Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-14

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Report Of the Platform Committee.
The New York Herald contains the follow
ing resolutions, which, it states, have been
adopted by the Committee on Platform in
the National Council:
Resolved That the American party, having
arisen upon the ruins, and in despite of the oppo-
sition Of the Wing and Democratic parties, cannot
be held in any manner responsible for the obnox-
ous acts or violated pledges Of either; that the
systematic agitation Of the slavery question by
those parties has elevated sectional hostility into
positive element of political power, and brought
our institutions into peril 1t has, therefore, be.
come the imperative duty Of the American party to
interpose for the purpose Of giving peace to the
country and perpetuity to the Union; that, as ex-
| perence has shown, it is impossible to reconcile
| opinions 30 extreme as those which separate the
disputants; and, as there can be no dishonor In
submitting to the lave, the National Council has
deemed it the best guarantee Of common justice
and of future peace to abide by and maintain the
existing laws upon the subject Of slavery, final
and conclusive settlement Of that subject in spirit
andi in substance.
Resotced, That, regarding it the highest. duty to
avow these opinions, upon subject 80 important,
in distinct aud unequivocal terms II is hereby de-
clared as the sense Of this National Council, that
Congress possesses no power, under the Consttu
ton, to legslste upon the subject Of slavery in the
States or to exclude any State from admission into
the Union because its constitution does or does
not recognise the institution Of slavery part OF
the social system and expressly pretermitted any
expression of opinion upon the power of Congress
to establish prohibit slavery in any Territory, 1t
is the sense of this National Council that Congress
ought not to legslate upon the subject Of slavery
as II exists in the District Of Columbia, and that
any interference Of Congress with slavery as 1t cI-
lists in the said District, would be violation of the
spirit and intention Of the compact by which the
State Of Maryland cedcd it to the United States,
and breach of the national faith.
The Herads correspondent, at later date, re
marks:
platform on the subject of slavery in the general
sense II will be added TO and construed In sub
stance as follows
To the first resolution win be added this provi.
sion, viz Subject to the decision of the proper
courts having judicial cognzance thereof and such
amendments as shall be needed to fully carry out
their spirit and more fully give to the inhabitants
Of the Territories the entire power OF local sover-
eighty, as the same is possessed by the people Of
the States.
After the second resolution will be added the
following giving the scheme Of the American party
for the solution OF the problem Of Union
Resolued, That 1t is the opinion Of this National
Council that the people of the Territories Of the
United States should possess full and actual
ereignty within the same as the people Of the
States do; that Congress, In passing the organic
law for the organization Of Territory, should put
therein no more provisions than will merely au-
thorize the people Of the Territories TO act for
themselves and should empower them TO create
their own scheme Of government, limited to a re-
publican character, authorizing them to determine
upon what officers, from governor To the lowest
subordinate, they will possess, and TO elect the
same to establish what courts they choose and
appoint or elect the judges Of the same as they
may decide for themselves and give TO their courts
the power TO adjudicate on their own laws as the
courts Of States possess the power TO do, subject
TO the laws OF the States and the decisions Of the
courts Of the States TO review by the Supreme
Court Of the United States in case of conflict
with the Constitution Of the United States and the
laws passed in pursuance thereof; that Congress
shall create within the Territories such courts Of
the United States as exist by laws Of Congress in
the States and the President Of the United States
shall appoint with the consent Of the Senate OF
the United States, the judges thereof and the
judges thereof shall hold Office and possess juris-
diction, all such judges do in the ike courts OF
the United States in the States that Congress
shall create all such Offices and officers in said Ter
ritory az are now existent in the Ststes and said
officers shall be appointed by the President the
same are appointed by him, either alone or with
the consent Of the Senate Of the United States !;
and that the Territories should in general possess
like powers, rights, privileges, and immunities as
do the States, except representation In Congress,
they having neither Senators nor Representatives
therein, but only single delegate.
Whereas, the Constitution Of the United States
contains the provision following being the third
clause OF the second section OF article four thereof
viz: mo person held 70 service or labor 10 one
State under the laws thereof escaping into another
shall in consequence OF any law or regulation there
in be discharged from such service or labor, but
shall be delivered up on claim Of the party TO whom
such service or labor may be DUE
Resoiued, That this National Council recognise
the full and binding obligation Of this provision OF
the constitution upon the States Of this Union and
the people thereof aud that il is due to the const-
tuition and TO the good faith In one State towards
another that the proper laws laws should exist
TO fully fairly and honestly carry out the said pro-
vision in letter and spirit and that all the courts Of
this Union and Of the States should fully honestly
and with alacrity enforce all laws made In pursu.
ance of said provision Of the constitution and
der at all times and in all places, the said provi-
sion operative and effective, for the keeping Of
good faith Of one State with another, and for the
rendering Of justice and the protection Of property
and this National Council pledges itself to all just
and proper measures TO secure that this provision
Of the constitution and the laws made In pursuance
thereof shall be duly enforced and that faith shall
be kept and justice done in its regard.
The platform as sent was adopted In the CON-
mittee Of thirty-one on that subject by seventeen
TO fourteen. The aboltionists all standing In OPP
position on the one side, and the national men in
support on the other. It's adoption was an over
throw 70 them--tbey will now strive In the Con-
ycntion to carry their views, and falling in that,
will bolt They came to sbolitlonize the order and
when defeated win secede Their departure will
clear the skies and brighten prospects,