Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-03

If, therefore. an act of the Territorial Cover
| ment prohibiting Slavery, should be sent u
to Congress for approval, they would be bouu
TO withhold it.. upon the ground of its BEN
/ an act which Congress themselves could nj
i pass,
T! Bat suppose the right of legislation for tt
Territory be in its inhabitants, can they DR.,
hibit Slavery? S,ereiy NOT; and for reason
i similar to those which show that Congres
caBnot."
I He winds up with grand Disunion t
rade:
"But suppose, Mr.. President, you have th
| right to prohibit Slavery in the Territories {
| the United States, what high political consic
| eratious requires you to exercise it All mus
| see, that it cannot be effected without produ
cling popular con0,asion aehieh aolR probaJt
tiisso!Ue this U1llon."
And again, after euumerating divers imag
mary Southern wrongs -:
"5ir, these things would seem to warn tn
South that the dry is not far distant, when sh,
will be forced to stand firmly upon he, consti
tational rights.
The plain English of which phrase is seces
sion, and dlsunion. Very soon the same words
and still more thteateningtF, occur again
The whole history efspublic feeling anc
opinion in thessfree States, whether we look a
the action of popular assemblies or proceed
ings of their Legislatures. or TO Tie course ol
their Representatives in Congress, monrnfully
warns the South that she must stand upon hel
constitutional sights. trust, sir, when The
crisis cau1oS bSf1a 10 to do -
And he reiterates the same Disunion bluster
yet again, and still more explicitly
But / repeat the inference from all the
visible indications around US evidently is that
the time has perhaps arrived, when the South
has no other 4alteraatixe bat to stand. upon
her constitutional rights"
Mr.. johnson, while Governor OF. Georgia,
iu his Messages took strong ground in favor of
Disunion, in either of the events contemplated
in the Georgia Platform, which passed the
Legislature ef that tate ana was approved
by him. It rank treason in every one and
better entities il Johnson to the honor of the
gallows than the honor of the Vice Presideu-
ey.. 1t is in the following words
!" Resolvea, That the State of Georgia will
u d
ruption fle9ery tie which binds her to the
Union, any action Of Congress upon the sub
ject Of slavery in the district of Columbia, or
in places subject TO the jurisdiction of Con-
gress, Incompatible with the safety, the domes-
tic tranquility, the rights and honor of the
slaveholdng States as any refusal to admit,
as State, Territory applying, because of the
existence of slavery therein or any act pro-
hibiting the introduction of slaves into the
Territories or any act repeating, or material
y 9pQdiTine, the laws pow-iu force Tor the re-
covery of fugitive slaves" 81
Mr.. johnson has never changed his ground
As late rs the 4th of June ult., he was mepl-
Der of The Democratic State Convention of
1t seems that Business Com
mite Of twenty-four was appointed of which
Fl. Y. johnson was one. This Committee
disagreed as to the propriety Of appointing
new delegates to Baltimore, the friends of the
Seceders opposing and few who preferred to
sec Douglas elected to a dissolution of the
party favored that step; and the consequence
was, that tive reports were presented--a ma
jority one by twenty members of the Commit
tee, and minority one by ,foaar members,
which latter division includes Herschel V.
Johnson, who, as chairman. introduced the mi
nority report
The two reports were discussed by various
persons, Mr.. johnson defending his and How
I'll Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury, acting
rs pacifcator.
The result was that the majority report was
adopted 5y a vote Of 299 to Il, when the mi
nority, under the lead of Mr. johnson, seeded
md organized another convention and appoint
ID the bogus delegates, who, representing one
Eighth Of the Democrats of Georgia. were ad-
nitted into the Baltimore Convention by
Douglass friends, to an equality with the rep
resentatives of the other seven-eighths of the
baTty.
The following is the report presented to the
'egular Convention by Mr.. Johnson
MINORITY REPORT.
Resolved, That we reaffirm the Cincinnati
platform, with the following additional propo-
sitions:
1st. That the citizens of the United States
nave an equal right to settle with their proper
y Of any kind, id the organized Territories or |
he United States, and that under the decision
If the Supreme Court of the United States in
he case OF Dred Scott, which we recognize as
he correct exposition of the Constitution in
his particular, slave property stands on the
'ame footing as all other descriptions of prop
,rty, and that neither the General Government
,or any territorial Government, can destroy or
IMPAIR the right to slave property in the cnm !
non territories, any more than the right to
my other description of property that prop
.rty Of all kinds, slave as well as any other |
pecies Of property, in the territories, stands !
lpon the same equal and broad Constitutional |
,asis, and subject to like principles of recogn- |
ion and protection in the legislative, judicial,
md executive departments of the Government. |
End. That we will support any man who |
nay be nominated by the Baltimore Conven-
ion, for the Presidency, who holds the princi-
1les set forth in the foregoing propositions,
Who will give them his endorsement, and that
We will not hold ourselves bound to support |
my man, who may be the nominee, who en- |
ertains principles inconsistent with those set |
orth in the above propositions, or who denies |
hat slave property in the territories does
tand on an equal footing, and on the same
Constitutional basis of other descriptions of
property.
In view of the fact that large majority of
he delegates from Georgia felt it to be their
iuty to withdraw from the late Democratic !
Convention in Charleston, thereby depriviug |
his State of her vote therein according to the
Iecision of said Convention,
RESOLVED, That this Convention will appoint
wenty delegates-four from the State at large,
md two from each Congressional District-to
epresent the Democratic party of Georgia, in
he adjourned Convention at Baltimore on the
sth inst, and that said delegates be and they
re hereby instructed to present the foregoing
and ask their adoption by the
National Democratic Convention.
HERsCHEL V. JOHNSON.
THOMAS ?. Stafford.