Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-04-30

Tennessee Democracy.
In the telegrapbic report Of the pro.
cecdings of the Charleston Convention,
we find the following resolution, urged
for adoption by the Tennessee delega-
ton !:
Resolved That the federal government has
no power to interfere with slavery In the
States or exclude it from the Territories. and no
duties to perform in relation thereto but pro-
tsct the rights Of the owner from wrong and
restore fugi.ivss from labor. These dutiee
il cannot withhold without q violation Of the
constitution.
After all the obloquy hsaped upon
the Democracy Of q few Of the South
ern States, OF which number the State Of
Tennessee is no honorable exception,
we find nothing in the above which
cannot be sustained by every Democrat
in the Union. If this is the sentiment
Of what is technically called the Slave
Code party, we wish to be commended
to that party for the balance Of our pc
litical life. What does it consist of?
To-wit: that the Federal Govern
ment has no power to interfere with
slavery in the States, or exclude it from
the Territories. What is that but non
Intervention Is there any man who
honestly opposes the miserable "irr e.
pressible" party Of the day that cannot
commend and sustain so correct prn-
ciple as this? Who is there over whom
the broad banner Of Democracy is Aaunt-
ed, unable, or unwilling to endorse it.
The general government has no duties
to perform in relation to slavery any
where.-That very sentiment in the
Cincinnati Platform would have been
worth hundreds Of votes to us. There
is no ambiguity in that portion of the
resolution-we want none. 1t is time
now at least, for the Democratic party
to fight fairly and squarely upon a
National platform, aud if Helperism and
sectionalism is to triumph, let us know
it; as we'll now.as ever.
The last portion of the resolution pro-
claims that it is the duty of the govern
ment to protect the rights of the ownur
from wrong and it clearly is violation
OF the Constitutional withhold it. We
are willing to incorporate this in com
mon with the Cincinnati Platform, as
the creed of the party for 1860. There
can be no valid objection urged against
It. 1t is true that the Peck dynasty
may cavil at it, but it is equally true that
to no sensible people can they make il
appear it is not the duty of the govern
ment to protect the rights of owners o.
recognized property from wrong. Let
them fret and fume and whine. LIE,
them comfort and misrepresent, but let
them deny, if they dare, that the rights
of owners shall be respected and pro-
tected. To this complexion then have
the Southern Dem ocracy arrived:
First, Non intervention by the gov
eminent in State or Territory.-The
doctrine Of Clay.
Second, Protection of property and
enforcement of the decisions Of the
Court.-The doctrine Of Clay and Cal.
houn.
Third, The restoration Of tugitives
from labor.-The doctrine of Washing.
ton and Webster.
All hail Tennessee. Right to the
heart Of Northern Democracy do the
sentiments of her Southern co-adju.
cy do the sentiments Of her Southern
tors come greeting. As near a.
may be to the standard let US press
then, with common creed, for com
mon victory, and common glory.