Year: 1860

An sttempt will be made to fasten upon
the Charleston Convention the adoption of
the following section of the Davis resolutions
adopted in the Senatorial Caucus at Washing
ton:


RESOLVED, That whenever experience shall
have shown that the Executive and Judicial
branches of the Government have not sufficient
power to insure adequate protection to slave prop
ery in the Territories, and when the Territorial
Legislature shall have failed, or refused to pass
such laws as are necessary for that purpose, it
will then become the duty Of Congress to inter
pose and pass such laws as will afford the neces-
sary protection


This is clearly the doctrine of Congressional
Intervention in the domestic affairs of a Ter
ritory-clearly a doctrine opposed to the Gin
cinnau Platform-cearly anti-popular SOW
reigntv and antagonstc to the we'll -estab-
lshed principles Of the Democratic party
Yet, it is deliberately determined by the Le-
compton would.be dictators to the Democratic
party that this new plank shall be incorpo-
rated into the platform of the party. Not
withstanding they must know that to adopt
such platform will be to defeat the Democ-
racy in the coming test for the Presidency,
they have boldly advanced into the arena
with their programme. Senators Bright
Fitch, Davis and the rest of the Lecompton
crew, both Northern and Southern, the one
class for their enmity and jealousy and mean
envy Of Douglas, and the other because they
are willing to demand for the South what
they would never surrender were they the
representatives Of the North, have assembled
in caucus and formally pronounced against
the doctrine of the Kansas Nebraska Bill,
and in favor of Congressional Intervention
for the protection Of slavery; the object be-
ing TO prescribe for the Charleston Conven-
ton the course it shall pursue By way Of
helping out this treacherous scheme, South
ern Leeompton Senators have so far inhu-
enced the State Conventions of South Caro-
lina Alabama and Louisiana, as to induce
them to instruct their delegates to withdraw
from the Charleston Convention, unless that
body passes the substance Of the Davis reso-
lutions. Was there ever sublimer impudence ?
They will withdraw, unless they can drive
the entire Democracy of the Union into the
path that they direct We little understand
the spirit which has actuated those men who
have warred nuder the banner of Douglas
for the last three years, against an Admins
tration which sought to destroy him, il, in
the eleventh hour of the long and bitter con-
hict, when they hold the destinies of the
Democratic party in their hands, they will
tamely surrender to mere faction Of the


their past victories and triumphs under that
standard. They have the principles of the
party with them they enter the National


Convention with a controlling majority; the
| the Nation are with them, and they cannot


afford, at this the eliminating point of their


achievements in defense of Democratic prin-
), ciples to retire from the field and sacrifice
their leader, because few blusterers threaten


to withdraw from the Convention. If thes,
. windy threateneIs desire to turn traitors t.


Democratic doctrines, let them do so. Thei


places will be filled by better and truer men
d This is no time for menacing the Dougla
'e Democracy. They have stood enough o


prescription and abuse and attempted intimi
!. dation. The game has never yet won agains
them-they have never yet iinched fro.h til


performance of their duty to the country an


the party, and, if they do, indeed hold, as
a firmly believed, controlling power in th
: Charleston Convention, they are not going t
l. be bullied from their position. Mark that.