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Ha aj rsu COMPROMISE. D.. III"
.Messrs Taylor, of Louisiana, Pugh, of Ohio, anc
Rust, of Arkansas, on behalf of the Douglas Ma
tonal Executive Committee, have issued to tn,
Democracy of the United States an address of ex
planation and counsel. g.
Beginning with the Wilmot Proviso movement
OF 1916, the Committee in the premises first give
the history of the question Of slavery in the Ter
ritories," including the Kansas Nebraska BILL
They next proceed to give what they designate the
"excuses" of the anti ti-DougIas Democracy "for
altering the Cincinnati platform" On this point
the Committee use the following language - ..
IL Is said, In excuse, that the principles enuncia
tea py the Supreme Court of the United States in
the case OF Dred Scott lead to the Conclusion that
ierrtoriai Legislature has more authority
over tne SUBJECT OF slavery than Congress- and that
Congress, equally with the Territorial Legislatures
Is under obligation to protect as well the possession
as as the title OF slave property in the Territories
we do not now intend to debate this assertion one
way or another. 1t is admitted, universally, that
no such question presented by the record of
Dred Scots case, not argued bv counsel at the
par; and whatever the conclusion at which any
democrat might arrive, upon reading the opinions
deiiVered by the several Judges that conclusion
cannot De so clear of doubt as to warrant him in
those who, with equal desire to ascer-
tam M the truth, have attained another conclusion
we must all agree that if the Supreme Court did
not intend to decide that question (as MANY be-
iie'el IL would be an act of bad faith in violation
Oh the very terms of the Kansas Nebraska hill
TO commit the Democratic party as n national
organization, to either side; whereas If the Cont
did not so intend nothing is more certain than rbat
whenever the question shall distinctly arise, and be
lalrly argued, the Court will express its determi
nation in language so plain as to command univer-
sal acqulescence The Judgment of the Supreme
Court in Dred Scott's case has been carried into
lull execution; and whatever judgment it NAV
validity or invadty of Territorial enactments.
must be and will be executed with equal alacrity
and confidence. But, evidently until some Terri.
!orlai Legislature shall, by its enactments, have
h hpareo the right OF property in slaves there can
oe no use agtating such questions; and if as the
autnors OF the Senatorial caucus resolutions have
ueeiared by their votes, the case of Kansas be
nv. not a proper case for Congressional interven-
o, !: is Gllncuit TO Imagine any other in which
he0esSi'y ior such intervention will arise. --
The address then follows with a very ;nteras,;no,
cumming up of the revolutionary PROCEEDINGS Of
the several Conventions at Charleston Ra,t;moro
and Richmond, from which they make it appear
that while the Seceders represented but mutinous
fragment of the party. Mr.. Douglas, on the other
hand, was Unanimously nominated in Conven-
tion representing more than two-thirds of all the
electoral votes" Next, the Committee proceed to
show up the Seceders' or Breckenridge Conven-
were thirteen States without the representation of
single delegate; and that, $50 far as nationality
is concerned, the Black Republican Convention at
chicago made better exhibition The pith of
the address is in the following, which are the con-
Guiding paragraphs:
Fellow -citizens-We have thus explained at
length the controversy between the supporters of
Breckenridge and Lane upon the one side and the
regular nominees of the Democratic party upon the
other. .-
1t remains for US to add, as the sentiment of the
democratic National Committee, and as the uniyer-
sal sentiment of the supporters of Douglas and
Johnson, that no compromise whatever is admissi-
Die. We desire to ascertain the strength of the
national Democracy in every State, North and
south, and we intend to ascertain it. We have
made no proposition for Joint electoral ticket in
any State; and we earnestly exhort you to reject
such propositions Indignantly, whenever and
wherever made. If we have any friends in any
State, let those friends call State Convention at
once and nominate full electoral ticket, pledged
to the exclusive support of Douglas and johnson.
We can agree to nothing else; because to ac-
knowledge the right of factious minority to die
tate their own terms of co-operation-suffer them
to violate the solemn professions of the Democratic
party and trample under foot our Democratic
usages-would be to disband the national organiza-
tion at once. Do not fail, therefore, to act mme-
by counties and by neighborhoods; take no counsel,
and listen to no suggestions from those who have so
shamely deserted the National Democracy. Every
vote for Breckenridge and Lane is vote indirectly
at least, for Lincoln and Hamlin; vote for inaugu
rating an "irrepressible conflict" between the
North and the South, and therefore vote for the
N'S De not deceived BY the plausible assertions of
your enemies. breckenridge and Lane have no
strength, not the least, in any of the Northern
States. They will not receive one electoral vote
in the North, and except, perhaps in three or four
Northern States, will not have even an electoral
ticket.
