The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-02-01
NUMBER 6.
The Alabama Resolutions.

The Democracy of Alabama owed il ia
themselves to announce their creed in frank
and explicit style. The bold attempt Of the
Mobile Register to ally them to the Douglas
faction, at the expense Of disgracefuI aban.
donment of their former principles, and of q
separation from the true Democracy of the
North and the South, demanded a manly vim.
dication of their political integrity. The res.
olutions adopted by their late Convention
and which We copy below, have placed then
upon high ground, and viii shield them from
the remotest suspicion # iniidelity. They
have signally rebulled the leaders who soush
to betray them into the hands Of the enemy
t-Es ssssi- -
Democracy of the assaiIed States can pur.
sue at Charleston, without compromising
rights that every intelligent freeman musl
hold sacred:
1. Resolued by the Democracy Of the State Of
AIabanaa, IN @Coqweutim assembled, That
holding all issues and principles upon which
they have heretofore affiliated and acted with
the National Democratic party, to be interior
IN dignity and Importance to the great uues-
ton OF slavery, they content themselves with
a general re-atiirlnance Of the Cincinnati plat
form as to such issues, and also endorse said
platform as to slavery, together with the fol-
lowing resolutions:
2. Resolved further, That we re-aflrn 50
much of the first resolution of the platform
adopted in Convention by the Democracy of
this State, on the 8th of January. 1856 as re-
lates TO the subject of slavery, to-Wit: "The
unqualified right of the people Of the slave
holding States to the protection of their prom
erty In the States, in the Territories, and in
the wilderness in which territorial Govern
ments are as yet unorganized'
.. ReSot0ed further, That in order to meet
and clear away all obstacles to full enjoy
ment of this right in the Territories. we re-
affirm the principle OF the 9th resolution Of he
platform adopted in Convention by the Darnoc-
racy Of this Safe, on the 18th of Februarv
1913, to-wit: THAT it is the duty Of the Gen
eral Government by all proper legislation. to
secure an entry into those Territories 10 al,
the citizens Of the United States, together
with their property of every description. and
that the same should remain protected by the
United States, while the Territories are under
its jurisdiction.
4. Resolved further, That the Constitution
oil the United States is acomp2ct between SOW
erelgn and co-equal States united upon the
basis OF perfect equality Of rights and privil-
eyes.
5. ResoIvad ftytEsr, That the Territories of
the United States are common property, il
winch the States have equal rights, and to
which the citizens Of every State may right
fpiIN- o1r150 70 ~,
erty recognized as such in any Of the States
OF the Union, or by the Constitution Of the
United States.
the United States has no power to abolish
slavery in the Territories, or to prohibit its
introduction into any o. them.
z. Reso'raI .fgtler, That the territorial
Legislatures, created by the legislation of
congress, have no power to abolish slavery, or
to prohibit the introduction OF the same. or to
impair by unfiiendly legislation the security
and full enjoyment Of the same within the
Territories; and such constitutional pow 7
certainly does not belong TO he people Of the
Territories IN any capacity, before, In the ex
erc!se of lawful authority, they form a Con-
stitution preparatory to admission qs q S.sie
'Alio ,.le I mon; aud Lder acton in the exer-
"
not operate or take effect before their actual
admission as a State into the Union.
8. Resolvei fatier, That the principles
enunciated By Chief Justice Taney, in his
opinion in the Dred Scott case, deny to The
territorial Legislature the power to destroy OF
impair, by any legislation whatever the right
Of propertyin slaves and maintain it to b. the
duty of the Federal Government, in al OF its
departments, 10 protect the rights of the own
er Of such property in the Territories and
the principles so declared are hereby asserted
to be the rights Of the South, and the South
should maintain them.
8. Resoiuat further That we hold all of
the foregoing propositions to contain cardinal
pjTRcpes-true in themselves--ani Just and
proper, and necessary for the safety OF all that
is dear to US; and we do hereby instruct our
delegates to the Charleston Convention to
present them for the calm consideration and
approval of that body-from whose justice |
and patriotism we anticipate their adoption.
10. Reso5oe3 JuTtler That our delegates
to the Charleston Convention are hereby cx-
pressly instructed to insist that said Conven-
ton shall adopt platform Of principles rccog-
nizing distinctly the rights of the South, as |
asserted IN the foregoing resolutions; and if |
the said National Convention shall refuse to |
adopt, in substance, the propositions embraced |
in the preceding resolutions, prior to nomina-
ting candidates, our delegates to said Conven- |
ton are hereby positively instructed to with
draw thereiTom.
II: Resofvet Jartder, That onr delegates to
the Charleston Convention shall cast the vote |
Of Alabama as a unit, and majority of our |
delegates shall determine how the vote of this |
State shall be given.
II. Resolcet J,at'tcr, That an Executive
Committee, to consist of one fronreach Con-
sressional District, be appointed whose duty
it shall be, in the event that our delegates |
from the Charleston Convention, in
obedience tothe 10Th resolution, to call a con |
vention of the Democracy of Alabama, to
meet at an early day to consider what is best
to be done. JOHN ERWIN.
Chairman.