The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06

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Political News.
MARyLAND.-A private letter from cit
izen of st. Paul, on visit to Annapolis, Ind,
states the following as to'the position of the
Maryland delegates to the Charleston Cons
vention -" In the Congressional districts,
three have elected DOUGLAS. delegates; two
are divided, and one has chosen anti Douglas
men. The State Convention, to elect dele
gates at large, met at Baltimore on the 2lst,
and adjourned yesterday. It elected four
delegates-one certain, and probably two
for DOUGLAS. To sum up ION the first
ballot, the vote Of Maryland will stand four
certain, and probably five districts for
DOUGLAS and after two or three ballots,
the entire vote of the State will probably
be cast for him."
The NATIONAL CONVENTION. Wash.
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer states that most intelligence re-
ceived at Washington shows that there has
been much exaggeration connected with the
accounts from Charleston, while there is
undoubtedly some truth in the fact of high
charges having been made by bar rooms, &c.
1t is surmised now that the excitement has
been COTTON up to keepthe Northern people,
especially those from the Northwest, from
attending the Convention. The Charleston
Mercury has lent it's influence to circulate
this libel on its people, with view of pre-
venting the outside pressure from the North
which will be brought to bear in favor of
the nomination of DOUGLAS.
Would STAY IN.-Hou. WIN. L. YANCY,
one of the disunion delegates from Alabama
to Charleston, in recent speech, said :
Better that Black Republican should be
elected than such man as DOUGLAS for
with Black Republican President we
should be able to meet the issue at once. !"
He thinks if DOUGLAS is electedthe disunion-
lists will be compelled to stay in the Union.
He also says, so the Mississippian reports,
that he will be willing to stay in if the
Senate Caucus Slavecode resolutions shall
be adopted by the Charleston Convention.
CAL1FoRN1A.-.TheD Democratic State Con-
vention in California, passed the following
resolution on national politics
RESOLVED, That we recognize the decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States in the
bred Scott case, to be the true construction of
the law of the land. That the courts are in
vested, under the laws and the Constitution of
the United States, with power for the protec
ton of the person and property Of the citizen,
and that any Intervention of the Federal power
in controlling the policy CT the Territories, is
highly impolitic and subversive of the funda.
mental principle of self government, except in
cases of unlawful resistance to the laws and
mandates of the courts.
The above resolution embody the political
creed of Mr.. DOUGLAS on the subject oil
slavery. It is thoroughly non-intervention
and popular sovereignty. The language
used" that any Intervention of the Federal
power in controlling the policy of the Terri.
tories is highly impolitic and subversive of
the fundamental principle of self govern
ment lis an exceedingly emphatic con-
demnation of the resolutions of the Senate
caucus and of slave-codeism in all its
phases.
SIGNIFICANT. = The California Demo.
cratic State Convention voted down a reso.
luton of instruction for DICKINSON, by
vote of s. to 296. A resolution declaring
DOUGLAS the last choice of the California
Democracy, was tabled--ayes 2S4, nays IS.
GEoRa1A.-The Georgia Democracy, at
their late State Convention, passed no RESI-
olutions whatever upon national topics.
The Congressional Slave Code politicians
were unable to get any expression for their
favorite dogma. Its folly and absurdity
were well shown up by the Augusta Con-
stitutionalist, one of the leading Democratic
papers in the State, in its issue of the 18th
of March, which said:
"But, supposing an improbabiIity, and
granting that such protection may be OBJ
ColuCu, Wuot WILL ~ NC WOEtu Wu6u QdO
Will enactments create negroes Will
laws against negro stealing induce Southern
men to take slaves worth 81 500 each where
cotton does not grow? Will men, for the
sake of extending the South in territory,
take property that pays ten and seventeen
per cent. here. to climate where it will not
pay three per cent.
"What nonsense. then to ask protection
where protection is not wanted for property
that will never 60 there.
Z "Then, let us have no new tests. We
will have all we can do to combat Republic
canism upon our old established principles.
The fate of our Western World is poised in
the scale, and thousands of the good and
true in the North will win laurels under the
non Intervention flag, who would find the
protection banner but funeral pail"
The CALIFORNIA DELEaATroN.-An emf,
grated Oharlestonian writes to the Mercury
as follows:
1.-THE California and Oregon delegations
propose to camp out frontier style during
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