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DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
RESOLUTIONS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED BY THE
BALTIMORE CONVENTION.
Resolved, That the American democracy
plaeeKtheir trust in the intelligence, the patriotism,
and the discriminating justice of the American
people.
Resolved, That we regard this as a distinct
feature of our political creed, which we are
proud to maintain before the world, as the great
u- moral element in a form of government, spring
tug trom and upheld by the popu'ar will; and
.?. ?:.k ,u,? nnrj ?rartice of
we contrast n ??iui me vir^u i
federalism, under whatever name or form,
which seeks to palsy the will of the constituent,
i. and which conceives no imposture too inonsttous
for the popular credulity.
Resolved, therefore. That entertaining these
views, tho democratic party of this Union,
through their delegates assembled iu a general
convention ot the Sta'es, coming together in a
spirit of concord, of devotion to the doctrines
-and faith of a free representative government,
and appealing to their fellow citizens for the
rectitude of their intentions, renew and reassert
before the American people, the declaration
of principles avowed by thetn, when, on a
iormer occasion, in general convention, they
(presented their candidates for the popular suf-r
frages:
1. That the federal government is one of
limited powers, derived solely from the constitution,
and the grants of power shown therein
ought to be strictly construed by all the departments
and agents of the government; and that
it is inexpedient and dangerous to exercise
doubtful constitutional powers.
2. That the constitution does not confer upon
'thfr-gpfteral government tha power to commence
and.cfirry on a general system of internal im
yrowmwf.
3. That (he constitution docs not confer au.
tbority upon the federal government, directly or
indirectly, to assume the debts of the several
States, contracted for local internal improvemeriU,
or other State purposes, nor would such
assumption be just and expedient.
4. That justice and sound policy forbid the
federal government to foster one branch of in-dustry.to
the detriment of another, or to cherish
4be interest of one portion to the injury of another
portion of our common coantry; that evpTy
citizen and every section of the country has a
right to demand and insist upon an equality of
rights and privileges, an 1 to complete and ample
protection of persons and property from domestic
violence or foreign aggression.
5. That it is the duty of every branch of the
^government to enforce and practice the most rigid
economy in conducting our puhl:c affairs;
, and -that no more revenue ought to be raised
than Is reqaired lo defray the necessary expenset
of the government, and for the gradual hut
certain extinction of the debt created by the
prosecution of a just and necessary war, after
peaceful relations shall have been restored.
6. That congress has no power to charter a
national bank: that we believe such an institution
one of deadly hostility to the best interest
of the country, dangerous <o otu rx*pubfican in
stitutions and the liberties of the people, and
. calculated to place the Easiness of the country
within the control of & contracted money power,
and above the laws and the will of the people;
4tnd that the result of democratic legislation, in
this, and all other financial measures ttpcm
which issues have been made between the two
political parties. of the country, have demonsi
rated to candid and practical men of all parties,
their soundness, safety and utility in all
business pursuits.
7. That congress has no power under the
conctitution to interfere with or control the domastic
institutions of the several States, and
that such States, are the sole and proper judges
of every thing appertaining to their own affairs,
not prohibited hy the constitution; that all efforts
of the abolitionists or others made to induac
congress to interfere with questions of slavery,
or to take incipient steps in relation thereto,
are calculated to lead to thre most alarming
and dangerous consequences'; and that all such
efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish
the happiness of the people, and endanger the
lability 'and permanency of the Union, and
?4 ?^ ? ? **-*'' * *?? ! !/?r*/I rtl
OUfcjni nni m ue couiuenanucu >'j mij niruu m
our political institution*.
8. That the separation of the moneys of the
government from banking institutions, is indispensable
for the safety of the funds oi the government
and the rights of the people.
9. That the liberal principles embodied by
Jefferson in the declaration ofindependence, and
sanctioned in the constitution, which makes
oars the land of liberty, and the asylum of the
oppressed of every nation, have ever been car.
viinal principles in the democratic faith, and eve >
ry attempt to abridge the present privilege of
becoming citizens and the owners of soil
among us ought to be resisted with the same
spirit which swept the alien and sedition laws
from our statute books.
Resolved, That tho proceeds of the public
jk^and* ought;to be sacredly applied to the nation*
ml objects specified in (be constitution and that
vre are opposed to any law for tho distribution
> of such proceeds among the States, as alike in.
-T~oio.nl in notice and ranuirnant to the con*
^ |??j -1 o - limiion.
ResolreH, TliRt we are decidedly opposed to
flaking from the President the qualified veto
/power, by which be is enabled, under restrictions
and responsibililiedjPamply sufficient to
jf-. fptanl the public interest, to suspend the passage
IP" """ of a bill whose merits cannot secure the approval
of two-thirds of the senate and house of
representatives, until the judgement of the penpie
can he obtained thereon, and which has saved
the American people from the corrupt and
tyrantcal domination of the Bank of the United
Stales, and from a corrupting system of general
internal improvements.
