Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-06-26


LARRABEE & COTTON,
PRoPRIEToRs STATE SENTINEL.
June 10, 1856.
The Abolition Platform.
In perfect correspondence with the nominal
ton Of FsEMoNT for President, is the plat
form adopted BY the Abolition Convention at
Philadelphia. We give it in extenso in
another column, and we call the spccia
attention of our readers to its peculiar points,
aul wish every Democrat to peruse t care
fully.
We pronounce it batch Of absurdities,
tissue OF dimiuutive, false assertions, and a
crude emission of Understandable small talk.
Il has but few national features in its whole
composition, and even the few that it does
pretend to assert, are Of the worst possible
character, wrong in their principles, feebly
set forth, and most Of them long since repu-
dated and ignored by the American people
1t first appeals to ali the odds and ends OF
factions, invokes the aid of isnls and wishes
to fuse with all creation, in opposition TO De-
mocracy. 1t also pretends to reverence the
principlesof WASHINGTON and JEFFERSON,
while its disciples are in the daily habit OF
sndeavoring to thwart every fundamental
principle which JEFFERSON advocated and
which WASHINGTON practised.
It's first resolve is the homage which hypoc-
risy and wickedness pays to truth and virtue
1t speaks in commentator OF the principles
of the Declaration of Independence, of the
Federal Constitution, the rights Of the States,
and declares that the union of the States must
and shall be preserved. This is sheer mock
cry, coming as it does from a party whose
daily labor ard constant employment, is to
array the States one against another, to raise
their own fanstic1l opinions above the con-
siitution. 10 subyert the laws Of Congress, and
to assert that they are willing to 'to let the
Union slideH
The second resolution is a slump speech
on the subject of the rights of men, where
by they attempt to infer that the Constitu-
ton gives equal rights to negroes with white
citizens, and is Of the same quality as the
speeches of VIM L. GARRIsON, and Lucy
STONE, with Just about the same regard to a
correct construction of the provisions Of the
Constitution.
The third resolution is for the direct inter-
ference Of Congress with the domestic insti-
tutiOns Of the States and Territories, and
holds that Congress has the power 70 regu-
late even the marriage ceremony, and laws
governing marriage in the several States and
Territories. This is very harmonious with
their former assertion that they are the
friends Of State rights
The 4th resolution is a faufaronade of
slang, reilerating long tissue of Kansas
lies, in the shape of communication of a
Kansas letter writer to the New York
Tribune, aud part of the speech of every
itinerant vagabond, who proEls about the
country, asking money and aid for the free
dom of Kansas. A bill Of grievances is pre-
sented as long as the moral law, and it con-
cludes by indicting and arraigning all of the
Democratic party, with a terrible threat to
bring them "to sure and condign punish
ment." II this is platform principle OF Alb
olitionism, they will never be able to collect
sufficient posse to enforce their mandates
upon the Democracy, even with the valiant
and redOubtable Col. Fremont at their head.
The fifth resolution goes for the immedi-
ate admission Of Kansas, with the mob Con-
stitution of Topeka, which was adopted by
an unauthorized mob, and only received
about 500 votes out of population of more
than sixty thousand people. This is fair
specimen Of Abolition sense and justice.
The sixth resolution is a tilt at Mr.. BUcH-
ANAN, who, at the 0stend Conference, was in
favor of excluding any foreign power from
the possession of Cuba TO the detriment of
American interests, even if war should be the
consequence, rather than permit Spain to es-
tablish England or France in the ownership
and government Of that Island. Such is the
everlasting tone Of those men who take sides
on all questions of acquisition of territory
against their own country. We thank them
for thus araigning Mr. BUCHANAN for his
support Of the MONROE doctrine.
The two next resolutions are explicitly in
favor Of the old, exploded doctrines of per-
hitting Congress to carry on a system of In
ternal Improvement in making roads and
. clearing out rivers and hsrbors. They favor
: -llas "a Wing doctrine, which the Wings long
ago gave up as dangerous, extravagant. cor
rupting and impracticable. Such is Abolition
progress.
Upon this miserable thing called plat
form, they call upon men of all parties to
stand and to rally, to help them into office,
and to WELD the destinies Of this great and
glorious Republic. We repeat that it IS a
tissue of absurdities, so weak, so wicked, so
sectional and anti-American, that it is a dis
grace even to the body that issued it, and a
monument Of the imbecility of the men who
conceived and wrote it.
The Vitality of Democracy.