The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-15
The Coming Convention.

The Coming Convention.
Doubtless our Republican readers are Gu
rous, and our Democratic readers (for we
have some such) are anxious to know what
the prospect is in relation to the pair OF
Democratic National Conventions that are
advertised for this month.
With the hope of gratifying this natural
feeling we have swep, the Southern heavens
with our political telescope, and hasten to
note down our discoveries. We have not
space to go much into detail, but we have
ascertained that there is not the slightest
prospect Of the breach between the Northern
and Southern Democracy being healed. All
signs point unerrinsly to a different result.
The address OF nineteen members of Con-
gress to the National Democracy, signed by
Southerners only Y. recommends the leaders at
Charleston to omit or rather postpone the
meeting at Richmond on the llth ufJune, and
assemble with the Northerners at Baltimore
on the 18th, not however with any idea of
recedlng an iota from their position taken at
Charleston, but in the hope that the united
convention NAV be inclined to harmonic on
the identical platform reported by majority
Of the states, and rejected by a majority Of
delegates. If the Northern Democracy will
not accede to this, they then recommend that
the Richmond convention be resumed, in
which all the slave states are expected to be
represented, and as many of the Others as
can be induced to send delegates to it, and
that they there proceed TO set forth in une-
quiviocal language platform recognizing
Southern rightS-or in other words that the
slave CwHerS under the constitution may take
their human c!Iattels into any Of our terrific
ries, and there claim for such property the
same degree Of protection that may be claim
ed for any other species Of property, and that
when the exisency Of the case requires it
Congress is bound to intervene for that pur-
pose.
This is the Interpretation the Southern
Democracy persist in putting upon the non
intervention resolution Of the Cincinnati co.,
yenliun.
This looks very much like what has been
called in England the non-naturM interpret
alton OF the thirty-nile articles. They must
be read backwards. Congress has no power
whatever over the subject of slavery in the
territories. but yet Congress is bound to take
care that the doomed black man is not res
cued from the lash and the shackles which
mark dominion over him.
Such proposal for e4ecting harmony in
the party, after the explicit and determined
reputation OF any suc!, principles by the en-
tire free states, except California and Oregon
is nothing less than an open insult to Nor
thern Democracy, and there is good reason
TO believe that they will treat it as SUCH
Such ground of union must be regarded as
wholly inadrlssihle.
Secretary Cobb too has written letter to
some Georgians who Intercepted him on
the same subject. in which he takes substan
italy the same ground.
The administration is committed to similar
doctrines. as appears by its leading support.
ers ard papers with the Constitution in the
van.
n late number of the Richmond Enquirer
says, This man, Lincoln, who obtained a
majority of the popular vote of Illinois in the
late canvass with Douglas, will be elected
President of the United States unless the
Baltimore Contention wW yield the rights o,
the Southern states, and positively declart
the future policy Of tie Democratic party to
be the protection IF tie stare holders IN til,
enjoyment Of their property in tie Federal
Territories prior to their legal organization
as states. The same paper adds, ut is now
impossible to unite the South upon Mr.
Douglas, at this election--the disruption al
Charleston is too recent the controversy toe
embittered.
The union Of the party must be made on
some other man. who can and will stand up
on the protection platform"
Even the Louisville Journal which hates
the Democracy intensely, yet Yields its pow,
erful support to the same imprac,icable and
absurd argument
lnnumerable public meetings of the party
all over the South have been held since the
disruption at Charleston, approving and sus.
tanning the seceders. The adverse demon
STATIONS have been few and far between. In
short the prediction we made at the time in
the columns of this paper, that the breach
would become wider as time advanced. has
been completely verified.
We can in this connection but merely al
lude to recent debate in the Senate, in