Resolved, That the war with Mexico provoked
on her part by years of insult and injury,
was commenced by her army crossing the Rio
Grande, attacking the American troops, and invading
our sister State of Texas,?and that upon
all the principles of patriotism and tho laws
of nations, is a just and necessary war on our
part, in which every American citizens should
have shown himself on the 6ide of his country,
and neither morally nor physically, by word or
Heed, have given "aid and comfort to the ene.
>?
Resolved, That w? wou'd he rejoiced at the
assurances of * peace with Mexico, founded 011
the just principles of indemnity for the past and
security for the future; hut thai while the ratification
ot the treaty offered to Mexico remains
in douht, it is the duty of the country to sustain
\the administration in every measure necessary
to provide for the vigorous prosecution ol the
war, should the treaty he rejected.
Resolved, That the officers and soldier* who
have carried the arms of their country into
Mexico, have crowned it with imperishable giory.
Their unconquerable courage, their daring
enterprise, their, unfaltering perseverance and
fortitude when assailed on all sides bv innumerable
foes, and that more formidable enemy?
the diseases of the climate?exalt their devoted
4?
patriotism into the highest heroism, and give r
them a right to tho profound gratitude nf their s
Country and the admiration of the world. t
Resolved, That the democratic national con- s
ven.tion of the thirty states composing the A me- I
rican republic, tender fraternal congratulations r
to the national convention of the republic of 1
France, now assembled as the free suffrage re- i
preventatives of the sovereignty of thirty-five j
millions of republicans, to establish government t
on those eternal principles of equal rights, for >
which their Lafayette, and our Washington, ?
fought side qy side, in the struggle for our na- <
fiona! independence; and we would especially ?
convey to them and to the whole people of 1
France, our earnest wishes for the consolida- t
tion of their liberties, through the wisdom that s
shall iruide their councils, on the basis of a de- I
mocratic constitution, not derived from the <
"rants or concessins of kings or dynasties, hut <
originating from the only true source of politi- <
cal power recognised in the Sta'cs of this Union; <
the inherent and inalienable right of the people, t
in their sovereign capacity, to tnalce and to .?
amend their forms of government in such man- I
tier as the welfare of the community may re- t
quire. I
Resolved, That in the recent developement of
this grand political truth, of the sovereignty of I
the people and their capacity and power for self i
government, which is prostrating thrones and I
erecting republics on the ruins of despotism in I
the old world, we feel that a high and sacred <
duty is devolved, with increased responsibility i
upon the democratic party of this country, as |
the party of the people, to sustain and advance I
among us constitutional liberty, by continuing
to resist all monopolies and exclusive legisla- i
lion for the benefit of the few t?l the expense of <
the many, and by a vigilant and constant adhe- I
rence to those principles and compromises of i
the constitution, which are broad enough and |
s'rong enough to embrace and uphold the Union
as it shall be in the full expansion of the ener- t
gies and capacity of this great and progressive <
people. '
Resolved, That a copy "of these resolutions be i
forwarded through the. American minister in <
Paris to the national convention of the reptth- I
lie of France. <
Resolved, That the fruits of the great politi- I
cal triumph of 1844, which elected James IC. f
and George :M. Dallas, President and Vice Pre- '
sident of the United Stales, have fulfilled the I
hopes of the democracy of the Union; in de- '
featingthe declared purposes of their opponents I
to create a national bank; in preventingthe or- |
. 1 | ,ti?f r i lint if in of the I
rujii anu UIIWUII9IHUHVHUI ??
land proceeds from the common treasury of the
Union, for local purposes, in protecting the currency
and the labor of The country from ruinous
fluctuations, and guarding the money of the people,
by the establishment of the constitutional
treasury, in the noble impulse given to the
cause of free trade, by the repeal of the tariff
of 1846; and that, in our opinion, it would be a
fatal error to weaken the hands of political organization
by which these great reforms have
been achieved, and risk them in the hands of
their known adversaries, with whatever delusive
appeals they may solicit the surrender of
that vigilance, which is the only safeguard of
liberty.
Resolved, That the confidence of the democracy
of the Union in the principles, capacity,
firmness nnd integrity of Jarnes K. Polk, manifested
by his nomination nnd election in 1844,
has been signally justified by the strictness of
his adherence to sound democratic doctrines, by
the purity of purpose, the energy and ability
which have characterised his administration in
all our affairs, at home and abroad; and that
! we tender to h:m our cordial congratulations
upon the brilliant success which has hitherto
crowned his patriotic efforts, nnd assure him, in
advance, that, at the expiration of his presidential
term, he will carry with him to his retirenmnt
the esteem, respect and admiration of a
greateful country. '
Resolved, That this convention hereby pre- ?
sent to the people of the United States LEWIS '
CASS, of Michigan, as the candidate of the de- t
mocratic parly f?r the office of President, and
WILLIAM 0. BUTLER, of Kentucky, as the <
candidate of the democratic party for the office I
of Vice President of the United Slates. I
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MR. YANCEY'S REM VRKS.
