Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1860-05-30

" 4Nl Wv NN.Nl'AA iTl wv u MAS NFet AnArl nlul
hy the CunVunliun, aui, Notwithstanding ilir ula
lngi,Y rrPurI lad Trunvi lhr unqualified la
: duTseu,eAg uf uaNTiIy states, aul llvs
! States aslius fgs sislLs II as or'sgi D1Huun''t
: e'tdyra' Ir5HyM a. a. Essflral COL. e.. Vet a.,
! minority report was adopted ly sectional nia
!oTiIy irum tho Northern States, and those StgIer
casting scsrrrly single Democratic Electoral
. vote,
! la order lu prove that the platform thus ad1It
ell ly minority oi yDtts, was emphatlrAlly d
."s7uaiifF srrtntgHig" platform, IL w1uli NJ
only necessary a. refer q the constructions al
ready ia the past placed upun the Cinc nnali
Platform l,y the Northern wiGg Of the party
denying the tight Of protection, aud offering that
the first sQuaucrs In Territory, might hy non,
action, uniriendly lcsislanion, or direct prOhi,
hitlon. absolutely exclude southern ciiitrns with
their property from the common territories
But in order that our constituents may have a
full aud clear apprehension uf ,hr grounds oe,u-
pied hy our opponents, We deem IL Important
briefly 10 state the position maintained hy thcm
In committee and In debate upon the floor ul tho
Convention, The holl announcement was made
that the Cincinnati Plat form, according n their
Interpretation, re.organiscd the right Of the pco,
pie Of the Territories, during hs territorial con-
d!'oH, To prohibit slavery; and that Congress
possessed no "pOwer 10 protect the owner ia
his rights, no Inattur ho~ thss. rigLts mirht
be assailel.
IL is due 10 many honest minlcd Northern
delegates 10 say, that minorites Of the delegates
fl ON the middle States, who were instructed to
vote Us II unit, and who, consequently, were
horne down by the mninrity of their delegations,
frankly and openly agreed with the majority Of
States, in the Southern construction Oi the Cn.
cinnat Platform. And it is equally due u truth
to state that Northern delegates, who refused
to sustain the explanatory resolutions Ur the ma.
jOrty report, freely admitted to southern mem.
hers the justice and accuracy Of the majority in.
depreciation of the Cincinnati Platform, but,
insisted on II simple reaiirmancc Of that instru-
mcnt unexplained, upon the ground S0i,iV that
their party success in those States Gcplndcd upon
the rejection OF the explanatory resolutions, and
as II consequence, the tact admission by the
Charleston Convention Of the Northern cUnstruc.
tiOn of the Cincinnati Platform.
Notwithstanding the simple demand that the
people of all the states be PERMITTED freely -
settle the common Territories, without their
rights of persons Or property being impaired by
Territorial legislation notwithstanding the /,
earnest expostuatiOns of your own representa- ,
tivcs and the representatives of Southern States
who would rather accept defeat upon principle
than party success, by the concession of vital
right, a sectional majority in the Convention .
voted down the majority report, and passed the
minority substitute as tie GccdrGii0a If pria-
Gp'es Of The Democracy cfM nation.
Our duty to ourselves, and those whom we re-
presented, was manifest. We had but one Of
two alternatives either the surrender of the just
claim OF our people, to u simple recognition Of
our cO-cgualty Of rights in the common
domain, belonging equally to all the States
which surrender at Charleston, would after he
construed by the Democracy of the North, rs u
rcnqushm ent, and final exposition
or the Democratic principles of the entire nation
to respectfully wi niluw from further nc.
tion win those who by the mere numerical
of minority Of States, casting
scarcely 4 single Democratic electoral vote,
sought to impose upon our acceptance an amhi-
gouons platform, ,rih iheir interpretation, which
we deemed hostile to the dearest rights of our
people, and rppugnant to the solemniy declared
of the Democracy of our States in
assembled. With us it vas not
question Of men, but Of vital fundamental prin-
ciplc. No man would have been acceptable to
your representatives nominated upon that plat.
form for we regard the nomineeof party not rs
ln expostor Of his own record, but the recog-
nized embOC iment of the principles of the platform
upon which he ia placed. rs the national repre-
sentative and living head And your representa-
lives respectfully conceive that no Southern man
could, without stultfying himself, and being i
'ecreant to the interests ofall the States stand =
Is the representative or living embodiment Of a a
PLATFORM which according to the Interpretation :,
If the sectlonai mayor n.y. VINO ou"ptea IL, ueheu
% the south iuli ana project 'quaiity OF rights
n the Territories. The issue, as we regard it. 5
md as regarded by the States who Withdrew, was !
ot as to what alone might he the individual b
pinions of the nominee who if sound and elected 5
would as an executive oihcer be oihclally power
ess to enforce his individual opinion bat we "
ought earnestly to obtain an explicit and
olemn declaration of principle from the entire lt
Democracy, North and South, that Mc H"e Then ii
he people of IL Ter itory could alone exercise t
he attributes sovereignty was in forming "a I
tate Constitution :" and that when the rights tt
f property were destroyed or impaired in the c'
erritores, the inr making pOwer of the Federal 81
ioyernmcnt should be nterposed-not to eStob- ~
ISL or crclude slavery-hut to protect when ne a, ~
cssary the citizen in his COM titutional rights u
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