The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1860-06-01
Political News.

Governor HERsCHELL V. JOHNSON, of
Georgia, one of the most distinguished and
prominent Democrats in that State, who
received large vote for Vice President
from the South at the Cincinnati Conven.
tlon OF 1896, is out in long and able letter
sustaining the doctrine Of congressional nom
Intervention on slavery in the Territories.
and in opposition to the course pursued by
the seceders at the Charleston Conyeption
The following extracts from Governor
JoHNsoN's letter will show its spirit. He
says:
Consequently, the Intervention of Congress
Is "noiiy unnecessary. 1t would not place US
IN better condition. Hence it was better for
the SCUM 10 rely upon the Constitution and the
Dred scout case than to go before freesoil
congress with the vain demand for its friendly
iinterposltlon. When the lamb can trust to the
9gs.
Therefore, when the South demands it. she
assumes an attitude of very doubtful nolicv.
She affords the freesoilers a plausible pretext
to say she yields jurisdiction on the subject of
slavery which she has always denied. She de.
parts from her cherished doctrine of strict con.
struction by asking the exercise of a question.
able power. She surrenders herself to the
mercy OF an infuriated freesoil majority.
We have no doubt that ninety.n out
of every hundred of the voters of the South
are opposed to asking congressional inter-
ventlon on slavery and in favor of the
platform adopted at Charleston.
The same influences which secured the
overthrow of Mr. WEBSTER in Baltimore in
1852, have now secured the defeat of Mr..
SEWARD at Chicago. That Mr.. SEWARD is
first class statesman, no man will deny ;,
that ABE LINCOLN is no statesman at all
the few persons who knew anything about
the Grail splitter" will be the first to admit.
His nomination will fall dead in New Eng
land. 1t is the meanest specimen OF "avail
ability" that has YET been attempted in
America.
The New York Herald, which fer two
years has persistently denied that Mr..
DOUGLAS was within the Democratic party,
or eligible to Democratic nomination for
the Presidency, on Saturday declared that
Mr.. DOUGLAS is the man whom the Demo-
Gratis should concentrate upon at Baltimore
to beat LINCOLN with and not content
with saying it once, the Herald repeats it.
AT the great Democratic meeting held at
Mobile, Ala, on the 14th. Ex>Gov. VIM
sToN, Mr.. FORSYTH, late Minister to Mexico.
and others made speeches. The following
resolutions. among Others, were adopted
RESOLVED, That no true Democrat can con.
sent to treat as debateable question whether
or no the Dem Ocracy of Alabama shall be rep.
resented in the National council of the party
RESOLVED, That the State of Alabama must
be represented in the adjourned Democratic
Convention to assemble at Baltimore on the 18th
OF June,
RESOLVED, That the Democrats of Mobile
county, asserting their rights as freemen and
as Democrats, to assemble whenever the good
OF the country or of the party require it, believe
that the imminent peril which threaten the
party through the designs of those who aim at
'preciptating the cotton states into revolu
tion," make it the imperative duty of Demo
Gratis, in every part of the State, to take prompt
and efectual steps to save the party from dis.
ruptlOn, and to provide that the voice OF Ala
bama be heard IN the nomination of candidates
for Presidency and Vice Presidency.
The seat of Mr.. FOWLER in the Baltimore
Democratic Convention will be filed by bis
alternate, the Hon. SCHUYLER CRIPPEN of
Otsego county, who is jealous advocate of
Mr.. DOUGLAS, which Mr.. FOWLER was not.
A CABINET OFFICER DECLARES FOR
DOUGLAS The gallant Virginian, Mr.
Floyd, the present able and popular Secre-
tary of War, openly espouses the cause of
the "Little Giant" and declares that his
nomination is demanded by the clearly ex-
pressed voice of the American people. When
such noble Southern patriots as Floyd of
Virginia, Stephens of Georgia, Orr of South
Carolina, Forsyth, Winston and others of
Alabama, put on the Douglas armor, we
think it is high time for every miserable
Northern dough-face, as Bigler, Dawson d
Co., of our own States to hide their dimin.
ished heads.-Har'isburg (Po.) Sentinel.