The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-06-14
The Nominees and ,r.e Platform.

The Nominees and 1Hse Platform.
Friday morning, (hangmans day. of last week,
Pierce and Douglas withdrew their names from
the contest for nomination at the hands Of the
National Democratic Convention, and James
Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, was unanimously
nominated. J. c. Beckenridge of Kentucky,
was nominated for the Vice Presidency Evi-
IDENTIFY Buchanan was not the personal choice
of the members of the Conventions but motives
of policy procured his success Not being so
intimately connected with the recent violent
measures resorted TO for The extension of Slave.
ry, as his competitors, the Northern delegates
thought they could throw this veil over his po
litical face during the campaign and partially
conceal the real issue al stake. But their plat
form is too avowedly pro-savery TO enable them
TO realize their hopes in this instance. We con-
dense into small space the positions taken in
their platform.
lst--0pposition TO internal improvements
2l-That every section of the country is ell.
tilled TO equal rights and privileges land to
complete and ample protection Of persons and
property from domestic violence or foreign ug,
gression.'
3l--Oppositon 10 the distribution Of the pub
lie lands among the States.
lih-Opposidon to United States Bank!
a,h-ln fivor of separation OF Government
iu, FROM banks.
G.b--ln favor of the veto power
AuI here we will give the tenth resolve and
tIpsl the reader will compare it with some 9th
CT" land of liberty" resolutions.
That the liberal principles embodied by JEFF
frson in the Declaration of Independence and
sanctioned in the Constitution, which makes
ours the land of liberty, and the asylum of the
oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardi-
nal principles in the Democratic faith; and ev-
cry uirGnh 10 abridge the privilege of becom-
l,:g edltisens and the owners of soil among Us
N0nsRs 10 be resisted with the same spirit which
swept fhe uhien and sedition laws from our stat
ut hooks.
These they claim for their old, common reso-
buttons, and then commence another tUhereu8
und another batch of resolutions.
lst-0pposition TO Know Nothings.
Here n,rt comes their platform upon the issue
of the champaign. Read it, friends of freedom,
and thea decide whether you will vote for the
m"n who are the representatives Of the pro.
slavery sentiment therein contained.
Resolred That we reierate with renewed en-
Crgy OF purnose, the well-consdered declara.
tions Of former Conventions upon the sectional
issue of Democratic policy, and concerning the
reserved rights Of this State
l. that Congress has no power under the Con
s.iIulion, 10 interfere with or control the do
ln'stC insitntions of the several States, and
that such States are the sole and proper Judges
"i everything appertaining to their own affairs
not prohibited by the Constitution that all
efforts of the Abolitonists or Others, made TO
induce Congress to interfere with questions of
slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation
thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarm
lug AMI dangerous consequences and that all
such efforts have an inevitable tendency to di-
rliiE5h the happiness of the people and endan-
ger the stability and permanency of the Union,
and ought mot TO be cOuntenanced by any frie nd
of our paltical institutions
2. That the foregoing proposition covers, and
was intended to embrace the whole subject OF
slavery agitation in Congress, and therefore the
D.mocratic party of the Union, standing on
this national platform, will abide by and adhere
10 q faithful execution of the acts known as the
Go2prnsaise measures, settled by the Congress
al 1880, - the act for reclaiming fugitves from
service or labor, included; which act being
designed TO carry out an express provision of the
Constitution, cannot, with 4idelity thereto, be
repealed, or so changed as to destroy or impair
its efEcency.
3. That the Democratic party will resist all
attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it,
the agitation of the slavery question, under
Whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made
1. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold, the principles laid down
"a the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of
TBS anu in the report of Mr. Madison TO the
Virginia Legislature, 1899 that it adopts those
principles as constituting one OF the main found
auonsof its political creed, and is resolved to
carry them out in their obvious meaning and
import,
And that we may more distinctly meet the
issue on which a sectional party suAsisting
exclusively on slavery agitation, now relies 10
i-st The ndeliy of the people, North or South, 10
me Constitution and the Union
/, RESOLVED, That claiming fellowship with
III" desiring the cooperation of all who regard
reservation of the Union under the Con
''1nen as the paramount issue-and repudia-
.Na a.. sectional parties and platforms concern
l"S domestic slavery which seeks to embroil the
states 1uI iuCiie 30 treason and armed rcsis-
ianco 90 law in the Territories: and whose
arowed pHIpoFes il co45umma,ed must end i'm
clYIi Tof and disUuiou- -thc American Democra-
81 tecoHlze and adopt the principles contain.
ing m lHt y'ganic laws establishing the Terrific.
mes oi hansas- aud Nebraska as embodying the
only sound and safe solution of the " slavery
question upon which the great national idea
on tha people OF this whole country can repose
III 40 determined conservation Of the Union