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Newspaper Page TextB. 232iLIS Si. GO., Proprietors. Volume XV. BRADLEY & PHTERb’, vfiKNcY ron tub inracrtASE and sale op H ALBSATB, In thoQity of Memphis. \v. 1 Lottd- UJ ll:n State® adjacent to Memphis, , viz: 1 Mississippi,Arkansas A Louisiana Office No. .* Calhoun Clock. Main St, The u>itlef*igud btvinx :*um for many . ;ears emra pea m a I *ntl buii:es*, off r tiioir i. tiu* put* i -to buy or sell Heal ■ -tale* named nh *■ We have for sate o itmnher of finely Imp oved Piani;; i n*. witli ami without Ac ► roes, ft largo qnanti;y <tf unimproved kmd* a:*l ‘ll cmphis t’ilj Property, And r all ta’*e pleasure m giving, free of charge, to all (ujraons it. any ni.d nit ini’ rotation in uur i royn-iti ami also that of othem.wh his offered for sale, making no charge until a Iran? at linn Rmncmted. Inspect tills, liSAI’LFY f PETERS. -■ 1 j T TRY THE GARGLING! OIL Tlint Nover Pails A, „ ll ‘.n ,1 ... uo rqual. Prom a Veterinary burgeon, T.conderef* New York March I. (MiM is tqcertify that t, Wm. K Iw.tr.l*. an Eng lish Veterinary Sorirenii, having had m-canon to •nucittsa akouie of your valaablo Oarfling <U Mr * U Smith your’aftant I I in a num ber of • irfical operation* with wnndirfitl effect; and limit 12 it n and much more than recommended, I ‘•avc used it *mct In every variety of disease. and • • und it to be almost of magical verve e in every • ise Vet Liniment for human fir Ji u u not #ut . -ed bv any other ia ute. WM EDWARDS. Habwa, M*a..* pt. 23, UfcH. M IF Tucker k O: 0-..tVo„| ( -Please forward 111- at Oxford Depot 3 dot l.arie .“tee O Oil, 3d* a iium and Odot Stna.i. . am nearly out. only • t nuien on hand. I ihuik by nett yar the Cargling <> vv ill ,’o utf wry fa - 1, a* itie n reasing In demand. I hal an applu'axi >u for it fro in T<uti©s*.e eighty unties fnnu here, an/ aent the oil h< mail. Youre, J.V P. McLAUTY, P M. Ktrrvtnf a tellei from P.. flirnord, druggist. TaJ Enclose I please tin : drao pn",M. ssrs. Goodhue tc Cos. New York for nu. h m ired dollar*. ■ Ini! ir and fifty rent lonic- Th- ‘Tinrglmf**UU will in all proba ihtv take woll.aa it tuts become a little 1 sown, and a who have used it speak well ofit.— -..-v K R. call esteems it vervhivhiy. not only for ■••• • hut for use am-. of negroes uthcled with lUit-u -hv Pearterton Carter, C o: imbue; /.elin # Hunt, :te Rriggs Patent Piauo, THESE BEAUTIFUL INSTRUMENTS Are tho Bjst in theWoild! • * ;3 ••<• or ts*. I.^.l MKtaOhm* M t ? 5 made as much as posaibi* like the Violm. having tw o soendhig boards, uoe at the top. the other unite bot tom conv. rgingoiuwards; a thin case with aval ends, ill free from the strain ofalicatriujr*. w hirh com, * on an non frame or bed plate. I'y those and other pe i tilt.tr arrangemeirs. a hotter tom: is piodttced than .1 as ever board m a PI ino before. * dee,., organ toned ••IS* and a bHltlant hell ike tre!>!>* They will *ay .-eathor Any to thuirdurability win be given to panics purchasing, and they will be kept in tuue two years free or charge by the agent Nev er was th tc so maiiv oOro ;, iiiattojM ttsat go to m kc a good and durable io*ruiuent in a piano hefor-,'and wh mver say* diftWeutly is eitnor ignorant or tells a ‘aLeh ‘t l. The Agent, wh • Ims been tuning and rr p.lring ianosforM Yens, cinm* to undemand the instrument thoroughly Dr. Mltags of (%.lumbus owns the one that wa* on cxht .ltinn ar the Perry lions* Two h • p been sold to teacher* in Macon, and seven to othffrpftrson*. Thmc Piano- cost from *375 to 9001* Anv further information wi’lbi t lx-erftiliy given. Direct ;li eoru imtnicattonsto o. ft RICE, M-tcon. (in. r-ol* ng* .t for th*s.'lo(.ft!:'*®e Pi.tMos In tluoigj* Pianos Melodeous A Organs. BRANDS & KHONER, 4G BROAD STREET, —nr -| t’KrER th'ur Plano# of ihebest nta 4. -J3js6jgk* r * m New Yo l< s. .it at r.-r* W J Jwii:tw> ( worranted A good Piano Ibi 2ised npto !55\ Prince** Met -deone lor *9“ to MV’ Pur- genuine Alexander Organ trom*loo Oueof tiinm, a ntzgmflceut Instrument, may be ••■an our Rtore. No 43 Hroad tMrcet. March 19, 1800—w If lUKßtvll’Ni UKtttn tR up mi: ENGLISH LANGUAGE, .“■‘..'“id"!! tiffnMHe nccorduni-with renen ant con.uiun mitiAc. ep cimon copies may ire obtained bveucios me i'-* rttnntn Ataio -to Cliafii.i and Johnson Co lumbus, (it J l. DARKER February th, 1800—w3m. ksikNFORDS 7 LIVEE I iVIGOKATOE N j;V i:lt DEBILITATES. [T Id COMPOFINt'ED ENTIRELY from • -utus.and X has liecoiue an r. -talilished fact,a standard medicine approved by all that . bv vi*. ; -.l p, mid it. re borted to with conft- as deace in all disease* for tvdicii it is recommend- ■* ed. It ha* enredthou -ands “ lUainthe lag*tw o years wito had given up nope * of relief as numerous UMoUcitoA certificates in my possession show. Tiled wm! must he adap- fed to the temperament lon the dictates of your ss |n.|guieat guido you in useofflte LiyRH LY’ YIUVRA TOR, ami it will cure l.urr fv, m . pUumtf, BILIOUS At talks, n YfiBEPSU, tm Ckrmtti. L> iarr ka a, HU MM EH COM PLAOfTSjIYMrjfI’R RY, DROPSY, 9Q UR ” **7 QJUACfL Habitual COHTMCME9B. Choi- ,c, CHOLERA CWc raM'ilnts, CHOLERA C g IMb’AJtTUM FLATU LM/tCF., JAVA DICE FrmaU tVEAKRMSS FA, and may be used successfully as an Ordtw an>, FUmtly M- Unnc— ■ fii It will cure SICK HE AIJAC II A, Kf* “ re t^eu ‘^r AU who v.,c r ac* “ gixiMf their testimony in it* favor tea MIX WATER IN TUP. MO FT II WITH THE IN- Vlfl iRVTtHL AND SWALLOW BOTH TCKiETH ER, I'RJt R ONE IXII.LAtt PER BOTTLE. ALSO, SiiNFORD’S lliathariic Pills, j COMPOUNDED FROM Pure YcgtablExtrarir, ami put up In <;las Cases, Air Tight, and will keep In any Climnte. The FAMILY CA - TWABTtC Pu.L is a gen tle mit actfvs Cafharti. Q which the pioprietor nns used m his practice more than twenty years. The constantly incn:.'Mi?if i*.demand from those who have long .i si dtbs PILI.H . and ibvutixfiv iion tvlikh all express Inrega rdf otliefr H uw',tin* induced me to put them in the r-acb of all Theproft-Asmu well know |L that >litU<r:Mt rhatlianc* acton dMP*rer.tport;-m*of. tbebowein Tins FAMILY CA Tll AUTI ( PILL lmw. with due reference to [.thie well e*:l>n*lied fart been compounded from m v-trietyofthe purest vege table extracts, which RU r 'ullke on every part of the a!iment*ry canal, and are good and ear* in ail can es where'a dntklftic liy ir' , tf*d. such as Dic hanci*.m*:nt* of th f ” STOMA* 11. Ht.cget- Haa. PAI.\ in thcQBALK AND V. OIN H, t; ISTIVKNEH S. PAIN a.vp *<>*K**as ovr.a tiik WHOLE BODY ~ from sudden cold, which frequently, if neglected. TJ endin a hmg course of Fe ver, LO*H OF a DagEPTKc StN * ATT OR (*V • ’Ol,ll OVB TH E Bt>t)V, UIiSTLESM* \f.si, HEADVL’HFI or p weight ts the Hea. all INFLAMMATORY h Dirkamcr. WOItM, Ir Chiu>bkr or Adults, l 1 Rheumatism, a Grrt, Purifier of the Blond. snmdiaaßydiMWiMlowlili'b fl.*ih is heir, too numerous **• to men non in this adver tisement. DOSE lto 3. ’* j Price 30 Cent*. TIIB L! VETUVVIGORATon and FAMILY CA TIIAHTU PILLS are retailed liy Dntinp(* generally andoMirb6Milu4 retail by the Trade in all the luce towns. S. r r. W. MAX FORD, M. D., Mnufacturer and Proprietor, line|t~w'mo M3 Broadway, N*-w York WAITED- I A KIUNOLE BLOCKS (tosquare not ]*s* than lUUUa A*oti dfttiverort in CoJu:i.b<a, for which a lair price in Cash will be elven. Applv to oct 17-wtf JOHKPH 11. WYNN 51ic (falnwlins) U'cchlj dimes. COLUMBIA TIKSDAT, MAY I. ISflO. EDITORIAL OORRESPOMDSSCEr CiLtttLBSTOM, April 27,18C0. D;: is Timer : I so *1 you tbo majority and mi nority reports of tbo Cominittoe on Platform sub* milted to the Convention to-day. Tbo majority is signed by delegates representing all the South ern States and California and Oregon—making <o von teen in all. The minority by the sixteen aon-slavoholdiug States, thus giving the first re port a majority of ono. Counting by States in *bo Convention the fifteen Southern States, Inclu ling California and Oregon, will give a vote of 127 f;r tho majority report. In opposition of this report, are 17C votes from the non-slaveholding Slates. It will be seen from this, that between the two reports tho minority will be adopted by the Convention. A series of resolutions offered by Mr. John Cochrane, of New York, as a sub stitute for the whole, may l*e adopted by the Convention. They recognize the doctrine of pro icetion, and if they can carry the 3i votes from New York, majority in favor of this principle. Tbo volfrof Georgia will bo divided upon the majority report of the Committee. It will stand S for and 1 against the reporl. Mr. Av*ry, of .North Carolina, is chairman of the maj ritv committee. He addressed tho Con vention this morning, and was followed by othor gentlemen. No vote lias yot been taken. Tho tspects of the quesiinn threaten much confusion in the Convention. We trust that the discussion may end in harmony. It is impossible now to say who Will bo the nominee. Much depends on the platform adopted, and tbo number of South ern States that remain in the Convention. C. k\plolon Los* es Life Wo are in possession of intelligence, which was ‘ransmitred by telegraph to a gentleman in this icy, that tho fine new steamer J C. Calhoun bad become a total wreck by the explosion of her boilers, at aorno point between tho junction of tho Flint aud Chattahoochee rivers and the city of Apalachicola. Wc learn that six valuable negro men are min ing, all supposed to have been killed. Captain : • ‘rawford, the commander of the steamer, and Mr. ! Adkins, the chief clerk, are both severely if not j mortally wounded, and tho second *!crk, whose I name ha not been reported, is also severely The Caibonn was a uow boa', having been built last .