Substance of (he remarks of Mr. Yancy, of 1
Alabama, at (he meeting held in Charleston >
on (he 6th June, 1H4S. [
Mr. Yancy said that this corlinl reception i
gave hiin great pleaMire, and expressed his high t
appreciation of the honor of addressing such '
an assemblage upon an occasion of such great t
, interest. It had been well said by his friend *
1 [Mr. Bailey.] that this was a momentous peri- f
I od iu our political history. The events of the I
i past year characterized it as such, and to those I
j who had the pleasure of knowing intimatnly I
j the venerable gentleman who presided [Hon. I
I). I'j. linger,J his presence in niui cuair was, i *
in itself, a strong assurance that no ordinary in- [ (
torest was alt.iclied to their deliberations upon 1
the subject which had brought together so much ' 1
of the beauty, the grace, the intelligence, and i
patriotism of this famed city of the South. Mr. [ I
Yancy here paid a glowing and feeling tribute t
to the noble and exalted character of the dis- <
tinguished gentleman who occupied the chair? (
who had been honored by his fellow citizens to I
a degree much beyond what usually falls to the t
lot of any single individual, no matter how cmi- t
nr.nt for virtue and talpnt, and who had now t
again consented, at their call, to come forth J
from the repose which he had sought, to mingle
his voice with theirs in counselling for the pub- i
lie weal. "In the sunset of his noble career," |
said Mr. Y., "rendered gloriously fulgent by <
hn having resigned into the hands of a gene- <
rous people the noblest dignity which it was in I
their power to bestow upon him, he is seen <
once again patriotically devoting his energies t
and mind to the cause of his beloved South." {
Mr. Y. said that the voice of menace against i
our rights had grown louder and more deter- I
mined?that our political equality in the Union, <
long since compromised, was now in danger of i
being entirely destroy. He spoke of the bar- I
ricrs which the Southern democrats had hereofore
confided in, (i. e. the organization of the t
democratic party,) as being no longer guarded I
hy friends, but as being in possession of our <
f<es, who were using tho power with sirhich we <
hurl anted 10 cioine inem mr me emuuiwii k"""? .
for their own selfish and unconstitutional purpo- t
ses. Thus thrown hack upon our own resour- I
ccs, and cut off from further communion with i
our former allies, he said it was a solemn duty I
to ourselves, that we should promptly consider <
the circumstances which surrounded us, and the 1
best means of placing ourselves In such a posi.
lion as would insure our tights and command t
the respect of such of our brothers in the Con- <
federaey, as still loved the Constitution more i
than thev did the success of their party. I
Mr. Yuncy went into a thorough review of (
the causes and history of this attack upon South- I
ern rights. He spoke of the Missouri C'ompro- |
mise as the cause of our troubles?as a yielding <
of the constitutional ground which it was the |
9
ight and duty of the South to occupy, and an
icknowledgement that Congress had the power
o sit in jurisdiction upon the institutions of a
overeigu State. The South, befitro that untappy
event, held equal rights in every portion
tt our extended domain; that compromise drove
i<?r from all it north of 3G deg. 30 rnin., while
t did not deprive the North ol a particle of her
nint interest in all south of that line. It was
in compromise?it was an inglorious and untviso
concession by the South to the North of
jreat constitutional rights. When the Texas
piestion arose the effect was seen at once?an
>fiect taught us as inevitable by the lessons of
jistory?unmanly concessions bpget arrogant
Jemands. The North demanded that Texas
thould be a non-slaveholding State, but was wiling
to nccept of another compromise! And
ivhat was that? that she would consent (!) that
me-half of Texas, lying west of a certain lino
jf longitude, running from the Gulf to the southern
boundary of the United Slates, should hive
t-~ n-iuiioira ?,f In,<r fir itself whether it
,IIC j'll'IIVJjX ...
ihould ever hold slaves: but that in the otier
half Congress should decide there should be no
slaves! Texas was (breed, however, to submit
to the Missouri compromise line to her territory.
Mr. Y. alluded also to the attempt to engraft
his same compromise upon the Oregon territory?
a territory in which, without legislation,
ihcrc would be no probability of a slave ever
being held. But it was deemed desirable by
Dur tnsk master that the statute should be put
upon our bookR as a precedent?showing the
power of Congress to sit in juiisdiction upon
[he question!
