The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-08-15
PROIEsr OF THE DoUGL,slTEs OF
NE:N-J JEhsEf, AGAINST lIh. SAFE
CENTRAL COMMITTEES

10 the Friends or Regular CrgGni.asior.
n, T1e undersigned members OF the Democratic c
t. y: Geley!ng it to be party more devo.- d
ever been more distinctly announced fhrcuSf nsi
all ITS party organizations, both National ard
state dating tack TO the nomination of Gen.
CasS II lo4o, aud receiving reaitirmation by
each successive National Democratic Conren-
tions OF ls52. 1856. and a. last in lsGO. wiz. n
stephen a. Douglas was regularly nominated
Is lis cheli exponent and defender-than the
doctrine OF non-inIeryent.on by Congress. Oh
t-e SUI Jeci OF Slavery in the Territor.es-yiew
win surprise and deep regret III. systematic ef
TORT now being made IN New-Jcrsey 10 r pudi
Ate th.s cardinal doctrine and 10 defeat the
Candidates dominated on The platform regularly
adopted BY the National Democracy, in and
throughout which New-Jersey was regularly
represented.
Instead OF the usual proceedings subsequent
10 regular nomination, We have seen seces-
sion from the National Convention without lust
cause, and as the undersigned are forced TO be-
ileve, solely the result OF personal hostility to
one OF the earliest, as well as the ablest defen
ders against all attempts TO break down the
principle now involved. and which is alike at
tackled by sectionalists from the North and
South
We have witnessed with sorrow an effort made
In New-Jersey, more conservative State, by
the opponents OF the regular democratic Con-
vention Qts platform and nominees), claiming
yet 70 belong to the Democratic party, to force
our State into an attitude OF sectionalism, which
1t must inevitably take, when in persistent et-
fort to blind followers OF az Administration in
its attempt to wreak its vengeance upon
Stepen A Douglas, these opponents of regular
nominations insist upon forcing Of pretended
compromise upon the Democratic party which
ect-dirly or Indirectly reaches its true orgaui-
zatlon and its only regularly constructed and
regularly adopted platform.
The undersigned, and thousands beside, have
waited in vain for any valid excese from any
delegate from New-Jersey to the National Con-
vention which could alone Of il existed) in hon.
or absolve the Democratic party in New-Jersev
from the binding force of that Convention.
We have seen by q call for Democratic
State Convention by the committee appointed
ior that purpose, and calls for primary meetings
to select delegates to compose that Convention
the only legitimate and regular Workings Of
the regular Democratic organization, aud had
hoped that the State Committee would have en-
teItained no opinion or thought inconsistent
with the established usages OF the party; when,
for the first time, al this late period we are in
formed by an official card, over the signature
OF It, Chairman, Nehemiah Perry, in Breckin-
ridge paper OF our city, that this committee has
taken II upon themselves to 60 outside Of their
legitimate duties, to recommend to the only
true Democracy in New-Jersey those who 60
Tor the regularly adopted platform and the reg
ularly nominated candidates hereunder. to JOIN
hands with secedeTs from the Democratic party I:
and, worse than all, ask them to aid in the elec-
ton of traitors to the party, and to defend and
help elevate, in the place OF the National Plat
form and candidates, sectional platform and
sectional candidates.
The undersigned deny the right Of the Com
mittee to make any such recommendation, and
repudiate all such attempts TO rescue them from
their allegiance TO their principles. which are
national, and their candidates, who coming from
the North aud South, and joining hands cordi-
ally upon the platform. prove 10 Us that their
hearts beat 10 the only national sentiment.
"Non-intcrvention."
The undersigned ask their Democratic friends
IN New-J jersey and the Union TO staad fast u
their National Platform and their gallant stan
dard bearers. Douglas and johnson, and repel
all efforts. come from what source they may. TO
induce combination with Breckinridge and
Lane, as they would with Lincoln and Hamlin.