-ittumor expressly for this river. Bho was owned by Messrs. McAlister & Cos. of Ibis city, and wc understand that, if any insurance had been effected, it was only partial. The loss, exclusive of tbo value of the ucgrocs, is betwen ten and fif teen thou sand dollars. Bishop FI Holt This distinguished Episcopal divine, Bishop of the Diocese of Georgia, is at present ou an official visit to our city. Last Sabbath he preached a most inti-rcstir g uml impressive sermon, which was at - ‘ tentively listened toby a large audience; after which tlio ceremony of ordination of deacon was porformed—the forenoon services closing with tho administration of tho Sacrament of the Lord's Sttppar. In tbo evouing, alter another effective discourse, the solemn rile of confirmation was be stowed upon a number of persons. Robbery. •Some time during the past week the Episcopal Churcli in this city was entered by force, and the silver plate kept there for the Communion service was abstracted therefrom. As yet tliore is no : clue to the sacrilegious perpetrator of the deed. Homicide. A man by the nnmo of James H. Staggs was killed in Girard, on Sunday night last, by a young man named Charles Simpson. From the ovldcuce taken before tho Coroner and jury at the holding of the iaqaest, it appears that Staggs had, on a pre\ ions occasion, threatened the live* of Simpson and other members of bis family; that on Sun day night ho went to tho residence of Simpsoo's mother, and r.Lured and insulted her grossly ; the *on was ent for, and on arriving at home shot and killed decease Simpson immediately sur rendered himself* and at the examination was discharged, the authorities considering him jus tifiable in the commission of the deed. Thr Contention From intelligence received from a gentleman who arrived yesterday from Charleston, we infer that there is little or no ground to ho}*- for the harmonious action of tho Convention. Tho mi nority platform, or something equivalent thereto, wU be adopted. Alabama, with several other States, will retire from tho Convention, and it is thought Georgia will be included in the latter number. The matter is, of course, in the bauds of our delegates; hut, iu tho presont aspect of the case, we confess wo would not regret their adoption of this course. Ui'KLixa Axn Tali.(u>e(ia Railboar.-■••The Tallapoosa (Ala.) Times of the 2Clb, states that Col. Slaughter, the President of the above named rued, has just returned from a tour West of the Tallnpoora river, and reports prospects brighten ing in that direction. Tho peoplo arc becoming convinced that the building of railroad* require un effort, und are beginning to see tho importance of their taking action in the premises. Colonel Slaughter averaged about ono thousand dollars of stock per day—the two last days getting be tween eight and nine thousand. Stki'HE.xs will mot Accept.—The Charleston correspondent of tho Savannah News states tha Mr- Stephens’ friends arc authorized to say that he will not accept the nomination for the Vice Presidency on any ticket, and it is the opinion now that Mr. Orr, of South Carolina, will be put on the ticket with Douglas. Georgia Uroei* to Withdraw with Ala- I v. am a.—The Augusta Evening Dispatch publish ej a telegram ftjtn Charleston, dated at noon on j Saturday, which says : “Dispatchesfrom Toombs and Iverson urge the Georgia delegation to with draw with Alabama, if a sound platform and a sound man are not adopted.” Fnm is CheLnba, Mash. —Chllki.a, April 2.!. —A fire in Sunday morning, destroyed Dean A Bo<lwell'* ."table, together with twenty b'x horses; also, two other stables and three or fynvr wooden bouses adjoining. Lose, slo,ooO. • - Sam IIot;*TO row I'kesidbst. —The Charles ton Mercury says: “We publish a letter from a reliable source in Texas, to a gentleman nowin Charleston, concerning Gen. Houston’s Candida cy lor President. On the 21st he was nominated at a large Mass Meeting held on the battle ground of San Jacinto. He bus come out as the con servative opposition candidate, to take advantage of any mistake committed by the Democratic par ty now assembled. Sam would buve strength at the North, if he could muster up at the South by reason of un exceptionable candidate.” llt'XTgvillk, Texas, April 12, 1860. Dear Sir: 1 have this day been informed by a gentleman who has the confidence of Uen. llous '"O, that Houston is out as an independent can didate for the Presidency of the i’nited States.— \ ou may regard this Information as being true beyond all doubt. The Opposition hero arc very much in hopes that the lion. tt. A. Douglas will he the nominee of the Charleston Convention.— They think that if the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas is the nominee that Gen. Houston can carry this State by a large majority. But if you should nominate (Jen. J. Lane, nr Hon. Hunter, of Vir ginia, or Hon. Breckinridge, or any distinguished statesman and good Democrat opposed to popu lar sovereignty, then I tbiuk the Houston party would give up the struggle and kick the bucket. Respectfully, your obedient servant. THE UNION OF THE STATES, ANB THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES (COR it KNS ED FnOM CHARLESTON EVENING NEWS.) PROCUEVLUCiS OF TUB NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. OiarirMon, Friday April 27 nm dat. MORNING SESSION. At 10*4 A M. the Convention carno to order. Prayer by the Rev. Dr, Smyth, of the Presbyte rian persuasion. Rending of tho Journal dis pensed with. Mr. Kiug, of Missouri, offered a resolution giv ing to Kansas a representation on the National Coicmitteo, to bo selected by tho delegation uow in town. Referred to the ooiumittee on tho sub ject. Mr. Avery of North Carolina from tho majority of the Committee on Platform reported the fol lowing : THE PLATFORM. Resolved, That tho Platform adopted at Cin cinnati be affirmed, with the following resolu tions : 1. Resolved, That tho Democracy of the United States hold these cardinal principles on the sub ject of alavory in tho Territories : First, that Con gress has no power to abolish slavery iu tho Ter ritories. Second, that Territorial Legisla tures have no power to abolish slavery iu any Territories, nor to prohibit the introduction of slavery therein, nor any power to exclude slavery therefrom, nor any power to dostroy or impair the right of properly iu slaves, by any legislation whatever. 2. Resolved, That the enactments of Stato Leg islatures to defeat tho faithful execution of tho Fugitive Slave Law are hostile in character, sub versive of the Constitution, and revolutionary in their effect. 3. Resolved, That it is the duty of tho Federal Uovernment to protect, when necessary, the rights of person and pro}>crty, on the high sens, iu the Territories, or wherever else its Constitutional au thority extends. 4. Resolved, That tho Democracy of tbo Na tion recognize it us tbo imperative duty of this Government to protect the naturalised citizen in all his rights, whether at home or in foreign lands, to tho same extent as its native-born citizens. 5. Resolved, That tho National Democracy earnestly recommend the acquisition of the Island ot Cuba at tho earliest practicable period. Whereas, That ono of the greatest necessities | of the ago, in a political, commercial, postal and | military point of view, is a speedy communication i between tho Pacific and Atlantic coasts. There fore, be it Resolved, That iho National Democratic party ’ do hereby pledge themselves to use every means in their power to secure tho passage of somo bill for the construction of n Pacific Railroad, from tho Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, at tho earliost practicable moment. Mr, Avery in explanat on said that the report was not adopted with unanimity. The Ist and 3d resolutions wero adopted by a bare majority, the remainder, except tho last preamble and reso lution unanimously. The last by a majority.