Mr. Y. then spoke of the origin of the Wilmot
Proviso, ns legislation in advance of the acquisition
o{ Mexican territory. Its discussion
had at last aroused the South to some slight j
show ol opposition. The people met pretty
Generally in their primary assemblages, and
without any distinction of party had resolved to
unite in putting down this insolent attack upon |
our political rights. The effect was immediate- I
ly discernable, at least in the democratic ranks '
it the North. Why but little effect was produced
on the Whig party at the North was owing
lo the fact, doubtless, that it had little to hope
or expect from the Southern Whigs, and felt it
to belter policy so act as to increase and
strengthen themselves in the non-slaveholding
Slates, in which the great mass of their votes
ay. The democrats, on the contrary, were
strongest in the slaveholding States, and wore
jound, if by no higher motives than those of |
vdicy, to conciliate the South, liience; aoumess,
the difference of the effect and its reason
ivhy these primary Southern meetings produced
>n the Provisoists. Leading democratic statesnen
came out and disavowed the Wjlrnot Pronso;
They denied to Congiess any power over
he slavery question. Two of them, (Jcneral
[Jass and Mr. Buchanan, however, contended
hat the power to exclude slavery Irom the ter itories,
and thus prevent their settlement hy
slaveholders, lay in the people of those terrilo
ies?thus giving to the first comers in a terri?ry
the exclusive power of appropriating it to
hemselves and such others only as they chose
o tolerate?thus giving to them the power of
lestroying the rights of property in these terriories,
which belong to the South as well as to
lie North?thus giving to these first comers, no
natter how few in number, the sole power of
noddling, far in advance of the proper period
or doing so, the institutions of the new Stales
o be carved out of these territories!
This antagonism to Southern rights had thus
issuined, continued Mr. V., a new shajMj?a
nuch more dangerous attitude. It was a halfa-ay
ground, apparently, between those who
contend that Congress had the power to prevent
slaves from being introduced into these new ter?
ilorics and those who constituted the ultra alioition
wing: whi e in truth it was the strongest
ind surest method of accomplishing the objects
>f both wings of the enoin esof the South?the
norul and political fanatics on the one hand,
md on the other those who desired, by means
)f this fanaticism, to grasp the whole power of,1
he Union.
As an evidence of the moral power the South
:an wield when united, Mr. Yancygive a brief'
listory of the views ot uenerai uass on me
Proviso. He alluded to certain developements
na:lc hv Mr. Rathbun, ail cx-M. C., in the Uli:u
Convention, which showed that Gen. Cass
lad been the originator of the Proviso?had I
nduced certain members of the House of Re- I
iresentatives to tack it on to another measure ,
n thai body, 83 the great principle upon which j
he North could and would be allied and carried :
>y the Projhioists?had promised to support the j
novo; antHiad, in the United Stales Senate, j
ictui'.lly endo-sed it, in a few remarks upon it, i
is correct in principle! This was, of course,
letbre the South had been aroused to action;
jut, continued Mr. Y., no sooner had we spolen
in firm and united tones, than the Northern
Democracy became nlarined lest it should be
leserted by the South and left in a minority,
and that to politicians is the ne phis ultra of poitical
punishment,) and began to tremble, and
iitull) to recede. Of course this cpiite inte- |
-estiug change in the public sentiment of the
Democracy was not unnoticed by 60 keen an ob* I
icrver of the political atmosphere as General
Jasa. His own opinion changed in a corres.
loading degree. Ho deserted his poor bant I
ing, and left it unprotected in the hands of j
hose political midwives, Wilmot, Hrinkerhofl", '
tnd Rathbun! He very ingeniously confesses I
o this ''interesting change" in his letter to M r. I
Nicholson. !
Mr. Y. then wont on to speak of the manner
n which the South had met this change in the
losilion and tactics of ih?^iorlh. Reing more
disguised in his antagonism, it had excited less
ipen and strenuous opposition. In fact, it is
jelieved that its apparent concession had de:eived
many eood patriots. Some, however,
,bought that they saw in this move a more dangerous
thrust at the south, because more insidious.
The resolutions now before tho'meeling
liave noticed the Alabama movement in term*
if approbation. In that convention of the party
n Alabama was a more full representation of
:ho intelligence and Democracy of the State.
Flic resolutions were adopted by it, after unrestricted
discussion, without a. dissenting voice.
He hoped, for the honor and good of the helov.
sd State of his adoption, that those noblo prin:iples
would be adhered to by its Democracy,
uid that the portion of her delegates who had
lhandoncd them would bo taught hereafter to
have more confidence in her intelligence, firmless,
and patriotism. Florida then reiterated
:hose principles;' and afterwards Virginia enlorsed
thern as her own, and spoke of them as
'Ihc noble resolutions ol the State of Alabama."
Judging by the past, the South had a right to
expect that her interests would be acknowledged
and be protected by the Democratic Nationll
Convention, in which she was about to join.
Fearing, however, to trust her rights entirely
o a sell.constituted body, the three Slates men.
ioned had made it a condition of entering into
hat body, that they would ho hound by no de-isinn
mil mnrle in rrmfhrmitv with nrinri.
ties they avowed.
In this instance, however, no effect was pro
rluced. Northern Democratic Statesmen, who
had advanced opinions hostile to us. refused to
alter their position or to reconsider their opinions.
