Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-13

IEsTrAP BREAKING UNION, RTESD To s7RENsrH
IN AND 10 LENGrHES 7. joins @. BKEcKNRIDsE.
The Tennessee and baltimore Platforms,

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There is a stealthy effort being made by portion
Of the Opposition of Tennessee to convince the
Democracy that the platform upon which BRICK
1NEIf'GE and LANE stand is yiolative of the
doctrines enuncsted the platform adopted at our
State Convention in January last A simple glance
ct the two platforms will show the entire absurdity
of such a charge The Democracy of Tennessee
when in convention assembled on the 18th of Janu-
airy, in their fourth resolution proclaimed:
That DE Federal Government has no poCer to inter
ere nth saUey IN the SGtes, nor q introduce or exclude
from The Territories and duty 10 perform IN red
ton thereto bd to PROTECT TIE RIGHT OF THE OWNER
IRON WRONG, aud to restore fuqtiUes from labor
THESE DUTIES 1T CANNOT WITHHOLD WITH
OUT A VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION"
We invite the scrutiny of every thinking man in
the State to this resolution. If there was a single,
solitary in the whole State who professed to be
Democrat thas did not cordially endorse this reso-
luton he speechless the dead. 1t received
the unanimous sanction, the hearty approval of the
entire Democracy. What does it declare? THAT
The Federal GOUannent" composed of the President,
the two House Of Congress and the Judiciary "haUe
poI0sr to interfere l5h SlaUery IN the Safes NOR TO
INTRODUCE OR EXCLUDE IT FROM THE TERRITORIES, and
no duty to perform IN relation thereto but to PROTECT
Mark you y THE RIGHTS Of the oloaer from ,crong
and to restore gUes from labor; THESE DUTIES IT CAN
NOT WITHHOLD WITHOUT VIOLATION OF THE CoNsTITU
TON" We ask the sceptical to read and re-read it.
Let them ponder every word in it from beginning to
end. If there Is any violation of the doctrine of
non-intervention let it be pointed out Where were
those followers of Mr.. DOUGLAS who now pirate so
loudly of noninterventon that they said nothing of
the departure of the Democratic State Convention
from the true faith if there any violation of the
doctrine of nOn-interventiOn in their resolution.
Let us look for amOment at the Baltimore Platform
adopted by The Convention that nominated BRECKN-
RIDGE and LANE. The following are the resolutions
which are pertinent to the subject:
lst That the government of territory. organ
lied by an act Of Congress is provisional and
pOrary, and during its existence all citizens of the
United States have equal right to settle with
their property IN the Territory without their rights
either of person or property being destroyed i'm
paired by congressional or territorial legislation
sE2d That Il is the duty Of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
IN al its departments to protect .1rheH necessary, The
rights Of persons and property IN the Territories, aud
lohereuer else lis constitutional authority eTtezds
We hope that those Democrats who have heard
the a6herents of Mr.. DOUGLAS denouncing the South
ern Democracy violating the old doctrine of non
Intervention, viii compare the resolutions adopted
Nashville and those given above. The resolutions
adopted by the Democracy of Tennessee declare it
is the duty Of the Federal Government to protect
the rights Of the Southern man in his slave property
The Baltimore resolutions declare that it is the duty
of the Federal Government protect the rights of
every man. North and South, in his property of all
kinds, in the Territories, and wherever else its
constitutional authority extends" Our State con-
vention resolution goes further and says that the
Federal Government cannot 'oilhod these duties
without violation of the Constitution If there
is Intervention in the one, there is intervention in
Abe other If there is protection in the one there is
protection in the other. They both declare the duty
of the Federal Government to protect US from the
U1teueRtioR' of squatter sovcreigns. whether led
by Ossawottomie JOIN Brown, or any other Of the
name. We said there should be HORinterference 5"
we ask for protection from interference We said
there should be "nonntervention; - we ask for
protection from intervention when necessary
The Supreme Court has declared that a Territorial
legislature whether opposed of Black Republican
emissaries from cnigrant aid associations or not,
has more right to interfere against Southern
citizens than Congress has. The DOUGLAS candidate
for the Nice-Presidency has again and again admit
ted the same thing. Then away with your inter
ference" or intervention" by the first horde of
abolitonists that can be sent out from Massachu-
sets.