East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-07-12
EAST SAGINAW, MICHIGAN, JULY IL, 1860

OdlSt Conference refused to eXpunpe GER
tain anti-slavery opinions which John
Wesley had inserted in the discipline
He cannot trust Kentucky because Ken
tucky, for so many years, upheld such
free soilers as Henry Clay and John j.
Crittendcn. Virginia he did not men
ton, nor did he discriminate between
Virginia and other border States because
his purpose did not call for it," He then
proceeds to say:
at is equally true that i do not ex-
pect Virginia to take any initiative steps
towards a dissolution Of tie Uaion, when
that exigency shall be forced upon the
South. Her position as border State,
and we'll considered southern policy Ia
policy which has been digested and un-
derstood and approved by the ablest men
in Virginia, as you yourself must be
aware), would seem to demand that,
when such movement takes place by any
considerable number of southern Stats,
Virginia and the other border STAGES
should remain in the Union, where, by
their position and their counsels, they
could I~ove more effective friends than
by moving out of the Union, and thus
giving to the Southern Confederacy a
long abolition hostile border to watch:-
In the event of the movement being
successful, in time Virginia, and the
other border States that desired it, could
join the SoUrHERS Confederacy, and be
protected by the power of its arms and
its diplomacy. Your charge that de-
signed to, and did, impeach the fidelity of
Virginia, is untrue, however much of
truth there may be in it with reference
to those border States which l have
namedn
Fclow-citizens Of Tennessee, it is as
clear as the noon day sun, from the fore
going facts, that deep-laid and well-di-
rected plan of disunion and treason, "of
precipitating the cotton States into a
revolution" had been devised and ap-
proved in 1858 by some of the ablest
men in the South, Mr.. Yancey being the
chief instigator and prime mover of the
damnable conspiracy. This hideous
scheme Of breaking up the democratic
party and destroying the cherished Union
Of our fathers was not to be initiated at
once. The time for executing the move
ment was kept in the dark. When was
it to be begun When was the torch
to be applied? The transactions at
Charleston in which Mr.. Yancey and his
followers took so active and so ominous a
part have plainly proven to the world
that the convention of the national de.
mocracy in 1860 was locke forward to
as the period when the democratic party
and the Union were to be overwhelmed
in one common ruin.
Are you ready, fellow-democrats Of
Tennessee; to follow the lead and assist
in carrying out the schemes Of set of
men who are SO madly bent upon the
subversion of the Republic and tho de-
struction of that good old party which,
if united, is still the only national polit-
ical organization left in the country
which possesses the power, as wei as the
will, to protect the rights of every Sec
tion?
The course pursued by the majority
OF tho Tennessee delegation at the ad-
journed convention at Baltimore, after
refusing to act with the seceders at
Baltimore, has doubtless astonished the
whole country. That course, identified
as it was with that of the secessionists,
was clearly in violation of the spirit of
the sixth resolution of the Tennessee
platform, which pledges the hearty sup
port of the Tennessee democracy to the
nominee of the Charleston convention.
1t was still more clearly and unequivo-
cally violative of the rcsolution.present-
inc the Hon. Andrew johnson as the first
choice of Tennessee for the Presidency,
which proceeds as follows
"Bw If another shaH be preferred By tie
Charleston contention, and who cordially en-
dorses the Cincinnati platform, ohether hc
resides North or South, zee ~W yield him
our hearty support
From this it appears that nothing could
be palmer than that all the Tennessee
democracy required in their candidate for
the Presidency, "whether he reside North
or South" was, that he should ''cordially
endorse the Cincinnati platform" The
Tennessee delegation was appointed by
the convention which framed this resolu
ton las also the sixth, above referred toy.
These were our instructions, and we
submit to every fair and candid mind
that, in boiling from the regular conven-
ton at Baltimore, and in following the
lead of frsgmcnt-a squad of dlsorgan-
izers and dsunionists who wish to set
up new tests Of democratic orthodoxy
the majority Of that delegation trans
ccnded their powers, abused their trusts,
and misrcprcsentcd the Jackson democ-
racy Of our lJyal and Union-loving State.
The regular democratic convention at
Baltimore, which nominated Stephen "A.
Douglas for the Presidency-a man who,
in the language Of the Tennessee resolu-
tions, cordially endorses the Cincinnati
platform"-performed no action not in
strict accordance with the principles and
usagcs of the democratic party. The
States whose delegations at Charleston
had seeded either in whole or in part
had been invited to supply the vacancies
in their respective representations. Such
as had done so in good faith, and accord
ing to the usagcs Of the party, in the
regular col vention at Baltimore were re-
ceived.