together with the bonds of intercourse and brotherhood, and to impel it onward in its great career. The Constitution and the equality of the States!-these are symbols of everlasting Union; let these be the rallying cries of the people. I may emphatically say, is the cardinal maxim of the Democracy-non-intervention by Congress, and non-intervention by territorial legislatures, as is fully stated in the first resolution of the adopted platform. In vain should we declare the former without insisting upon the latter, because, to permit territorial legislatures to prohibit or establish slavery, or by unfriendly legislation to invalidate pro I trust that this canvass will be conducted without rancor, and that temperate arguments will take the place of hot words and passionate accusations. Above all, I venture hum-perty, would be granting powers to the crea bly to hope, that Divine Providence, to whom we owe our origin, our growth, and all our prosperity, will continue to protect our beloved country against all danger, foreign and domestic. I am, with great respect, your friend, ture or agent which, it is admitted, do not appertain to the principal, or the power that creates; besides which it would be fostering an element of agitation in the territory that must necessarily extend to Congress and the people of all the States. If the Constitution establishes the right of every citizen to enter the common territory with whatever property he legally possesses, it necessarily devolves on the Federal Government the duty to protect this right of GEN. LANE'S ACCEPTANCE OF HIS NOMINATION the citizen whenever or wherever assailed or FOR THE VICE-PRESIDENCY. Democratic National Convention, Baltimore, June 23, 1860. Sir: I am directed, by a vote of the Democratic National Convention, to inform you that you have been this day unanimously nominated by it as the candidate of the Democratic party for the office of Vice-President of the United States, and in their behalf to request you to accept the same. I beg leave, at the same time, to enclose to you a copy of the resolutions adopted by the convention, as the political platform on which the party stands. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Hon. JOSEPH LANE. Washington, June 30, 1860. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the communication you make in behalf of the Democratic National Convention, in which you inform me that on the 23d instant I was unanimously nominated by that body as the candidate of the Democratic party for the office of Vice-President of the United States, with the request that I shall accept the nomination. The platform adopted, and of which you enclose me a copy, meets with my hearty approval, as it embodies what I have been contending for as the only means of stopping sectional agitation, by securing to all equality and constitutional rights, the denial of which has led to the present unhappy condition of public affairs. infringed. The Democratic party honorably meets this agitating question, which is threatening to sever and destroy this brotherhood of states. It does not propose to litigate for the extension of slavery, nor for its restriction, but to give to each state and to every citizen all that our forefathers proposed to give-namely, perfect equality of rights, and then to commit to the people, to climate and to soil, the deter mination as to the kind of institutions best fitted to their requirements in their constitutional limits, and declaring, as a fundamental maxim, that the people of a territory can only establish or prohibit slavery when they come to form a constitution, preparatory to their admission as a state into the Union. If, happily, our principles shall prevail, an era of peace and harmony will be restored to our distracted country, and no more shall we be troubled with the agitation of this dangerous question, because it will be removed as well from the territorial legislatures as from the halls of Congress-when we shall be free to turn our attention to more useful issues, promotive of our growth in national greatness. Our Union must be preserved! But this can only be done by maintaining the Constitution inviolate in all its provisions and gusrantees. The judicial authority, as provided by the Constitution, must be sustained, and its decisions implicitly obeyed, as well in regard to the rights of property in the ter ritories as in all other matters. Hoping for success, and trusting in the truth and justice of the principles of our party, and in that Divine Providence that has watched over us, and made us one of the Compromises of constitutional principles great nations of the earth, and that we may are ever dangerous, and I am rejoiced that continue to merit Divine protection, I cheerthe true Democracy has seen fit to plant a firm fully accept the nomination so unanimously foot on the rock of truth, and to give the peo-conferred on me, and