Year: 1860

oo VutaIiiSu unuer tne ana Oelleylng
him TO besound on the QUESTION of slavery, in the
States and knowing, from his own declarations and
the declarations of his friends, that He stood upon
the platform recommended By our own delegation
Is the second branch of their instructions to Mr..
Avery.we determined, to vote for him, and would
have done on the last day Of the Convention, if
that body had balloted again for President In the
absence Of instructions we determined to take the
nezt best stp to unite the party snddeat the black
Republicans That step We have just indicated. -
We may be wrong in this, tbut We know We are
honest init We cheerfuIly assume all the respon-
sibility which attaches TO- or.own conduct in this
business five are wrongs let the Democracy Of
the State yso; if We are right let them say So !
We are their servant When We have instructions
We will always obey ,them bpt when we haye,no in
structons we will do whatswe consider right re-
gardless Of consequences. We did not and do not
feel bound to adhere to our own State PLATFORM and
ct the same time, to oppose Judge Douglas to the
extremity Of sectionalizing the party, and Of there


by paving the way for defeat FIRST and disunion af
terwards. We beg to be understood, however, as
speaking only for ourselt with no intention to re-


feet in the slightest degree upon others. ,R -


But it is said that the Suprsme Court may be, in
the future, an unsafe tribunal for the South; that
the black Republicans win obtain control of it and
turn its decisions against the sayeholdng States.
That may be so. At present it is certainly safe
Tribunal for the South. It may be changed and no
doubt will be if the black Republicans should obtain
possession Of the government But what of that {?
/, Must We wait until this change is made? Shall we
permit Lincoln to perveft the whole power of the
government and in additionto turn the Supreme
Court against usi We say, No, We are for meet
ing the enemy at the Threshold vanquishing
him or being vanquished long before his law-his
adjudcations against US are made If the people of
the South are true to themselves and their postery,
they will never be troubled by the decisions of black
: Republican Judges But if they submit to the in
auguration and rule Of black Republicans, they will
bind themselves to submit likewise to the decisions
Of an abolition Court 1t will be too late to resist
the Court after having submitted to the President


That is our view of it Meanwhile the decisions Of
the Supreme Court are the law of the land. We
know no "higher law" than the law of the land
We are therefore, willing to stand upon the Kan
sas-Nebraska act upon the doctrine Of noninterven


ton contained therein and upon the Cincinnati plat


form pure and simple with the decisions Of the Su.


preme Court upon the judicial question Of the
rights of slaveholders in the common Territories
We do not desire Congressional protection, Hands


off now, as in 1850. Let the Courts decide; let the
President enforce the decisions of the Courts with


the whole power Of the government, if necessary !;
and then If he should lack men or money to execute
these decisions let Congress vote to give him both


To this extent and to this extent only, do advo
cate Congressional protection lts' Et.z.-