- Tho prefix of National Democracy had been truck out. The second resolution having keen applauded, the Chair said applau.se iu the galleries would not be tolerated. If it occurred again they would be cleared. This report was signed by all the Southern members of the Committee and those from Cali fornia aud Oregon. Mr. Avery called for the reading of the minori ty report, when Mr. Payne of Ohio, from a Minority of tha Committee submitted tho following : uinority report : Tho undersigned, a minority of the Committee on Resolutions, regretting their inability to con cur with the report of the majority of our Com mittee, feci constrained to submit the following as their Report, and recommend its adoption as a substitute for the report of tho majority. Respectfully submitted, Amos Roberts, Delegate from Maine. W. Burns, Delegate from New Hampshire. E. M. Brown, Delegate from Vermont. C. S. Bradley, Delegate from Rhode Island. A.G. llnzzard, Delegate from Connecticut. Edwin Colaw ay, New York. ilondrit k B. Wright, Pennsylvania. lionj Williamson, Delegate from New Jersey. 11. B. Payne, Delegate from Ohio. P. C. Dunning, Delegate from Indiana. 0. B. Ficklin, Delegate from Illinois. G. V. N. Lathrop, Delegate from Michigan. A. S. Palmer, Delegate from Wisconsin. Ben. S. Samuel, Delegate from lowa. Jas. M Cavanaugh, Delegate from Minnesota. 1. Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Unioii, in Convention assembled, hereby declare uur affirmance of the Resolutions unanimously adopted and declared os a platform of principles by tho Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, in the yoar 1856, believing tbut Democratic princi ples aro unchangablo in their nature, when ap plied to the same subject matter ; and wo recom mend as the only further resolutions the follow ing : 2. Resolved, That all questions in regard to the rights of property in States or Territories, arising upder tho Constitution of the United States, are judicial iu their character; and the Democratic party is pledged to abide by and faithfully carry out auch determinations us hun been or may bo mudn by tho Supreme Court of the United States. 3. Resolved, That it is the duty of the Uuited States to afford ample and complete protection to all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, and whether native or foreign. 4. Resolved, That one of tho access ties of tho age, in a military, commercial, and postal point of view, is speedy communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States; and the Democratic party pledge such Constitutional Government aid a* will insure tho construction us a railroad to the Pacific coast, at the earliest practicable pe riod. 5. Resolved, That the Democratic party are in favor of the acquisition of the Island of Cuba, on such terms as shall be honorable to ourselves and just to Spain. 6. Resolved, That the enactment* of Stato Leg i slat urea to defeat the faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law, are hostile in character, subversive of the Constitution, and revolutionary in their effect. Mr. Payne moved those resolutions as au amendment. Mr. Butler, of Massachuscssts, as another mi nority, submitted the following : AUDITION AI. MINORITY RKI’OHT. Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union in Convention assembled, hereby declare our af firmance of the Democratic resolutions unani mously adopted and declared as a Platform of Principles at Cincinnati, in the year 1*66, with out addition ora'teration ; believing that Demo cratic principles are unchangeable in their nature, when applied to the same subject matter, and we recommend as the only w further resolution, the following: Resolved, That it is the duty of the United States to extend it* protection alike over all its cltixcns, whether native or naturalised. A minority of your committoe have agreed to the above as the sole resolutions upon the subject of tho principles of the party. Inbehalf of a Minority of the Committee, B. P. BUTLER. Mr. Butler moved these resolutions as an amend ment to tho amendment. Mr. Payne of Ohio, in presenting his report, stated his minority report represented 176 electo ral votes agninst 127 represented by the majority report. Mr. Bradley T Johnson of Maryland asked him how many Democratic votes his 176 electoral votes represented. [Applause.] Mr. Johnson in reply to some question of Mr. Payne further said, that Maryland would stand wit the South on thia question. [Applause.] Mr. Coehrano, of New York, endeavored to get in un additional amendment, which was ruled out of order, but which was ordered to he printed.— Mr. Cochrane would offer it at the proper time. The following is a copy of the resolutions: 1. Resolved, That the several States of this Union are, under the Constitution, equal, and that the people thereof are entitled to the free and undisturbed possession and enjoyment of tbeir rights of persons and property in the common Territories; and that, any attempt by Congress or a Territorial Legislature to annul, abridge or discriminate against such equality of rights, would be unwise in policy and repugnant to the Constitution ; and (hat it is the duty of tho Fed eral Government, whenever such rights are vio lated, to afford the necessary, proper and consti tutional remedies for such violations. 2. Resolved, That the platform of principles adopted at the Convention held at Cincinnati in 1860 and the foregoing resolutions are hereby adopted and declared to be the platform of the Democratic oartv. Mr. Avery, of North Carolina, proceeded to de fend the majority report. He represented in his report what is required by seventeen Democratic COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1860. States, as a vital principle recognizing the equal ity of tho people of all the States to the Territo ries acquired by tho common blood and treasure. [Applause.] Mr. Avery w.nl into a detail of the uniform political adhereuco of some of the States repre sented iu the majority report to Domooratio prin ciples. lion. J. B. Clark, of Missouri, interrupting.Nta- Ud that whilst on the committee, and carrying out tho instructions of his delegation, he had agreed to the platform; but ho should vote to strike out tho third resolution. Ho wanted to read the third resolution, but Mr. Avery declined to yield further. Mr. Avery ikon referrod to tho other States which had signed the majority report and which wero now Democratic States. Was such a pha lanx of Democratic strength to concede to ami noiity which, out of 170 electoral votes, docs not represent, according to the last elections, a single electoral voto what they contend for in the mi nority reports. Mr. Avery continued, aud denounced squatter sovereignty as dangerous aud heretical as Con gressional prohibition. Do alluded to the ad vantages of Northern emigrant aid societies over Southern settlers iu the territories. If this prin ciple of territorial sovereignty was then adopted, it would affect the South tho samo as tho Wiltnot proviso. We of the South do not propose to ex clude the proporty of our Northern brethren, we only want what we concede them. Mr. Avery forcibly defended the majority re port, and exhibited the injustice which would bo worked to tho South if the principle of territorial sovereignty was adopted. Sovereignty did not commence until tho condition of a Stato had been reached. Tho Cuba resolution proposed would lie valueless to the South, as well as uny acqui sition of territory, if this principle was established, lie enforced tho inequality of the negro; and contended that this emancipation is what is looked lor by those in the North, to defeat whom this proposed concession is asked, would moot the unlimited opposition of the white laboring men of the South. The idea of squatter sovereignty was not in the Cincinnati platform. Ho refuted tho fallacy that Cougrossional intervention for prohibition implied the power to assail. Ho de nied that this was a judicial question. A thou sand ways could bo resorted to to impair tho titlo iu slaves, which the judicial arm would po pow erless to remedy. lie implored the Northern democracy not to press the question. There never was a time when u bold and manly oourse bad not met the sauo tion of tho Northern democracy. The President (Mr. Cushing) had pursued such a course, und ho will toll you that it is the true way touttain suc cess. [Applause.] The South required the con vention to take a bold stand. The judicial idea in tho minority report afforded no solution of the question. Every man therefrom tho North was a law abiding citizen ; therefore, any declaration on that point wa* immaterial. Mr. Payne, of Ohio, addressed the convention on behalf of his minority report. Tho minority had gone into the convention with an earnest de sire to occommodato tho differences in tho party. Tho question of slavery had distracted the party aud the country since 1820. The Northhadhoped that tho compromise measures of ’SO, the Kansas bill of’s4, and tho platforms of ’53 nnd ’56 bail fettled this questiou. They had hoped that it wa* finally removed from Congress, where all agi tation had originated. The democracy of the North claim no credit for standing hy tho rights of the South. Though they had occasionally been denounced in the Senate by Southern men, as “uu-muud and rotteu,” they had always acted in good fuitb. Tho platforms alluded to emana ted from the South, and recognized non-interven tion. He could prove by the record of Southern urgumont in the Senate and House of Repre*en tative*, that tbo construction now contended for was theirs, without a dissenting voice up to 1858, Mr, Payne continued, and contended that the South as well as the North, had conceded it to he a political question. 