The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-29


/ tinen.s upon Bfeckinridge and Lane. becaor.
] some individuals now supporting them hav,
S at some period OF their lives given utteranct
J to extreme sentiments. See with what weigh
: and point the charge goes home to the From
= Street Theatre candidates, Douglas anf
johnson One of these staunchest and mos
eloquent advocates on the floor ofthe conven
ton, was Colonel Gaulden, of Georgia, who
at the Charleston sitting advocated the re-
opening of the African slave trade. Wequote
| from the official report.
"Col Gaulden said he would do all he could
to reconcile his friends in Georgia to this doc
trine, and denounced congressional protection
as an abstraction. In the course of his re-
marks he referred to Virginia as "slaye-tra-
ding and slave breeding Virginia
"a delegate from Virginia objected to the
designation applied to that State
"Mr Gaulden-WelI, I'll say slave trading
Georgia, then. don't object to the designa-
toni am slave breeder-I face the music
Come down to my plantation and I'll show
you fine lot of young niggers there, and pure
| Africans, too:
"Col Gaulden then proceeded to advocate
the revival ofthe African slave trade, and be-
lieved Massachusetts, herself would shortly
advocate it. He did not see why he should
| pay 81 900 for a negro from Virginia when he
| could buy him in Africa for $50 He denoun-
ced the treaty for the suppression of the Afri-
can slave trade, which, he said, was against
laws of God and natures God The doctrine
OF non-intervention should he applied to that
trade. 1t was inhuman to'send back to Africa
the negroes at Key West, half of whom
would die and the balance be delivered over
to cannibalsm"
SENTIMENTS OF H. V. JOHNSON.
But in controversy we should 90 to the
heart OF the matter. How will Mr.. johnson
ring this charge to advance his prospects for
the Vice Presidency lie was a senator in
Congress in 1913, and on the It'll of July of
that year he made speech to prove that Con
gress had the power and ought to intervene
to protect slave property in the Territories
GSee Appendix to the Congressional Globe, |
LIST session, Both Congress, page 891.)- |
Our space forbidS extended extracts He |
said:
I'm no event can the Shareholder of the |
South be excluded from settling in such Ter
, fiaory with his property of every descrp
"Since, therefore, as l have shown, Con-
gress has no power to prohibit slavery, they
cannot delegate such power to the inhibi-
tants ofthe Territory they cannot authorize
the Territorial Legislature to do that which
they have no power to do. The stream can
not rise higher than its source,
The institution of slavery is guaranteed
by the Constitution of the United States, and
II has the same protection thrown around It,
which guards our citizens against the grant
ing OF titles of nobility, or the establishment
oil religion; therefore, Congress would be as
much bound to veto an act Of Territorial legis-
lation prohibiting it, as an act violating the
rights ofevery citizen of the Republic.
To show that Mr.. Johnson has not abandon
ed his doctrine Of Congressional protection, We
quote the following resolutions drafted
and then reported by him to the Convention
'f Georgia, held on the 4th day of last June,
which appointed him a delegate to the Ma t
lonal Convention at Baltimore: c
ResoIUed, That we re-affirm the Cincinnati
platform, with the following additional pro-
positions: :
'1st That the citizens of the United States s
lave an equal right to settle nth their pro I
'erty Of any kind, in the organized Territories /
i the United States, and that under the de- j
lslon OF the Supreme Court of the United c
states in the case Of bred Scott, which we l
ecognlze as the correct exposition of the Con- C
tltutIon IN this particular, stare property e
tands upon the same. footing as all other descr6-
IONS Of property, AID that neither the General c
Government, NOR ANY TERRITORIAL [
10Y EMINENT, can destroy or impair the
igla to slate property in the common Terrific v
les, any more than to ang other description of {
rope'ty; that property Of all kinds, slaves as d
Tell as any other species of property, in all v
he Territories, stand upon the same equal V
nd broad constitutional basis and subject to | G
Ike principles OF recognition and protection an e
&c LEGISLATIVE, Judicial, and E.cdca- II
he Department Of tie Government. e
"2d, That we will support any man who a
lay be nominated by the Baltimore Conven- s.
on for the Presidency. who holds the prin- r
piles set forth in the foregoing proposition, ri
nd who will give them his endorsement and g
nat we will not hold ourselves bound to sup
ort any man who may be the nominee. who y
ntertans principles inconsistent with those Y
It forth IN the above propositions, or who de- y
les that slave property in the Territories >
pes not stand on an equal footing and on ia
he same constitutional basis of other species I'll
property" III
Mr.. Douglas, in his letter to Hon VIM. A. p;
ichardson, read before the Convention, uses tn
lis emphatic language: "hlteruenttoa means \
suHson-" Then, according to Mr. Douglas, lie
b. Johnson has colleague on the hcEet 1rfth L
an, is disunionist. And, according to the of
cond resolution offered by Mr. johnson be- be
re the Georgia Convention, he stands in
edged not to support or vote for Mr. Doug M
s. lei
coNsTITUTIoNAL UNION PARTY.
But in our survey of the field we must not TY