Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-25
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isles us that the canvass is progressing most
happily.
Mr.. Douglas and the Cincinnati Platform.
One of the main points pressed by the DOUGLAS
men in Tennessee against the Democratic delegates
for withdrawing at Baltimore is, that the State Con-
vention in January passed a resolution that they
would support the nominee of the Charleston Con-
vention provided he cordially endorsed the Cincln-
matt platform. In the first place, Mr.. DOUGLAS was
not nominated by the delegates to the Charleston
Convention, but by portion Of them, with the as
sistaHce of certain bogus delegates from louisiana
Alabama and other States. Even then he did not
get votes enough to give him the nomination under
the rules of the convention. In the second place.
Mr. DOUGLAS does not endorse the Cincinnati Plat
form 1t is true that he says he does. LINCOLN
says that he endorses fully and cordially the Con-
stitution LINCOLN does endorse the Constitution &C
cording to his construction of it. And thus it is that
Mr.. DOUGLAS endorses the Cincinnati Platform. But
does LINCOLN endorse the Constitution according to
the Tennessee construction? No man North or
South will insist that he does. Mr. DOUGLAS says in
his Freeport speech and in his speech on the DAVIS
Resolutions that Territorial Legislature has the
power to exclude slavery. Is that in accordance
with the Cincinnati Platform? If it is not, then Mr.
DOUGLAS does not endorse that platform. Mr.. DOUG-
LAS his Freeport speech says that the Territorial
Legislature may by unfrendy legislation efectu-
ally prevent the introduction of slavery into their
midst" even though the Supreme Court should de-
termne that it went into the Territory under the
Constitution Is that in accordance with the Cincn-
natl Platform If il is not. then Mr.. DOUGLAS does
not endorse that platform It will be remembered
that the committee resolutions at the State Con-
vention first reported the Cincinnati Platform with
out any explanatory resolution, and the convention
refused by an overwhelming vote, to receive that
report upon the express ground that Mr.. DOUGLAS
and his friends had construed it to endorse Squatter
Sovereignty and the State Convention determined
that while they endorsed the Cincinnati Platform,
they would deny that Squatter Sovereignty was a
portion of it. The committee on resolutions made
a second report which re affirmed the Cincinnati
Platform and contained certain resolutions explana-
tory of the views of the Democracy of Tennessee.
One of those resolutions was:
ReSolred. That the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has no
power to interfere with slavery in the States nor to
introduce or erclde from ne Territories ana no aug
to perform IN relation thereto but to PROTECT the rights q
the o17Rer from tOrORg ami TO return TglioeS IRON Ia
Dor; THESE DUTIES IT CANNOT WITHHOLD WITHOUT VI
oLATIoN OF THE CONSTITUTION.
"These duties are the duty ITO protect the right
Of the (slave) owner from wrong and the duty Ito
return fugitives from justice Does Mr.. DOUGLAS
endorse the Cincinnati Platform with this Tennessee
construction If he does, we think he may safely
endorse the platform on which BEEcEINRmGE and
LANE stand. That platform says:
at is the duty of the FEDERAL Government in all
departments TO PROTECT when necessary THE RIGHTS
of persons and property in the Territories and wher
ever else its Constitutional authority extends
There is no man who has the slightest familiarity
with the last Presidential canvass that does not
know that the Southern Opposition upon every
stump expressly charged that the Cincinnati Plat
form contained Squatter Sovereignty, and the De-
nocraey as expressly denied it. Il Mr.. DOUGLAS en-
dorses the Cincinnati Platform there is Squatter
Sovereignty in it. and what the Opposition said in
1856 was true If there is not Squatter Sovereignty
in it. Mr.. DOUGLAS certainly does net endorse It
The CRY OF DrsuNuoS-A REBuEE FROM An 0PPos1-
TIoN PArER.-The New Orleans Crescent, which sup
ports BELL and EVERETT, says in its issue OF the
10th:
The Crescent has not followed the fashion Of other