110 sent to the Secretary's desk extracts from speeches of the Hon. Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy ; Howell Cobb, present Secretary of the the Treasury; Vice President Rreckenridge, aud Ex-Speaker Jas. L. Orr, of S. C., which were read, sustaining his position. Mr. Payne then read the Cincinnati Platform, and con tended that it meant the same thing. The Cincinnati Platform had been adopted by the representatives of thirty-one Slates unanimously, with the exception of the Pacific Railroad resolution. lie read part of Mr. Buchanan's letter of acceptance to ahow that he regarded popular sovereignty as in the platform. Mr. Payne referred to extracts from the speeches of Senators Mason of Virginia, Bay ard ot Deleware, Badger of North Carolina, Butler of ISoiith Carolina, Hunter of Virginio and Toombs of Georgia, sustainiug popular sovereignty. The Northern mind was iinhued with the love of this great principle. We give the people no right that the Constitution does not give them. The extent of this right the courts could decide, and the North would abide by the decision. He then read the platform of the Ohio De mocracy, recognising the judicial character of the issue. Ohio was committed by the action of Congress and the Conventions of the Democratic party She cannot recede from it without dishonor, and so help us God. we never will. (Applause). Self-respect was as dear to them as to the men of the South. If the majority report is adopted the South cannot expect any assistance from the North ern Democracy, lie cited the election returns of 18W and ’56, to show that when Southern States faltered, the entire North-West sus tained the Democratic party. The South talked about lighting the enemy; they knew nothing about it. He referred to the battle they had fought in Ohio, and how now the majority of Republicans was so reduced as to promise a Democratic victory if not embar rassed by the action of this Convention. The North would live under a Black Republican administration. Could the South do it? It was a question materially affecting the South whether she would embarrass their Northern friends. The Northern Democracy had fought the battles of the South. Mr. Payne con cluded in an impressive manner exhorting the South to a course of moderation and not to burden the Northern Democracy with too much weight in the coming contest. *lf the majority platform was adopted he would go home and light the battles as best he may. Mr. Butler of Massachusetts. He owed an apology for imposing upon the Convention his single judgment in opposition to both the ma jority and large minority of the Committee. His resolution represented 31 Slates, commit ted to it by their action at Cincinnati. He re ferred to Mr. Avery's remarks in the Cincin nati Convention sustaining the plutlorm. He asked where the leaders of the South were in 1860, that they did not oppose it then. It had received the endorsement of the people in the last contest. He asked, has there beeu any charge in the governmental policy to justify this opposition to it now? Every plat form would bo subject to a double construc tion. Divine revelation did not escape it. The constitution had received various inter pretations. In this day of growing distrust it was belter to stand by the old platform, un der which it had ao often triumphed. The difference of construction was not a practical one. The North understood the question now. If a now series of principles were adopted now, all the explanation and argu ment of the past, which had fixed the security of Southern rights in the North, would be lost, and would have to be gone over again. The majority report justified a construction in favor of re-opening the African slave trade. The second resolution of the minority report met with his dissent. The first branch of it was a mere truism. It is nothing more than an affirmation that the sun shines and water runs. The second branch of it met bis ob jection, because he, like old Geperal Jackson, did not r r er bis political opinions to the Su preme Court, and it determined the Conven tion in favor of any decision the Court may make. He revered past decisions. What they may make he won’t endorse in advance. Would the Convention pledge itself to carry out a decision which may be made by it under its threatened re-organization—threatened by Mr. Seward. (Cries of no, no!) We can’t look to caucuses for our opinions, affected more or less by bad whiskey. ( Laugh ter.) If under a supposed administration of Mr. Seward vacancies should occur on the supreme bench and filled by him, and it should decide that slavery existed no where except by natural law, and that man could not hold property in man, would the South stand it? He referred to Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, remark about States that gave no Democratic vote, and said 11 the pot should not call the kettle black.” Mr. Bradley T. Johnson said that when Maryland occupies the position of Massa chusetts in nullification of the Constitution, she would be more modest in the expression of her opinions. [Applause.) Mr. Butler. Comparisons are odious. In Massachusetts a man can go to tha polls and and vote without having a cudgel broken over his head. (Applause.) By a vote from Mary land the Black Republican organization of the present House of Representatives was effected. Ho asked his friends from Tennessee, Ken tucky, and North Carolina, how they stood in the House ill the event of tho election of President going with the House. In view of their decisions in that event, was it right to throw up the weakuess of the Northern De mocracy in some of the Northern States, where, though defeated, they fight so gallant ly for the rights of the South. He alluded to the double interpretation by the Slate Department, upon the rights of na turalized citizens abroad, and contended for a correction of it by a platform. Mr. Barksdale, of Mississippi, moved a recess until 4 o'clock. Carried. Charleston Conventlon-Mr. Bigler’s Resolatloas- Declslon by the Chair that the Georgia ltrlega lion must vote as a unit In the Saturday morning session of the Con vention, Mr. Bigler, of Penn., m ved that the platform resolutions be recommitted to the com mittee, with instructions to report, in one hour, the following: Resolved, That the Platform adopted by the Democratic party at Cincinnati be affirmed, with the following explanatory resolutions: Resolved, That the Government of a Territory, organized by an act of Congress, is provisional and temporary; aud, during its existence, all oiti tens of the Uuited Slates have an equal right to settle iutbu Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impair ed by Congressional or Territorial Legislation. Resolved, That the Democratic party stands pledged to the doctrine that it is the duty of Gov ernment to maintain tho Constitutional rights of property of every species, and to enforce all the docisionsof the Supreme Court in roferencethere to. Resolved, That it is the duty of tho United States to afford ample and complete protection to all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, and whether native or foreign. Resolved, That one of the necessities of tho age in a military, commercial and postal point of view is speedy communication between the Atlantio and Pacific States; and the Dcinooratio party pledge such Constitutional Government aid as will insure the construction of a railroad to the Pacific coast at tho earliest practicable period. Resolved, That the Democratic party are in favor of tho acquis it ion of the Island of Cuba, on sueh terms a* shall be honorable to ourselves and just to Bpain. Resolved, That the ennr'jnents of State