The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-05-03
The Charleston Convention.

tional coteric of he admirers of S Arnold
Douglas Tie Nurthcrr delegates went
on their knees and were willing to give
up nearly every thing to secure the nom
ination Of their idol. but all would not
do. The delegates from n."G Southern
States retired frum the Convention, de-
c'arin. that they had rather see Seward
President than Douglas, thus, accordin.
to Democratic argument, leaving the
Convention to represent Il "sectioual
party For the last four years the Dem
ocrats have had much to say about the
great principle Of "S4uatter Sovereign
4 IT," That was "the balm in Gilead'
that was to heal all our difficulties |,
was the only thing they wanted to talk
about, politically. Now Squatter Sovcr-
eiguty is gone and where are they
Why, they are still in the "Dimccra'ic'
party, although there is nothing left but
its name to commend it to their con
sciences. We speak now of the leaders
, only, for the bone and sincw of the party
the honest laboring men are not will
ing thus easily, to give up those princi
pies for which they have contend,d for
years. TO slow that VIC do not mis-,
represent we give below i'll extract from
the t"lagrarhi" aooo"nt Of the Charles
ton Convention. Many prominent Dem
, ocrats were willing to declare for Slave
Code openly aud above board, but the
others wished to suya;' rot the ,,il! 50
that the Northern Democracy could
! swallow it the more easily We think
that the party will be s,rangled in at
tempting to take the tosc. Here is the
extract
" Mr.. SanlueIs, Of Iowa, presented
minority report, cschewing CongrcsSion-
al Intervention aud declaring that
whether Congress or the Territorial Leg
lslatuoc have the power to interfere de-
ponds upon the decision of the
Supreme Court Of the T. S, which dc.
clsion they pledge the Democrat;2 party
to sustain aud abide by. lie proceeded
at some length to address Southern MN.
bcrs, appealing to them not to rer,i>, in
demanding an abstraction that will drive
one half Of the Democratic party Of the
North into the arms of the Black Rcpub.
licans. His speech was free from all
bitterness and the most marked interest
was manifested -
! Mr.. Samuels is a fair representative Of
the Douglas Democrats of Iowa, as.d it
will be seen that he, aud the other Iowa
delegates, have surrendered "Squatter
Sovereignty to the kind care aud keep
ing Of the Supreme Court, which, every
one knows, will consicn it to the tomb
of the Carulcts. Notice that the Demo
Gratis, in the above report, not only do
not announce themselves in favor of
>quatscr Sovereignty, but they agree to
"abldc by the decision of the Supreme
Court, whatever it may be, and not only
to "ablde ~ it but to "sustait" it
WAe nGr We u" il t i ssDs sTsry one vii
"abldc by the decision of the Supreme
Court, until it is reversed, but to agree
to uphold and sustain" it is giving up
all our ri ghts to that one branch of our
Federal Government. Has it come TO
this, that great (pretcndcd) National
party dare not give its opinion upon
political question? Que would suppos.
that the South would have been satisfied
with this surrender of the only favorite
principle Of the Douglas Democrats, but
they were not We think the Douglas
men will now realize the truth Of the
adagc that "honesty is the best policy"
for they have surrendered 80 much to the
South tina, they will lose a large portion
Of their strength at the North, OF
course Douglas will be nominated, unless
the Northern men surrender themselves
wholly to the Southern fire. Y hich
is not at all impossible or even improba.
bic.
LATER .-On Tuesday other Southern
delegates withdrew from the Conyen.
ton, Up to the latest dates there had
been no ballo,ing. The boilers had ne,
aud organized, hut would take no definite
action until after nomination b, the
regular Convention. The New York
HeralTs correspondence indicates that
the "bolting' was all undcr.too! TIA,
the Democrats though. it unsafe to try
to elect Douglas if there wa. but oDe
Democratic candidate, and 20 i, wa
agreed to let Douglas run for the North
and another man for the South, l4DIo,
that thereby Douglas mish, carry North.
crn States enough to throw the laa.iaa
into House. Four year. a-o tho Dna,a.
Gratis had platform thu, raa! w. w,r*
and now they propose L. make a pratensn
of running two candidates because fhny
dare 10: pu, forward any oae man rs ?,
representative of their party. r. fact
no one man could represent the Democ-
racy Of the present None out an India