Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-24

supported hy police regulations Those police regua
only Be established BY the local legislatures and 4 the
hat body who will by gnfrisndly legislation seuAs pre-
hey IL legislation viii favor its extension Henc
matter scAat TIE decision Of ne Supreme Court may 1e
thar abstract question, st tie right Of tho people 70 make
7srrstoryor Free Territory perfect and complete
andsr TIC Nsbraska BIZ hope Mr. Lincoln deems
sge satisfactory on that point
If it be true that the Territorial Legislature cam
by an act exclude the citizen of Southern State
with his slave property, from all enjoyments Of and
participation in the common territorial property Of
all the States is asserted by Mr.. Douglas, the
Consultation and the decisions of the Supreme Court
and the rights of person and property there are the
playthngs of Territorial Legislature to be put up
and down-to be given or taken away at pleasure
For these doctrines the Southern states refusedto
accept Mr. Douglas as a candidate, and who, had he
been with and of them, would have done otherwiseg
But whether the Southern States were reasonable or
capriclous IN their refusal 70 accept and support Mr.
Douglas they had taken their stand deliberately,
after mature consideration, ayowal was be-
fore the country and was well understood; and, UNI
less he had some pre-emptlye right 70 the nomlna-
ton which is not conceded, they had rlghs 70 set
him aside as mere matter OF choice, without any
reason whatever These States held one hundred
and twenty electoral votes, sure Tor the democracy
with an acceptable candidate, while every olhef
State except those on the Pacific, were counted
against us or doubtful and yet, managers OIL the
minority and doubtful States by artifice and combi-
nations sought through the strangely prOtracteq se
sions of the Conventions held &C charleston ana
Baltimore, to force this one candIdate upon inc |
Southern States and in this persistent ana Insane eI
fort first dismembered and then adjourned the Con
vention at Charleston and finally divided and broke
it up at Baltimore. 1t OF all others an occasion
when all mere Individual preferences should nave !
been forgotten and surrendered Tor tne puOnc
good here it was Douglas or nothing, ana
hence the result The Convention broke up,-the
party divided, and all for a candidate who cannot
get single electoral vote.
The Democratic party, under such rule, Is ike the
/ ~ thu Qd a
time to the tail instead of the head to prevent its
clamor and in attempting to go tail foremost STUCK
fast and thus remanedthe tail refusing TO give up
the right to go ahead. And thus will the Democrat
c party remain until it sheds its tapering extreE
/ ty which insists beng honored With command.
! [Applause.l 49, ~
| CHARGE OF A SLAVE CODE--THE DEMOCRATIC PLAT
RAGS FORM.
For the purpose of turning attention from the
| weakness and absurdity of their own position
for the mad and selfish prOstration Of the Democrat
| ic Party-to alarm the fears OF the umld-shake
| the kEees OF the weak, and minister to the morbid
| cravings of lingering and dormant A5olltlonlsm,
they proclaim that the National Democracy who
have placed in nomination Breckenridge and Lane
the advocates of slave code Tor the IerrltOrles
This ideal bantng was begotten by design upon ig-
norance, and is supported by empty noise and bra
zen elamOr. The platform asked for and insisted
upon, by Southern States, was just what the Con
stituton entities them to, construed by the SUI
preme Court and nothing Here 1t Is IN all Its
length and breadth, adopted in the Convention OF
Democratic States, which nominated breckenridge
and Lane. 1t is the same non intervention when
every true Democrat has advocated, end giving eff
feet to the decision of the Court and nothing more
| Let every Democrat read it with unclOuded VISION
and not through the smoked glass of incipient Abo
litionsm let him analyze it carefully and then tell
in what section, or sentence, or syllable TINS Ter
rifle saUe code repOses; and when read, and weigh
ed and understood let all who cannot subscribe to
the great principle of personal and State equality
there enunciated, established and guaranteed by
the Constitution. and authorized and indicated Dy
the decision of the Supreme Court Of the United
States remember that he has taken the first lesson
+ | in Abolition Republicansm and is already on
his way to that organization in his sympathy with
sectional. bgoted creed and narrow political be-
lief
But here is the platform of the Democratic prln-
! ciples, which will speak fer itself
b PLATFORM OF TIE REGULAR NATIONAL DEMOCRACY,
ADOPTED IN CONVENTION AT BALTIMORE, JUNE 1860.