Leg islatures to defeat tho faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave I,aw, are hostile :n character, subversive of the <iou*titution, and revolutionary in their offset- The demand for tbo previous question was se conded. Mr. Walker of Ala., called for a division. Whou the vote ou ordering the main question was abou: to ho taken, Mr. Nelms of Georgia. raised tho question of privilege, that the Georgia delegation was not instructed to vote as a unit, the resolution merely requested them to do so. He contended for his discretion to voto as he pleased. Mr. John A. Jones of Georgia, opposed the effort of Mr. Nelins to break the unit vote of the State, and contended that the term request had all the weight of instruction. Tho Chairruled in favor rs a point raised, that this debate was not in order. Mr. Jones wanted to know how the vote was to be cast. Tbs Chair said that when the State wus called it would be determined. Mr. Cessna of Pa., called for a division of the question. The division being made, the vote was first taken on the first branch being to commit, and carried by a vote of 152 ayes, 15! uays—the Southern States, except Missouri, whose delega tion was divided —five in favor and five against voting recommitment of tho resolutions. The news of the passage of the motion to re commit whs received with great applause. Mr. Brooks, of Ala., moved to lay the instruc tions on the table The Chair derided the motion to lie on the table to ho in order. Mr. Seward, of Georgia, aguin raised the ques tion of privilege relative to the right ot individual delegates in the Georgia delegation to cast their own vote. Tho chair repeated bis formerdecision the ques tion could not l)e entertained at this time. The motion to lie on the table was then voted on by States with the following result: Ayes, 142)9; nays, 66%. Georgia, when she wus called, answered tea votes yea. Mr. Seward claimed the right to votohis indi vidual vote, as did miother delegate. Mr. Lainur, of Georgia, called for the reading of the order of the Convention on the subject, wbioh was done, lie said there was a division in the Georgia delegation. He contended tho resolution of the Georgia Convention, requesting a unit vote, to be equivalent to instructions.— When Georgia requested, it should be the pleas ure of her dutiful sons to obey. Ho discussed the legal effect of.the term “request,” and appeal ed to every lawyer in tho Convention if it did not have tho weight of command. Mr. Nelms, of Georgia, contended for the right of the minority iu tho delegation to vote their own vote. He wanted to make hia rnn record. Mr. Nelms then went into a bistory of (lie eir cuuistHDces attending the passage of the resolu tion of requeat. The debate on the question was continued by j Messrs. Nelms and Jones, of Georgia, Cessna, of Pa., and Meek, of Alabama Mr. Montgomery moved that the members of each delegation he permitted to vote ms they pleased. lie afterwards withdrew it upon the suggestion of a point of order. Mr. Henry K. Jackson continued the debate against the right of individual delegates from Georgia to vote otherwise than ms a unit. Mr. Nelms then staled thequeslion of privilege. The Chair would be reluctantly compelled to decide the question. An appeal could be taken. The announcement of the Chairman of the Geor gia delegation of the 10 votes o> Georgia in the affirmative, must stand. In his opinion the term, in the order of this Con volition, “provided,” em braced within its intention the • request’ of the Georgia* resolution. He did not think (he delegates appointed by a State (-on vent ion had any right to find any fault with limitations placed upon their power by the body which they represented. He therefore de cided that the vote tught to lie cast as an unit. [Applause.] Debate on Platform*. We have kept our rendors informed of the pro ceedings of the Convention up to the discussion on the platforms, which wore reported by ooin inittee in charge of that subject. Below we givo the remarks of Mr. Avery of North Carolina, in bebalf of the majority report of tbe committee, which report has already appeared in our col umns. We shall continue to publish such speech es as their importance may seem to demand and our space permit: Mr. Avery, of North Carolina. On bebalf of the majority of the Committee on Resolutions, he was instructed to express their regret that they were compelled to appear before the Convention and present a report that had not been agreed on by tbe entire committee. He asked tbe gentle man from Ohio, if the report of the minority of tbe committee represents a greater number of States than be found appended thereto in the printed copy of tbe Resolutions. Mr. Payne. It represents also the States of New York and Pennsylvania, which have been added this morning. Mr. Avery. He said that it was a source of re gret that the report he had presented had failed to receive tbe assent of the entire committee, but be bad no apology to make, for the report repre sented the seventeen banner Democratic States of tbe Union. He stood there representing what is regarded by those States as a great vital and fundamental principle —the principle of perfect, unqualified equality of every State, and of the eitixens of every State in the Territories acquired by the blood and treasure of the whole people of the United States. Mr. Scott, of Alabama, (in tbe Chair,) called the Convention to order, and requested more quiet in the galleries. Mr. Avery continued : Ue bad stated that tho difference in the committee had been a source of regret, but that he had no apology to make, be -1 cause the majority report represents a majority of the States of tbe Union, wbioh States represent 127 electoral votes, every one of which will be east for the nominee of the Democrats Cooven- tioo, representing the principle which that report presents to the Convention. They had, therefore, no apology to make. They nlanted themselves upou tho imperishable principle, and appealed to the well known devotion es the Democratic party to fairness, honor and justice to stand hy their side. Hovontoou States of the Union had re nounced the adoption of tho report. It had been remarked that in tho divisiou on tho report, there wore fifteen slave States and two Northern States. He knew the gentleman from Ohio meant no sec tional allusion iu speak mg as he did, for as far as ho knew, there exists no sectional feeling in tho bosom of any gentleman who signed the majority report. But they catne there representing a great principle—backed by the Democracy of Virginia, which had never faltered in the hour of the darkest peril. They came horo as the repre sentatives of the South-western States, thut had never cast, where vital principle.* wore involved, any but a Democratic vote. They came here as representatives of the central Southern from whose mind* the political delusions'of past years have been removed, and who have come into the Democratic fold, there to remain for ever. Mr. Clark, of Missouri, was one of the majority who had endorsed the Platform. Tho gentleman had alluded to his Stato as one that stood by tho report. Ho wanted to announce to the Conven tion that he did not approve wholly of the report, and would not vote for the first resolution in the report, lie had signed the report only in order to enable the committee to report. Mr. Avery objected to the interruption. He had remarkod that tho report of the majority had beeu sustained by the South-western States, that had always stood firm and unshaken,and cast none other than democratic votes. He proceeded to say that the several States now newly taking their position boneath the Democratic banner, endors ed its principles. The far distant Stato of Cali ornia, baptised in Democracy, stood by the prin ciples of the report. The far-off Oregon—still younger, but not less pure -stood by them.