The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1860-07-14
IMPORTANT FROM ALABAMA.
Opposition State Convention.
Endor.em.n, OF Br.eG,nr,dss and Ian

EndOrseTi nj emit OF Brec kinridge aud Lane.
The 9tate Convention of the Opposition
party of Alabama was htld at Montgomery
On the I'd inst The following platform,
Endorsing the National Democratic bomiaees,
Breckenridge and Lane, vas enthusiastically
adaptcd
Reso't6d, That THIS CONVENTION hereby
avows aud reaffirms the principles laid down
in The platform If the American party OF
Alabama, adopted on the 9Th of February
1859, ut Mont geometry, "without change or
abatement"
2. ReSolUed, That since the adoption Of
our aforesaid PLATFORM the Supreme Court
Of the United States has decided that the
principles therein announced arc Correct
AID thus, it Is seen, we are asking only What
The highest judicial tribunal declares to be,
Tong to u.s. And if the CONSERVATIVE men
Of the NORTH or their allies at the South,
are unailing to Insert these principles iii
the party Plaif5rS. Upon Which their candi.
dates are put befors the people, we cannot
consistently with our aforesaid platform Of
1859, give our support to candidates this
Significantly left mcommiaed to that plat
form.
8. RESOLVED, That among the principles
announced in our aforesaid platform, is the
essential one, that the citizens of each Ter
ritory have tie right to all such legislation
as may be necessary to protect them in the
possession aud enjoyment of their slave
property. This principle is essential, be-,
cause it is but the assertion Of the equality
in rights of each citizen of the Southern
States with each citizen of tho Northern
States, and the equality in rights of each
Southern State with each Northern State.
Whoever denies such protection thereby de-
MES such equality.
5. Resolved, That the question Of protec.
ton for slave property in the Territories, as
substantially laid down in our aforesaid plat
form, has become, and is, THE PARA
QUESTION in the pending Pres
idential election and one that cannot be
ignored without a surrender of Southern
equality. That question has disrupted the
National Democratic party. One portion
of that party, after the disruption, assem-
bled in Convention, and unanimously adopt.
ed platform, and put forth John G. Breck-
inridge and Joseph Lane as candidates for
the Presidency and Vice Presidency upon
the platform thus unanimously adopted.
No other party Convention, which has made
nominations this year for the Presidency,
has avowed in the platform upon which it
has put its nominees before the public, the
principle of protection for slave property in
The Territories, substantially as laid down in
our aforesaid platform. AS we deem said
principle of protection vital to the South.
md as We feel bound by the high obligations
If our duty to our country, to do all we
lonorably can to have that principle carried
tut in the administration of the Federal
Government, we hereby declare it is our de-
iberate purpose, not as Democrats, but
merely as Che determined friends of South,
I'm equality and Southern institutions, and
IS allies of those who, by placing their nom
nees upon platform substantially asserting
'ur own long cherished principles Of protec-
ion for slave property in the Territories,
AVE given signal proof Of their devotion to
Southern equality and Southern institu-
ions, to support Breckenridge and Lane, if
n their letters Of acceptance Of the nomi-
latiOn, or otherwise, they give their unqual-
fed sanction to the platform upon which
hey have been nominated