The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-07-12
From the Detro;. Advertiser.

Fiesoss Of the Douglas Candidate for
Wee President on Popular Sover-
eignty.-Michigau Democrats, read
and reflect.
We give in another place this morn
ing, overwhelming proof that Douglas
himself, and the Run,p Convention
which nominated him, have slaughtered
and cast off as an Improbable humbug,
the great doctrine which has been
claimed to constitute the distinctive
feature of that impotent faction of the
late Democratic party. We also prove
by the record, that the principle was
never Endorsed by the party-not even
In the Cincinnati platform. And now
we will present another item of proof
equally convincing, that the Douglas
faction have been basely hypocriti, al
in their professions of attachment to
this doctrine. 1t is to be found in the
record of their candidate for Vice.
President,-the renowned Herschel V.
Johnson. This we find in the Toledo
Blade, which copies it from the South
erner and Adoertiser, Douglas paper
published at Rome, Ca, an authority,
therefore, that cannot be disputed.
The paper in question contains the
proceedings Of the Democratic State
Convention held at Milledgeville, June
4th, called to take action in regard to
the secession Of most of the Georgia
delegates at Charleston. 1t seems that
a Business Committee of twenty-four
was appointed, of which Herschel v.
johnson was one. This Committee
disagreed as to the propriety of APP
pointing new delegates to Baltimore,
the friends of the seceders opposing,
and a few who preferred TO see Douglas
elected to dissolution of the party,
favored that step; and the consequence
was, that two reports were presented
a majority one by twenty members of
the Committee, and minority one by
four members, which latter division
included Herschel V. johnson, who, as
Chairman, introduced the minority re-
port.
The two reports were discussed by
various persons, MIR. Johnson defending
his, and Howell Cobb Secretary of the
Treasury, acting as pacifcator. The
latter gentleman stated there was ''no
difference in the principles enumerated
in both the majority and minority re-
ports. There were only two minor
differences; one was, that the majority
report endorsed the secession from the
Charleston Convention, while the mi
nority neither endorsednor commended
Ecensured the action of the Georgia
delegates there" ~
The result was, that majority report
was adopted by vote of 299 to Al,
when the minority, under the lead of
Mr.. Johnson, seeded, and organized
another convention and appointed the
bogus delegates who, representing one
eighth of the Democrats of Georgia,
were admitted into the Baltimore Con-
vention by Douglas friends, to an
equality with the representatives of the
other seven-eighths of the party.
The following is the report presented
to the regular convention by Mr..
Johnson;
MINORITY REPORT.
Resolced, That we re affirm the Gin
cinnati platform, with the following
additional propositions:
Ist That the citizens of the United
States have an equal right to settle with
their property Of any kind, in the or
ganized Territories of the United States,
and that under the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States in
the case of bred Scott, which we recog-
niZe as the correct exposition of the
Constitution in this particular, slave
property stands on the same footing as
all other descriptions Of property, and
that neither the General Government,
NOR ANY TERRITORIAL GOV
EMINENT, can destroy or impair the
right to slace property in the common
territories, any more than the right to
any other description Of property; that
property of all kinds, slaves as well as
any other species of property, in the
territories, stand upon the same equal
and broad Constitutional basis, and
subject to like principles of recognition
and protection an the LEGISLATIVE,
Judicial, and erec,stive departments of
the Government.
I'd. That we will support any man
who may be nominated by the Balti-
more Convention, for the Presidency,
who holds the principles set forth in the
foregoing proposition, and who will
give them has endorsement, and that
we will not ourselves bound to support
any man, who may be the nominee,
who entertains principles inconsistent
with those set forth in the above prop
osition, or acho denies that slave prop
erty in the territories does stand on
equal footing, and on the same C0nsti-
tutio,aal basis of other descriptions Of
property.
In view of the fact that large ma
jority of the delegates from Georgia
felt it to be their duty to withdraw
from the late Democratic Convention.
thereby depriving this State of her vote
therein according to the decision of
said Convention.
Resolced, That this Convention will
appoint twenty delegates-fur from
the State at large, and two from each
Congressional District-to represent
the Democratic party of Georgia, in
the adjourned Convention at Baltimore
on the 18th inst, and that said dele
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