—- These States could givo, combined, one hundred and twenty-seven eleotoral votes for the Deino eratio candidate for the Presidency, and he asked if the settled principles of these Status does not demand consideration at the hands of the Con vention. Ileasked those whoso names wore af fixed to the minority report—to bear in mind that the States they represent cannot be depended on to oast a single Democratic eleotoral vote. They stood there, then, with 127 Democratic electoral votes, representing a great principle, while tho gentlemen on the othor tide representing not one single leectoral voto, stand in autagonism to this principle. He appoaled to them if a respectful consideration should not be paid to those who represent tho voting Democracy of the United States. He had said that this report represents a great principle—the principle of the equality of tho gt eat States of this Union in tho Territory of the United States. The committee, regarding this principle as one of vital importance to tho interests they represent, as a principle not effect ing the rights or interests of the free States, have thought that when they alone wero interested in its enforcement, this should not be sacrificed but that if the Convention was to settle n question upon which a difference oxists, it. ought at, least to bo settled in favor of the parties whose rights and interests alone are involved. Mr. Lowry of Indiana, endeavored to tuako nu enquiry, but was prevented by loud cries of “or der, order !” Mr. Avery could not consent to yield the floor. Ho was speaking not lor himself, but in behalf of those whose rights it was to bo heard without interruption, They spoke the common sentiments of thoir constituents at borne, and he intended no reflection upon those who ontertained a different opinion, whau they said that the effect to the Southern States of tho confirmation of tho doc trino of popular sovereignty would be diaastrou*. That doctrine is as dangerous and as subversive of Southern rights us was the duotriue of Congres sional intervention for prohibition of slavery in the Territories. And why? They say that in the oonteat for the oecupuucy of the Territories of the United Stales, the Southern States cannot compete with the emigration of the Northern States, aided hy the Societies that exist there. These Societies can send a vote into the Territo ry for two hundred dollar*, while it costs tho South one thousand five hundred dollars. They say that wherever this competition between tho slave States aud the North occurs, tho latter will always obtain advantage over the slave States.— Whou it is suid that tho Territorial Legislature established hy Congress in a Territory, has tho right, directly or indirectly, to regulate the insti tution ofsluvory, a blow is given to exclude every slaveholding Stato from the Territory, a* effective as could be inflicted by the adoption of the Wilniot Proviso, out aud out. There is no proposition contained iu tho mi nority report that invades tho Constitutional rights of the North; no proposition that the North or the property of the North shall bo ex cluded from the Territory ot the United States. They wore invited to come and settlo in, and im prove that vast Territory which remaiu* uuoecu pied ; but tho South usks that they may be per mitted to go there too, with their negro property ; that when they do so, they may flint protection : and when thoy sit down under their own vine and fig tree, they may ho covered hy the /Egis of the Constitution. Nor should it ho forgotton that the emigrants sent into tho Territories by the societies of tho North wore not sent by the Democracy, but by the Opposition: by those who are banded togeth er to destroy ine restitution of the South. If the Booth could sit down iu the Territories with tho consciousness that they should not he interfered with till the State Constitution was adopted—if they could feelthx’ ‘hoy were 011 terms or equali ty, with respeot to die if property, with the citi sens of free States, • l that if any attempt’ wus made to interfere hi 1 their rights, the Govern ment was ready to interpose its strong arm to protect and defend them, they would feci that they wero ready and willing to risk emigration into the Territories of the United States. They would then leave it for the people of the Territo ry*. p mention assembled to say whether th try . .. orne into the Union with sluvo or free Contitutioni. It wus iu this light they re garded the question. He asked any Northern man if he believed that, uuder existing circuiusiuu cos, any Southern man who owned 1 slave, or 6 or tun slaves, would venture with them to settle in any Territory of the United States? If it was said that this wus ail abstraction, for that we have no Territory to settle uow.be would answer that it might be an abstraction, fur that Democratic principles arc all abstraction.—they are nothing else, at least until they are wade pructical by legislation. But these abstractions laid down principles which shall guide legislation as the present or future exigencies of the country may require. The Committee on both sides had reported a resolution favoring the speedy acquisition of tbo Island of Cuba. They all said, privately and publicly, that if the bonds of the Union be pre si rved, tbe flag of this great country must float over all tbeHtates of Central America—over tho whole of Mexico, unless that unfortunate country remodels its form of government. There is, then, anew country opening before us which invites Southern labor; and yet the principle contained in that minority report—tbe principle of popular sovereignty—would virtually exclude tbe Houth with her slares from the Territory of Central America. And what is to he tbo destiny of tho peoplo of the Mouth? With them, this is u case of life and death. He regarded this principle as tbe most important that ever agitated the minds of the people of tho South; for, if you establish the doc trine of popular sovereignty, it will destroy the rights and tbe safety of tbe South as surely hh would Congressional intervention and)prohibition. If we are to have a cordon of free States binding us ia from the Atlantie to the Pacific coast, to wbat Territory are the people of tho South to em igrate? Where is the negro population, when it becomes redundant, to be placed? Are you pre pared to bring on tbe irrepressible conflict, the agitation of wbioh baa received the indignant re buke of every Democrat in the United States?— That irrepressible conflict would come, if tbe doc trine of popular sovereignty should prevail; and it was this conviction that forced itself on tbo minds of the South, and made them more bitterly hostile to that doctrine tbau tbe dogma of Con gressional intervention itself. This may be uew to tbe North; but they must bear iu miud that a vast number of the citisens of slavobolding States desire to remain at borne, from their at tachment to the soil of their birth, and to see their families grow up around them, surrounded by the property they have accumulated for them. Now, as the slave population increases, If thero is no labor to employ U, tbe result must be eman cipation or tbe irrepressible conflict; and when emancipatiou comes, do we not know that then comes the contest between white and black labor, upon an equality. That equality may be ac knowledged at tbe North, but tbe poorest white man in a.slave States scorns it, and should eman cipation come the strongest army that could be raised could not prevent the expulsion of the blacks, in bloodshed, beyoud tbe borders of tbe State. He stated these conrictioas because he desired to show to tbe people of the North that tbe same sentiment animates all people of the South, whether they be tha owners of slaves or oe ~ But they were told thut in advocating tho doc trines now advanced by tho majority they were violating the principles of the Cincinnati Rlatform. They were told that the Cincinnati Platform is a Popular Sovereignty Platform, and was intended to advance and enforce that doctrine by its adop tion. They who represented tho majority of the Committee deny that this is the faithful construc tion of the Cincinnati Platform. We, of tho South, say that when we adopted that Platform wo understood (hat iion-interveution was the non interference of Congress to establish or abolish slavery even a* the doctrine exists in relation to tho District of Columbia. Wo say that the same doctrine applies to the Territorias as to the Dis trict of Columbia. We maintain that Congress has no right to abolish or prohibit sluvery in the District of Columbia. And why? Because it exists there us an institution. To seor.re unequal right of all the States in thnt District, the common property of all, and every year the National leg islature. composed of Southern und Northern men, is le&islat ng to uphold uud foster slavery there. Wo say that tho Constitution to this anme ex tont recognizes slavery in a Territory. It docs not carry it to the Territory, hut when it is taken there, then the ACgis of the Constitution spreads its shiold ovor it, and it is the duty of Congress to iutervonefor its protection when tho destruc tion of tho property is threatened. Wo hour con stantly of the intervention of Congress when evil legislation prevails in a Territory. A few dayß since a statue passed by tho Legislature of Utah, being an odious law, was repealed by Congress. 