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F0n the Delta
Texas Democratic Convention.
G,1vrs1oS. Texas. April 5. 1866

1eXaS UeMOCTdLlC COUV6uIlUU.
GALVESTON, Texas, April 5, 1860.
MEssRs. EDIToRs-The Democratic State
Convention of the State Of Texas assembled
here on the I'd inst. Col. Franklin B. Sexton,
of San Augustine, was elected President, and
Tom p Ochiltree, of Harrison, elected Secre-
| tary.
The Convention expressed decided dis
appreciation of the course OF Stephen A. Doug
las and passed resolutions requiring our dele
gates TO withdraw from the Convention in the
event Of the non-adoption of the two-thirds
rule.
One W. W. Leland, formerly proprietor
Of the Metropolitan Hotel New York, pre-
sented credentials and demanded seat, from
karnes county. On motion he was unani
mousIy excluded from the Convention, it ap-
pearing to the Committee on Credentials that
Mr.. Leland had voted for Fremont, in the last
Presidential contest. ,
Inclosed send you the platform adopted by
the State Democratic Convention, held in Gal
weston, April I'd, 1860:
l. Resoluea That the Democratic party OF
the State Of Texas, re-affirm and concur in
! the principles contained in the platform Of the
National Democratic Convention held at Gin
| cinnati in Junes 1856, as true expression OF
| their political faith and opinion, and herewith
re-assert and set forth the principles therein
contained, as embracing the only doctrines
which can preserve the integrity of the Union,
and the equal rights of the States, and most
unequivocaIly deny the Squatter Sovereignty
Interpretation given to that platform, and that
we will continue to adhere to and abide by
the principles and doctrines of the Virginia
and Kentucky resolutions Of 1898 and '99,
and Mr. Madson's report relative thereto.
2. Resolved In order to give greater en-
phasis to these principles, as applicable to pres
ent political issues and exigencies, we further
and specially declare, that Texas, as an inde-
pendent and sovereign nation joined the Con-
federation of the United States thereby en-
tering into the compact with each and all
the States, the terms and conditions whereof
are embraced in the Constitution Of the United
States, one of them being in effect, TINT the
State of Texas, being a member of the Con-
federacy, should exercise, through the Gov
ernment Of the United States, certain powers
which belong to her as a sovereignty, and
which she had exercised through her own
Government. That in becoming member of
the Confederacy, Texas parted with no portion
Of her sovereignty, but merely changed the
agent through whom she should exercise some
of the powers appertaining to it. That should
those powers be used at any time, to her in
jury or wrong, and should the Government
fail to exercise the powers which are delegated
in good faith for the maintenance of her rights
and the rights of her people, or should the
compact she has entered into with the other
States, through the bad faith of any of them,
fail to accomplish the object for which it was
formed, in any of these cases OF which she
alone can Judge for herself, the State of Texas
possesses the full right, as sovereign State,
to annull the compact, to revoke the powers
she has delegated to the Government Of the
United States to withdraw from the confedera-
cy, and resume her former place among the
powers of the earth, as a sovereign, indepen-
dent nation.
3. Resogyed, That it is the right of every citi-
zen to take his property OF every kind, inclu-
ding slaves, into the common territory belong
ing equally to all the States Of the Confedera-
cy and to have it protected there under the
Federal Constitution. Neither Congress nor
Territorial Legislature, nor any human power,
has any authority, either directly or indirect
ly to impair those sacred rights and they,
having been affirmed by the Supreme Court
of the United States in the bred Scott case
we declare that it is the duty of the Federal
Government, the common agent of all the
States, to establish such government and en-
act such laws for the Territories, and to
change the same from time to time as may be
necessary to insure the protection and preser-
vation of those rights and to prevent every in
fringement of the same The affirmation OF
this principle Of the duty of Congress to simply
protect therights of property, is in no wise in
conflict with the heretofore established and
still recognized principle Of the Democratic
party, that Congress does not possess the pow
er to legislate slavery into the Territories or
exclude it therefrom.
4. Resolved That while we declare our
unabated attachment to the Constitution and
Union of these States, our own self-respect
demands of us, as party, to affirm that this
Union can only be held sacred so long as it Sc
cures domestic tranquility, and all the guaran-
tees OF the Constitution are preserved inviolate.
That we regard with aversion the unnatural
efforts of sectional party, at the North, to
carry on an ''irrepressible conflict" against
the institution Of slavery; and whenever that
party shall succeed in electing President
upon their PLATFORM we deem it to be the duty
of the people Of the State Of Texas to hold
themselves in readiness to cooperate with our
sister States of the South in Convention, to
take into consideration such measures as may
be necessary for our protection, or to secure,
out of the Confederacy, that protection, oftheir
rights which they can no longer hope for in it.
5. ReSolGed, That this Government was
founded for the benefit of the white race that
political power placed exclusively in the hands
of men of Caucasian origin that experience
has taught these self-evident truths, that the
enforced equality of the African and European
tends not to the elevation Of the negro, but
the degradation Of the white man and that
the present relations of the blacks and whites
in the South constitute the only true, natural
and harmonious relationship in which the 9th
erwise antagonistic races can live together,
and achieve their mutual happiness and desti-
ny; that we view with undisguised aversion,
and with a determined resolution to resist the
design, openly proclaimed by the leaders Of
sectionalism North, "to abolish these distinc-
tons of races, peaceably, if we can forcibly, if
we must.' We regard any effort by the
Black Republican party to disturb the happily
existing subordinate condition of the negro
race in the South as violative of the organic
act guaranteeing the supremacy of the white
race, and any political action which proposes
to invest negroes with equal. social and po-
litical equality with the white race, as an in
fraction of those wise and wholesorhe-di
tons of nature, which all experience teaches
were established to insure the prosperity and
happiness of each race. -....
The delegates to Charleston, from the State
of Texas, are as follows
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DrsTRIcT.-Ex-G Gov.
H. R. Runnells, Gen Z. Greer, Col F. F. Fos-
cue, Hon. r. R. Hubbard. Alternates-Gen.
j. j. Chambers, Tom. P. Ochiltree, Col. VIM.
H. Tucker, NJ. H. Covey.
SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DIsTRIcT.-Lieut.
Gov. F. r. Lubbock, Hon. Guy NJ. Bryan,
Judge Josiah F. Crosby, Hon. F. s. Stock
dale Alternates-WIn. Henry Parsons, Fred
Tate, Ricd'd Ward and R. NJ. Steel.
The electors are Col. NJ. d. Graham, Gen.
J. N. Waul, for the State at large Col. A. j.
Rainey, for Eastern District; Hon. John a.
Wharton, for Western District.
George NJ. Flourney, Of Austin, was nomi-
mated for Attorney General.
c. r. Jones, of Hays, for Controller, and
Cyrus II, Randolph, of Houston, for Treasu-
rer.
john Marshall, editor of the State Gazette,
reelected Chairman Of State Democratic Com
mittee.
From the Ne,s Yorker, July Goth 1859.
Among desirable articles, we may name as
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use, and of general and universal application
to the repair of furniture, crockery, shell-work
and other serviceable and ornamental purpos-
es. The prime qualities of good glue are