Show Don douglas glas and the cincinnati platform Ilat Plat form forna mr forsyth syth late minister to mexico has as written another political letter to the mobile register of which lie is is the editor it is is made a grave charge against him that he is not opposed to the nomination of oe douglas for the presidency in in 1860 as 0 and that he does riot not insist upon slave legislation tor for the territories in his h s answer which is important just now nov in view of his having control co atrol of an influential southern press lie ho says aly solemn conviction is 13 that the he southern mind lias has been led astray astra on this question and that its leaders are hurrying hurr ving it on to a point where our vital int interests erets in the union are to be jeo and our rights compromised I 1 ask you as a sa a man if having baving i ng chece these convictions I 1 should not be a p political lea oward coward anu unu unworthy orthy of my post on the ie watchtower watch tower of the press cress did I 1 fail to raise my voice against su such g a career of madness because to do so BO is unpopular and as you say will injure my paper in the country the chief risk I 1 run in in assumma assuming g my position is is from the clamor I 1 knew ikney would be raised against me of being a douglas dou aas man and his bis advocate fo for rabe the Pre presidency sideney I 1 am in in favor dav or of the nominee of t the he charleston convention and I 1 am ain in favor fai or of the harmonious action of that convention 1 the I he democratic party is 13 now the only barrier to the designs of the abolition party break that down and we are all at sea and good and patriotic men will mil not know to turn fur succor and the public safety A scrub race for the presidency its final decision by the house of representatives of congress a and ud the election ot of an abolition be the sequel I 1 am un unwilling ailing to risk this fearful future for an abstraction it if it is anan answered ered that this a abstraction bs traction is is a principle mn ciple and we vve are bound to stand to ftp it I 1 answer gi anted that it is so but itis it is a ciple v which ich the democracy of the northwest claims that we ve agreed in I 1 n the cincin cinnoti platform to yield up for the sake of harmony and the public rood good and for a valuable consideration faithfully paid down town by them hern and that consideration was the 3 bell ie 1 ng worth f another principle on the part of the north to wit that congress had the power to inter intervene ene and settle the question of slavery in in the territories and to unite with us of the south in in preventing the black republicans p public ublia ans from enforcing that principle in th the prohibition of slavery in the territories lern tones and I 1 answer further that if every department of the government and the unanimous voice of the north th were to yield to us our principle it would not possess the valve of a pin f font it would not make I 1 e foot moie or less of free or slave slav e territory for these reasons I 1 am in in favor of standing on the cincinnati platform of r re adopting dop langit it at th charl charleston eston convention a and 0 of leavin leaving the tha question of slavery in the territories where we agreed to leave it to nv nt it to the laws law a of 0 of geography and to the judicial tribunals of the land and to the executive authority to enforce their decisions decision and to 0 the political communities of american geiple people who are to be affected by it except E e t by y this course I 1 see no do escape from the greatest political calamities and in this course I 1 am utterly unable to see how the south is to suffer even an loss even in honor or profit JOHN FORSYTH |