8o laws passed by the legislation of Congress have beeh abrogated by the same power. Is not this intervention ? If Congress can interfere to destroy an odious law in a Territory, it can Inter fere to protect the rights and property of the peo ple of a Territory, when interfered with by Ter ritorial legislation. lie had endeavored to show thnt this was not only a question of principle, growing out of men tal conviction on tho pan of the South, but was also a question of self-preforvation in the future. Ho asked what principle of self-preservation can influence our Nortiiern brethren on this question? What groat matorial interest is to be effected, on ( their part, if they should surrender this doctrino of popular sovereignty ? It is not proposed to exclude you from the Territories. No one says because a Northern man is not the owner of slaves that, therefore, be shall not come into tho Terri tory. No such proposition is made —no such doctrine exists. Our principle secures perfect equality to all the citizens of the several States. If there is to be a surrender of principle in this conflict of opinion, our friends say they arc ready to yield whenever the Supremo Court of the Uni tod States shall sottle the issue by a decision.— They hold it to be only a judicial question, but he begged to say, in his judgment, it was not al together a matter for tho Courts todocide. There are a thousand indirect ways of legislative, by which the property of tbo South cau be assailed iu the Territories. There aro a thousand ways in which slave property can be destroyed, and for which the Supremo Court cannot furnish ad equate remedy’ If there be auy doubts, then, in the case, ought they not to bo yielded to the States whose interests are most at stake? This is not a question that can bo scttlod in a day, or ineight years,ortwenty years. By whom is it to he settled? If it he a popular doctrine at the North, there will bo no need to endeavor to tako it to (he Courts for settlement there. Will tho Southern men go to the Territory with their slaves for tho solo purpose of instituting a suit to settle the question in Courts? We say this is a great fundamental principle with us, and we, therefore, desire tho Democratic.party to take its stand upon it. It is not so with the North, be cause it involves the yielding of no rights on their part. lie knew a prejudice existed ut the North against association in tho Territories with slav'-holders. He asked his Northern Democrat ic friends to correct thut sentiment among North ern men, because it is the antagonism which ex ists hot ween the slave and the free States that lead to these dissensions, both at the North and the South. The preservation of tho Union depends on the Democracy of the North. Woof the South voto with the Democratic parly because we bcliovo it to l*o the only party that can save tho Govern ment. It is for Northern Democrats to correct tho views which their people entertain on this question. They could do it only in ono way, and he told them that there never had been a time when a bold uud outspoken platform (bat could b endorsed by the slave States, would do so much good as now. lie appealed to tho President of the Convention, whose holdncss’und manliness in the conservative cause endears him to the heart of every Southern uian. [Applause.] Tell them how to fight the Black Republican party. He will say, never yield one inch upon the Abolition question, but meet it boldly, fairly, squarely. He asked them whether the issue inn mot boldly, fairly aud squarely upon this popular sovereignty platform ? Tho Ciucinuati Platform i* ambigu ous. We at the soutli say it means one tiling— they at the North say it meuns another. Wcask you now to settle its moaning. We say take a bold stand and declare what it really means, bold ly, openly and thoroughly. The minority say they are willing - to leave its interpretation to the Supreme Court. That is ,no convenience to tho South. They take it for grautod thnt all Demo crats are law-abiding citizens, and if so, when a decision of the Supreme Courtis made, adverse to their viows, they will submit to it, as a matter of oourse. It is no solution of the questiou ; no settlement of the issue satisfactorily to the South, to suy “leave i( to the Courts.” He told them that amongst the masses of tbo South, there is a growing distrust of our Northern allies I* did not exist with him, nor probably with nnv poi sons who thoroughly know the >'■*■• ’ ’> ii* k*- racy : but it nevertheless does exist iu the popu lar mind of tho South. We say then, it there must ho a little surrender of principle innke that concession to us. You say it is a judiiial question altogether. We say it is not. ft it be, then to you it is immaterial bow you make the Platform; for you cau say, when you return home to your constituents, that the majority thought one way while you thought an other, and as it is a judicial question, you agreed to give tho majority their Platform, and let the Courts nettle whether its principles were right or wrong. Before closinz his remarks he desired to say that he had advanced no views in a captious or unfriondly spirit. The Committee had heeu enga ged three days and nights in an effort to harmonize their views. They finished last night and this morning, and agreed upon a Platform. He had not bail lime, therefore, to prepare an address upon the report. But ho hod advocated it. before tho Convention in as fair u manner us he could, and although bis remarks were unconsidered, un digested, and necessarily desultory, ho would not shrink from the duty that [devolved upon him. Ho had endeavored to present his views, as he ho ped they would he received, in no captious spirit, lie desired to put tbe Democratic party on a clear, unclouded Platform so that he who runs may road its principles. We know that you Democrats of the North have been called doughfaces—let us then take a Platform that can hear no double construction, and there will then he no justifica tion for this term of reproach. Let us take a Platform on which ail may stand—a fair Platform on principles, and every Democrat North and South will rally beneath the Democratic flag; bid defiance to the enemy. He tondured his thanks to the Convention for the courteous attention they had paid to bis remarks, and the good spirit they had manifested in this, the openingof an exciting debate. fiperrb of Mr l'anrey, of Alabama. Mr. Yancey said : Gentlemen of the Convention : This is a very vast subject, of wido range; whether considered as policy, or whether considered in its constitu tional light, of very vast import, when we consid er tbe consequences of the result a’ which we may arrive. It has long been my study to arrive at a correct conclusion, and experience warns me, gentlemen, that justice cannot be done to this subject in unytbing like au argument that will raise above a mere partisan view of the question in one hour. I will endeavor to eomprecs and limit luy remarks within tbe lime. I may be able to do so, but before I proceed I would like to ask it of this body, whether ii my argument is not concluded within tbo boar, it will he the pleasure of the convention that 1 should stop, or whether it will extend to mo the courtesy vs al lowing me to finish at least such branch of the subject I may he upon when my hour expires.-- [Loud cries of “yes, yes,” and “no, no.”) Mr. PiixsiOK.vr. 1 thought that probably there was no better occasion for an Alabamian to rise and address the Demooracy of the Union than after the remarkable and unnutura! speech that has just fallen from a native son of the South. 1 could have beard that speech from any Northern unmoved. I confess I did not hear it from a citl sen of the State, whose admission has caused the South nearly all its evils, entirely unmoved.— Coming too from a State, Mr. President, that has assumed a somewhat prominent position on this question, 1 thought It well that one of her sons PEYTONH. COLQUITT. >-j,. JAMES W. WARREN, \ Edl t° r *- Number 19 alioulJ k oavor to |.te..m ht tho BUt, bo liovea to be the position which the South occupies on this question. Alabama has instructed bar delegates to present to this body her platform ol principles, and ask for it its candid consideration. Tbo Convention of my State was pleased to ex press tho hope that,, “from its justice and patriot ism,” it “anticipated (heir adoption”by this body. Thus far, gentlemen of tho Democracy, I atn hap py to say thut tho hopes of the State have not altogether been disappointed. A majority of the sovereign States of this Uuiou have united in making a report which embodies, substantially, tho position occupied, ns I believe, by tho Stato of Alabama. Aud not only a majo rity of the sovereign Slates of thin Union huve done this, but, although a native eon of tbo South has raised his voice hero and said that the majo- rity report oontaiued “an udder's sting to the Northern Democracy,” and has choien to speak of it as “poison,” that, report comes to us with what is to tuo even a biglior endorsement—the approval of tho Southern patriot's long deferred hope und desiderutum—a united South- [Great applause. | And not only is the report thus high ly commended to us, but 1 desire to direct the attention of this body and of the Democracy at large to this striking fact, that tho States thus making this report represent more thun two-thirds of the great Democratic party of the Union.