The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-10
HYpocrisY Unmarked.

The Douglas wing of the democratic par
ty are appealing to voters in the Northern
States for support, because they adhere to
principle and refuse to submit to the dcta-
ton of tue fire-eaters of the South. They
repudiate the charge that they disrupted the
"time-honored organization" in their blind
devotion to partizan leader, and piteously
beg the people not to strike down Douglas
because in so doing they deal death blow
to the great doctrine of "non-intervention"
-"the right of the people to govern them
selves"
We propose to show that this claim of the
Douglas men is but another attempt to de-
ceive the people. If the resolution, we pub
lished a day or two ago, which was adopted
by the Rump Convention" in order to
secure some 1000 votes in the State OF
Louisiana, was not sufficient to unmask the
hypocrisy of the Douglasites, a short glance
Mt the record of their candidate for Vice
President cannot fail to open the eyes of
those who are even the most indisposed to
see.
At Democratic State Convention held
in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the 4th day of
June last, few days prior to the meeting
of the Baltimore Convention, Mr.. Herschel
Y. johnson was a member of the business
committee. This committee disagreed in
its action, johnson being in the minority.
AS the leader of said minority, he presented
a report which we desire every Douglas
man to read and carefully digest.
Minority Report presented to the JhlIedqe-
pitLe C0nrentioa 6y Hon. HerscheI r.
johnson, June 4th, 1860:
{ From the Rome (Ga.) Southerner and 44d-
pertiseT, DOuglasite paper.
Resoiued, That we reaffirm the Cincinnati
Platform, with the following additional
propositions
lst. That the citizens of the nited
States have an equal right to settle with
their property Of any kind, on the organized
Territories of the United States, and that
under the decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States in the case of Dred Scott,
which we recognize as the correct exposi-
ton of the Constitution in this particular,
SLAVE property stands upon the same footing
as all other descriptions Of property and that
neither the General Government, NOR ANY
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT, can de-
stroy or impair the right to sIaUe property
in common territories any more than the
/ right to any other dsscrip toa$of property;
that property of all kinds, slave as well as
any other species of property, in the terrific
ries, stand upon the same equal, broad
Constitutional basis, and subject to like
principles of recognition and protection in the
LEGISLATIVE, judicial, and executive de-
pdrtments Of the Government
I'd. That we will support any man who
may be nominated by the Baltimore Con-
vention, for the Presidency, who holds the
| principles set forth in the foregoing propo-
sition, and who will give them his indorse-
ment, and that we will not hold ourselves
bound to supportany man, who may be the
nominee, who entertains principles incon-
sistent with those set forth in the above prop
ositioDs, or who denies that slave property
in the territories does stand On an equal
footing, and on the same Constitutional ba-
sis of other descriptions of property.
In view of the fact that large majority
of the delegates from Georgia felt it to
be their duty to withdraw from the late
Democratic Convention at Charleston, there