Year: 1860

Baltimore 1t lndulges the fond expectation
that the delegates elected in the place of the
Boilers will not be friendly to Douglas, and
bases it upon the eomplacent assumption
that the movement Of the Southern
States, filling the places of the seceders, "does


not result on account Of their disapprobation


of the course of the seeding delegates from


the Charleston Convention, but from an earn.


est desire to make another effort to secure


good and acceptable platform, and nominate
candidates upon whom the party can concen'
trate"


Well it remains to be seen whether such is
the meaning of the movement or not. For
our part, we think it is very idle conclu-
sion, to suppose, as the Express does, that the
new delegates are to be elected merely for
the purpose of boiling, like their predeces-
sors, in case they cannot defeat Douglas. No
such farce is being enacted. The fact is, the
people of those States, whose delegates bolted
are disgusted with those who pretended to
represent them, and they are going to send
men who will abide by the will of the ma
jority in National Convention.


Speaking of the Southern States, whose
delegates seeded, the Express says: 1--WE
have seen nothing yet to justify the concu-
sion that they intended to abandon their
principles and accept of the s9udtter sover-


eighty doctrine of Mr.. Douglas"


What does this persistent sheet mean, by


everlastingly harping about the squatter Sov-


ereignty doctrine and the sqHatter soyereignty


platform? The South has not yet been call.


ed upon to subscribe to any squatter plat


form. The seeding delegates went out of


the Convention without having a squatter


sovereignty platform thrust upon them. They
went out because the Convention refused to


adopt platform, Incorporating heir doctrine


of Congressional Intervention. The platform,


which was adopted, had nothing to say about
squatter sovereignty in it. There is no squat.
ter sovereignty in it. 1t simply declares that
the question of Territorial Sovereignty is
judicial one, and that the Democratic party
will abide by the decisions of the courts.
Inasmuch as there was difference of opin-
ion among Democrats in regard to the nature
and extent of the powers of Territorial
Legislature and as to the powers and duties
of Congress over the institution of slavery
within the Territories, the platform left the
question an open one, aud neither asserted
the slave code doctrine of the Southern ul- !
traS, nor the strict popular sovereignty views
of the Douglas Democracy. Why should
small minority demand the endorsement of |
their doctrine, when the majority were mag
unanimous enough not to insist upon theirs |
The fact is, the difference is upon an abstrac-
tion, and many Democrats who do not agree
with the reasoning Of Judge Douglas upon
this abstraction, do most pctently believe
with him that it is bad policy for Congress to
intervene upon the subject Alexander II.
Stephens, of Georgia, is one of those men.
He is as emphatically opposed to a slave code
as is Judge Douglas lie thinks the abstrac>
tion is of no consequence to the South, and is
willing to let it take its chances in the Courts
He looks to the Inauguration of the policy of
Congressional intervention as the lifting of
the hoodgates of ruin upon the country.


We repeat, for the benefit of the Express,
that all its talk about the squatter sovereign.
ty doctrine, as it calls it, being thrust upon
the South by the Charleston Platform, is alb
surd. The seeding delegates retired for no
such cause, but for the reason that, while the
mf fjority refrained from enunciating the
Douglas view of the abstract question of
Territorial sovereignty, they did not at the
same time surrender Internationally to them,
by declaring for Congressional intervention
What ridiculous assumption The platform
left a common ground upon which the entire
Democracy could stand, and the slave code
ties were enraged because the platform did
not narrow itself to their little sectional no.
lions


The Express may twist and writhe and
founder, but it can never make it appear that
there was any justification for the conduct
Of the Boilers from the Charleston Conven-
tion. They were and are disorganizers of
the most detestable character, and the at
tempt of the Express to smooth over their
reereancy and apologize for their treachery
deserves the scorn and rebuke of all National, |
conservative Democrats.


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