The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-02-15
Ftom the Washington States
The Charleston Convention

We shall produce, in a few days, the Gin
cinnati platform. We are for its adoption
OF Charleston, OOrd for tOord, and witlout til.
addition Of uord.
We ore in favor of this in the face OF the
AIab9ma resolutions, and in the face of sim
! ilar resolutions, from whatever State they
NAV proceed.
The Cincinnati platform is broad enough
and strong enough for every Democrat who
is not factiousIy inclined, to stand upon
and should its adoption excite q recusant
spirit in the Convention, whether South or
North, the Democracy can we'll afford 10
shake hands with the malcontents, and de-
clare an everlasting political separation with
| them.
We are quite confident that nine.ten o
all the Democrats in the Uuion are cordially
in favor Of the readoption of this platform
they cherish and the policy which they
desire to see dnrably established. To repu
diote it. therefore, at Charleston, would be
to repudiate Democratic sentiment.
We trust that every Democratic newspa
per in the Union, which approves OF it, will
| give it conspicuous insertion, at the earli.
est convenient moment.
| In this connection we invite attention to
the following sound, sensible and well,timed
remarks, of the Augusta ga Constitution
alist:
"There is now but little while until the
people OF Georgia will have to take position
for the next Presidential conflict, and re. st-
firm or repudia,e the principles Tor which
hou Io,r hnv,a lol hn
crbts of the State (and may we not hope all
psr'ies) will meet the representatives. of the
other great powers in solemn convention !;
and the result of their deliberations, will be
that new trumphs will crown the friends of
the Constitution and the Union, or that they
shall zee their hitherto victorious banner
BUNDLED in the dust
All experience has proven it is not the
part Of wisdom to abandon the principles OF
tried aid acknowledged value for new and
untriPd theories; ; and the many victorious
wreaths that have garlanded our banner,
proves the value of our proud resolve-'to
ask nothing that is wrong, and submit to no
thing but what is right
What, then, are the wrongs that we have
refused to ask ! What the rights that we
CoHuOt phTt Win WITHOUT ulsHOnUT, oDO 10
defend which Georgia is pledged to resist.
even to the severance OF every tie that binds
her to the Union!
The broad principles of national liberty,
as laid down by convention after convention,
and re affirmed in the Cincinnati platform,
have, many OF them, ceased TO be issues be-
fore the people, having been reduced from
precept to practice, and become fixed facts
in our economy of government"
A candidate nominated by two.thirds of
the members of the Convention, standing
erect upon the Cincinnati platform, would
command the entire strength Of the Demo.
cracy-or at least Of that Democracy which
regards the defeat OF Abolitionsm, on i!e
10th of November, q paramount object for
the harmonious preservation Of the Union.
But we pledge ourselves beforehand to
abide by the action OF the Convention, what.
ever it may be, and to support its nominee
and ito platform with all the power that we
can command.