The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1860-06-14

20 " VIII be IN the territories. If the
soil and climate arc in favor Of slavery, fHop.
mar sovereignty will cnrry itthcre cherish
it,and Keep il there, in detia nee Of Congress.
sional or territorial legislation excluding il.
But II soil and climate are opposed to slave.
ry. popular sovereignty wfii'e exclude il in
spite OF aii the'pro,cction wlich he sFede-
rnl' Gorernment or Lhe Territorial Legisla-
lure can throw around it, AL admit that
when a people form their State Constitt,
tion they may ndopt or exclude slaverysr1
nave already si,ewn that no one is goinUto
carry slaves into Territory when he knows
" WI be free State. lie who does SO
WI, WI have hard road to travel opposed by
soil, climate, Squatter Sovereignty ;f,id the
Abolitonists. 1t ian road no ono will trav-
eL however wide and open it may be made
Uy Congressional intervention.
Thisbo Of cont ention, til herefore. between
the Northern aud Southern 3Dcn ocraay.
Is mere abstraction, which will Reper beie.
mt the SouiherRStates or injure the North.
ern States In the slightest degree whatever
ttConSress Should attempt 10 exclude slave.
ry from The Territories where IL n ever will
go, or Nurish, the attempt should, be on
posed as point of honor on the part of the
South. And with tiais view, we of the
South have contcndedsfsr the last thirteen
or fourteen years that the slavery question
til" people Of the Territories To regulate in
their own way under the Constitution
This doctrine has been ntlcnSdi established
and eetled on n firm basis, "tothe satisfac-
ton of thc whole Democrntic party. L.
was established by the compromise measures
Tin reference to the Territories obtained
from Mexico. 1t was affirmed by the re.
peal of the Missouri Compromise. Tt was
SO declared in the Nebraska. Kansas Bills -
| Non-intervcntion, thus established and nf.
Ermcd by repeated acts of Congress, was
adopted as the fundamental creed Of the
National Democratic party, on the subject
of slavery in the Territories Why.shSuld
we now desire to change it and establish
the right OF Congress 10 intervene and in
tcrfere with slavery once more in the Ter
ritories? -- . .H.'n ~ 49,
Congressional Intervention is The platform
of the Black Republicans! They assert
| the right OF Congress, TO exclude slavery as
! Congress did. in many instances. till the
Democratic principles Of non-intcrvcntion
wns established. A portion Of the Demo
cratic party are now disposed to abandon
this great prime pie Of nuu.intervcnt and
| step on 10 the other end Of the Black Re
publican platform, and demand Congress
sionNl Intervention for thc'purpose of pro-
tccting slavery! We all ought to soc the
danger g! going TO Congress, in which the
| free States have n majority. To seek the pro.
| lection Of slavery in the Territories, which
have shown needs no protection For
many years the whole country was agi,nt,d
with this slavery question in Congress, and
it wns supposed that the Democratic prnci.
pie of non-intervcntion would rcmove' il
entirely from both Houses of Congress-
How suicidal would it be to throw it back
upon Congress. and give mp all we have
| 1uI in, Ia lnat t..,, n
for one. am unwilling to do so. | hold on
to the following resolution in tho Cincinnati
platform "Thc American Democracy re.
SOgnze and adopt the principles contained
We organic laws establishing the Terri.
Of Kansas and Nebraska, as emhody
Me only sound and safe solution of the
I'y question upon which the great mn
idea Of the people of this whole coun-
Nn r"p"ae in its determined cnnserva.
v the Union-mon Intervention By Con.
~ SIdr"ry IN State or TERRITORY, or II,
rict Of CoiWmGid." -
. received no instructions to leave
Nention, and no political principl,
t'uth having been denied or rcpudi
the resolutions adopted. did no
Mper to leave the Convention.
q my duty required me TO stay in tn,
ation, and endcavor to bring about 4
nomination for Presideht and Vice
2nt. i consequently remained in tho
khIon and cast my vote, whilst there,
senator Hunter, of Virginia, who re.
Fed as cmbOdyimg more of the true spirit
the South than any other candidate be-
krc the Convention. II the other Southern
delegates had remained in the Convention,
il is likely nomination would have been
made enuirely acceptable to the South. IL
| was we'll ascertaincd that Judge Dou9las
! cnnll QV,t nf If La 4
ycntion after the adoption Of the two-thirds
rule. Mr.. Hunter. Mr.. breckenridge, Gen.
eral Lane or Col. Orr might have received
| the nomination. If Judge Douglas friends
had taken UP either of those gentlemen, lac
would have been nominated, had the
Southern delegates remained md voted for
him.
In this respect, as we'll as in others,
think ihe withdrawal of portion of the
Southern delegates was unwisc and unfnr.
tunate. IT. broke up, for the time hciny,
the Democratic Party, and unless it. is re.
united, destroys the hope Of a Democratic
victory in thc ensuing Presidential election.
The states of Nirginia. Maryland. North
| Carolina, Tennessee, kentucky ond Missou.
ri remained in the Convention. There were
some cf the delegates from Georgia Ala.
bnIna, Mississippi Louisiana, Texas, Florida
and Arkansas opposed TO going out Of The
Convention. The consequence is that the
Southern States nrc 'now divi,led when they
should he united This is great misfpr
tune. 1t is altogether likely that portion
ofthc Democracy in the withdrawing States
| will hold conrentions and send delegates IN
| Baltimore, 10 meet in National Democrat
| ic Convention, whilst other portions Of The
! Democracy Of those states viii hold sinniar
| conventions andisend delegates TO EicII-
mond, to, meet there in convention with n
| portion of the Southern States. This will
! produce factiohs in ali the Southern States.
disturbing and distractiug the pnJl,e
mind, without any possibility of good result
ingfrom it. 1t is undeniable that there arc
two factions of the Democratic party nt this
time in hlabarna, and which gave rise to
] the eourse pursued by the Alnbama dele
gates. The same state of factions exists in
Louisiana, and perhaps others of the with
drawing or seeding States. When the
| National ~DemocyRtie Convention meets
again in Baltimore. the friends of Judge
Douglas will be greatly strengthened by
delegates from most OF the seeding States
Instead Of united South. we now shall