The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-05-02
From CharIeston.

red 10 the Commlttee On NduOnai NOu'
An announcement was made at 1880 that
the Com. on Platform would not be ready to
report for an hour, and q temporary recess
or promenade was taken for that time-the
floor being crowded with ladies as well as
the western galleries. There wss q clatter
OF tongues and peal after peal Of merry
lsushter going on; that is In strong sntsgo-
nism to the suspended excitement OF the
Com.
After the recess, printed copies Of the ma.
jority platform report was scattered over the
Convention.
One of minority reports was signed B. F.
Butler, in behalf of the minority, which
merely re.sfirms the Cincinnati Platform,
declaring Democratic principles unchangea.
BILE in their nature when applied to the same
subject matter, and only recommends in ad.
dilion TO the Cincinnati Platform a resolu.
iion recommending the protection Of oil its
citizens, whether native or uralized.
The principal minority report, however, is
signed by Me-, N. H., VT, r. j., Conn, N.
j., O., Ind, H., Wis, Iowa, Minn., N. Y,
and Penn.
The points are as follows:
/. Affirming the Cincinnati Platform.
2. That all rights of property are judicial
In character, and the Democracy pledge
themselves to the decisions of the Supreme
Court on the subject.
8. Ample protection to the citizens, native
or naturalzed, at home or abroad.
Pledges Governmental aid to the Puc.
fic Railroad.
| 3. Favors the acquisition Of Cuba on
terms honorable to ourselves and just to
Spain.
6. That all resistance to the Fugitive
Slave Law is revolutionary and subversive
Ct the Constitution.
The majority report is in substance as al
re"dy telegraphed.
Al tll:3O A. NJ the Convention re.asscm-
bed
The nj jority report was read by Mr.. Ave
ry, who wss instructed to say that entire
unanmity did not prevail on portion OF the
resolutions. The first and third resolutions
in relation to Slavery in the Territories and
the duty of the General Government to pro.
lect the rights OF persons, were adopted by
a large majority OF the Convention.
The second resolution in relation TO the
fugitive slave law, and the fourth in relation
to the naturol2ed citizens were adopted
} unanimously.
The fifth in favcr OF the acquisition O.
Cuba was adopted without division.
The two minority reports were presented
by Mr.. Butler, of Mass, and MIR. Payne, o
Ohio,-the litter stating that his report, al
, though minority one, represented II:
electoral votes, whilst the majority repor
represented 1877 electoral votes.
Mr.. johnson, of Md, inquired how many
; of the electoral votes represented by the
minority report can be depended on for the
Democratic nominee. daughter and ap'
pIause.)
MIR. Ptyne could not say nor could he
speak for Maryland which goes with the
} majority.
Mr.. Payne offered his platform as a sub
stiute for the whole and Massachusetts
delegates proposed another set.
All the reports having been presented
Mr.. Avery addressed the Convention, claim
| ing that he represented II Democrtlic
States Of the Union. He alluded to The fac
that Mexico and Cuba would inevitably, with
. Central America, form part OF the Union
t and with the Popular Sovereignty doctrine
I as proclaimed in The minority report no
STAKEHOLDER would dare to enter these Terri
tories with his slaves. It was said that
Northern men did not like to be thrown in
10 association with slaveholders, aad he ap-
pealed to gentleman to correct that error
and TO prove to the South that the Demo
cratic party ut the Moth entertained no such
sentiment. There is distrUst among the
masses of the people of their Northern al.
lies. We sympathize with you when you
are called douahfaces at the North, we ask
you to give US the evidences that our sympa.
thy is we'll placed.
Mr.. Payne, of Ohio, addressed the Con
venton in behalf o. the minority report, he
did not desire any personal victory, but he
! believed that in the harmonious sentiment
| of these difficulties depends the existence OF
the Democratic purity and the perpetuity OF
the Union. The Democracy of the North
have stood by the South in good faith
There never had been but one construction
put upon slavery. The slavery clauses OF
The Cincinnati Platform he challenged any
man to show had ever been differently con-
strued even on the floor of Congress.
Mr. Payne read to the Convention the
opinion of Secretary Toucy and Vice Presi-
dent Breckenridge, against any measure to
legsate slavery into the Territories aud
that the people Of each Territory shall settle
the matter for themselves and be admitted
into the Union with or without slavery as
they may determine, and said that he coulc
show that every distinguished Southern
statesman since 1850 had plOnted himsel
on the Squalter Sovereignty platform o.
non.interve0tion by Congress.
/, lie quated also from Messrs Hunter
Toombs, Mason, and other Southern Demo.
cratic statesmen, maintaining the ground oil
non Intervention, and concluded by suying-
, We cannot recede from this doctrine with.
out personal dishonor, and SO help US Goo
, we rever will abandon this principle
. (SeEsation.) the majority report is adopt
a ed you cannot expect one Northern electo
: raj vote or one sympathizng member o
Congress from the free States.
r Mr.. Payne's concluding appeal TO tht
South was very powerful and was listenet
TO with great attention. He urged them no
to destroy the Democratic party for a mer,
= abstraction.
The following resolution OF Mr.. Cochran
=, OF N. Y, has just been circulated, and whicl
ne proposed 10 offer as q substitute for al
le me other propositions, in addition to tn
l.: Cincinnati platform.
- RESOLVED, That the several States Of th
4. Union are under the Constitution equal, an,
% that the people thereof are entitled To- fre
}. and undlsturbed possession and epiovmen
II OF their rights of person and propretv in m
70 common territories, and that any ettemp, h,
" Congress or Territorial Legislature to an
Q nul, sbridge, or discriminate against an
It such equality or rights, would be unw;se 1
!. policy and repugnant to the Constitution. =