Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-07-06

more is so uennlpVe thaJ see 1t must
change the issues of the approaching can
vass. The question comes UP for de-
finite solution, and the people Of both
sections find themselves in acrisis, to de-
mand the exercise of all their prudence
and all their patriotism.
| understand the matter thus: After
the delegates met at Charleston the com
mittee on resolutions was appointed, aud
in that committee it was proposed to re-
announce the Cincinnati platform Of 1856
as the platform of principles maintained
by the democratic party. But a part of
that committee, representing constituent
cies III the slayeholding States, asked that
this announcement should be accompa-
MED BY explanatory resolutions to this
purport;
-. That Congress has no power to
abolish slavey in the Territories. Sc
cond, That the territorial legislature has
no power to abolish slavery in any Terri.
tory, hor to prohibit the introduction Of
slaves therein; nor any power to exclude
slavery therefrom, nor any power to de-
stroy or impair the right of property in
slaves by any legislation whatever.
- Resolved, That it is the duty Of
the Federal Government to protect,
when necessary, the rights Of persons
aud property on the high seas, in the
Territories, or wherever else its constitu-
tioual o,.hn~tt,. a,.tnv1s
90. That when the people Of Ter
ritory come to make their State consti-
tution--whieh is an act Of Sovereignty
their admission into the Union should
DOT depend on the question whether they
choose that their State shall be slave
bolding State cr free State"
The other part Of the committee re-
fused to accede to these propositions, and
on the contrary, adhered to the doctrine
announced by Judge Douglas, which
asserts the rightof the people of Ter
ritory, while in their territorial condition,
to legisate SO as % exclude SHAREHOLDERS
from an enjoyment Of their slave proper
ty in the Territory, and denies to Con-
gress the power to extend to them any
protection against such unfricndly logis-
lation.
] believe | have truly stated the points
of difference which ultimately severed
the Convention. aud have presented to
the country the nominations Of Senator
Douglas aud Of Vice President Breckin-
ridge. 1t is also true that, from the
slayeholding States, aany democrats
were present who refused to leave the
Convention upon these points Of differ
ence, regarding them as Of no coDse-
quence; while others distinctly coinci-
ded with aud embraced the doctrines adj
vanced by the senator from Elliuos; and
upon these points the latter PROMISE! the
acquiescence Of the people Of the slave
holding States, to be shosn by the defeat
of Mr. Breckenridge.
The lines of The canYass are thus
drawn, 50 as to call on the people Of The
slayeholding States 10 Avon THgiasEHse
or THEIR OWN RIGHTS IN THESE PARgicu-
LARS, and that call renders it imperative,
in my opinion, tiiat every legal voter in
those States should turn aside from other
questions to act upon these, which are
thus rendered paramount fer de OCCASION
| cannot imagine wider mistake than
those gentlemen have made who would
persuade our Northern people that the
slaveholding States have beenindiderent
to their rights in the Territories, or tboir
equality under the Constitution and tho
laws. | think they must Gnd themselves
in sad minority when the day Of trial
shall come, if they expect that party drill
can make 'squatter sovereignty" regi
ments out of true Southern men.
shall never believe, until the fact is
placed beyond dispute. by count Of our
votes, that the people Of the slayeholding
States will be willing to write their own
voluntary relinquishmentof their consti-
tutional rights, or present themselves,
all naked and yoked, before the Hack
republican chiefs, ASKING 10 pass " THE
CAUDINE Forks" No, gentlemen, no ;
the people Of my section know their
rights, and they will maintain them.-
They have asked for nothing more than
mere aud plain rights, and, NY word for
it, they will DO conten,ed with nothing
less. At any rate, they will never conc
up, voluntarily, 10 be shorn Of privileges
Which belong TO them as equals in this
common partnership, or throw these away
by manifestation Of Indifference to the
result when their rights are fatty chal-
lenged. If they do, how viii the his
tory Of such result read? Thus: IL
being charged by Mr.. Douglas that the
STAKEHOLDER from kentucky can only hold
lis property in the common territory Of
the United States by permission Of those
who first enter the Territory and instl-
lute order under territorial government
by Congress, this question
was referred to Kentucky herself. Breck
inridge being the advocate before that
people Of their right 70 equality for per-
sons aud property in the Territories With
The people from other States. II came
10 pass, in this state Of the case, that
Kentucky discarded her own son and
abandoned her own rights, and took OF
her own civic garments and clothed her
self in sackcloth and ashes, and went
forth in the train Of her Northern supo-
Iiors, crying unclean," unclcan."
! tell you, my countrymcn, there IS
not slaveLolding State in this Union
will do this thing. 1t is folly 70 believe
Z. When the voice Of Koutucky shall
be heard upon the gale, hor mountains
will be vocal and her yallesg viii rug
With the cry Of Uuion and Evialify
Equality forever. She cannot ~ per !
'aaded tot indifference. Her frseiaea arc