Resoced That the platform adopted BY the Democratic par
! oiutioDI:
provisional and temporary and during its exist nee
all citizens Tie United States have equal right TO settle Win
their property the Territory without their rights either q
property bling destroyed or by oongeSs0nA
SonSThst h stbe duty oftbe Federal Government in
Departments protect the rights Of and property
wherever else its constitutional authority eK
/ Tird-ThAt when the settlers Territory having ade
quate population State Constitutions the right OF aover
eighty Commences and being by their admission
e mo the Union, they sand on equality with the people
other thus organized ought be admitted int
UniOn whether its Constitution prohibits or recog
l. | mixes Institution Of Slavery
esoLued party favor OF IN: acqul
Island Cuba such shall be onorso
to ourselves and SPAN, =. ne s,Ii tn dst
faithful OF the Fugitive Slave Law are hostile
character subverVe Of the Constitution and revolutionary
Resolred That the Democracy of the United States recognize
rallied rights whether at home or in foreign lands
% to the same eEtent as its native born citizens
n
y commercial, pOsa and military point OF ylsw sa sPse
communication between the Pacific and Atlantic coasts er7
Rssoped THAI National party hereby piedg
lie themselves every their power to secure the pas
sage OF some hill the exteut constitutional auhOri
Congress- for the construction OF Pacific karoid from "a
Mississippi River he Pacific Ocean, At the earliest PracNO
moment.
Let us hereafter hear no more from any one pro
Tossing the Democratic creed, and pretending devO
d ton and obedience to the Constitution and laws
Y deuunciation of the Southern Democratic States,
ID asserting that they have either proposed or demand
in ed slave code, that the Convention OF Demo
cratic States which nominated Breckenridge an
Lane have adopted but let all such foolish fat
r relations be left to the rantings of Sumner. an
Cheever and Giddings and their sombre associate:
s. DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES
jr The public and private history of our nominee
IS constitutes their eulOgy. Both and for year
l. have been in high places in the Government Nj
n Breckenridge is able intrepid and popular states
man, and Gen. Lane has written his name upon hi
L countrys history with his sword. They are tru
IL friends to the CONSTITUTION, ana Tree from ue eApt
n diency clap-traps of the day. They placed i
Of nomination by the operations of public sentiment
and not forced upon the public by the process OF pc
to litica machinery Tey will carry seventeen State
ne by accamatOn. with fair chance for others in ad
ditiOn. [Cheersl
y REGULARITY OF NOMINATIONS.
When all other e1pedents fail, we are reminde
that the nomination Of Douglas and johnson IS emit
s tied to support the other for its regularity an
n have observed that certain gentlemen who wer
of snppkpd RuffalO COnypntiO
n of lS48 are most emphatic in swearing allegiance
he | requLlritu The convention which made this nom
nation had no sign, show, nor shadow OF regu
larity The delegated convention at Charlesto
- had not power to adjourn to Baltimore-a dstanc
-, of hundreds of miles, in another State AMI nearl.
~ two months afterwards. No such thing was eve
-, ! contemplated-no such power Of discretion was de
egated even by the most far-fetched implications
= good nomination at Baltimore would have been en-
n Titled to respect and support but not on the score
=, regularity for it had even the sembance Of i
~ The regular delegations for large number OF State
were rejected and bogus contestants some of then
Of without pretelGe of regularity delegated author
gu ty were admitted in their places while regular de
ii. egatons from numerous other States because O
N. this outrage, withdrew, and this pretended regula
is Convention was mere fraction OF one, partly bu
y, not wholly filled up with unauthorized persons froI
I'm the outside 1t acted in violation Of the uniform rul
Ter of Democratic National Conventions, which 1t ha
SIS itself adopted, requiring two thirds to nominate an
s then dsregarded it in making the nominations, 70
at time, bogus ueleBdtes LhCiuueu, 1AI TIC W.
y reach two-thirds vote Its nominee for Vice-PreS
ed ident was Mr. Fitzpatrick who declined to accep
81 ouch nomination, and the regularity OF Mr. John
nv SON. who now runs Vice President with Nh
Douglas consists the request OF some half-dOZe
he :1;s,I,aIs ofte, tho adiournuent that he shout
run and in which request it seems he cordially un
ate ted The regular President of the convention, Ger
Cushing left his chair and went away and preside
iin over the convention which nominated BreckInrldg
and Lane; that the regularity of the nomination
pc Douglas and johnson may be summed up IN this
ls- that Mr. johnson was not and has not been nom
on mated by any convention that Mr. Douglas was nom
nc nated by delegates of an Irregular fractional bro
We ken I'D eonventiOn-withOut a head-without
We Democratic body. but mere skeleton, half Sot
ms half Republican State delegations, and bogus tail
i [Laugherl
~ No one pretends that the nominations OF Brecklr
al ridge and Lane have the authority of regular Ma
1l- tinnal Cnnzentnn accnrding the usages of III