The Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1852-1872, 1860-05-26
SHASTA COURIER.
VIII the Democratic Leaders Bolt the
baltimore Nominee.

The editor of the Standard thinks they will,
unless the Baltimore Convention incorporate in
the platform a plank in favor Of Congressional
interference in behalf of slavery in the Terrific
ries However, we think he has mistaken the
position and the feeling of the leaders of the
California Democracy. Says he:
"Sixty thousand voters in California, in Sep
TENDER last, indorsed the doctrine of the bred
Scott decision. Is there any one of these men
who is prepared to stultfy himself, to eat his
own words, and nowsto subscribe to doctrine
which few short months ago he so mantally
and so successfully resisted? Why, for very
shame we dare not do it We should become
the laughing stock Of the Black Republican ur-
chins as we passed along the street In such an
event, what is to become Of Gwin and Latham,
and Burch, and Scott, and Davis and Toombs,
and Hunter and all the other great leaders of
the Democratic party in California and else
where, who so irretrevably committed
against Mr. Douglas and his pet doctrine?'
We venture to assert that Messrs. Gwin, La
than, Burch aud Scott win support the nomi
uees of the Baltimore Convention whether the
platform suits them in every particular or not.
We venture to assert that neither of them will
NAhabit tiC NilOeauLc uLiIAbuteu u t4ltLu tue
Standard They are sensible, cool-headed men,
who love the Union, and the only party that
can preserve it, too dearly to assist in bursting
it up in foolish strife for the recognition of an
abstraction that can do the South no good, and
will do the Democracy great harm in the North.
We believe that the people of Territory have
no right to exclude slavery therefrom, until they
come to adopt Constitution preparatory to
asking admission into the Union as a State
But, as Mr. Buchanan said in his Inaugural
Message, that is a d" Judicial question, and may
never arise practically. When it does is the
time to meet IT, Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof"
If we mistake rot, the editor of the Standard
Will find that the very great leaders"-whose
consistency, he contends, demands that they
shall bolt with him, unless the platform adopted
at Charleston be changed at Baltimore-think
as we do on this point For one of them we can
already speak-Hunter, of Virginia. On the sth
inst, in his place in the o. s. Senate, he and
johnson, of Tennessee, and CIingman, of North
Carolina, and other equally good Democrats,
declared that the Cincinnati platform con tanned
all the principles requisite for candidate
Alex. II. Stephens, of Georgia, has written a
letter approving of non-intervention, and dis
approving Of the secession movement at Charles
ton. The Democracy of the seeding States do
not sustain the action Of their delegates. 9th
erwise the Southern Democratic members of
Congress would not have signed an address to
the seceders, asking them to go 3nto the Demo
cratic Convention at Baltimore, and endeavor to
pass resolutions protecting their rights-thus
virtually repudiating the Charleston secession.
What says the Standard to all this? The ed
itor will have to strike from his list of the
great leaders" of the Democratic party, the
names of Hunter, Clingman, Johnson and Ste
phens.