On the other hand, if the Southern Democracy
should now desert the Democracy of the North, it
would be an end of the alliance between them,
w bat remains, then, to the South if she would
MAINTAIN the Constitution, the Union, and the in
tegrty and usages of the Democratic party, bat the
cordial support and consequent election Of Douglas
and johnson.
We commit these issues to your determination
Their Importance cannot be over estimated; they
involve the fate of the Democratic party, and of
that Union it has so faithfully, and constantly, and
zealously maintained.
MILES TAYLOR, Chairman,
GEo. L. PUGH,
ALBERT RUST.
BRECKENRIDGE MEETING IN NEW YORK.
The Herald ofThursday ysays: The largest, and most
enthusiastic and most imposing demonstration in the
Presidential canvass that has thus far taken place in
this city was that which was made last night in
and around the Cooper Institute, by that portion
of the National Democracy that avors the election
of Breckenridge and Lane. The spacious hall was
crowded to its utmost capacity and still thousa nds
could not obtain admissions; and these outsiders or
ganized an independent meeting in the street. The
indoor assemblage was presided over by Mr. John
II. Brewer, shipping merchant, and was addressed
by him, by the Hon. Daniel s. Dickinson, Capt
Marriott and Mr.. A. II. Wood. The outside meet
ing presided over by Mr.. G. L. Stewart, and
was addressed by Mr.. Paul B. Bradley, Levi Chat
field, John Van BlOm, Isaac Lawrence and Mr..
Lowry. There was pretty considerable section
of Douglas in the hall, and ever and anon they
broke out with loud and enthusiastic demonstra-
tions on behalf of their favorite. The Brecknridge
and Lane men were, however, in a vast majority,
and they outcheered and outhissed the opposite
faction. Nevertheless, there violation of
good order and decorum; and, in fact, the meeting
was, for Democratic one, excellently conducted.
Letters were received from President Buchanan
Ex-Governor Stevens, of Washington Territory;
Mr.. Charles UConor, and other distinguished Dem
Ocrats. Among the resolutions adopted was one
for the appointment of a committee to call State
Convention for the purpose of nominating State
officers.
MR.. DOUGLAS IN BOSTON.
At the reception of Mr.. Douglas, at Boston,
after complimenting Massachusetts,, he said
On the one hand you find a great Northern Sec
tional party appealing to the North against the
South. CA voice-"Thats So" Another-"Ne-
very On the other hand you find a sectional
party Southward, appealing to the preiudices Of
the South against the North. The Republican
party demand possession of the Federal Govern
ment, in order that its power may be welded for
the prohibition of slavery where the people want it,
(Voices-'That's the talk" "Thats So" Others
-"They are rightly The Southern sectional
party demand possession of the Federal Govern
ment in order that the whole power of the Govern
ment may be welded for the defence and mainte-
nance of slavery where the people don't want it.
daughter and cheering.) These two sectional
parties in direct conflict with each other and
are producing that ''irrepressible conflict" which
can never be reconced, until you recur to the
doctrine that Congress shall not interfere with the
domestic institutions of the people anyiohere. Zen
thusiastic applause.) This great principle of non
Interference by the Federal Government, and pop
uar sovereignty in the States and Territories, is
not peculiar to the Democratic party. 1t af-
frmed in the Compromise measures of 1850; it was
affirmed in the Wing platform of 1852 well as in
that of the Democrats; it was affirmed by all ma
tional men in those days, and should be sustained
the present day. Loud applause.)
THE KEY WEST NEGRoEs.-A few days ago, with
in about twenty -four hours of the successful andiu
of gang of negroes, in Mobile Bay, twenty-three
remarkably fine fellows, field hands, were placed
on board of the Mobile steamer for this city, and
having safely arrived are to be sold Friday, at
the st. Charles Hotel, by Julian Neville There is
much discussion and inquiry to the character of
these negroes, whether they are of the recent or
whether they portion of the one hundred
and ninety fo- whom graves were dug at Key
West, but who, unreasonably enough preferred
rather the comfortable quarters of our river plan
tations to such narrow accommodations as Uncle
Sam proposed to furnish them. One of the lot a
boy of II, weighs one hundred and seventy, and is
six feet high 1t is supposed he is of the Bo.
zale tribe, and that his father was a renowned
rior of that warlike race. The landing of cargo
of Africans right under the nose of Judge Camp
bel the most ferocous of all the foes of the traffic.