They remained firm, and the Northern
Democracy sustained them in doing so. And
why was the result less propitious to our hopes
than when they had reconsidered their views
upon the power of Congress to interfere with
Slavery? Was tho positition that the laborers
from non-slaveholding States in our Territories
could make such rules and regulations therein
to exclude slaveholders from immigrating there
more tenable than that Congress could do so'
Certainly not. The one principle is as unten-i-i
? -1? -it WL.? tknn wnu niir nnci.
anie as ine uiuer. <* ur,
tion not recognised, and boih of these unconstitutional
means r?f excluding Slavery from the
territories repudiated by the Northern wing ol
of"our party? What reason ran be assignee
why thoy rejected the one, and adhered to the
other? Simply because, on the one point, thr
South presented a united front in opposition arte
to reed a respect for her position: on the othei
but (bur of the Southern States, including South
Carolina, made remonstrance. United, we
could and did control the great Democratic party.
Divided, we became powerless!
In the Convention that assembled at Baltimore,
(Mr. Yancey continued,) the South die
not even maintain the two points gained bj
her demonstration against the proviso politicians
They yielded to us that Congress could not in
terfere with Slavery either in the States or ir
the Territories. But in the Convention of lh<
party, as soon as it was ascertained that therr
were Southern men, representing the South
eager to join in the game which would be iht
surest to resultjin a distribution of office?tha
the delegation from Virginia was prepared t<
abandon the high position assumed by the Vir
ginia Convention?that (hero were delegate!
even from Alabama who made the Vice Pies
idency, and even paramount to the Presi
dency, and held both paramount to their instruc
tions?that some of the representatives fron
Louisiana and Tennessee sided with the Nnrtl
against the view taken by the Alabama, Flori
da, Virginia Conventions?in fine, that a nom
ination was held by perhaps a majority of lh?
South as of rrore importance than any guaran
tee of principles, as soon as all this was known
and it was all quickly ascertained, the spirit o
the North developed itself in all its antagonisn
and hatred of the South, and with insulting ar
rogance refused even to sanction the principle
admitted by Cass and Buchanan to he correct
-l '< ? ......i.l nnt Intorlnrp with the noes
ICIIU v.ou.u ..... ... ._ t
tion in the Territories?and would consent on
]y to say that Congress could not interfere will
it in the Slates! Thus, what we had won bj
union we in part lost by disunion. Anolhe
great truth is taught tis ? that what we wrinj
Iroin fear, will be lost to us when we becorni
weak.
Mr. Yancey said that he had thus endeavor
cd, though he feared much nt the expense o
their ease and comfort, to show that the Nortl
had no real regard for us?that it did not bas<
its support, heretofore rendered to us, on a con
stitutional ant! immutable basis, but upon a (ea
lest the South would not aid it in its part
schemes and pursuit of power?that when uni
led, the South nevertheless had heen able t
prevent any a agression upon her rights, an
that as soon us we entered eagerly into th
Presidential scramble, we lost the charm an
became powerless, and the sport of our tint urn
enemies shown by too clear proof to be druiht
cd, to be at least no longer "our natural al
lies!"
Put I have heen asked, continued the speak
er, "how is it that Gen. Ca?s proved to be s
strong, not only in North, but io the South??
certainly his endorsement by the Oonventioi
is entitled to great consideration." In ropl
to the latter part of this inquiry, Mr. Y. said i
would be entitled to weight, if t ho Oonventioi
had proved itself to be the friend of the South
but as the Convention had by an overwlielmin;
majority repudiated the principles of lite South
of course the endorsement of such a body won!
u~ili.k Sm th. As to tli
ua>i3 ?? # tvii~n? ...... .... ?
first branch of the question, he. said that then
wore throe grounds of availability possessed b
Gen. Ca<s, each of which he liclived was .sufii
ciont to condemn him in the eyes of every tro
republican?
1st. Gen. Cass was an advocate of the doc
trine of internal improvement by the Genera
Government in its wildest and most unconstitu
tional sense. He had voted in the Senate fb
the bills which President I'olk had so nobl
vetoed; and ho had oven gone so fitr as to hav
voted against Mr. Polk's late masterly veto r
that second "bill of abominations." the llarbo
and River bill. The entire West and part c
the North?much the largest part?wpre devn
ted advocates of ofthis corrupt system. B
thai vote ngainrt the veto, Gen. Cass had en
shrined himself in the heart of the. great West
including Kentucky M issouii.aiul a part of Ten
nossee. Hence he was emphatically the can
didatc ofllie West.
'.id. The whole North are Wilrroi Provisoisb
and the position of Gen. Cass, which promise
to attain the end aime I at hy Wilniot hettc
than Wilniot is prepared to do, is of course ac
ceptablc to them.
These two positions gave to ("Jen. Cass sucl
a preponderance of strength at the North tha
the floating votes were aiir.icied to him; and ii
choosing among the candidates those Sunt fieri
delegates who did not mean to govern exclu
sivoly hy the Southern principle were natural!
attracted to the slrong man. It will thus bi
seen that the main element of his strength eon
sisted in his recreancy to a long established Do
mocratio principle?anti-internal irnprovemen
hy the General Government. This involve
much, and were reason enough for rejecting thi
nomination. If it becomes the policy of lhi
Government to distribute its treasure in inter
nal improvements, it must become its policy t(
raise that treasure hy taxes. We hnvo hereto
fore been saved from it in this ruinous extent b
reason of the veto power exercised by Jacksoi
and Polk. Under (Jen. Cass, however, thi
power will not he exercised.
