Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-08-31
delegates, entitled to 81 votes, remained

in the Convention.
North Carolina had but one delegate,
entitled to cast one-half vote in the
Convention, yet he is recorded as having
cast one vote.
Tennessee, with only five delegates in
the Convention, is Put down at 3, instead
of %.
Nec York is put down at 35 votes,
when it is well known that two of her
delegates withdrew from the Convention,
and joined the other Convention.
These make total of IL votes, which
added to the 1S bogus delegates from
Alabama, the II bogus delegates from
Louisiana, and the bogus delegates
from Arkansas, counting 16a votes, make
total of 27a votes to be subtracted
from the 1919, leaving the vote of Mr..
Douglas at only l54!
FORCED VOTES.
But even this was a forced vote--forc-
ed by violation Of the usages of the
Democratic party, by which the votes of
81 delegates from New York, in addition
to the two above alluded to, II from
Ohio, and 8 from Indiana, making to-
tai of so delegates entitled to 26 votes,
hostile to the nomination of Mr.. Douglas,
were voted for him. Subtract tn ese
from 154, and it leaves 1913, as the actu-
al strength of Mr.. Douglas in the Con-
yention
Had the rules and usages of former
Conventions, whereby the vote of each
State was to be determined by the ma
iority of the delegates, been followed
Mr.. Douglas would have gained l vote
in Maine, q votes in Connecticut, and
lost 10 in Massachusetts, D in New Jer-
sey, 10in Pennsylvania, 2 J in Maryland
3 in Virginia, | in North Carolina, ! J
in Arkansas, a in Missouri, 3 in Ten
nessee, in Kentucky, making net loss
of 37J to which add the votes of Ala
bama g. and Louisiana 6, represented by
the bogus delegates, who would not ther
have gained admission into the Conven
ton, and we have 52R votes to be de-
Quoted from 1919, leaving 129 as thu
true vote under the rule of former Con
ventions, really cast for Mr.. Douglas il
the Convention.
CONVENTION AT THE MARYLAND IN
STITUTE.
1853 votes were cast for President, t
which must be added ] vote from Min
nesota, 3 votes from Delaware, and
votes from South Carolina, who took NJ
part in the nomination of Mr.. Douglas
! and who before either Convention ad
/ iourned endorsed the action of the Mary
; land Institute Convention, making in al
, III votes.
This number has been since largely III
creased by the endorsement of delegates
after the adjournment of the Conventions
who took no part in the proceedings Of
either, or who, having taken part in the
Douglas Convention, have since repudia-
ted its action.
Thus neither Convention has present
ed candidate nominated by two-thirds
Of the votes of the electoral colleges
Which, therefore, is entitled to the sup.
port of the Democracy, as the embodi.
ment Of its principles, and as endorsed
by the weight and influence of the par.
ty?
The committee to whom we have re-
ferred charge that we are the disunior
party, and therefore are not entitled t.
support. Let us consider the platforms
of the two Conventions, and make some
, inquiries into the antecedents Of its can
didates and supporters.
PLATFORMS OF THE TWO CONVENTIONS
IN REGARD TO SLAVERY
The platform of the Maryland Inst
tute Convention endorsed at Charleston
, by seventeen sovereign States, is as fol
lows:
First. That the government Of Terrific
ry organized by an act Of Congress is provis
5 ional and temporary and, during its exist
ence, all citizens Of the United States have al
equal right to settle with their property in tn
Territory without their rights, either of per
: son or property, being destroyed or impaired
5 by Congressional or Territorial legislation.
/ " Second That it is the duty Of the Fedora
Government in all its departments to pro
tect when necessary, the rights of personsant
property in the Territories, and wherever els
, its constitutional authority extends
> - 1HtTd. i nat Nnen the settlers IN n Terri
, tory, having an adequate population, form
State Constitution, the right of soyereignt,
commences and being consummated By ad
mission into the Union, they stand on al
equal footing with the people Of other States
and the State thus organized ought TO be I'D
mitted into the Federal Union, whether III
Constitution prohibits or recognizes the in
ssitution Of slavery"
That of the Front Street Theatre Con.
vention. is as follows:
" Resoiped, That We the Democracy of tn,
Union in convention assembled hereby de
clare our affirmation Of the resolutions unani.
mously adopted and declared as platform o.
principles by the Democratic Convention nj
Cincinnati, in the year 1856, believing thai
Democratic principles are interchangeable il
their nature when applied to the same subject
matter.
" Resolred, That it lis in accordance with Tn,
true Interpretation Of thu Cincinnati Platform
that during the existence Of Territorial gov.
ernments the measure of restriction. what
ever IL may be, imposed by the Federal Con.
sttuton on the powers Of n Territorial legis-
lature over the subject Of domestic relations
as the same has been or shall hereafter be
finally determined by the Supreme Court Of
the United States, should be respected by all
good citizens, and enforced with promptness
l. III.