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THBSlavery & "The Kansas Question," The Register, Monroe, LA, May 10, 1860
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The Register. Official Paper of the Parish of Ouachita. Monroe, LA: May 10, 1860. Vol. X, No. 24. 4pp, 17.5 x 23 in.
The front page is primarily concerned with the Democratic National Convention at Charleston, and continues on the second page. With headlines "The Convention Disorganized! Eight States Seceded!!" The delegates from Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Florida met in a caucus before the convention convened, and pledged to stop the nomination of Stephen Douglas, who had advanced the "popular sovereignty" doctrine in 1854, allowing each territory to decide whether to allow slavery, but by 1858 was supporting the "Freeport Doctrine," which rejected the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, which protected slavery in all territories. This angered many of the more radical Southern representatives, who pledged to stop the nomination of Douglas, which appeared certain before the convention.
Protection of slavery was written into the Democratic platform, which Northern representatives rejected. The Southern representatives from six of the seven states in the caucus, plus South Carolina, and three of the four Arkansas delegates and one of the Delaware delegates walked out, met at St. Andrews Hall and declared themselves a convention. When the original convention did not invite them to return, they nominated their own candidates. The original convention could not get a quorum without the "renegades," and broke up in confusion after 57 ballots.
A month later, the party convened again in Baltimore, and re-admitted all delegates except those from Louisiana and Alabama. It selected new delegates from those states (many criticized these as being selected because they were pro-Douglas). After two ballots, by unanimous voice vote, Douglas was selected as the candidate.
The Southern Democrats who left the original convention met at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore, adopted a pro-slavery platform, and nominated John C. Breckinridge (one ballot). This split in the Democratic Party insured the victory of the Republicans in 1860.
Small note in Col. 3 just below the fold: New Orleans, May 3 - A meeting will be held to-morrow evening at Lafayette Square to protest against any action on the part of the citizens of Louisiana, which would commit the State to disunion, and also against secession.
There is a call on the second page for delegates to be elected from every county in Alabama, to meet at Baltimore in June. Interestingly, in the last column on the first page, they report on two pieces of legislation in the U.S. Congress which would greatly benefit Louisiana, one having to do with allowing the state to impose tonnage duties, with the funds being used to dredge the river to keep it open. The other has to do with settling land disputes that had been lingering for centuries in some cases, resulting from Louisiana being Spanish, French, then American. It is a bit of a back-handed endorsement, however. "The injustice, injury, and oppression that have marked the course of our Federal Government in the settlement of old land titles in this State, would have driven almost any other people to open rebellion and revolution.... That parties who held titles under the old Spanish and French Governments, whose faith was guaranteed by the United States, in the Treaty of Cession - which titles would have been perfectly good under the old government - should be deprived of the same, and the land so held be appropriated by the United States to its own use...." It sounded like "rebellion" was still a possibility, and, of course, they did the following January.
Condition
Some damp stains and folds as well as a tear at the top center margin of the page near the title and towards the bottom right center margin.
Item is in good condition.
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