The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-07


more than thirty, the remaining votes being di.
vided between Gen BUTLER, Hon. S. w Dowrs.
Gen. RusK, Dir. STRANGE, Of North Carolina,
Gen PlLLow, Mr.. AIomsoH, Mr. WELLER, Mr.
COBB, Of Georgia, and Col. JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The names OF several OF these having been
Withdrawn, az the next ballot Wa. r. KING re-
eeved PIT votes, AID was therefore elected the
nomioee Of the Democratic party for Vice Pre-
sident at the eusuing election.
o motion, the nominations for President aud
Vice President were unanimously concurred in
by the Convention
The platform was taken up and adopted, aud
with hardly disseriog voice, and without de-
bate.
The following ls the platform agreed upon,
as nearly as it could be reported under the CIR
CONFERENCE.-The reporter having been disap.
pointed 10 obtaining printed copy-and is
believed to be strictly uerbatim so far AS it
goes:
''Resolced, That the American Democracy
place their trust in the intelligence, the patriot
ism, and the discriminating justice of the Ame-
rcan people.
"Resolred, That we regard this as a distine-
tive feature Of our political creed, which we are
proud to maintain before the world as the great
moral element IN form Of government spring
ing from and upheld by the popular will; and
we contrast il with the creed and practice of
federalism, under whatever name or form, which
seeks TO palsy the will of the nsituent and
which conceives no imposture too monstrous
for the popular creduity.
"ReSoloed, therefore, That, entertaining these
views the Democratic party of this Union,
through their delegates assembled in a general
convention of the States, coming together in
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and faith of free representative government
and appealing TO their fellow citizens for the
rectitnde of their intentions, renew and reassert
before the American people the declarations of
principles avowed by them when, on former
occasions in general convention, they presented
their candidates for the popular suflrages:
81. That the federal government is one Of
limited powers, derived solely from the Consti
tuition, and the grants OF power shown therein
ought to be strictly construed by all the depart;
ments and agents of the government; and that
it is inexpedient and dangerous to exercise
doubtful constitutional powers.
so That the Constitutions does not confer
upon the general government the power to com
mence aud carry on a general system of internal
improvements.
80 That the Constitution does not confer au-
thoritY upon the federal government, directly or
Indirectly, to assume the debts of the several
States, contracted for local internal improve
ments or other State purposes nor would such
assumption be just and expedient
"4 That justice and sound policy forbid the
federal government to foster one branch of in
dustry to the detriment of another or to cherish
the interests of one portion to the injury of
another portion of our common country; that
every Citizen and every section Of the country
has right to demand and insist upon an equal
ty of rights and riviIeges and complete and
ample protection of persons and property from
domestic violence or foreign aggression
IS. That il is,the duty Of every branch of the
government to enforce and practice the most
rigid economy Ia condu ting our public aft irs.
and that no more revenue ought 10 be raised
than is required to defray The necessary expen.
les of the government, and for the gradual but
certain extinction of the public debt
sc That Congress has no power to charter
a national bank that we believe such an insti-
tuition enc Of deadly hostility to the best nte
rests of the country, dangerous to our republican
institutions aud the liberties of the people, and
calculated to place the business Of The county
within the control of concentrated money power
and above the laws md the will of the people, arc
that the results OF ID tmocratic Iegislaion in this
sues have been made between the two political
parties of the country, have demonstrated, to
candid and practical men of all parties, their
sonndness, safety, and utility in all business
pursuits.
~. That the separation of the moneys of
the government from banking ms buttons is
Indispensable for the safety of the funds of the
government aud the rights of the people.
IS. That The liberal principles imbodied by
Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence,
and sanctioned in the Constitution, which make
ours the land of liberty and the asylum of the
oppressed Of every nation, have ever been car
dinal principles in the Demo, ratio faith; and
every attempt TO abrilge the privilege of be.
coming citizens and the owners of soil among
us ought to be resisted with the same spirit
when swept the alien and sedtion laws from
our statute books.
80, That Congress has no power under the
Constitution to interfere with or control the do
mestic Institutions OF the several States. and
that such States are the sole and proper Judges
Of everything appertsining TO their own affairs,
not prohibited by the Constitution that all
efforts Of the Abolitionists or Others mnde to in
duce Congress to interfere with questions of
slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation
thereto, are calculated to lead to the most
alarming and dangerous consequences; and that
all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to
diminish the happiness of the people and endan-
ger the stability and permanently of the Union,
and ought not to be countenarced by any friend
of our political institutions.
" Resolued, That the foregoing proposition
covers and was intended to embrace the whole
subject of the slavery agitation in Congress- !;
and therefore the Democratic party the Union,
standing on this national platform, will abide by
and adhere to the faithful execution of the acts
known as the compromise measures settled by
the last Congress, the act for returning fugitves
from service or labor included which act, being
designed to carry out an express provision of
the Constitution, cannot with fidelity thereto be
repealed or so changed as to destroy or impair
its efficacy
Resolpea, That the Democratic party will
resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or
cut Of If, the agitation on the slavery question,
under whatever shape or color the attempt may
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