Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1860-06-06

advocate Of Southern rights, Teluhllsles and en-
dorses the address OF the Texas Delegation at
| Charleston, In an able and well-writ'eu article
upon this subject, the editor says
The address gives clear AMI fall expose OF lAe
motives governing the delegates Ia their secession
I from the Convention, and We cannot see how II
was possible for them 10 have acted otherwise
under the circumstances, 10 have abandoned
their position and Gcqulesced In the polry OF the
maj jorty Of the Convention, would have nc once
I ignored the rights of the South, and been equiv
alent 10 the adoption of tho Northern, Douglas
construction OF the Cincinnati platform and pos
| tive Acknowledgement that hereafter the Demo-
cratic party, North and South fully approved
aud adopted as cardinal principles the Squattcr-
Sovereignty policy of the Republican party,
/ IL is strange and unaccountablo 70 MS that
Southern papers can take the ground that the
I Southern delegates We're wrong in their gecesSun
aud attach ali the blame of the dismemhcrment
Of the Convention to chat wing of the lirty, nud
treat those who preferred the entire brrlking uP
of the Convention, rather than Submitting TO "a
wrong, us Disunionists, These papers, very I'M
acc0untably, see no fault in the North. aud throw
the whole bnrthed of preserving the Union upon
the South and the parties which may br formed
at the South. Principle and right, evoa honor
is disregardcd or made subserveent nprsy, lhr
party must be kept together ut the expense oi
I NoHeNNuAlOHhl anu tNNlN N4-'at NA''
the part Of Southern statesmen to free their sec
/ tiOn from the incubus imposed upon chem ny
/ Northern sectiOnalism. is viewed rs tie insane
rawlings of dlsunUnism, and the efforts Jl South
ern sectionalists to destroy the government.
These papers generally delight to style them
selves conservatives and extreme Unirn lovers
and savers but il may well be doubted whether
, such conservatism does not bend rather over 10
the other side and its propagators, in reality
| less of Union savers Union lovers tran truth
would suggest over policy.
We will readily cOnccdc that the action oil tne
! Convention was an attempt to secllOhhze 'no
| Democratic party but we contend that the at
tempt came from the Northern wing OF the party
And II the question opens up a separation OF thls
confederacy us future contingency, Tat ques
tion rests upon the simple fact as to whether the
Northern portion of the conledcracy is willing TO
be governed by the Constitution and the deliher
ate construction OF that instrument by the Su-
preme Court. The seeding members require
nothing beyond the Constitution and the. Dred
Scott Decision, and these they had the right to
insist upon and those who refuse to be govern
ed in there action by these plain praposi lions are
rather entitled to the obloquy of dis1nioniSt'
than those who left organized body, unwilling
to take part in the propagation of uneonstitu-
/ tional sentiments.
How stands the cascl The Committee ON Plat
form, to whom the subject was referred, agreed
to the following resolutions:
RcsOlred, That the platform adopte by the
Democratic party at Cincinnati, be all:med WITH
the following explanatory resolutions
lst That the government IT Territory or
ganized 10y m act Of Congress s pro,i,ioDai ana
temporary and during its existence % citizens
Of the United States have so equal wight o. 'a'ti'
with their property in the TewiuC without
their rights, citner Of person OF "r2tf1- ''T
Destroyed oy jml aired by lonsr1 s''nts or i.Tfi-
torai legislation,
n That 1t is tho duty Of the Naieri Go7em-
mont, in all its departments, 90 protect, "len
necessary, the rights OF person aud property I'
the Territories, aud wherever else It's CJu..'''-
tional authority cXtonas.
3D. That waen The settlers iu, Ierut i., 10
pursuance of proper high authority, having. an
adequate population, form State Constitution
the right of sovereignty commences and, being
consummated by admission into the Union' tnGy
stand on an equal footing with the people OF o'n-
err States, and the State thus organized ought TO
be admitted into the Federal Unlon' Whether i's
Constitution PROHIBITS or recognizes V"e i"o'''"
ton of slavery
This report was adopted by the committee, by
II States voting in favor of It, and 10 against It,
thus having q ma ority of two States IN Commit
tee every one one Of which would cast the vote
of their electoral colleges in favor of the candi-
date to be nominated by that Convention Nheh
the report came before the Convention. 1t was re-
iected and let it be understood that the majority
the members of the Convention who rejected
I the report Of the committee, could not nope 10
carry four States out of the Is which they rep
resented.
But, was there anything in these resolutions
which savored of disunionism anything when
was in contraventon to the Constitution or the
whole people, North or South East or west =
Can anybody find the least preteXt tor sectiona''
ism in the demand to construe received propo-
sition according to the Constitution and the de-
cisons of the highest authority known to the
government! The Cincinnati platform had enun-
ciated a principle which was not only susceptible
of two constructions, but which was, by large
portion of the party North construed to mean
: Souatter Sovereignty, while the entire party
at the South maintained the converse OF the prop
osition This was the question sought to be set
tied, whether it should hereafter prevail as a
Democratic axiom that Squatter Sovereignty
should rule in the Territories, that the princl-
ples enunciated in the resolutions we have quo
ted should be regarded as the future rule OF the
party?
. The whole matter may easily be summed up
The Northern delegates were perfectly willing to
, nominate their candidate and run the race WITH
out the inconvenience OF carrying nrlhc'p'e
which might initiate against their success Alho'g
their Northern constituents with their sectlohai
views; while the Southern delegates very proper
ly determined that the principles on which tneii
candidate should run, should be fully and airly
Y stated and liable to no misconstructon; and
had the same principle been adopted at Cincinna'
ii. we might now be spared the dangerous troub-
les growing out of the rapid spread OF sectional
I ism fostered and encouraged by tne lase Demo
cratic platform and the letter of acceptance o
the nominee of that convention, for the purpose
t of securing Pennsylvania and other Northern
States supposed personally favorable to his eiec
s ton.
: RoUeH TREATMENT OF AN ARTIsT.-Ihe - spe
cial artist - of one of the New York ILLUSTRATED
q napers. recently visited Washington one OF hi
aabiocts was To sketch the interior of Judge Dou-
Ia ., hnnse The JUDGE was not at home, bul