Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-22
It's Position.

and plainly states that, unless the oeceueIS
are compromised with, the nominee OF the
Baltimore Convention cannot receive the
vote of the South, apparently endorsing in
advance too, the refusal of the South to sup
port such nominee. A beautiful sentiment is
this Most admirable, as coming from that
consistent sheet, which has so often and We
hemently declared that the will of the ma
iority should rule in Conventions of the
Democratic party, and that the minority
ought always to submit
We had thought that the Express had no
particular opinions Of any sort whatever, but
was willing to take them second hand from
any authoritative source, and such authorita-
tive source, according to its way of thinking
was either the President, or Convention of
the party, whether State or National. We
confess to little surprise, now, at seeing it
possessed of an opinion of its own. 1t is evil
dently not satisfied with the platform adopted
at Charleston. 1t would greatly prefer the
platform advanced in the Davis Resolutions
adopted in Senatorial Caucus at Washing on
1t is not willing to abide 10y the action of the
majority of the Convention, but protests
against it, as unfair, unjust and undemocratc.
1t sets up its own opinion against that Of the
Convention.
Designating the doctrine embodied in the
recent platform at Charleston as the doctrine
of "squatter sovereignty" the Express says:
"The plain and simple truth is that the
people of the South are and have always
been, without distinction of party, opposed to
this doctrine. They are more hostile to il to
day than they have ever been. This ques-
ton was presented TO them in lS4s through
General Cass His Nicholson letter was the
burden of the song of the opposition that
year the Democrats apologized for it, and
attempted to smooth it over, and what was
the result? General Cass was defeated in
the Southern States by popular vote of a.
CIT. He only carried Alabama by SSl votes,
Mississippi by 6l5, and Virginia by l,473.
! He also carried Arkansas, Missouri and Texas
| by small maiorties. He lost Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana Mary
land, North Carolina and Tennessee by heavy
majorites. In addition to this Pennsylvania
and New Jersey voted against him, aud Hi
uOls anu iHuluHd gave MN very SLnhll MA
orites At that time the best feeling pre-
vailed in the party. General Cass was per
sonally exceedingly popular, and his political
sentiments were uneXceptionable with the
exception of his squatter sovereignty motto MS
| His views in regard to that question were
not near so ultra as Mr.. Douglas, nor had
he become particularly obnoxious on any ac-
count
"Now, If the South repud;aied Gen. Cdss on
account Of his advocacy ofsqudtter sovereignty,
IS 1t at all likely that she wiH endorse Mr.
Douglass pho is tie gery embodiment of that
doctrine? The truth is there is not respec
table portion ofthe Southern people who are
at all friendly to Mr.. Douglas and if any at
tenton is paid to the election of delegates to
Baltimore it will be impossibleto TO elect Dong
las men,"
The Express says, "the plain and simple
truth is that the people of the South are and
always have been, without distinction of
party, opposed to this 1.-THE Douglas doctrine"
The plain truth is, that the Douglas doctrine
was the doctrine of the South, at the time of
the passage Of the Kansas ebrasIa bill and
for some time before. The majority of the
Southern Democratic Senators and Represen-
tatives supported it in their speeches. during
the discussion of that bill, and in proofof this
fact, We have hitherto quoted, as our readers
know, largely from those speeches. The
South was fully committed to the doctrine
If the Express persists in denying it, we shall
have to go again to the records; but those
who have read the political history of the
country know that our assertion is correct.
The cause OF General Cass's defeat for the .
Presidency,-as every thorough politician
knows-was the detection of New York, un-
der the Van Buren Free Soil banner, and not
because of any dissatisfaction with the nomi-
nee on the part of the South. General Cass,
on the contrary, was the favorte of the most
ultra of the Southern fire-eaters, and was de-
tested by the Free Soilers of the North. The
best evidence of the popularity of the terri
torial sovereignty and Congressional nom
Intervention doctrine, among the ultra South.
ern politicians Of that day, is the resolution
introduced by Mr.. Yancey of Alabama, into
the Convention which nominated Lewis Cass,
by a two-thirds vote. 1t reads as follows;
"Resolucd, That the doctrine of non inter-
ference with the rights Of property of any
portion of this confederation, be IL in tie
States or in the Territories, by any other than
tie parties interested in them, is the true Re-
pdblican doctrine recognized by this body"
This resolution embodies the essence of the
Douglas doctrine. The Express may repudi-
ate II lint tho naDoorot;o ,ort,. ;s tb borouoI,
ly committed to it, by the solemn acts of its
National Conventions, and not less by the act
of the last Convention (at Charleston) than
the preceding. Extingush this great light
upon the Democratic altar, and the shrine
will be deserted.
We believe that this principle will still be
sustained by the Southern Democracy, not
withstanding the declaration of the Express
that, "there is not respectable portion of the
Southern people who are at all friendly to
Mr.. Douglas This declaration on the part
of the Express may be best explained by the
circumstance that "tho wish is father to the
thought" We shall Sc which is right, the
Express or we. AT any rate, ,ce are with the
majority of the Democratic party of the Ma
ton, and we haven't had to turn our coats to
get there, either.
We learn from the Columbia Times, that
quantity of ofimpure gold, having lead in it,
was sent to the mint for coinage, after six
ounces Of pure gold had been added to the
lot, the whole amount being then valued at