The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-08-29

Territory; they cannot authorize the Territori-
al Legislature to do that which they have no
power 10 do. The stream cannot rise higher
than its source"
The institution Of slavery Is guaranteed BY
the Constitution Of the United States, and il
has the same protection thrown around it,
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 ofthe Republic"
To show that MIR johnson has moi abandon
ed 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 appoin-
ted him as delegate to the National Conven.
ton at Baltimore:
"ResoleeI. That we re-afiirm the CINCINNATI
Platform, with the following a lditional propo.
sitions:
"1st. That the citizens ofthe United States
have an equal right to settle with their property
of any kind. in the organized Territories OF the
United States, and that under the decision Of
Supreme Court OF the United States in the case
Of Dred Scott, which we recognize as the cor.
rect exposition OF the Constitution in this par
ticular, slaUe property stands upon he same foot
ing as all other descriptions of property and tha.
neither HE General Gnuerrn,enL NOR ANY
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT, can destroy
or impair the right to sl0re prope'ty in the com
mon Territories, any more than the right to
any other description Of property; that property of
all kinds, slaves as we'll as any other species of
property, in the Territories, stand upcn the
same equal aud broad Constitutional basis, and
subject to like principles of ,ecogniton and pro
lection in HE LEGISLATIVE. judicial, and en-
ecutiue departments of the Government
"2d. That we will support any man who
may be nominated by the Baltimore Conven-
ton, 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 ourselves bound to support any man,
who may be the nominee, who entertains prin
ciples inconsistent with those set forth in the
above propositions, or Who denies that s'aue prop
erty in the Territories does not stand on IN e.
quail footing and on the same Constitutional basis
of other species q fpnperty."
Mr.. Douglas, in his letter to Hon. VIM. A.
Richardson, read before the Convention, uses
this emphatic language: "Iate,vention means
u'ou"O" " Dui' lJouSi"St
Mr.. johnson, his colleague on the ticket ,oith him.
is disunonist. And, ac 'ordins to the second
resolution offered by Mr.. johnson before 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 new guise. In 1856 they
had platform of the strictest kind, and a Sc
cret organization protected by tests and oaths
They then waged war upon our foreign citizens
and upon certain religious creed. The same
leaders now come forward repudating platforms
announce themselves as the only Union par
ty and ask for votes without any declaration Of
their principles Their platform is the Soon
assert they are for the Constitution & the Union,
yet their platform gives an Interpretation to the
Constitution which will destroy that Constitu-
ton and break up this Union. For which we
have high authority-Mr. Fillmore, the candi-
date for the Presidency, in 1856, of the very
men who constitute the Constitutional Union
party OF the present day. The Douglas Demo-
Gratis VOW they are for the Constitution and
the Uuion; vet their platform, as interpreted
| by their standard bearer Mr.. Douglas tram
pies under foot the decision Of the Supreme
Court, proclaims higher law, and permits the
first squatters in Territory to exclude the
people Of fifteen sovereign States therefrom; re-
ducing them to q condition of vassalage, and do.
ng 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 interpre-
tation recognises the perfect equality Of the
States and maintains inyiolate the genius Of the
events, necessities, and history which brought
into one Conederacy so many Independent SOW
ereignties Which of these three interpreta-
ton is the interpretation Of the Constitution
al Union party? Or will they scorn each and
ALL and fall back upon their repudiated and odl
Gus platform of 1856? We feel that an intel.
igent people will demand at the hands Of men
asking their favor frank avowal Of their prn.
ciples. We feel that they will recognise as a
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.
| THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
We have referred to the warnings OF Mr.. Fill
more against this party. The public mind has
become alarmed. The mischevous effect o its
doctrines has been shown in the John Brown
raid, and the recent burnngs and pillages in
Northern Texas. Bold, inscriptions, and vim
dictive leaders are at its head. They have a.
dopted the once scorned dogma OF Garrison,
that slavery is covenant with hell and an :
greement with death Sumner procams the
barbarism of slavery; Buringame the necessity
OF an anti-slavery Bible and an anti. slavery
God. Seward and Lincoln the irrepressible
conflict. They, with fanaticism rapidly get
ting intense as that Of Peter the Hermit, are
tanning the flames Of sectional strife soon to
break out in intestine war. They are practi-
c,lIy leading q crusade against TIE s u,h.-
Thanks to the mercies Of the Almighty, broth
erly love, the memories of glorious history,
the common sacrifices Of our 'athers, the IN.
paraieied progress to empire and renown ofour
people, have not lost their influence. Honest
and true men all through the North have deter-
mined TO crush out the monster of Northern dis