Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-06-13
The National Democratic Platform.

We give to-day SO much of the Platform
adopted at Cincinnati as refers to the Slave
ry question and the condition of Kansas
The resolutions are made up of the same per-
fdious language which the nation has heard
repeated so often on those subjects, for the
last two years. We can understand but one
thing from them, viz that whatever outrages
the existing Administration and its followers
in Missouri and elsewhere have been guilty
of against the liberties of the people, the
rights Of the free states and the rights of
man, if the party can hold its seat on the ma
tons neck, all those wrongs are to be per-
severed in to the utmost.
ResOired That we reiterate with renewed
energy of purpose, the well-considered decla-
rations OF former conventions upon the Sec
tiOnal issue of domestic slavery, and con-
corning the reserved rights of the States.
!. That Congress has no power under the
Constitution, to interfere with or control the
domestic institutions Of the several States,
and that such States are the sole and proper
Judges of every thing appertaining to their
own affairs. not prohibited by the Constitu-
zion that all efIrts of the Abolitionists or
others, made to induce Congress to interfere
with questions of slavery, or to take Incl
pient 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 endanger the stability and
permanency Of the Union, and ought not to
he countenanced by any friend of our politi-
cal Institutions.
.. That the foregoing proposition covers,
and y.s tnt.,l.I D, .,nlr.. a., l.l. -
jet OF slavery agitation in Congress: and
therefore, the Democratic party ofthe Union.
standing on this national platform. will
abide by and adhere to a faithful execution Of
the acts known az the compromise measures,
settled by the Congress of 1850 the act
for reclining i%ugitives from service or la.
Dor, included which act being designed It
carry ont AN express provision of the Consti
tuition, cannot, with fidelity thereto, be re
pealed, or so changed as to destroy or impair
its i%icicncy.
3 That the democratic party will resisr
all attempts at renewing, in Congress or GU
of i the agitation of the slavery question
under whatever shape or color the attemp
may be made.
4. That the Democratic party will faith
fully abide by and uphOld the principles lai,
down in the Kentucky and Virginia resolu
tloIs Ol 100, anu III tine report OF MT. Mdll
son to the Virginia legislature, in 1893; tina
it adopts those principles as constituting on
of the main foundations of its political creed
aud is resolved to carry them out in thei
obvious meaning and import.
And that we may more distinctly meet tn
issue on which n sectional party, subsistinI
exclusively on slavery agitation, now relies t
test the fidelity Of the people, North an
South, to the constitution and the Union
!. Resolred, That claiming FELLOWSHIP
with, and desiring the cooperation of all VIII
regard the preservation of the Union unde
the constitution as the paramount issue
aud repudiating all sectional parties an,
platform concerning domestic slavery whicI
seek to embroil the States and incite to trea
son and armed resistance to law in the terri
tories; and whose avowed purposes, if con
summated, must end in civil war and disu
nion-the American democracy recognize an
adopt the principles contained in the organi
laws establishing the territories Of Kansa
and Nebraska az embodying the only SCUM