bible and
an anti-slavery God. Seward and Lincoln the
irrepressible conflict. They, with a fanaticisn
rapidly getting intense as that of Peter the Her.
nit, are tanning the flames of sectional strife soou
to break out in intestine war. They are practi
cally leading q crusade against the South. Thanks
to the mercies of the Almighty, b~rotherly love, the
memories of a glorions history, the common sacri
fees of our fathers, the unparalleled progress tc