The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-01
Sound Doctrines Inundated by New
York Democrats.


It is one of the chief glories Of the National
Democracy, as now purged of impurities,
equivocations and suspicious of heresy that it
is united and compact organization, embra-
cling the effective strength OF the party as
originally composed, extending its ramifica-
tons into every State in the Union, and pre-
senting platform of principle upon which
but one construction is placed, and upon
which but one construction can be placed
There is no circumlocution about it--no
Delphic utterances meaning anything, every
thing or nothing, according to the peculiar
whim of this or that politician-no verbal
double-meaning producing political double
dealings-but, is a plain, advantageous, straight
forward declaration of constitutional princi.
Piles. If the party triumphs upon this plat
form, there will be no danger Of disputation
concerning its meaning when it comes to be
practically enforced in the administration of
the government.
These thoughts are suggested by the peru
sal of the following resolutions which were
adopted by reclamation at a mass meeting of
the friends of Breckenridge and Lane in New
York city, on the 18th inst 1t will be seen
that they deny in the same unequivocal terms
the right OF Congress to prohibit slavery in the
territories as advocated by Lincoln, and the
right of the agent of Congress, the territorial
legislature, to do the same act, as contended
by Douglas They also ennunicate the great
doctrine ofthe right of the citizen who removes
within the territory to be protected in his
person and property by the Federal Govern
ment.
What whitening rebuke does this bold an
nouncement of the rights of the South by
Northern Democrats, intiict upon Southern
abolitionist, Douglas, and have incurred
the disreputable responsibility of advocating
his "short cut to all the ends of Black Repub-
lcanism" And what stinging rebuke does
it convey to the Constitutional Unionists''
who under the shelter Of vague and meaning
less generalities "pretermit the expression Of
the assailed right and equality Of the fifteen
slaveholding States
Allhonor to the gallant and patriotic Dem
ocracy of the North, whose banner is emilia
zoned with the doctrines proclaimed in these
resolutions. Betrayed by political gamblers
in their own camp-as sailed on every side by
hordes of Infatuated fanatcs-they have still
exhibited Spartan bravery and devotion
to truth, which must win the admiration of
all good men, and in the end, crown their
| efforts with success
! RESOLVED, That this meeting cordially ap-
prove the platform of principles adopted by
/ the National Democratic convention which
met at the Maryland Institute, in Baltimore,
on the 23d day Of June last and that we hail
| the nomination Of John c. Breckenridge of
Kentucky, and Joseph Lane, of Oregon, for
| the offices of President and Vice President Of
of the United States, upon the declaration of
principles, with sincere and hearty enthu-
| siasm.
| ResoEued, That we deny and denounce the
doctrine OF the republican party that Congress
has the power and right to intervene, and pre-
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United States of citizens with their property
as recognized by the federal Constitution and
the Supreme Court Of the United States and
| that we also deny and denounce the assump-
ton of the advocates Of "squatter sovereign
| ty," that, though each citizen may have the
right to go to the territories with his proper
| ty, yet that the territorial governments oTgani-
zed under the acts of Congress, have the pow
of such Intervention, as equally untenable and
unconstitutional, and that it involves the con-
tradi"tion that citizens may have rights which,
| by the action Of Congress or its agents,
may be impaired or destroyed.
! ReSotUed, That the true constitutional and
democratic doctrine is that the territories, be-
ing the common property Of all the States,
and all citizens being thereby joint owners all
have an equal right to settle in them with
whatever property are not derived from Con-
| gress but are inherent in the people of the
several States therefore Congress cannot in
terveRe for. psrpese- al,tfsAiae-er-< de-
destroying the right of property in the ser
| vices of negroes or any other description of
property, but that it is the bounden duty
when necessary, to protect the rights and pri-
vileges Of all citizens, without Partially, dur
| ing the territorial condition, and that when
the number of the inhabitants of any territory
Justifles It, the people thereof IN the language
of the Cincinnati platform, have the right to
form constitution with or without slavery
as the majority may determine,
RESOLVED, That the real aim Of the republi-
can party, as evinced by the writings and
speeches of its leaders, is directly or indirec-
tly to destroy the domestic institutions of the
South, and to place the four millions of ne
groes now in this county, upon legal and
political equality with the whites, leading to a
mixture OF races and consequent social equah-
ty, by which they would reduce our glorious
country to the condition of Mexico and Cen
trail America, where ruin, degradation, decay,
and death have followed this experiment, and
they would thus, under the pretence of free
dom for the negro, render freedom for white
men impossible. .-..,.. .-..54 s.-s
ReSolosd, That we reject this debasing doc
trine as abhorrent to natural instincts and
right reason-as insulting to the laboring
masses, whom it is thus determined to degrade
from the proud position Of American citizens
to an unnatural equality with an inferior race:
and as an attempt to engraft upon this
country the forms and errors of monarchical
institutions, by creating artificial castles and
classes in the place of those abroad, palpable
and natural distinctions which the Creator has