The Van Buren press., 1860-06-08
From the Washington Sfates.
Let tJusfjce has Done.

Incidents It III & Char Eston Conventid
make it i'm peratiJ that pme vindicstion
Southern msgnanfinity should be made =
| We have always regarded iberality and a
high sense of justice distinctly marked in
Southern character consequently, the IL
liberal assertions made by Mr.. Burrow. OF
Arkansas and others of the seceling dele
gates of the Convention, impugning the
patriotism and political honesty Of the Nor
thern Democracy was unjust. ungenerous,
and not warranted by facts, or the past his
ttory of~our party alliance. ----~
The folio wing facts prove the Northern
Dem ocracy to be most disinterested and pat
riotic in their attachment to principte and
support of Southern Constitutional rights,
which facts should command the confidence
respect, gratitude and adherence Of their
political brethren of the South.
The tariff was the first political subject
since the formation Of the Democratic and
its various opposition parties-that partook
Of sectional or local interest the manufac-
turing interest of the North claimed it as
especially beneficial to it, while the South
has resisted it as oppressive to its peculiar
una animotisly disregaried interest by uni
iOrlHiy SOtiuS WAh Inc oootHcih i''ihONi"to
for its suppression.
The annexation of Texas" which al
ded an empire to the South, the Oregon
boundary question. the :. Mexican war,
the sc fugitive slave law. the !" compro-
mise measures OF 1885," the repeal of the
9 Missouri compromise linc." all considered
as favoring the South, were galiantly and
ariently supported by the free State democ-
racy and yet their fidelity to the South is
doubted. What ,more have they done 3
Seeing, feeling and knowing the great accu-
mulating force of the abolition sentiment
and which, but for their noble resistance
must rcvolutionize this nation, they intro
ducej and aided the South in establishing
the doctrine of Congressional non -interven-
lion, which principle they still adhere to, as
Shown by their votes against F" Bingham's''
report to snnul the Territorial legislation
of New Mexico, which establishes slavery,
and also Crows Territorial bills for Chip
eva, Idaho. Nevada, Arizona aud Dakotah
all of which proposed to prohibit Or ex-
clude slavery from those Territories.
Here was an expansive field, and an in
vited opportunity for the exercise of their
anti slavery pra&epsitles. or indulgence of
unfriendly legislation toward the South, if
principle and a sacred regard for her con
stitutional rights did not control them. We
are candid in our opinion that growing
sectional pre- judice in the free States has
lengendered the conviction that the Demo
Gratis thereof favor the South or Souther n
interest by their votes, and said conviction
is the unmistakable cause of having reduc-
ed our party in maay of those States from
a ma iorty to a minority. Is it not, then,
more than uncharitable to upbraid and
taunt those noble men of the North and
Northwest, because they cannot now boast
OF as many Democratic electora! votes as
the South, but who have gallantly stem
med the popular torrent of their locality,
and unyieldingly adhered to the dogmas of
the party and interest of the South vet
with all their evident devotion to principle
and selt-sacrifice, we find men like Afcssrs
Burrow Il Co., undminIful of Justice or
| SO bent on dissolution of this glorious
Union, which can only be preserved har-
moniously by the triumph of the +" nation
al Democratic party" as to scoff at our
brethren of the free States, and recklessly
assert that they are no better friends of the
Democratic party or the interest of the
South, than the Black Republicans.
What men of proper selfrespect could
long be expected to adhere to party, or
the peculiar interest of a section when taun-
ted and told that your weakness merits no
consideration from us, (the South not
wthstanding it has been produced by your
devotion to our cause? Numerically, how
ever, the free States have Democratic
strength of upwards of twelve hundred
votes, (Which is two to one as per the
South, and which, if afforded u literal op-
portunity, can be developed for the veal OF
this nation but slave codes, African slave
trade, and like ultra and impracticable ques-
tions which haunt the mind OF few fever
ed politicians, must be eschewed.