The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-07-26
OTTUMWA, IOWA, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1860.

ing of titles ofnobility, or the establishment
of religion therefore Congress scould be as
much bound to veto an act Of Territorial
legislation prohibiting it, as an act violating
these rights of every citizen of the Republic.
He winds up with a grand Disunion IT,
rade.
| PET PHRASES OF THE DIsUNONIsTs.
But suppose, Mr. President, you have the
right to prohibit Slavery in the Territories of
the United States, what high political con-
sideration requires you to exercise it? All
must see that it cannot be effected without
producing a popular conclusion which soitl
probably dissolre this Union.
And again, after enumerating divers i'm
aginary Southern wrongs"
Sir, these things would seem to warn the
South that the day is not distant, when she
will be forced to stand firmly upon her con-
stitu tional rights. ...
The plain English of which phrase-a pet
one with the fre-eaters--is Secession and
Disunion. Very soon the same words, and
still more threateningly occur, again
The @ho,s history Of public feeling and
opinion in the free States, whether we look
at the action Unpopular assemblies or proceed
ings of their Legislatures, or to the course of
their Representatives in Congress, mourn
FULLY warns the South that she must stand
upon her constitutional rights. TRUST, sir,
when the crisis comes, she isprepared to do it.
And he reiterates the same Disunion blrs-
ter yet again and still more explicitly:
But repeat, the inference from all the
visible indications around us evidently is
that time has perhaps arriced when the South
has no other alternative but to stand upon
her constitutional rights.
This will answer for our first installment
of the Hon. Herschel V. Johnson's peculiar
ly ."opulent'' Congressional record. We
commend it to all candid and honest people
who have any inclination to vote for Douglas
and johnson, or any desire to know what
the Douglasites regard as the model of a
| Southern statesman.
The above is certainly conclusive as to Mr..
Johnson's sentiments in 1S4S. But for the
purpose of showing that he has not yet chan
ged his mind on the matter in issue between
the two wings of the pro-slavery party, we
reprint from the Southerner and Adrertiser,
Douglas paper, published at Rome, Ca,
| Gan authority therefore, that cannot be dis
puted,) the proceedings of the Democratic
State Convention held at Milledgeville June
4, called to take action in regard to the seces-
sion of most of the Georgia delegates at
Charleston. 1t seems that Business Com
mittee oftwenty- -four was appointed, ofwhch
Herschel V. johnson was one.
This committee disagreed as to the pro-
priety of appointing new delegates to Balti-
more, the friends of the seceders opposing,
and few who preferred to see Douglas cleo
ted to dissolution fthe party, favored that
step and the consequence was, that two
reports were presented-a majority one by
| twenty members of the committee, and a
minority one by four members, which latter
division included Herschel Y. johnson, who
as chairman, introduced the minority report.
The two reports were discussed by various
persons, Mr.. johnson defending his, and
Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury,
acting as pacifcator. The latter gentleman
stated there was "no difference in the prin-
ciples enunciated in both the majority and
minority reports. There were only two
minor differences one was, that the major
ity report endorsed the secession from the
Charleston Convention, while the minority
report neither endorsed nor commended [cen-
sured p the action of the Georgia delegates
there"
The result was, that a majority report was
adopted by a vote of 800 to Al, when the
minority, under the lead of Mr.. johnson,
seeded, and organized another convention,
and appointed the bobus delegates who, rep
resenting one-eighth of the Democracy Of
Georgia, were admitted into the Baltimore
Convention by Douglas friends to an equali-
ty 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.
Resolped, That we re-affirm the Cincinnati
platform with the following additional propo-
sitions:
1st That the people ofthe United States have
an equal right to settle with their property Of
any kind, in the organized 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 recognize
as the correct exposition Of the Constitution
in this particular, slare property stands on
the same footing as all other descriptions Q,
property, ard that neither the General Goc-
ernme.. {, NOR ANY TERRITORIAL
GOVERNMENT, can destroy or impair the
right to slare property; that property of all
kinds, slaves as well as any species of prop
| ty, in the territories, stand upon the same
equal and broad constitutional basis, and
subject to like principles of recognition and
PROTECTION in the LEGISLATIVE, .ju.
dicial and erecutirs departments Of tie Coz
ernnent.
I'd. That we will support any man who
,,o,, bo ,op,;potad hx- the RaIt;mora Conyen.