Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-09-15
Number 50.

ton. Every southern delegation voting against hm more than nifty times, day after day and night after night, and yet the nomination was unanimous The nomination of Gen. Scott, therefore presents to the American people this extraordinary anomaly For the first time in the history of our party con tests, has sectional nomination been forced upon either of the two great parties"
 By inserting JUDGE DOUGLAS for Gen. Scott in the above, it will apply with greater force to him than it did when applied to Gen. Scott.
 But he was declared, after repeated ballotinCs, the unanimous nominee of the convention.
 And after the convention had performed it's work, and many of its members had left, Mr. Wickliff, of Louisiana, introduced the following resolution intending to give quasi indorsement to the opinion of the Supreme Court so that he could have some excuse for asking Louisiana to support Mir Douglas, and the resolution was adopted, and is appended to the Charleston resolutions as a part of the platform; and held out to the world as the sentiments of MT. Douglas, when in fact Mr. Douglas has since repudated the doctrine con tained in the resolution on almost every stump in Illinois and in the route of his recent pilgrimage in search of his mother.
 h his speech at Springfield, Mass, he even went farther than he had heretofore gone, and ad- vocated the "higher law D doctrine for the people of the Territories.
 "The dogma that the citizens of Territory derive their power from Congress is the old tory idea that the citizens of the original colonies de- rived their power from the crown. They exploded this idea in the of the revolution and the prn- cipe of popular sovereignty was born. We hold therefore that the citizen does not drioe potter from Congress, for he has already deriued t from God Almighty''
 Can any southern man in the face of this testi- mony claim that he (DOuolas,) is in favor of car rying out in good faith the decrees of the Supreme Court, and of meting out with an even hand justice to all sections of the Union?
 BRECKENRIDGE AND LANE.
 It only remains to consider the claims of the only national candidates now in the field, and we challenge the strctest investigation into the record of our candidates, and the platform of principles upon which they stand. When all hope of reunion at Baltimore had hed-when it was made evident that the friends of Mir. DOUGLAS determined to nominate him or nobody-when the southern delegates were ruhessly elected from seats in that body-their equality positively denied in the con vention, and by their platform crtually denied tn the Union; they gathered up the platform which had been indorsed by the whole South and the two Pacific States (l7 in number) at Charleston, and which was repudiated and spit upon by DOUGLAS and his friends, while they admitted it 'to be ceptionable," they assembled at the Maryland h. stitute, organized themselves into convention, adopted that rejected platform as embodying the true constitutional principles, without alteration, to-wit
 
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 Resolped, That the platform adopted by the de- mocratic party at Cincinnati be affirmed, with the following explanatory resolutions:
 l. Resotoed, That the government of territory, organized by act of Congress is provisional and temporary, during it's existence all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle with their property in the territory without their rights of either person or property being destroyed or i'm paired by congressional or territorial legislation.
 }. Resolped, That it is the duty of the federal government ill all its departments to protect, when necessary the rights of persons and property in the territories, and wherever else its constitutional au thority extends.
 3. Resoiped, That when the settlers in territory, having an adequate population, form State con stitution, the rights of sovereignty commences, and being consummated by admission into the Union, they stand on equal footing with the peo- pie of other Statcs-and the State thus organized ought to be admitted into the federal Union, wheth its constitution prohibits or recognizes the in stitution of slavery.
 4. Resolped, That the democratic party are in favor of the acquisition of the Island of Cuba on such terms shall be honorable to ourselves and just to Spain. at the earliest practical moment.
 ,. Resoloed, That the enactments of State legis- atures to defeat the faithful execution of the fugi tive slave law hostile in character, subversive of the constitution, and revolutionary in their effects.
 6. Resoloed, That the democracy of the United States recognize it as the imperative duty of this government to protect the naturazed citizen in all his rights, whether at home or in foreign lands to the same extent as its native-born citizen.
 And whereas, one of the greatest necessities of the age, in political, commercial, postal and mili tary point of view, is speedy communication be- tween the Pacific and Atlantic coasts; therefore, be it
 Resolred, That the democratic party do hereby pledge themselves to use every means in their DOW to secure the passage of some bill to the extent of the constitutional authority of Congress for the construction of Pacific railroad from the Missis- sppi river to the Pacific ocean, the earliest prac- ticable moment.
 A platform just to the North, just to the South just to the East and just to the West, clearly de- fning the equality of the States, and the rights of all under the constitution, as expounded by the Supreme Court, and they nominated BRECKENRIDGE AND LANE as the standard bearers of the national democracy.
 We present to the country platform of princ pies co-extensive with the Union-one that metes out equal and exact justice to a--and denies ex. elusive privileges to any. We ask for no slave code, nor for a mule code, nor any other code for the protection of any one species of property than another. We ask nothing but the recognition of rights affirmed by the Supreme Court to exist under the protection of the constitution
 The platform is clear and explicit, and repels the false charges, made by demagogues, that we are in favor of the extension per Sc of the institution of slavery. We deny the right of the federal gov ernment either directly, by any of it's organized members to injure or OppresS any section of the country, and demand that it shall afford the full measure of protection to all our citizens, in the full enjoyment of whatever kind of property they may possess. This we understand to be the creed of the democratic party now and heretofore. The doctrine of protecting slave property against the cu. speaks so much, and which he claims for the peo. pie the power to exercise by virtue of chi gher law" than Congress, and above its control is no new principle in the legislation of this country.
 In 1884, several citizens of Virginia, who were injuriously affected by the "unfrendly legislation" of Florida, memorialized Congress as follows:
 "The memoriasts allege that they are the owners of number of slaves, removed several years ago from Virginia to the Territory of Florida that the Legislature of said Territory has imposed tax of ten dollars head on all the slaves of nop- residents which shall be hired out without refer ence to the amount for which said slaves may have been hired; that on er post facto operation was given to this enactment, by applying it to slaves hired out several weeks before the passage of the law, and that the same, or perhaps another law, subjects any non-resdents slaves that may be sold in the Territory to a further tax of fifteen dollars each. They, therefore, ask Congress for relief"
 The memorial was referred to committee who made the following report:
 "The committee satisfied that the memo rialiss entitled to relief Is certainiy aqonst the policy of tho United States as ,oeH as the dicfoses of conimon justice, to aloao any Territorial Igisla lure to tar the property of residents higher than the same property ot resident citizens.
 "The comrnihee hink Congress should al,caus pro- feet the property of the citizens o the United States trhen subjected to Me operatios o unjust leqislaton by the territorial goueynments In e case abope re-
 rred to that principle of protection IS asserted and manfained in practice. The principle requires the same practice And for that purpose the com mittee here,cM report bill"
 The bill so reported was enacted into law by Conuress, and was approved by President JACKSON on the 30th of June, 1884. That law is as fol- lows:
 'Be h enacted by the Senate and House of Repye- sentaipes of the United States of America in Csn- gross assmtled, That all such acts or parts of acts passedby the legislative council of tine Territory of Florida, as may impose higher or greater tax on fhe saares or other property of nonresident cit zens than IS imposed on the slaves otherproperty of resident citizens, be, and the hereby re- pealed aud declared null and roid.
 SEC. ,. And be tt further enaeted That if any person shall attempt to enforce any of the acts or parts of acts passed by the legislative council of the territory of Florida, aforesaid, by demand ing or receiving any tax, imposition, assessment mi tt<v, ,-A1~ &lul ~ Il Il