Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-03-06
From the Cincinnati Gazette.

From the Cincinnati Gazette.
THE NEW DEMOCRATIC PLATFoRM.
Below we give in full the Democratic
scaffolding set up by the Democratic
Senators for the execution of Douglas
at Charleston. Whether he will really
be the victim, or whether JefsDaEis, its
author, will then appear in the character
of Haman, remains to be determined
The resolutions will pass the Senate,
with probably only the votes of Douglas
and Pugh (among Democrats) in oppo-
sition. They adopt, it will be seen, the
Buchanan theory as to slavery in the
Territories, specially denounce the
squatter sovereignty and unfriendly leg
islation of Douglas, substantially en-.
dorse the slave-code policy, and will, If
adopted by the Charleston Convention,
as is Intended, preclude the nomination
of the Little Rebel. Here are the reso-
lutions, as finally agreed on in caucus.
/. ResozUed, That in the adoption of
the Federal Constitution, the States
adopting the same acted as free and in
dependent sovereignties, delegating a
portion of their powers to be exercised
by the Federal Government, for the in
creased security of each, against dangers
domestic as well as foreign; and that any
intermeddling by any one or more States,
or by a combination of their citizens,
with the domestic institutions of the
others, on any pretext, whether political, !,
moral or religious, with the view to their
disturbance or subversion, is in violation
of the Constitution, insulting to the
States so interfered with, endangers
their domestic peace and tranquility
objects for which the Constitution was
formed-and, by necessary consequence,
serves to weaken and destroy the Union
itself.
2. Resolved, That Negro Slavery, as
it exists in fifteen States of this Union,
composes an important portion Of their
domestic institutions, inherited from
their ancestors, and existing at the
adoption of the Constitution, by which
it is recognized as constituting an impor-
tant element of the apportionment of
powers among the States; and that no
change of opinion or feeling on the part
of the on-slaveholding States of the
Union in relation to this institution can
justify them or their citizens in open
and systematic attacks therein, with a
view to its overthrow; and that all such
attacks are in manifest violation of the
mutual and solemn pledges to protect
and defend each other, given by the
States, respectively, on entering into the
constitutional compact which formed
the Union, and are manifest breach of
faith and violation of the most solemn
obligation.
B. Resolued, That the union of these
States rests ON the equality of rights and
privileges among its members, and that
is especially the duty of the Senate,
which represents the States in their
sovereign capacity, to resist all attempts
to discriminate either in relation to per-
son or property, so as, in the Territories
which are the common possession of
the United States-to give advantages to
the citizens of one State which are not
equally secured to those of every other
State. s&
4. Resolued, That neither Congress,
nor a Territorial Legislature, whether
by direct legislation or legislation of an
indirect and unfriendly nature, possess
the power to annul or impair the con-
right of any citizen of the
United States to take his slave property
into the common Territories; but it is
the duty of the Federal Government
there to afford for that, as for other
species of properly, the needful protec-
ton; and if experience should at any
time prove that the Judiciary does not
possess power to insure adequate protec-
ton, it will then become the duty of
Congress to supply such deficiency.
5. Resolued, That the inhabitants of
an organized Territory of the United
States, when they ri ghtfully form a
Constitution, to be admitted as State
into the Union, may then, for the first
time, like the people of a State when
forming new Constitution, decide for
themselves whether Slavery, as domes-
tic Institution, shall be maintained or
prohibited within their jurisdiction; and
if Congress shall admit them as State,
"they shall be received into the Union
with or without Slavery as their Consti-
tuition may prescribe at the time Of their
admission.
g. Resolred, That the provision of the
Constitution for the rendition of offugitives
from service or labor, "without the
adoption of which the Union could not
have been formed" and the laws of 1893
and 1850, which were enacted to secure
its execution, and the main features of
which, being similar, bear the impress
of nearly seventy years of sanction by
the highest judicial authority, have un-
questionable claim to the respect and
observance of all who enjoy the benefits
of our compact of Union; and that the
acts of State Legislatures to defeat the
purpose, or nullify the requirements of
that provision, and the laws made in
pursuance of it, are hostile in character
subversive of the Constitution, revolu-
tionary in their effect, and if persisted
in, must sooner or later lead the States
injured by such breach OF the compact
to exercise their judgment as to the
proper mode and measures Of redress.
The Newly ork Tri6m,e's Washington
correspondent says: t#
It is not improbable, if this platform
should be adopted at Charleston, which
the South will certainly demand if a
Northern man should be nominated, that
a third candidate may be run after the
example ofVan Buren. Sagacious Dem
ocrats regard the party as morally dis
rupted, and admit Republican success
with ordinary discretion.
Living I'm Florence.
Florence must be cheap place to live
in. Everybody knows that tits charm
ing one. A correspondent of the Boston
Transcript writes of prices:
Beef, cents per pound; best chickens,
I 4 aoah. e..