The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-01-24
Alabama iIi the Lead


Convention of Alabama; of which there are &C
counts in our telegraphic column this morning
is an omen of good cheer to all those who hav
the rights and security Of the Southern peop|
at heart, and are not immersed in the debasin:
scramble of lifting men to the Presidenc,
through party trickery and timc-scrving com
promises of principle. She takes high groun'
iuithe vital question Of Southern expansion
and sends noble delegation to Charleston t.
insist upon the reputation Of the Doug las con
struction of the Ured Scott decision and tht
Cincinnati platform. This is a sine q"a no" te
the obtanncnt her supportlo the nominees
of the Convention. Her delegates are instruc
ted to withdraw if this requirement is refused
The State OF South Carolina will unhesitating
ly deny bcr support to any one who stands
equivocaly on this great ISSUE and will hcart
y cooperate with Alabama. Ii the National
Democratic party cannot stand this test, and
the Northern Democracy is devoted to frecso
and the prohibition Of slavery from the common
Territories, then to this secton with its civiliza
tion and safety, it is ininical and a party worse
than vaueless. On this great test, it must sur
vivc or go to pieces. The South cannot sup
port /; party welded to anti-sIavcry, whether in
one form or another. "Hostile legislation" is
as bad as =" the Wilmot Provsc," while
more aggravatipg and deceptive.
Charleston Mercury.
The resolutions, offered. in the Montgomery
Convention last Friday by Hon. r. &. Scott,
Of Monroe, and so warmly appauded, one after
the other, as read, are these:
1st That the Constitution of the United
States is compact between sovereign and CO.
equal States, united upon the basis Of perfect
equality of rights and privileges.
3D. The Territories of the Union are COM
mon property, in which the States have equal
rights, and to which the citizens of every State
may rightfully emisrate with their slaves or
other property, recognized as such i'll any OF
the States Of the Union, and by the Constit'l-
ton of the United States
81. That the Congress Of the United States
has no power to abolish slavery in the Terri
tories, nor to prohibit its introduction into any
of them.
.ith That the Territorial Legislatures, crea-
ted by the legislation Of Congress, have no
otker or greater constitutional power to abolish
slavery, or to prohibit the introduction Of the
same within the Territories than Congress
possesses by the Constitution, aud such consti-
tulioual power only belongs to the people Of
the Territories, wllu.l in the exercise Of lawful
authority they form Il State Constitution, pre-
rarutorv to their admission into the Union.
5th That the true construction of the dcci-
sion made by the Supreme Court Of the United
States in the Drcd Scott case, aIlirms aud
maintains the doctrines and principles in the
three preceding resolutions, and we most cor
daily approve both the reasoning and conclll-
sious OF that august and pure body Of learned
and eminent jurists.
9th. That the rghts Of person and property,
whether such property consists of slaves, Or
other chattcls i'll the territories of the United
States, are constitutionally entitled to full,
ample and adequate protection, through the
Legislation of the Territorial Legislatures there
Il and they 4 RSs[seti9s q Eet9sing ly proper
iigh cons itutioraI riglit and equally the duty
II Congress, to intcrposc and pass all laws ncF
;rssary to remedy the omission.
7th. That Congress has no constitutional
to abolish slavery within the District |
II Columbia.
9th. That we hold all Of the foregoing pro-
positions to contain cardinal principI pIes-trueIn III
hennscyes-and just and proper, and necessary
or the safety of all that is dear 10 lis, and we
10 hereby instruct our delegates to the Char
es:on Convention to present them Tor the calm
consideration AMI adoption of that bothy-trom
shose Justice and patriotism weanticlpatc their
Incorporation into the Democratic creed.
9th. That should our hopes for the sanction
,f the principles, set out in the foregoing reso'
utIols, bv the Charleston Convention, be dis
,ppointcd, it is our solemn instruction to our
delegates to that Convention to take 10 further
,art in the same, nor to unite in any vote
any one for the Presidency, bat to
withdraw from the Convention.
10th. That to meet the untricndly action OF
Inc Charleston Convention in reference to the
orcgoiils resolutions and to be prepared for
hat event, which we hope may not occnr the
delegates thereto BE-, and they are hereby all
horizcd and directed, if they Withdraw from
he Convention, to call together, ut rs early
lay as possible, this body, and to report to it
.Ilcir proceedings in detail, and we pledge our
selves, at any Inconvenience, to attend the
called meeting.