Posted on 06/19/2020 7:09:06 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
BALTIMORE, Monday Evening. The Convention has met but everything as yet in in a state of disorganization and doubt. The position and intentions of the New-York delegation create the most solicitude, and every movement on their part is watched with the utmost anxiety. This is due not only to the size of the delegation and the number of votes which it casts in Convention, but also to the belief that with judicious action the State of New-York may be carried, and also to the guarded and conservative position which the delegates have maintained from the beginning.
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wow...
burn the murdering slave alive.
yikes.
[rustbucket: here is an article in column 5 of the above newspaper comparing two platforms, one adopted at the Democratic National Convention at Charleston and the one agreed upon by the so-called Seceders at that Convention. You can see what the two parts of the Democrat party agreed on and what they disagreed on.]
Platforms at Charleston.
We subjoin as matters of interest at the present moment, the platform adopted by the Charleston Democratic National Convention, as well as the one agreed upon by the delegates who seceded from that body.
CHARLESTON CONVENTION PLATFORM.
1 – Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union, in convention assembled, hereby declare our affirmation of the resolutions unanimously adopted and declared as a platform of principles by the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati in the year 1856, believing that Democratic principles are unchangeable in their nature, when applied to the same subject matters.
2 – Resolved, That it is the duty of the United States to afford ample and complete protection to all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, and whether native or foreign.
3 – Resolved, That one of the necessities of the 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 as will insure the construction of a Railroad to the Pacific coast at the earliest practicable period.
4 – 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.
5 – Resolved, That the enactments of State Legislatures to defeat the faithful execution of the fugitive slave law are hostile in character, subversive of the constitution, and revolutionary in their effects.
PLATFORM OF THE SECEDERS.
Resolved, That the platform adopted by the Democratic party at Cincinnati be affirmed, with the following explanatory resolutions:
1st. Resolved, That the government of a Territory, organized by an act of Congress, is provisional and temporary, and, during its existence, all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights either of person or property being destroyed or impaired by congressional or territorial legislation.
2d. Resolved, That it is the duty of the Federal Government in all its departments to protect, when necessary, the rights of persons and property in the Territories, and wherever else it's constitutional authority extends.
3d. Resolved, That when the settlers in a Territory, having an adequate population, form a State constitution, the rights of sovereignty commences, and being consummated by admission into the Union, they stand on an equal footing with a people of the other States -- and the state thus organized ought to be admitted into the Federal Union, whether its constitution prohibits or recognizes the institution of slavery.
4th. 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 at the earliest practicable in moment.
5th Resolved, That the enactments of State Legislatures to defeat the faithful execution of the fugitive slave law, are hostile to the character, subversive of the constitution, and revolutionary in their effect.
6th. Resolved, That the democracy of the United States recognizes it as the imperative duty of this government to protect the naturalized citizen in all his rights, whether at home or in foreign lands, to the same extent as its native born citizens.
And whereas one of the greatest necessities of the age, in a political, commercial, postal, and military point of view, is a speedy communication between the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, therefore be it
Resolved, That the democratic party do hereby pledge themselves to use every means in their power to secure the passage of some bill to the extent of the constitutional authority of Congress, for the construction of a Pacific railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean, at the earliest possible moment.
Headquarters, District of Texas
Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1865
General Orders, No. 3.
The people are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property, between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them, becomes that between employer and hired labor. -- The Freedmen are advised to remain at their present homes, and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts; and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.
By order of Major General Granger
(Signed,) F. W. Emery, Maj. & A.A.G.
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