Daily national Democrat., 1860-06-06
A Southern Neutrality-suspicious..

"A
: Thespeeeh of Mr.. Gauden, Of Georgia, in
the Charleston Convention, on the lst Of May
last created an immense sensation. lie stood
up for the doctrine Of non-interv sntion. He
disagreed with that portion of the Georgia
delegation which seeded from the Conven-
tion, on account of the adoption of the nom
intervention platform. For his part, he was
for non.intervention, on the part of Congress
absolutely. No halfway business about it
No protection" 10 any thing of the kind
He believed that this doctrine of protection
to slavery in the Territories was a mere alb
straction. 1t could be of no consequence to
the South, for the South had no slaves to
carry into those Territories where slave prop
erty needed protection. There was not
surplus of slaves in the South adequate to the
supplying of the Territories with slaves, un-
less indeed slave States were in measure
depopulated, and given up to freesoilers,-
There were not more slaves in the slave
States than eufliced for the region in which
they were located, and the emigration Of the
slayeholding population, under such circum-
stances, could not be looked for He might
have added, that there never would be sur
plHs slave population, so as to admit of filling
up the Territories with Shareholders, unless
the laws against the African slave trade were
abolished, and Africans imported without re-
striction.-In such case, the slave population
would be increased to an indefinite extent,
and new fields for slave labor would have to
be found The result would be the pouring
Of Shareholders into the Territories.
Mr.. Gauden paid a just tribute to the
heroism of the Northern Democracy. His
remarks are well worth quoting, and we give
them here:
"When | can see no possible practical good
to result to the country from demanding leg
islation of this theory, | am not prepared to
disintegrate and dismember the great Demo-
cratic party of this Union. believe that the
hopes Of this country depend upon the main
tenance of the great Democratic party North
[Applause.) 1t is no trouble for man to be
saint in Heaven. Cheers and laughter
"When the devil was sick,
The devil q monk would be
The devil got well,
But devil monk was he"
We, the Democracy of the South, are mere
carpet knights 1t is no trouble for us TO be
Democrats. Applause and laughter When
look to the Northern Democrats, l see them
standing up there and breasting the tide of
ianaticism, oppression, wrong and slander
with which they have to contend | view in
these men types of the old ancient Romans
view in them all that is patriotic and noble;
and, for one, | am not willing to cut loose
from them. Great cheering. say, then,
that will hold on TO my Democratic friends
oil the North to the last day of the week
late in the evening. [Great laughter.
This language, it viii be observed, is from
a leading Southern Demoerat-he owner of
a large slave plantation in Georgia-and,
more than this, an open advocate of the re-
peal of the laws of Congress against the i'm
portation of slaves from Africa
When such men as these uphold the Douglas
doctrine of non-intervention, and deny the
power of Congress to legislate upon the sub
Ject of slavery in the Territories,-how |
ridiculous it is, to say that popular sovereign
ty Is free soil doctrine, and that Douglas is |
a mere Northern Sectionast The fact is
that the Douglas platform is recognized as
the Democratic platform by Southern as well
as Northern men, and those Southern men
who accuse Judge Douglas Of a leaning to
Freesoilism, do it solely for demagogieal pur-
roses, and because they wish to elevate some
creature Of their own to the Presidency. In
C~i;f-;, ~ r---;.:--- e IN--..,l--- - ..,Ast
grossly misrepresented, when it is pretended
by these Lecompton sheets that the universal
South is opposed to his doctrines. 1t is no
such thing. He has powerful party. this
day, in all the Southern States, and time will
verify it to those who do not read enough to
know it now. The number that would refuse
to support Mr.. Douglas, if he were nominated,
would be mighty small squad.
TESTIMONIALS TO JOIN c. HEEXAN.-Yes,
Testimonials to John G. Heenan Didn't he
go all the way to England and fight the most
renowned boxer of the age and wouldn't he
have vhiDDnd hin, &c fl,a lloo1,, II;nplish