The Convention, then, (continued Mr. Y.
and its nominee, aro of such a character a
neither to excite our respect nor command ou
support.
Mr. Yancy then gave something of the histo
ry of the Convention, and illustrated the spiri
which governed it in its action. Among othe
/V. 1
things, he instanced as evidence 01 us imsounu
nesH as an exponent of Democratic views it
refusal to adopt its resolutions, avowing its prin
ciples, and the platform upon which it designei
to place its nomination before the country he
fore it went into the nomination. And nov
mark th'j result, he continued: After the nomi
nation was made a Committeo was raised t<
report a series ot resolutions. !\!r. Y. sail
that the Committee met, on the evening of it
appointment and sat until 10 at night. Befori
it adjourned the resolution in relation to the veti
power had been amended so ns to show its hap
py effects in saving the country "from a corrupt
ing system ofgeuernl internal improvements.'
' im'-iff i'TIbii ? ntiu-FM ? iirwMiin wr rrmrn n
It was unanimously agreed to as sound Demo- it
cratic doctrine, and as a deserved compliment tl
i to Mr. Polk. When the committee met the p
next morning the first proposition made was to ?
reconsider that amendment, and to strike it out.
I I enquired why! It had hecn admitted to he
i good Democratic doctrine the night before! The ' n
i answer tva=. "(Jen. Cass voted against that ! ^
i veto of Mr. I'olk, and if we put this in we will '
i condemn our nominee?" ! fi
i These virtuous piliticians?these trustworthy ! u
i representatives of Democracy?had discovered j t
! lry morning that the avowal of a truth would put | t
! an error to blush??that the praise of a patriot t
would be the condemnation of n political here
tic! |
The vote was not reconsidered?lint it was,
i as .Mr. Y. firmly believed, because it was loo c
f'barefaced even for that body?but that if this j
I idea that Cass had voted against Mr. Polk's i
; Veto had been thought of before the amendment
i was adopted, it never would have graced those
I resolutions. As it is, it will indeed become a F
thorn in the side of the nominee? ?
i There were several other equally apposite ,
t illustrations of the want of principle which ac- |
lualed the Democratic National Convention in- j
stanced by the speaker; but the above will f
suffice as sufficiently characteristic. i
I Mr. Yancey went on to say that thus rut off | r
' from enter aining any hopes of justice being j j
. done to us by the National Democratic Parly, j ,
what were we to do? Certainly we had nothing f
i to hope from the great Whig Party. It had ,
s always been opposed to us?and always, from j
; its principles and the locality of its masses, must 5
, continue to he so. Even Gen. Taylor, a ,
s Southern mail, and slaveholder, to get its nomi- f
t nation, had tu write that unhappy Alison letter. (
) thus deprive himself of any positive power as ,
- an Executive officer to do good in the event of ,
s what we conceive to be unconstitutional legis
lation?and in which, bo strong is the spirit of
- opposition to the South in the Whig ranks gen
orally, lie had to blink this most vital of all the
1 questions of the day!
l Our hope, fellow citizens, said Mr. Y., is in j
- ourselves?in our own unpurchasahle eneigies (
in our own incorruptible integrity?in the peo. (
* pie of the whole South. They will be true to
themselves. With this great Southern princi- .
, pie as a nucleus, let us call upon the South to ^
fj rally to one man?to meet in their primary as
i semblies?to meet in Southern Convention?to j
- consult and agree upon a tickpt for President
s and Vice President which shall be acceptable
, to all, by reason of its talent-its purity?its devo.
tiou to the Constitution. This is the end we
should aim at. 1 would not advj-e that to fie
i recommended here, however, at this meeting.
t Your resolutions, I believe, are now sufficient
r for llu; moment. Yon should lose no time in (
; declaring your denunciation of the nominee of (
5 the Haltimorp Convention, and of the utter dis- (
regard ot principles exhibited by that body.? (
- You should lose no time in re-asserting in deci
if ded tones the high position which you design to
li occupy; leaving to future consultation with your
e fellow-citizens of the South the nomination ofa
ticket, ami the manner in which that nominar
(ion should bp expressed and made known.
)' Mr. Y. said that in the Democratic Conven
tion he had acted as an instructed delegate of I
n i the Alabama Democracy. He believed no one i
d could point out in what lie Imd departed from 1
e those instructions in a single iota. He had '
d been instructed, and he bad pledged himself to 1
il his brother members of the Alabama Conven- '
lion, "under no political necessity whatever to <
support for the offices of President and Vice- I
President any persons who were in favor of
either of the forms of excluding slavery frnm the '
n Territories," which lie had been commenting 1
- upon. As for himself and one other from Ala- 1
i liama, wlio?c name (Mr. \Vray) deserved to be
y mentioned in honor whenever Southern men
it spoke of their defenders, they had adhered to <
" ! tfiat pledge, and would a< here to it. He lie
5 j lieved his State would do so?that Florida
5 i would do so; and that the adherpure would prove
i. j to Ire contagious, and would spread like the cird
| cling waves upon the bosom ofa placid lake in
a to which a p?blde was dropped, until it had
a covered the face of the whole South, and had
V rolled over its entire population. The cause is
t fiat of our country. Il is, too, a just cause, and
c the Ciod who controls the destinies of nations
would, in his own wise way, see to it that it
should achieve a noble triumph.
