The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-05-03
The Charlestou Convention


ceedings of this body up to Wednes
day, at which time Committee of one
from each State, had been appointed
to report platform. Three platforms
werereported-one by the majority o
the Committee and two blythe minori
ty. The majority platform is as fol
l,ws:
Resolued, That the Platform adop
ted at Cincinnati be affirmed. with the
following additional resolutions:
Resolyed, That the National Demo
cracy of the United States hold these
cardinal principles on the subject oil
Slavery in the Territories 81 ! iadf
lst. That Congress has no power to
abolish Slavery in the Territories D
2d. That the Territorial Legislatures
hive no power to abolish Slavery IN
the Territories nor prohibit the intro.
duction OF Slavery therein, nor any
power to destroy it by any Legislation
whatever 53fE naE 7s2goaf 19yH
Resoloed, That it is the duty of the
Federal Government to protect when
necessary the right Of persons or prop
erty ON the high seas, in the Terrific
ries or wherever its constitutional juris-
diction extends. s'eii ra $500
The minority reported the Cincin-
natl Platform, with a general approval
of the decisions of the Supreme Court,
and an obligation to return slaves.
The third platform, is known as the
Tennessee platform, which received
the vote of the Michigan delegations.
1t begins by re affirming the principles
of the Cincinnati Platform, approves
the decisions of the Supreme Court in
the case of bred Scott, and then ere
solves" as follows: fri chs -
Resolved, That the States of the
Confederacy are equals in political
rights; each State has the right to set
tie for itself all questions of internal
policy, the right to have or not to have
Slavery, and did not surrender this
right in the Federal Constitution, and
Tennessee will not now do so.
Resolyed, That the Federal Govern
me,t has no power to enterttre with
Slavery in the States or exclude it from
the Territories, and no duties to per-
form in relation thereto, but to protect
the rights Of the owners from wrong,
and restore fngitives from labor, and
these duties it cannot withhold.
Or Monday last, the platform re-
ported by the minority-(the Cincin-
natl Platform with the bred Scott APP
provaD-was moved as substitute for
the majority report, and carried by l65
to l3s Then came the struggle for
the adoption of the substitute, which
was carried by an increased majority
some of the Southern States refusing
to vote. .---
ThcLl.latform was adopted by Sec
tons; after which the delegations
from Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas, Florida, all but three from
South Carolina. and portions of Arkan-
sas, Virginia. Georgia and Delaware
withdrew from the Convention, amid
the greatest excitement. The remain
der of the delegates from Virginia and
Georgia were discussing whether they
would join the seceders, or remain
with the Convention, when an adjourn
ment was affected ut 6 P. Nj. The
dispatches state that the seeding dele
cations would meet i'm the evening nj
St. Andrews Hall and nominate Dick
inson of n. Y. for President, and Ste
phens Of Ca, for Vice President. 1t
is also stated that Kentucky is consult
ing about a session.