The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-01-25
From the Baltimore Patriot

From the Baltimore Patriot.
The Chicago Convention--A call En-
Organ--A candid and Telling Ar
ttc1e.
A National Republican Convention, en-
bracing
Republicans,
Members of the Peoples P .rty of Penn
sylvania,
Members of the Opposition Party of New
Jersey,
And all others,
VINO are willing to cooperate in support of
the candidates, then and there to be nomi-
mated for President and Vice-President has
been officially called to assemble at Chicago
on the 18th of June, 1860. Delegates from
each Congressional District, and four from
the State at large, are to constitute the rep
resentatives.
The basis on which this convention is
called, according to the terms of the noti-
fcation, is Opposition,
1. To the policy of the present Admins
tration;
3. To the extension of Slavery in the
Territories;
4. To the new and dangerous political
doctrine that the Constitution, of its own
force. carries slavery into the Territories of
the United States;
s. To the re-opening of the African Slave
Trade;
6. to any inequality among citizens;
z. And who are in favor of the admission
of Kansas under the Constitution recently
adopted by its people;
8. OF restoring the Federal Administra-
ton to a system of rigid economy, and to
the principles of Washington and Jefferson
9. Of maintaining inviolate the rights of
the States and defending the soil of every
State and Territory from lawless invasion
10. And of preserving the integrity of
the Union, and the supremacy of the Con-
stitution and laws passed in pursuance
thereof, against the conspiracy of the lead
ers of a sectional party to resist the MAORI
ty principle as established by the Govern
ment, even at the expense of its existence.
The first ground of oppositionists, it seems
to US, would have been all sufficient and
had we had the authority, we would have
limited the call to this comprehensive prop
osition, for it is broad enough to combine
all the elements of hostility to the ruling
: dynasty, which is little more than an ex-
preston in itself of every conceivable sort
Of ndal-administration and heresy against
the, Constitution and our institutions as es-
tablished by the fathers. But as the authors
of the call have deemed it wise to amplify
somewhat, let us look into these specifca-
tions, and see what they really mean.
Everybody will understand the first and
second specifications. Open and unblushing
corruptions and usurpations constitute the
very existence of the Administration policy,
and the only way to save our institutions
from positive and final destruction is to
drive the dynasty out of power with a uni
versal shout of indignation. 1t has earned
the wages of political sin and nothing re-
mains but to discharge the obligation. Let
it be consigned speedily to the political death
that it merits.
The third and fourth proposition, it will
be seen, embrace good old Henry Clay Wing
doctrines on this subject. He was utterly
opposed to the extension of slavery into free
Territories, and said he would see his right
arm drop from his shoulder before he would
lift it in support of any--s@sab~ policy. And
though the black heresy that the Constitu-
tion.-pfants slavery by its own inherent
power in the Territories, had not yet reared
its black head distinctly above the horizon,
yet Mr.. Clay foresaw it, and met it on
hundred occasions in his public speeches,
directly and indirectly, with whitening de-
nunciations and irresistible demonstrations
of its unsoundness. Bat~we are content to
rest the fallacy of this outrageous doctrine
upon the Hon. Reverdy Johnson's recent
arguments against it, inspired with the prin-
ciples OF the great American master OF po-
litical economy, at whose feet he sat for so
many years with such eminent distinction
to himself and his teacher, he leaves the
hereto at the head of the government, and
his Attorney, Black, not an inch of ground
to stand upon. Well may the Chicago OPP
positionists call for union. in support of
these indestructible principles. We know
of no Opposition man in the whole country
who will refuse to sustain these PROPOSE
tons.