; THE CAMDEN JOURNAL.
e Wednesday Morning* Jnne21, I81S.
'rf WILLIAM R. JOHNSTON, EDITOR.
r ?
Agricultural ^lectin?.
An cxlrn meeting or the Watereo Agricultural Soci.
' cty will he held at Swift Cre< k on Thursday, the 29th
inst, it 10 o'clock A. M. J. BOYK1N, Sec'y.
j Our Volunteers.
By accounts from Mexico received this morning, we
lenrn that General Pattrrron's Division left for Vera
' J Crur. on the 30th ult.
s
r | The Camden Branch.
*| We learn from an advertisement in the Colum,
; hia Telegraph, that " the Camden Branrh is now
1 I e r '
j | open lor Freight and Passengers to Slalesburg, IS
, miles." The cars leavt* that point for Charleston ,
? every morning at 8} o'clock and arrive from Char- ,
. leston every afternoon, at 45 minutes after 2.
c U"IIis Excellency Gov. Johnson, has returned |
i. to his residente at Lime Stone Springs, where his |
. Head Quarters will be during the summer.
t
s Temperance Convention#
s Tlio scmi.nnnuol Convention of the Stnto Tempor.
ranee Society wns held in this town Inht week. We
. hid espocted to hove been furnished with the prncro-j
dings of this nice ling but liavo not received them.
. Among tho results, wo notico the institution of a Diyr
vision of the Order of the Sons of Tempo.ance, and the
! formation of a juvenile band of the "Cold Water Ar.
s my."
) Politics,
s We have devoted a considerable portion of our
r paper today to political matters, and invite attention
to the resolutions of tho Baltimore Convention, and
the speech of Mr. Yancey. Next week wc will
1 publish Gen. Cass's letter to Mr. Nicholson, of
r Tennessee, from which our readers can form their
own opinions of his political creed,
s _____
The Whig Pnrty.
1 From all we can glean from the Northern papers,
* the Whig party is just about in puch a "fix" as the
k Democratic party. A circular has been put forth
ill Massachusetts, addressed to the people of that
j State, declaring that the Whig National ConvenR
tion in nominating General Taylor, have exceeded 1
, their just authority and proposed a enndidate,
, whom no Northern Whig is bound to support. A
. call is made for a Convention in Worcester on
. Wednesday 28th inst. A telegraph despatch from
Albany says thattho Clay Whigs of that city are
idignaht at the noini ntion, and refuse to support
ic Ticket The intelligent correspondent of the
lailimore Rvn, "X" writing from Philadelphia
ayr, that there was no unanimous adhesion to the
oniinees, and that unine of the Massachusetts
icmbers went so far, as to declare the whip party
iFsnlved, and pledged themselves before God to
o all that limy could to defeat the ticket A ratication
Taylor meeting in New York was rather
nceremouiously broken up by the ('lay whig* exingui8i)ing
the lights &c. All t'inse manife.-ta*
ions indicnie a gnwing distaste for National pary
conventions.
Adjournment of Conjress.
A joint resolution has been passed by thellotiw
if .Represent itivea, that Congress adjourn on ht
7th of July.
Foreign News.
oi?/?Aiintu f'om Pnrnnn **m Krntlfflil (iV ikft
' V ? .V. WM.-., -j
tcaionr America, which left Liverpool on the third sad
rrived nt Boston in ten day's passage. 'Hie political
irws again assumes a degree ?f intern, .Mr. Mrrcnai.L
las been convicted of treason, and sentenced to II
<nrs transportation to llie bulks in Bermuda. Intent
incitement prevailed in Dublin, up to the evening of
he day on which he was sentenced, hut this excite*
nnnt has given way to o de-p an ! solemn silence which
Irnotes stern preparation und rosnlre. A liberal pfn.
'ision wil! lie nmde by ihe nation for the eonvict's Ik*
nily. The types of the Un-hd Irishmnn newspaper
vcro seized hy the government, but a new paper is Vo
ic started on its basis, to be call d the Irirk Felon.
Some chartist disturbances have taken place in diffe* ?
cnt parts of En-laud hut wcro promptly quelled by the
liilitury and civil authorities. France is quiet, snd-re*
:ent events promise well for the safety and duration of
he Republic. Cotton had declined 1 8 d., bat had perially
recovered bcforc*the sailing of Ihe steamer.
communicated ' :
life insurance.
The public arc most seriously invited to invest}*
rate this subject. E/rry man who claims or sspires
o the character of prudence in the management of his
ifFiirs, nrd m providing for the ease, comfort and fdo.
