The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-07-20
Opinions of Hcrschel v. johnson.


The Doulgas men seem determined L
have a slave code mas on the ticket with
Douglas, They tried Senator Ftzpat.
rick but he eludcd their grasp Then
they picked upon johnson. There is :
very recent record Of the opinions ofMr.
Johnson to which the public will now
turn with interest II Is this:
On the 4th Of June, a Democratic
state Convention assembled in the CITY
ui Mllledgcville, 20 fill vacancies, if any
existed, in the Delegation Of that State.
to the Democratic National Convention.
Ihls Georgia State Convention consist.
ed Of near four hundred delegates. The
action Of the Seoeders al Charleston was
endorsed by an overwhelming majority
only iorty-one voting in the minority -
Ihls minority seeded, set up a separate
convention, and accredited delegates TO
baltimore. Mr.. Johnson [Herschol VI
was one Of the Sccedcrs, aud the Chair
man OF Committee that reported a Sc
res Of resolutions as follows;
Resolved, Thatwe rcailirm the Cincin-
nat Platform, with the following addi-
tionHl propositions:
lst That the citizens Of the United
states have on equal right to settle riih
!Aetr property Of any Kind, in the organ
lzed Territories Of the United States, and
that under the decision of the Supreme
Court Of the United States in the case of
Dred Scott, which we recognize as the
correct exposition Of the Constitution in
thls particular, sldUe property stands on
ne same footing as all descriptions of
property aud that neither tio General
Gopetnmepf, NOR ANY TERRIFIC
RIAL GOVERNMENT can destroy or
impair fhe figt 10 slave property in tho
common Territories, any more than the
right to any other description Of prope rfy;
that property Of all kinds, slaves as well
as eny other species Of property, in all
the Territories, stand upon the same
equal and bread Constitutional basis, and
subject to like principles Of recognition
and protection in he LEGISLATIVE
Judicial and Executive Departments Of
The Government.
2d, That we will support any man who
may be nominated by the Baltimore Con-
vention for the Presidency, who holds the
principles set forth in the foregoing prop
osition and who will give them his en-
dorSemeRt, and that will not hold ourselves
bound TO any man, who may be the nom
inee, who entertains principles iuconsist-
ent with those set forth in the above prop
ositions, or iohO denies that Saus proper
" "a the Territories docs stand on an e.
qHdi footing, and on the ssme Constiiu-
hondi basis Of other species Of property.
In view of the fact that large num-
Der of the delegates from Georgia felt il
70 be their duty 70 withdraw from the Lutte
Democratic Convention at Charleston,
thereby depriving this State Of her vote
therein, according TO the decision of said
Convention.
Resolved, That this Convention will
appoint twenty delegHtes-four from the
State at large, and two from each Con-
gressional district--to represent the Dem
ocratic party Of Georgia in the adjourned
Convention at Baltimore ON the 18th inst,
and that said delegates be and they are
hereby instructed 10 present the forego-
ing propositions, and ask their adoption
by he National Democratic Conueation.