Des Arc citizen., 1860-10-03

iuSU 10 tue EUSt anu uSt tO lIe " CoV3 SieeA SN fning the equality of the States, and the rights o all under the constitution, as expounded by the Supreme Court, and they nominated BRECKENRIDGE AND LANE as the standardbearers of the national democracy.
 We present to the country platform of princi- pies co-extensve with the union-one that metes out equal and exact justice to all-and denies ex elusive privileges to any. We ask for no slave code, nor for mule code, nor any other code for the protection of any one species of property more | than another. We.ask nothing but the recognition of rights affirmed by the Supreme Court to exist under the protection of the constitution.
 The platform is clear and explicit, and repes the false charges, made by demagogues, that We are in favor of the extension per SC of the institution of slavery. We deny tue right of the federal gov ernmen either directly. or by any of its organized members to iniure or oppress any section of the country, and demand that it shall afford the full measure of protection to all our citizens, in the full enjoyment of whatever kind of property they may possess. This we understand to be the creed of the democratic party now and heretofore. The doctrine of protecting slave property against the [" uniriendly legislation" of which Mir. DOUGLAS speaks so much, and which he claims for the peo pie the power to exercise by virtue of q 'higher l law' than Congress, and above its coutro, is no new principle in the legislation of this country.
 In 1894, several citizens of Virginia, who were, njuriousy affected by the unfriendly legslation'' of Florida, memoralized Congress as follows:
 l" The memorialists allege that they are the owners of number of slaves removed several years ago from Virginia to the Territory of Florida; that the Legislature of said Territory has imposed tax of ten dollars head on all the slaves of non residents which shall be hired out without refer tnce to the amount for which said slaves may have heen hired; that in post fdcto operation given to this enactment, by applying it to slaves hired out several weeks before the passage of the law, and that the same, or perhaps another law, subjects any non-resdents slaves that may be sold 4... Jn1i. each. They, therefore, ask Congress for relief" The memorial was referred to a committees who made the following report:
 '' The committee satisfied that the memo asts are entitled to relief Il is certainly aqainst the policy of tc United States as aceU as He dictates of common justice, to auoto any Territorial LrqSLG lure to tan tue Eropegy of non residents higher than the same property of resident citizens.
 ''Ihe committee Hink Congress sh0uld al,cays prO feet he property ot the cai9ens of Me United States chen subjected to He operation of unjust Legislation by the terroriaI qoUtrnmeRts In He case aboue re- erred to hat principle of protecton is asserted and manufactured in practice. Ihe same principle requires te same practice noae. And for that purDose e com miHee herepah report c bHI.''
 Thebill so reported was enacted into law by Conuress, and was approved by President JAcKsoL on the Both of June, 1884. That law is as fol- l lows:
 ''BeH enacted Jy t1e Senate and House Of Rerre- scntatiees of the United States of AmCrca in-CIn- greSs assembled That all such acts or parts of acts | passedby the legislative council of the Territory ot. Florida, as may impose higher or greater tax on the stGUeS or other property of nonresident cid zens than is imposed the slaves or other property of resident citizens, De, and he same are AeYeby re- peaied and declared null and goid.
 SEc. 3. And be t further eaacfed That if any person shall attempt to enforce any of the acts parts of acts passed by the legislative council of the territory of Florida, aforesaid, by demand ing or receiving any taX,,impostion or assessment authorized or prescribed thereby, such person shdH on conoction ttereof be punished by fine not cnceed ing t'eo hundred dollars, by imprisonment not ceedin9 sT months, ether or both of said puniSh- aeats.'
 When this measure was under discussion there was no man in Congress bold enough to claim for the territorial government power to thus legislate against slave property to deny the right power of Congress to intervene to correct territorial mal legslation and to protect the owners in the peace tul enjoyment of their slaves, as well other pro- perty but all coDcuTed that the legislative council had no right to pass such law, and yet Mr. DoUG- LAS says shat proteotion'' of slaves thus is ''ds- unon,' go do the whole black republican party They say it is species of special gislation to pro- tect the property ol onc-hatt of tfe Union, while it affords protection to the same species of pro perty Ill the other half where no slaves exist; and this abolition cry of diSunion, special protection, and slave code, gotten up with view to divide the democratic party, has been caught up by DOUGLAS
 
 who denounce Mir. BRECKENRIDGE, and the great democratic party now rayng to his support as dis uHtonistS!! Because, folsooth MT. YANCEY was in the Charleston convention and refused to bow down and worship STEPHEN A. DoUaLAs, who denies the equQt0y in dbe Union of the fifteen southern States! Mr. Yancey, however, denies the charge, but he supports Mir. BREcKINRIpGE; there fore, 1t is asserted that the Union will surely be dissolved should he be elected to the Presidency!
 Now by the same parity of reasoning Mir. LIN coLN MT. BELL and Mir. DOUGLAS are aH Gisuuion- lSts! Mir LINCOLN is supported by CHARLES SUM MFR and FRED DOUGLAS, both of whom are post tioety in favor of dissolution of the Union; Mr. BELL is supported by MT. SHARKy of Mississippi who was one of the original Mississippi fire eatersi :
 Hon. B. H. Hill, Bell and Everett eector for the State at large of Georgia, said in his Dudley letter, speaking of the black republicans
 After mature deliberation can see but one reply for this people, and that is wARwAR n "1ery sense by 7cich he term IS defned or defsa5le, Gan argument reach them? It is the LAW they are or ganized to defy-to violate--can appeals for justice move them? It is justice to onchalf the Union which they seek to destroy.
 Fortunately, the powers of the general govern ment on this subject might be regarded in charity, an open question, and resstence to the mere election of person entertaining different views from ourselves, might not have been so easily de- fended but 10 resist He Of such pqrtq, aohh such purposes noto can longer De regarded other tkan RIGHT and q DUTY"
 Mir. DOUGLAS is supported by Gov. WINSTON, of Alabama, GEO. WIcKLIFF, of La, and is running on the same ticket with HERscHEL V. JOHNSON, of Ga., all of whom according to the authority of Mir. DOUGLAS were concerned in the plot of Gov. WISE and Mir. YANcEY to dissolve the Union in 1856, Gov. WINSTON, in his message to the Legislature of Alabama, 7th Nov, 1857, said:
 '' It is only necessary for us to be true to our. selves to preserve institutions and to be great and prosperous people. The Union is not acith US of the South param0unt political good; howev. CT much we may and do desire it's continuance under strict adherance to constitutional provis- ions and guarantees. When these can no longer be maintained, or sohen further aqgressions upon Or right is practiced by dominant political power at the North, hare erery1ing to gain and aothing 10 loose 'by diSrapting eUery tie ta binds a,s fo the cnnfeLerncn ',