:alion of hi- family is deeply concerned. In Great
Britain, and nur own Northern Stales, no species of
insurance is more common, and it is right that it shpoM
:>e so: for no other is more important. It is makii^g
mrc of one of the groat objects we labor for to lifW-~
ilinl is, a means of support to our wives and childrra
when we arc dead. R,
C^ce advertisement in another column.
Camden* Branch.?Wc understand that tbw
Branch is in rapid progress, and that the tratfts
ire rtiniiit g regularly every day to Stafebtirg.
\ contract has been made to transport rite mail,
to commence on the 1st dav of July next, and
to he conveyed fn m ihe head if the mad to
Camden in stages by the old Raleigh line,
this arrangement passenger* leaving Charles.
ion in ?ho morning will arrive in Csmdrn by
nipper lime the same evening.
Chrtrle&n Mercury.
PUBLIC MEETING.! lu
In pursuance of previous noticp, a large menlitijjof
the citizen* of Ker*ha\v District conrened
in the Court IJou?e at Canvlen, on Sator.
lay I lie 17i h i?? . On motion, his Honor, the
Intendant, Joi v M. DeSaussurr, was called
lo the char. ..id Wm. iM. Sua wan appointed
Secretary. The chairman, on taking his seat,
EMiferwined the meeting with a happy and.appropriate
address, replete with patriot sentimrul.
On motion of Mr. Salmond, a committee
was appointed to draft a Preamble and Resolqiions
for the consideration of the meeting. The
Chairman appointed as this committee Mr.
Salmnnd, Ja?. K. Douglass, Wm. Z. Johnson,
Major Smart, Jns. Cliesnnt Jr., A. II. Bojkin,
James R. McKain, C Matlteson, Gen. J. W.
Caniey, Col. W. J. Taylor.
The Committee retired, and after a short ?!>
sence, reported through their chairman, Mr.
Salmnnd, the following Preamble and Resolution*,
which, nfter add*esses from Mr. Salroond,
Major Smail, Col. Chesout, Col. Kershaaw, and
Wm. M. Shannon, were ?>evernlly put and unanimously
adopted:? t
It is a subject rd ptide and rejoicing toerery
friend of the human family, more especially lr>
every Ameiican Patriot, that Republican America
is at peace. While tnonarchial Europe is
rocked to the very centre, by the throes of civil
strife, on this continent, the sword is sheathed,
nnd man's hand rea?es to he imbued in his
brother's blood. A nd while we may properly and
justly exult I hat we have been freed from the
horrors of war l>y a succession of brilliant victories,
won from a powerful foe upon their own
soil, and under trial and vicisitudes which
stamp those victories as unparalelled in the ?ir?
nals of war, still it is not from these feelings of
general humanity, and patriotism, that onr present
rejoicing emulates. No! Matters in
wh:ch we have a particular and peculiar interest
call forth the generous feelings that animate
our breasts. Eighteen months since, Kershaw's
chosen chivalry, a noble gallant compv
ny, onr friends and brothers, went forth at the
rail of onr common country to battle with a for.
eign foe, their hearts beating high with patriot
motive and bright anticipation of warrior fame.
Some of these hare sunk under the. fatigues of
the toilsome, wearisome inarch under a tropic
sun, many havp sickened and died from the
Jiseases of a pestilential climate, and many
have given up their hero spirits on a blood
ft..1.1. V.nt m <itt oieonmrtaneat at all
O 111 an v.ll\.itua<itun>.?.^ ?*? ?
times, in the camp, on thn march, in the deadly
hour of strife, or in that more trying hour,
when, flushed with victory, oarh and everyone
has home himself as the fitting representative '
qI a gallnnt and virtuous people.
The fpw survivors of this terrible campaign
are about to be restored to their homes, and the
peaceful avocations of life?they are not only
entitled to our highest admiration and grati*
lude for their glorious deeds of arms but also to
ruir warmest affection, for their tender care and
kind offices to those of th^ir number, who, in a
stranger land, far away from the comfort* of
home, have been struck down by disease, or
fallen nobly, on the battle-field. Yes; their bo*
soms have sustained the head of many a hero,
is his heart's best blood welled, in hurried
Ihrobs, fast away, a willing tribute to his coutii
try's glory. They have watched with tender
solicitude, the dying moments of their brother
soldier; they have comforted and soothed him
in the last trying struggle; their hands have
home the last cooling draught to his parched
lips, nnd his last words of home, .if jlove and
country have fallen on their ears.
T. _ 1 ,! .L_. .1 IJ
ii is mosi orcoming, mm, mm bhuuim
?reet them with a welcome worthy of them and
worthy of ourselves. He it therefore,
Resolved, That such of the officers and sob
diers of the Palmetto Regiment aa shall arrive
in tho town of Camden, shall he invited te %
public dinner, and during their stay in town
shall he the guests of town anddistrict, and that
the Intendant, John M. PeSaussure, shall, on
their arrival, express to them, the feelings of
the citizens of this District towards them, an<J