The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-01-12
Democracy OF Wisconsin acting
aRpder False EreEAEACas.

- |~A'D n ADbCAhSCSs
The Democratic party of Wisconsin in state
convention last summer, which was called for
the nomination of state officers put forth dec.
laration of principles, avowing them to be the
doctrines Of the party. These professions of be-
lief Of the party, which were then adopted, we
pronounced at the time mere sham; utterly at
Varience with the doctrines of the national Dem
ocratic party, and only designed to catch votes
The truth is the Democratic party in state con-
vention did not dare to utter in Wisconsin, what
they knew to be the real sentiments of the ma
tional Democracy. The party went into the
canvass last fall under false pretenses, steering
as near the liberal Republican sentiment of the
north as it dared, without losing caste with
the Democracy elsewhere That we do not mis-
state the Wisconsin Democracy, let some of the
resolutions adopted in their state convention
last summer be produced. The second resolu
ton adopted reads as follows:
"Resol0ed, That we are opposed to interpola-
ting into the creed of the Democratic platform.
new issues as to the revival of the African Slave
Trade,or Congressional code for the Territories.
on The doctrine that the constitution of the United
States establishes or prohibits Slavery inhe terri
tories beyond the po'cer Of the people legally to
control it,"
Now let us see how this declaration of the
Wisconsin Democracy agrees with the doctrines
of the national Democracy, as set forth in the
Presidents message, delivered in Congress, two
weeks. The President SAYS:
''The right has been established, of every cit.
lzen, to take his property of any kind, incIwding
StGCes, into the territories belonging equally 70
all the states of the confederacy a0d to hare IL
protected there ander the FEDERAL CoNSTyTI1
TioN. Neither Congress nor a Territorial Leg.
1statarc, nor any human p0,cer, has anu auttorifu
to impair this UeSted right"
Here then it will be seen the Wisconsin De.
mocracy and the national Democracy stand IN.
posed; the former repudiatng the doctrine that
Constitution carries slavery into the territories
and the latter positively affirming it, The Wis.
consln state Democratic convention furthermore
IN one OF its concluding resolutions, secuted the
idea OF a "slave code" for the Territories being
part OF the creed of The national democracy II
pronounced 1t "a thick of unprincipled and rene
GAGE pohdcang." The President speaking for
the national Democracy says, that slave proper.
ty has right to protection in the Territories
- under the Federal constitution" This RIGHT
beng acknowledged, it follows that Congress is
in duty bound to enact Slave code" for the
benefit of the slave holders in the Territories
Such IS distinctly the doctrine of the President,
for he says, if the present remedies are found
inadequate to protect the owners of slave prop
erty IN the Territories, it will then devolve on
Congress "to strengthen their hands by further
legislation"
Here then are two sorts of principles directly
at varience with each other, the one expressed
by the Democratic party in Wisconsin, and the
"ther by the national Democracy at Washington.
All the Wisconsin Democracy have to do, is to
haul down their colors, acknowledge their mis-.
take, and run up the genuine proslavery flag