Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1860-05-18
From the NJ. Y. Tribune.
The Charleston Collapse.

sDid the militia stand fre?" asked George
Washington of the messenger who brought
him the first tidings of the fight on Bunker
Hill. eyes, they did, was the response
9Theu, thank God, the liberties of America
are SAFE" 1t was not necessary that the pat
riots hastily rallied from their plows and their
iresides should have triumphed; it was essen
tial that they should have manifested the cour-
age and the will to look the Kings drilled mer-
cenarles steadily in the ere without panic or
flight. That point secured, all beyond was
but question of time and cost.
Let US, then, be grateful that, for the first
time in our history, Democratic National
Convention has looked the Slavery Propaganda
calmly in the face, aud virtually said: awe
have conceded very much to you, and we stand
to those concessions. We are ready to restase
and reafirm them; thus far and no further,
we will 60; there, where you we're so lately
glad to stand with us, we will stand; yGu may
desert and defeat us, but we will not discard
nor deny our cherished principles, even at your
bidding, but will affirm and uphold them, be
the Consequences what they may" In this
stand Of the Northern Democracy there is as
assurance that the bottom has been reached,
and that this Republic is to be at the worst no
more fagrantly false to the grand ideas on
which it was founded, than it has been in the
past.
Let us look closely at the newly raised but
destined to be historic monuments that marked
the Parting of the Ways.
Here is the Platform reported to the Con-
Yention by the majority IN of its Grand
Committee of one from each State delegation
said majority being made up of the repre-
sentatiyes ON said committee Of every Slave
State (l5) with those of California and Ore
gon:
Resolved, That the platform adopted at Gin
cinnati be affirmed, with the following resolu-
tions:
That the Democracy of the United States hold
these cardinal principles on the subject of Slave
ry in the Territories. First that Congress has no
right to abolish Slavery in the Territories, Sec
ond, that the Territorial Legislature has no pow
er TO abolish Slavery in any Territory, nor TO pro-
hibii the Introduction of slaves therein, nor any
power 10 exclude Slavery lherefrom, nor any
power to destroy or impair the right of property
in slaves by any Legislation whatever.
Resolved, That the enac;ments OF State Legis-
iatures 10 defeat the faithful execution OF the Flu
gltive Slave law are hostile in character snbver-
siye OF the Constitution, and revolutionary IN
their effect.
Resolved, That il is the duty of - Federal
Government to protect, when necessary, The
rights of person and properly on the high seas, in
the Territories, or wherever else its Constitu-
iional authority extends
Resolved That the Democracy of the nation
recognize il as the imperative duty of this Gov
eminent to protect the naturalized citizen in all
his rights, whether at home or in foreign lands,
TO the same extent as its native born citizens
Resolved, That the National Democracy ear
nestIy recommend the acquisition OF the Island
of Cuba at the earliest practicable period.