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Mr.. Bayard, of Delaware which will be substan
TALLY adopted. This is regarded as tantamount t.
defeat of Douglas, as he telegraphs his friends
to day to adhere to the Cincinnati PLATFORM will
the plank added of obedience to all judicial decis
ions including that on the Dred Scott case.
THE PLATFORM OF THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.
The following is the resolution submitted to tn
Committee on Platforms, by Mr.. Barksdale, o
Mississippi 1t embodes the Southern view ant
the Southern delegates insist on its adoption.
Resolved, That it is the duty of the Federal gov
ernment to protect all species of property recog
nized such by the Cons titution the territorie
and upon the high seas, and everywhere else where
1t has p' otection.
JUDGE DOUGLAS PLATFORM.
In order that our readers may see wherein the prn
cples of the Southern and Douglas section differs
as regards the Territorial question, we append the
following resolution taken from the platform adopt
ed by the Douglas Democrats of Illinois at their
State Convention on the 4th of January, 1860:
Resolued, That the people of the Territories re-
spectvely shall be left perfectly free to make such
laws and regulations in respect to slavery and all
other matters of local concern as they may deter
mine for themselves, subject to other limitations
or restrictions than those imposed by the Constu-
tion of the United States
THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM.-The following is the
substance of that part of the Cincinnati Platform
upon TIE slavery issue in the Territories
l. Desiring the cooperation of all who regard
the Union under the Constitution as the paramount
issue; repudiating all sectional parties slavery
whose purposes, il consummated, must end in civil
war and diSunon, and adopting as the only sound
and safe solution of the slavery question, for the
conservatism of the Union, Non interference Jy
Congress tch SoUery an State Territory an the
District of Columbia.
2. That this was the basis of the compromises of
1S5O RIGHTLY onniiad fn fba of
Territories in 1854, and that by its uniform
application to the organization of Territories,
and the admission of new States, with or
without slavery, as they may elect, the equal
rights of all the States in the Territories will be
preserved, the original compacts of the Constitu-
ton maintained, and the perpetuity and expansion
of the Union over the Continent insured.
). "That we recognize the right of the people of
al! the Territories acting through the legally and
ialrly expressed will of a majority of actual resi-
dents, and when the number of their inhabitants
Justlhes 1t, to form Constitution with or without
domestic slavery and be admitted into the Union
upon terms of perfect equality with the other
States"
THE DRED SCOTT DECISION.
The following are such extracts from the bred
Scott decision as bear upon the issues before the
Convention
"The powers of the government and the rights
and privileges of the citizens, are regulated and
plainly defined by the Constitution itself" "The
Government and the citizens both enter it under
the authority of the Constitution, with their re-
spective rights defined and marked out, and the
Federal Government can exercise no power over his
person or property beyond what that instrument
conters, nor lawfully deny any right which it has
The Constitution provides that ono person shall
be deprived of life, liberty and property without
due process of law, and if Congress itself cannot
do this, and if it is beyond the powers conferred
on the Federal Government, it will be admitted,
we presume, that it could not authorize terrific
rial government to exercise them. 1t could CON
fer no power on any local government established
By its authority to violate the provisions of the
Constitution. And if the Constitution recognizes
the right of property of the master in a slave and
makes no distinction between that description of
property and other property owned by citizen,
no tribunal acting under the authority of the
United States, whether it be legislative executive,
or judicial has right to draw such n distinction,
or to deny to it the benefit and provisions of the
guarantees which have been provided fer the pro-
lection of private property against the encroach-
ment of the Government. =
And the Government, in express terms, is pledged
to protect it (prOperty in slave) in all future
time If the slave escapes from his owner. This is
done in plain words-too plain to be misunderstood.
And no words can be found in the Constitution
which gives Congress greater power over slave
property, or which entities property of that kind
to less protection than property of anv other de-
scription. The only power conferred is the power
coupled with the duty of guarding and protecting
the owner in his rights.
1t was not only within the scope of its (the Gene
raj GOvernment's) power, but it was its duty to
pass such laws, and establish such (territorial)
Government would enable those bv whose au-
thority they acted (the people of the several
States) to reap the advantages anticipated from
its acquisition.