Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-05-18

ritories Is based by the Supreme Cour, on the
ground that they are property. Oar Consiitu ito.
nal guarantees therefore. based on the idea q
property Of sianes
lie idea i. repugnant to Northern fanaiicisrn .
the Black Republican. repodiate il, they iaeai
cate The opposite principle. adopted by the ,w1
dissenting inIges in the Drel Scott case They
e,nsead tina, slavery is municipal status deren.
dent municipal Law. and therefore local they
proclaim that Q human beng IS ~; susceptible
Of ownership. and therefore the rules applicable
TO property do not regulate the relations 1t mat.
or and slave. To ask ia. then to abanInn the
principle Of protection. is to AK u Ia sur'en der
the principle on which i. ba.sl car titles 10 tar
property
Again the Southern pcop'e yearn ~ expan.
sion. Their eyes have Tor year. been in'eaily and
constantly GIsd on the hnary headed volcanoes 4
orizaba. and the undula,ns sasanuahs & Get
raj America WHY do we desire e1tcn.on, \
desire for extension merely fr the sake 4 Il ten.
sion. 10 at onee the mos; debi..,aiine fever Il =
nation, and the rudes, Of stories in which IN II
tia or q Tamour far excel. fabius - a " IN
ington. We desire extension in order Is expand
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abandoned. bury oil hopes. s,ife all a.pirA;,ou'
Tor expansion. No sooner would Central America
or Mexico be annexed. than en- gran, all sci ties
pushing ahead into the Ter the ed md.
mt and m1re mobile population of the Nerih.
would incts the mongrc hal..hreeds 10 eIelud,
slavery by legislative enactmen,s. OF non-eS sia-
tive discrimination thus. indeed. would lie real-
1el the fond hope Of fana,ieism. Surrounded by
GORDON of free Territory. slavery, like "scst-
pon encircled by fir" would sting itself u Ieata.
applause.
1t is said this is a persona, warfare on rariic-
ular candidate tor popular favor. 1t is personal
only 90 far IS leader is the imrcrsonation Of h.
cause II is prepOs,erous u SUPPOSE that fifteen
sovereign States. dissimilar in everything except
tho peculiar institution. should unite as baud
o. brothers upon any merely personal issue
To those gentlemen Of the SOUTH. who have
heretofore been the most rampant hrc-catcrs and
disuniousts aud who. few weeks ngn. were e1.
tremely solcl,ous for our section TO break ~ all
intercourse with the Yankees. but WIN are at this
time such whining sabmissionisis, l. e.. Dou gas.
ites. TO such We would commend tho extract.
above quoted.
Colonel u. C. Glenn. late Attorney Genera Of
Mississippi. and one Of tie most bill amt
gentlemen in the whole Southwest addressed
the meeting assembled for an hour nnc his
speech is characterized BY the I,}a as one or the
IN 81 spirited eloquent and effective ever del YER
ei in that city. Through III the delivery If this
splendid effort not an individual lett the r,om
The most profound silence nnl attention, on " in.
terrnptei hy the widest and INST euthus a,te
APPLAUSE, characterized the vas: audience durin.
no ime occupied by Mr.. Glran. III. sy,ceea
b'eafhr! the true luthern feeling. aud Il ,yel
Rta ths .'e f trse el5qaenee AMI ta,t,"ii,u /
". received sitt ,ns mt = .raiai arrr.7Al all
tas. ie' OPP he,.4.,n ty ,he ..ol.ly"
saaw 's1 res..efs VIVA sd # -sn-,tn -t.,.
81 '.a-. mot cordial approval oi no
~ orleans Democracy. .ubo.n lr..f
ekitaei. C.!-Del G,eDn "a j he went TO Cha rs
ton in ~ spirit Of angry controversy, with no
disposition to ian the flame OF party strife. con
mit'ed to III" support Of no particular canIila.e.
but in spirit Of harmony. 10 ak simple re, -.
milton OF Southern rights under the Constitution.
And acting under the Instructions Of the Sat. Of
Mississippi, he found that he could do M l,t.
than go home to his constituents and rcpor. 10
them.
IL had been said thatthe southern delegations
hal gone 10 the Convention for yhe purpose II
crushing the hopes of particular ca ndiia,c. -
The charge was falsc--nt,crly. abpminably al.e.
lie admitted Mr.. Douglas to be n great mans.
pecially in the Northwest. Bu' by all tina, WIS
good, his party and his country were more inn +.
tant To him than even the honor nni the fame Of
stephen Arnold Douglas. Applause They
had CONC into The Convention rs Democrats. SIM
ply. For long years past it hal been tho boast
Of the Democracy that to them principles were
everything nothing. Ttey had gone int,
the Convention fairly and pquarely To claim Ger.
tain principles. Committee on Platforms had
been appointed For three days and three MIC hts
they had deliberatei upon it, What was ,h,.
result The report game ina majority and
minority report They had heard these Democrats
who seeded from the Convention sti smatized ,s n
little squad Of factionists And yet the principle.
in behalf of which they left the Convention had
been sustained by seventeen States Of tho Con-
federany 1t had been tho rule. heretofore, in
Democratic Conventions, that majority. of the
States Us represented in the Committee should con-
struct the platform. In this the rule Rad bern
reversed. Seventeen States had been compelled to
yield toa numerical majority of fourteen States
Did the Southern delegations then secede? No
The subject was recommitted. The Committee
made second report. second time seventeen
states had adopted platform sustaining our
rights; and again numerical majority of four
| teen States had decded ooa;,st ~, Nu IL .
| southern delegations demonstrated with the Con-
vention be- hinself.rcprescntng Mississippi, and
Gov. Mouton speaking in behalf of Louisiana.
The answer was, that never. so help them God,
would they grant the South equality under the