Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-06-16

presented as passed III the caucus, ana Is
as follows -
ReSoived, That all questions in regard
to the rights of property in States or Ter
ritories, arising under the Constitution OF
the United States, are Judicial in their
character and the Democratic party is
pledged to abide by and faithfully carry
out such determination of these questions |
as has been or may be made by the Su-
prcme Court of the United States.
This resolution was insisted upon by the
Committee, as then constituted, because 1t
would give aid and ground to stand upon
at home to the Southern friends of Judge
Douglas not advocated on principle-not
claimed for the North, but a concession
for the South, which, AS the sequel shows,
the South neither desired, would adopt or
accept. A piece of expedcncy which your
delegate would neither "adhere to, abide
by or carry out"
Alone l made report recommending
the adoption of the Cincinnati PLATFORM
Both the majority and minority reports
were recommitted and again | presented
the same platform to minority of the
committee, and again all but one OF the
free States minority agreed to sign and re-
port the Cincinnati platform, pure and sim.
pie and again, acting under an outside
pressure to yield something to the South,
the minority Of the comittec reported res
! oluton plcdging the Democracy to the
guidance of the Supreme Court. Once
more L felt bound to disagree with the
minority, and to report in conjunction with
Minnesota, Indiana and New jersey, the
platform of 1856. Afr display OF Par
liamentary tactics more or less laundering
on the part of the friends of the minority
report, only the first proposition was adop
ted, which was in words the resolution
your delegate had at first proposed, with
the resolutions in favor Of the Pacific Rail
road, Cuba, and the enforcement of the
Fugitive Slave law, which were all in fact
in the Cincinnati platform. Thus, by a
vote of 230 to 40, that platform pure and
simple, was adopted, Your principles and
mine, fellow citizens, were accepted as the
cardinal points of the party, and the good
old Democratic ship Was headed on her
course for another four years OF successful
voyage. Was not this Il triumph of right
and principle! Was not this worth con-
tending tor, even at the risk OF denuncia-
ton by thwarted politicians, who had seen
their small expedicnts fail, and their want
of devotion to the party and principles un-
rewarded by the success of their measures!
: What say you, fellow citizens ARE the
t acts of your delegate in obtaining the Gin.
cinnati platform such as you will commend!
, Have l your approving voice Did dc
$ right or wrong! Your approval, then
. assures Inc that the fret part Of my mis-
> sion to obtain recognition Of our princi
r pies was well done,
Let us now advance to the second dut,
> which devolvcd upon the Conventional
nominate a candidate to stand upon tn
platform. l have said that the whole dis
cussion of the platform led me to the be
= lief that the difference was about men, nc
principles and the unfortunate and ur
: iustifube secession of eight of the Souther
= States by their delegates, in whole or i
: part, justiics the statement. When the
II went out of the Convention, we had adoI
c ted no principles but those to which ever
r seeding State, and many Of the secedn
5 delegates themselves, had been pledge
&c only few years since. There was in this
IS therefore, no cause for disruption ~
- ClSNS beW--no justification for SO serious
IS step as the dismcnberment of the Demo
c cratic party and endangering the harmc
a ny and safety of the Union. What thcI
c was feared by the seeding States ! Ey
1t dcntly that the majority of the Conventio
o composed of Northern delegates, woul
# force the nomination Of Judge Dougla,
:, who had given an Interpretation to tina
n platform to which the Southern Dcmocrs
It cy would not, and as their delegates claim
e ed, could not agree, and be able to dete;
= the opposition in their own States, an
o give their Electoral votes to the Democri
= cy. They said, you of the North have ii
lie platform If you will put man upon
rs that has given an Interpretation hostile
d the South, then We cannot sustain owselv'
l. at home, if we would and the more Il
n dent of the Southern men said, We wou
n not if we could. That there was this fci
r of his nomination was made certain by Il
lie action of Tennessee, Virginia, Marylan
e, North Carolina, and Kentucky, who r
c manned in the Convention, but by the
lie delegates insisted that if a resolution W
10 not passed requiring two.thrds ofthe who
re Electoral College to make nominatio
e. they, too, would withdraw from the 20
r vention, and thereby the Convention nv
IN have been dissolved, as California and q
H. egon would have gone with them, leavi
&c only minority of the States in numbC
'h with loss of every Democratic State
ne The passage Of this resolution made t
an nomination of Judge Douglas simply il
u possible, and although New York cast /
he % votes steadily for him afterwards, ,
is she voted for Douglas useless, as it "
he evident to all that more than one-third
Die the Convention were unaltcrably oppos
"a to his nomination | believe there were
- majority so opposed 10 him in fact Gr'