— [Cheer*.] It is also undoubtedly true, Mr. Presi dent, as was well suid hy the Chairman of the Committee who opened this debate, that the ma jority of the Committee who made that report, represent nbw what is considered the electoral voto of every Democratic Slate in this Union, and that the delegates presenting tho minority report represent Stutos that, in all probability, will cacti cast u lilack Republicau electoral rote. That is hardly to be doubted. There is, possi bly, among those who signed that majority re port, one State whose positiou might be considered doubtful at the Presidential poll; but the great and solemn fact faces you that tbo vote of the unanimous South askingof this National Demo cracy that upon u groat issue, in which their prop erty and constitutional rights uro involved, und incidentally and remotely, it may he, their very quiet, and peace, and lives and honor—that ou that question thoir right to protection Hiali he ac knowledged. Mr. Lakeiunu of Missouri. Will the gentleman allow mo to interrupt him for a moment ? [Loud cries of “no, no,” and “order”] The President. Wiiut is thu purpose of tho gen tleman ? Does he rise to a question of order ? Mr. Lakomun. I do not. The President. Then tho Chuircanuot reoog nize the gontlemun. [Applause.] Mr. Lukeinan. 1 merely ask the privilege— [Tremendous shouts of “order.”] The President. The Chair cannot allow inter ruptions of speakers unless ut thoir request, ex cept for the suggestion of questions of otder. Mr. Yancey. I would say to the gentleman that, indebted greatly to tho courtesy of this body my self, I am disposed to yield any courtesy to others that would not consume tho time of the Couveu tion or interrupt my own line of argument. Mr. Lukcman. In order that tho Convention may know whether tho gentleman who last spoke (Mr. King, of Missouri,) represents the sentiments of Missouri, I will ask the gentleman to rvad the second resolution adopted hy the Democratic Convention of that State. Mr. Yuucev. I had intended, ut the proper time, to allude to the fout that, in my opinion, he did not represent Missouri. However, I am willing that tho resolution shall be read by the Secretary, and tliore I will leave that matter. Tho Secretary road the resolution as follows : Resolved, Thut the Democratic party of Mis souri hold there cardinal principles ou the subject ot slavery iu the Territories : Ist, that Congr< as has no power to abolish slavery iu the Territories; 2d, that the Territorial Legislature has no pow or to abolish slavery in any Territory, nor to prohibit the introduction ot sluves therein, nor any power to exclude slavery therefrom by un friendly legislation, nor uny power to destroy or impair the right of property in slaves by auy leg islation whatever. [Loud cheers.] Mr. King of Missouri. Mr. President. I should have no objection Mr. Yancey. I cannot yield the floor to the delegate from Missouri. Mr. Avery, of North Carolina. I desire to say that tho second resolution in the majority re port— Mr. Samuel es lowa. I call the gontlemun to order. The President. The gentleman from Alabama has the floor, and the Chair is resolved, so fur as in him lies, that the gentlemen speaking shall be permitted to continue their own line of argument without being interrupted by other members of the Convention. [Loud cheers.] Mr. Yancey. Gentlemen of the Convention, my fctate has now to ask of (his body the adoption of the resolutions repi rted by tho majority of the Committee, because her representatives here be lieve that they substantially coufonu to the prin ciples enunciated in her platform, which we are instructed to insist upon as tho only basis upon which Alabama can associate with the National Democracy as a party. My State, gentlemen of tho Convention, bus been the mark of many a shaft ol'calumny nud ol misrepresentation, and her delegatus on thirt floor have also been marks, some individuals more tbau others—of groat mis representation and falsehood in relation to their political position. It hua been charged, in ordor to demoralize whatever influence we might be entitled to, eitf or from our personul or politiuul characteristics, or as representatives of the State of Alabnma, that we are disruptiouists, disuniouista per te; that we desire to breuk up the party in tbe State of Alabama, to break up the party in the Union, and to dissolve tho Union itself. Each and all of these and .lions, come from what quarter they may, I pronouuc to he false. [Applause.] There is no disruptioiiists that I know of, aud if there are factiouists in onr delegation they could not have got in there with the knowledge upon the part of our State Convention that they were of so envi able a character. Wo come here with two great purposes : first, to save the constitutional rights of the South, if it lay in our power to do so. Wo desire to save the South by tho best means that present themselves to us, and the State of Ala bama believes that the best means now iu exis ton oo is the organization of the Democratic party, if we shall be able to persuade it to adopt the constitutional basis upon which we think the South alone can he saved. Democrats ourselves from our youth upward. 1 longing to a State that has never been nnyibiug but Democratic, always voting for a Democratic President, and nearly always sending a united vote to the House of Representatives, ami Democratic Senators to the Semite of the United States, we prefer that the honor of saving the country shall crown the brow of tbe Democratic party. Deceived as we have been by much shown in the history of that party, we yet have some hope tliat it will come to the rescue of the country ; we have some confi dence that it has a desire to come to the rescue. We have couie here, then, with the two-fold pur pose of saving the country and of saving tho De mocracy ; and if tbe Democracy will not lend itself to that high, holy and elevated purpose; if it cannot elevate itself above the mure question of how perfect shall be its mere personal organi zation and how wide-spread shall be its mere voting success, then we say to you, gentlemen, mournfully and regretfully, that, in the opiniou of the Btate of Alabama, and I believe, of the whole South, you have failed in your mission, and it will be our duty to go forth and make an ap peal to the loyalty of tho country to stand by that Constitution which party organizations have de liberately rejected. [Applause.] This gentlemen, I trust, is a position that your own elevated natures cau, at least, respect. This, gentlemen, I trust, is a position to which you cun afford, at least, to accord your sympathies; aud amongst the members immediately in front of me from the gallant Northwest, I think that there are inimJs aud hearts that cun respeot senti ments that may not agree with their own, as re gards what is the constitution of the country, and who will accord to us, at least, their sympathy and their respect in standing up te what we be lt. vo to be u constitutional duty, even at tho haz ard ot disrupting ties so long held ssored—tho ties that bind us to the Democracy. At all ovents, wo have u duty to perform to ourselves and to our country. Tbo Bouth is in a minority, wo have been tauntingly told to-day. In tbe pro gress of events, arid the march of civilization and emigration, the Northwest has grown up from a mere infant in swaddling clothes, at the forma tion of the Constitution, into the form and pro portions of n giant peoplo ; and owing te their institutions and dcuiaud for white labor, and the peculiar nature of ours, though advancing aide by side, iu parallel lines—never necessarily in couflict in the great march of civilization—they have surpassed 11* greutly iu numbers. We are, therefore, in u numerical minority, hut wo do not murmur at this -we cheerfully accept the result but wo ms firmly claim the right of the minori ty- -aud wbat is that? We claim the beuetit ol the C<mslßu*ion that was made for tho protection of minorities. In the march of numbers, feeling conscious of your numerical power, you have ag gressed upon us. Wo hold up between us and your advancing oolumna of numbers that written instrument which your and our fathers made,