cordially endorse the ple an opportunity to vindicate their love of platform adopted by the convention. justice and fraternal regard for each other's rights. Non-intervention on the subject of slavery, I have the honor to be, sir, with much respect, your friend and obedient servant, JOSEPH LANE. 1 INDEX TO THE ADDITIONAL APPENDIX. Bell, John. Letter to Hon. Washington Hunt, accepting the Breckinridge, John C. Letter to Hon. Caleb Cushing, ac- Cushing, Caleb. Letter to Hon. John C. Breckinridge, 800. Platform of those who nominated Breckinridge Douglas, Stephen, A. Letter accepting the nomination for Everett, Edward. Letter to IIon. Washington Hunt, accept- Letter to John Bell. 793. Lincoln. Abrabam. Letter accepting the nomination for Platforms of the political parties in 1860, 789. INDEX. Abolition party. Rise and progress of, 5. Abolition platforms, 16. Speech of, on the admission of Ar- On abolition petitions, 8. Adrain, Garnett B., of N. J. On the admission of Kansas Anderson, T. L., of Mo. On the admission of Kansas under Reply of, to certain interrogatories, 30. Laws of, relative to foreign paupers, &c., 218. Alien and Sedition Laws. History of, and votes on, 52. Extract from speech of L. M. Ames, Mr., of Mass. On abolition petitions, 7. Annexation of Texas, 646. Speech of Mr. Buchanan on, 89. Arkansas. History of admission of, 68. Articles of Confederation, 69. Atchison, Dr. R., of Mo. Speech of, on the first Nebraska Atherton, Charles G., of N. H. Celebrated resolutions of, Atkins, T. D. C., of Tenn. On the admission of Kansas under Avery, William T., of Tenn. On the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution, 709. Banks, N. P., Jr. Extract from speech of, 19. Reply of, to certain interrogatories, 81. Bargain and Intrigue, 84. Bishop, W. D., of Conn. On the admission of Kansas under Black, J. S., Attorney-General. Opinion of, on Thompson's Blair, F. P., Jr., of Mo. On the admission of Kansas unde: Bolling, P. A., of Va. Opinion of, upon slavery, 566. Bright, Jesse D., of Ind. On the admission of Kansas under Brodhead. Richard, of Pa. On power of Congress over terri- Letter of, on slavery, 84. Brown, A. G., of Miss. Buffinton, James, of Mass. On the admission of Kansas | Creole case, 132. On the admission of Kansas under the Burnett, H. C., of Ky. Extract from speech of, 605. On the admission of Kansas under On fugitive slaves, 240. On the Constitution and government of On the deposite bill, 142. On distribution, 503, 507. On the Missouri Compromise, 337. Views of, relative to secession, 554. On squatter sovereignty, 611. California. Admission of, 102. Law of, relative to foreign convicts, &c., 219. Case, Charles, of Ind. On the admission of Kansas under the Class, Lewis. On Missouri Compromise, 340. Nicholson letter of, 462. Extract from speech of, on power of Congress Chaffee, C. C., of Mass. On the admission of Kansas under Chandler, Mr., of Va. Views of, upon slavery, 566. Clark, Daniel, of N. H. On the admission of Kansas under Clark, J. B., of Mo. On the admission of Kansas under the Clay, Henry. On abolition petitions, 10. On alien suffrage, 32. Extract from speech of, 299. Report of, on the public lands, 491. On the cession of the public lands, 501. Opinion of, upon slavery, 566. On slavery in the territories, 611. Amendment to celebrated resolutions of J. C. Gay, J. B., of Ky. On the admission of Kansas under the Clayton compromise, 112. Clemens, Sherrard, of Va. On the the admission of Kansas Letter of, on African slavery, 593. Report of minority committee on On the Kansas Conference Bill, 741. Compromises of 1850. History and votes on, 117. Crittenden, Attorney-General. On the Drayton and Sayres On the fugitive slave law of 717. Darien. Resolutions of colony of, relative to slavery, 567. On the admission of Kansas UD- Davis, Jefferson, of Miss. On the Kansas conference bill, Davis Reuben, of Miss. On the admission of Kansas under Davis, W. R., of S. C. On the political power of the Supreme Dawes, Henry L., of Mass. On the admission of Kansa Debate in the House of Representatives on the first Nebraska Debates upon Nebraska and Kansas bill, 352 Decision of Court in Prussia in regard to a slave, 490, Defence of American party, by a writer signed “Madison," Delaware. Laws of, relative to foreign convicts, 219. Dexter, Samuel, Jr. On naturalization, 287. Missouri compromise, 339. Report of, Lecompton constitution, On the Kansas conference bill. 74. Hon. Mr. Benjamin's reply to Mr. Seward, Dunn, Geo. Grundy, of Ind. Celebrated amendment of, 28. Duval, W. O. On abolitionism, 20. Emancipation party of St. Louis, Missouri. Resolutions of, 210. Origin of, 210. On squatter sovereignty, 616 Connecticut. Law of, relative to foreigu convicts and pau Etheridge, Emerson. Resolution against revival of African Constitution of the United States, 122. slave trade, 585. Eustis, Geo., Jr., of Louisiana. On Americanism in his state, |