East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-07-12

tie, with their property, in the Terrific
ries of the United states; and that, IN
der the decisions OF the Supreme Court
of the United States, which we recognize
as a correct exposition Of the constitu-
tion Of the United States, neither their
rights of person nor property can be de-
stroyed or impaired by Congressional or
Territorial legislation"
Now, it cannot be denied that the ma
iority of the Tennessee delegation Sc.
ceded from the national democratic con-
vention before that convention had an
opportunity to vote upon the above reso-
luton. The journal Of the convention
viii show this fact to any one who will
take the trouble to examine it; and the
journal will also show that the following
resolution, which is almost identical with
that offered by Mr.. Howard, and which
goes qcite as far in upholding the consti-
tutional rights of the snuth, 'rGs almost
unanimously adopted at Baltimore by the
regular national convention which nomi
mated Judge Douglas, and it is now a
part of the democratic platform
"Resolred, That it is in accordance
with the true Interpretation of the Gin
cinnati platform that, during the exist
ence of Territorial government, the
measure of restriction, whatever it may
be, imposed by the Federal constitution
on the powers Of the Territorial Legisla
ture over the subject of domestic rela-
tions, as he same has been, or shall
hereafter be, finally determined by the
Supreme Court of the United States,
shall be respected by all good citizens,
and enforced with promptness and fidel-
iy by every branch of the Federal gov
ernment.n
1t cannot be denied that Mr.. Douglas
received more than two-thirds Of the en-
tire electoral college, inasmuch as more
than two-thirds of the delegates elected
to the convention remained after the
secession was complete, and all of them
voted for him on the third vote.
SO it will be perceived that on no
ground whatever, either of ancient usage
or of fair dealing, can the course of the
majority of the Tennessee delegation at
Baltimore be defended Still less can it
be defended when we take glance at
the character and antecedents Of s0mc of
those who controlled the proceedings of
the unwarranted fragmentary convention
to which they seeded and which nomin-
ated Messrs. breckenridge and Lame
The transparent unblushing political
trickery in which that convention origin
ated is apparent to all. They arc so
palpable to all who have watched the
course of events since the adjournment of
the Charleston convention that we need
not expatiate upon them. Nor have we
the time, in brief and hastily written
paper, to 90 into these most fruitful but
disgusting subjects. We have only time
to adduce one other signal evidence of
the charges we make against the objects
and tendencies OF this whole disorgan-
izing movement. 1t is this, that on yes
terday the other secession or out-and-out
disunion convention which met Rich
mond adopted both the platform and the
candidates of the pretentious little con-
vention which so irregularly, and so de-
family of ancient usages nominated
Messrs. breckenridge and Lane last week
at Baltimore.
In conclusion, fellow-citizens, the facts
we have stated we know to be incon.
trovertible, and we leave to your candid
iudUment tn detnrunino phe,l.ss sl.e "a
ferences and deductions we have drawn,
and the conclusions to which we have
arrived, are not fair and Legitimate. For
ourselves, we have only to say that we in
tend to stand by the nominees Of the only
democratic national convention which
has assembled since 1856. Those nom
inees are--for President, Stephen a.
Douglas, Of Illinois; and for Vice Presi.
dent, Hersehel V. johnson, of Georgia
both good democrats, who never owned
any other faith, and who bear the honor
ed scars of many hard-fought fights for
the constitution, the South, the Union,
and that ancient democratic party whose
organization the masses of Tennessee, we
believe, still cherish as the ark Of our po-
litical salvation.
If regular demo cratic tickets are run
in all of the southern States, as we are
assured by our friends from every part of
the South they will be, and as we have
no doubt they will be, Douglas and John
son will be triumphantly elected by the
people. The masscss throughout the
Con federacy are already rising up in
their behalf, and especially in behalf Of
the great and glorious, but much calum-
mated, statesman of Illinois, with an ar.
dor and enthusiasm which betoken sue
cess equal to that which characterized
democratic victories in the days of Jack
son. WIN. III. CARROLL.
III. NJ. WATTERSON.
Washington City, Juno 27, 1860.
Mr.. w. B. e. Jones, of the second dis
trict, will bear witness to the facts above
stated.