Year: 1860

respected them true heroes Cheers1 He repeated


what the South wanted to keep up her prosperity and aid
the institution of slavery the African slave trade
eAppause He told his fellow Democrats that the Afri-
slave trade the Union manthe true Christian man


He told them that the slave trade of Virginia was more in
human more unchristan in every point of vew than the
African slave trade for the African slave trader goes to


heathen land and brings the savage here and csianzes
and moralizes him, and sends him down to posterity
happy man. Cheers and loud laughter The Virginia
slave trader who tore slave family astder from those ties
which cluster around cvzatan whether it be the slave
or the freeman was far more open to rebuke than the
who brought the African from land where he has no ties
Of country or family around him. He desired not to be
disc0urteous to Virginia, but with all Difference to the
State ne believed they Influenced than they
ought to be by the almighty dollar The Southern States
had just as many rights the Territories they needed


GIVE them an equal chance and slavery would take of


Itself Take off the outside restrictions and you may take
all ne squatter sovereignty you please He would be willing
after that to trust to the great Democratic party for the
protection of the rights of the South he believed if this
Convention should break up row. and the Democratic
party should be destroyed there would be end to the
Union. lie was not q disuni0nist He loved the Union
IN It's memories of the past the hope for the future
He concluded with eulogy upon Union men, expressing
ms continued confidence in the National Democracy of the
Northern States II, g s'ia .iis. g piss= tAlie


Mr. SEWARD of Georgia desired to explain why as one
OF the minority of the Georgia delegation he here
He had been Congress at the time of the passage of the
Kansas and Nebraska BILL and he knew that the eonsruc


ton OF the whole South of the principle of that bill that
u recognised popular sovereignty The Missouri compro
mise was repealed at the demand of the South The amend
ment was proposed by Gen. Dixon, of Kentucky. This
could be established by reference to the Congressional
Globe The North told them then the pers they
tered by supporting this b but they did because deem.
ing 1T to be right and he before him those who had
fallen on the field of political strife in their States be-
cause OF their fidelity to the South that issue. He
should therefore go home to his State and call upon his
constituents to stand by their honor and Justify the
acts OF the Northern Democracy He denied that tle
South had the right to cast rebrand into the Democratic
camp by forcing upon them the doctrine of Congress
sional interference.


Mr.. HOLDEN, of North Carolina, had come here to de-
mand OF the Convention the recognition of the doctrine of
intervention He was in favor to-day of the Cincin
matt PLATFORM pure and simple coupled with the dete


nation to abide by the decision of the Supreme Court He
came here to national, not to sectional Convention
His sympathes with the South and with those who
upheld her rights the most resoutey but he should
before ne took step faught with danger to the Unon
and in the Democratic party he believed the only safe
OF the Union the only security of the South He should
therefore, abide by the action of the Convention Ma


onal Convention, composed of majority of the States
If the majority of the Convention should leave and the
Chairman be no longer supported by majority he should
then withdraw and home and do the best he could for
his native land. lApplause.


Mr. RICHARDSON of Illinois, sustained the statement of
the gentleman from Georgia. Mr. Seward as to the under
standing of the KansasNebraska bill in Congress the
time OF its enactment He should abide now by the
derstandng and the agreement then made regardless of
the consequences to himself at home abroad. He
viewed the action of Congress and the position of Southern
and Northern upon that BILL The North only said
now to the South make no demand upon Our
honor and serespec forbid that should again abandon
the position we have thus taken and hold. 1t
said that the North had interest at stake in the matter
They had honor and manhood at stake however and this
was dearer to them than property.


Mr.. PERRY, of South Carolina begged to say few
words. He stood there Southern Union Democrat
Southern in heart and feeling identified with the South
in all her interests and sentiments but believing it to be
the interest of the State to remain in the Union, and
that the Union should be preserved if it possible to
preserve it. Ausion had been frequently made to the
KansasNebraska bill and the Cincinnati platform He be-


eved that in both the doctrine of nonntervenon
tablshed and that left for the Supreme Court to set
tie the questions arising relation to the rights of property
in the Territories Those questions had been settled and
if the gentlemen from Pennsylvania and Illinois would
up and endorse the opinion of Chief Justice Taney all diff
Guilty he believed would be removed For the constituency
he represented he could say they wanted nothing more
nothing less than the endorsement of the Dred Scott dec
siOn He had remained in the Convention the hope that
this decision would be endorsed If the Union would
continue and this Convention go with its proceedings
in triumph He had voted with his State all the
uons adopted yesterday South Carolina had been found
voting for all the resolutions that adopted and only
retiring because the Dred Scott decision had not been
dorsed If this was done now, and pledges to similar
tent were made by all those who had spoken he believed
the South and the North could yet go harmoniousy to-
gether