The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1860-06-16

be the result, the future only can develop; bu
we fear the combined forces Of Abolfsionism
Black Republicansm and Squatter Sovereignt
Democracy at the North, aided and betted b,
the Opposition party and bogus Democrats in thu
South will achieve victory over sound, consti
tutional principles that will end finally in thu
subversion Of the Union We have reason t
believe that large majority of the people of the
free States are unwilling to acknowledge The
equality of the Southern States in the Union
The Black Republicans boldly declare that Con
gress has not only the power, but it is its duty tC
exclude us from the Territories. The Douglas
wing of the Democracy say that the Territorial
Legislature can do so--in the language of then
chieftain, Judge Douglas, that " the people of a
Territory can by lawful means, exclude slavery
before it comes in as 8 State :" and "no matter
what may be The decision Of the Supreme Court on
that abstract question, still the right of the people
Of the Territories to make II a slave Territory OF
free Territory is perfect and complete" While
the true Democracy contend in the language Of
the Supreme Court of the United States, that
the right of property in a slave is distinctly
and expressly affirmed in the Constitution" and
that "no tribunal acting under the authority Of
the United States, whether it be legislative, ez-
ecutive or judicial, has right to draw distinc.
tien or to deny to it the benefit Of the provisions
and guarantees which have been provided for the
protection of private property" "And if Con-
gress itself cannot do this--if it is beyond the
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could not authorize Territorial Government to
exercise them. 1t could confer no power on any
local Government, established by its authority,
to violate the provisions of the Constitution"
" The only power conferred Is the poper coupled
with the day of guarding aud protecting the owner
in his rights"
Now, those who seeded from the Charleston
Convention did so because that Convention re.
fused to endorse these great and vital principles
as laid down by the Court and all kinds of OPP
probious cpithets are beapcd upon the delegates
and those who sustained them, by the dough faces
from one end of the Union to the other. We are
called " extremists" "dsunionists " hre-eat-
ers," and every other hard name that can be
Culled from the vocabulary of detractiOn, simply
because we demand constitutional rights as
sxpoupded by the Supreme Court. We ask moth
ing more, and think it would be disgraccful to
submit to anything less If we will not defend
our rights, we will soon have none 70 defend. If
we submit to any abrilgement of them, they will
soon be swept entirely away This scnseless cry
Of "disunion" is raised against us by the anti
slavery men of the North, and the Opposition
men Of the South, instead of standing up with
US in defcuse of the right, join in the chorus in
order to bring reproaeh upon Instead of
attempting to prove that our principles are wrong,
and that our demands are unjust, content them
selves and think the victory will be gained by
calling us hard names. Ask any intelligent nan
Of the Opposition party if he does not believe it
to be the duty of the Federal Government to pro-
tect slave owners in their property in the COM
IuOn Territories of the Union, and he will probably
answer in the Affirmative, but at the same time
will involve himself in ridiculous inconsistency
by saying it is wrong to demand il, or that those
who DO demand this protection are trying to break
up the Union. The truth is these Union-savers
these men who have the praise of the Union
constantly on their lps--aud say they are for the
u mon under any and all circumstances are really
the worst enemies to the Union in the country,
the Black Republicans not excepted because
thor conduct only has the effect to stimulate the
anti slavery party to further and continued ag-
erosion, until they reach that point where for
bearanGe ceases to be virtue, and the South
may he compelled to dissolve the Union Goy her
ewn safety. But we have some hope that all |
these dangers will be avoided by the representa-
tives of the true, constitutional Democracy, who
met at Richmond, Va, on Monday last We have
no doubt if The Baltimore Convention fail to
adopt a sound platform, that our delegates will
meet again at Richmond end do what the Balt
more Convention should have done, and then we
will present the noble spectacle Of a party bat I
ling for sound constitutional principles against |
hree parties that have entered the field for no +
lther purpose than to engage in scramble for
cover and plumber.
The Georgia Convention, which split in two
On the question Of sending delegates to Rich
nond and to Baltimore, did not, as it appears,
isagree on the doctrine that neither Congress
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