Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-08-31

policy, that Congress can neither estab-
lish nor prohibit slavery, has been de-
parted from in the slightest degree. 1t
is purely a question of property; it is
purely question of the protection Of the
rights of southern men equally with the
rights of northern men. 1t is not a
concession of the North they yield none
of their rights. 1t is simply an act of
equal justice upon the part of the North
it is demand of right upon the part of
the South
BRECKENRIDGE AND LANE FALSELY
CHARGED WITH DISUNION SENTl-
MENTS.
The effort is made to charge disunion
sentiments upon Breckenridge and Lane,
because some individuals now supporting
them have at some period of their lives
given utterance to extreme sentiments.
See with what weight and point the
charge goes home to the Front Street
Theatre candidates. Douglas and John
SON. One of their staunchest and most
eloquent advocates on the floor of the
convention, was Colonel Gaulden, of
Georgia, who at the Charleston sitting
advocated the re-opening of the African
slave trade. We quote from the official
report:
Col. Gaulden said he would do all he
could to reconcile his friends in Georgia to
this doctrine, and denounced congressional
protection as an abstraction. In the course
of his remarks he referred to Virginia as
slave-trading and slaye-brceding Virginia.
"a delegate from Virginia objected to the
designation applied to that State
Mr.. Gaulden. We'll, I'll say slave-trad-
| ing Georgia, then. | don't object to the de-
| signation-I am slave brceder-l face the
music Come down to my plantation and II
show you fine lot Of young niggers there,
and pure Africans, too.
Col. Gaulden then proceeded to advocate
the revival Of the African slave trade, and be-
licved Massachusetts herself would shortly
advocate it. lie did not see why he should pay
| 50, 600 for negro from Virginia, when he
could buy him in Africa for $50. He de-
nounced the treaty for the suppression Of the
African slave trade, which, he said, was
against the laws Of God and natures God
The doctrine Of non-intcrvention should be
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 de
liyered over to canuibalism."
SENTIMENTS OF II. V. JOHNSON.
But in controversy we should 90 to the
heart of the matter. How will Mr.
johnson ring this charge to advance hi
prospects for the Vice Presidency? IL,
was Senator in Congress in 1913, ant
on the 18th of July of that year he mad
speech to prove that Congress had tn
power and ought to intervene to protec
slave property in the Territories. Csc
Appendix to the Congressional Globe
LIST sess., Both Congress, page 891.
Our space forbids extended extracts. II
said;
" IN no event can the STAKEHOLDER of III
South be excluded from settling in such Ter
ritory with bis property ofevery description.
~
Since, therefore, ms have shown, Congress
has no power TO prohibit slavery, they canno
delegate such power TO the inhabitants o
the Territory they cannot authorize the Ter
ritorial Legislature to do that which the,
have no power to do. The stream cannotris
higher than its sOurcen
THE institution of slavery IL guaranteed
by the Constitution Of the United States anC
it has the same protection thrown around it,
which guards our citizens against the granting
Of titles of nobility, or the establishment o
religion; therefore, Congress would be a
much bound to veto an act Of Territorial le
gislatiOn prohibiting it, as an act violating
these rights Of every citizen Of the Republic.
To show that Mr.. johnson has no
abandoned his doctrine of Congressiona
protection, we quote the following reso.
lutions drafted and then reported by hin
to the Convention of Georgia, held OF
the 4th day of last June, which appoint.
ed him as a delegate to the Nationa
Convention at Baltimore:
I " ResoLccd, That we rc-anirm the Cincinnati
platform, with the following additional pro
POSITIONS
"lst That the citizens of the United State
have an equal rightto settle wiH their proper
~ Of any Kind, in the organized Territoric
OF the United States, and that under the de
2 ciSion of the Supreme Court Of the Unitet
States in the case Of bred Scott which w
recognize as the correct exposition Of the Con
sttution in this particular, stare property sfqHd
Hpon The saHe .f0oting az all oiher descriptions Q
property, and lint neither the Gcaern Gopern
m,ent, NOR ANY TERRITORIAL GOVERN
MENT, can destroy or impair tie right 10 sian,
property in the common Territories any NOR
than the right 10 any other Inscription Of pro
perty that property Of all kinds, slaves al
well ms any other species Of property, in al
the Territories, stand upon the same equa
| and broad constitutional basis, and subiec
to like principles of recognition and proteciio,
IN he LEGISLAT1VE, Jldiciai, and E1ecutiU
| US01rf1qeufs O( lbe IOyerDBeuf
" I'd That we will support any man VIII
may be nominated by the Baltimore Conycn
/ ton for the Presidency, who holds the prin
! ciplcs set forth in the foregoing proposition
and who will give them his endorsement, and
that we will not hold ourselves bound tC
support any man, who may be the nominee
who entertains principles inconsistent viii
those set forth in the above propositions, OF
who denies that slave property in the Terrific.
ries does not stand on an equal footing, and
, on the same constitutional basis Of othcl
species Of property"
Mr.. Douglas, in his letter 10 Hon. W.
A. Richardson, read before the Conyen-
ton, uses this emphatic language: 4" In
tcrUcntion means disunioa." Then, ac-
cording to Mr.. Douglas, Mr.. Johnsoa,
his colleague on he ticket rith him, Is a
disuntonia. And, according TO the Sc
cond resolution offered by Mr.. johnson
before the Georgia Convention, he stands
pledged not to support or vote for Mr..
Douglas.
CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY.
But in our survey Of the field we must
not neglect the Constitutional Union par
ty. 1t is an old party, under a new
guise. In 1856 they had platform Of
the strictest kind, and secret organiza-
ton protected by tests and oaths. Then
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