Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
The Cincinnati Platform and.
Kansas affnirS-Mr. Douglas in

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1856.
The opposition press has a fippant
way of declaring that the proposed ad-
mission Of Kansas into the Union. the
slavery clause of the constitution only
having been submitted to a direct vote
of the people, is in violation Of the spi-
rit of the act of 1854 and of the Gin
matt platform, which was the creed of
the party in the great contest of 1856.
We have the advantage, at all events,
of a full record; and we prefer to con-
suit its declarations-its testimony-in
behalf Of the course which the demo
cratic party has thought proper to pur-
sue in relation to affairs in Kansas
The subject was one which engaged the
undivided attention of the Cincinnati
Convention. 1t had been the cause of
a bitter controversy between the demo-
cracy and their opponents. 1t had been
made a pretext for the organization Of
the republican party, which had sought
to build up, upon it, an ~irreconcilable
antagonism between the North and the
South.
Thus, after considering other ques-
tons involved in the administration Of
the federal government, affecting the
diversified interests of the American
people, the convention proceed to make
this solemn avowal of it's principles
with reference to the matter now in
controversy.
"And that we may more distinctly
meet the issue on which a sectional par
ty, subsisting exclusively on slavery
agitation, now relies to test the fidelity
of the people, North and South, to the
constitution and the Union
81. Resoloed, That, claiming fellow
ship with, and desiring the cooperation
of, all who regard the preservation of
the Union under the constitution as the
paramount issue, and regulating all
sectional parties and platforms concern
ing domestic slavery, which seek to en-
broil the States and incite to treason
and armed resistance to law in the Ter
ritories, and whose avowed purpose, if
consummated, must end in civil war
and disunion, the American democracy
recognize and adopt the principles m
tanned in the organic laws establishing
the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska
as imbodying the only sound and safe
solution of the slavery question upon
which the great national idea of the
people of this whole country can repose
in its determined conservatism of the
Observation-Disclosures BY Con-
GREss WITH SLAVERY IN STATE AND
TERRIroRY, OR IN H DISTRICT OF
CoLTIBIA.
This record is sufficiently explicit
upon the question which was the sub
ject of anxious deliberation by the con
vention. If we consult the history Of
the controversy which gave rise to it, il
will be found by the simplest reference
to the organization of the republican
party, which first put in issue the isola-
ted question of the repeal of the Mis-
abandoned it by the adoption of a com
plete nti-slavery platform, making
Kansas q theatre, in which were per.
formed the political comedies and ira
gedies gotten up by the politico-litera
ry Migrants and engineers of the repub-
licans all over the North, that it com
pletely meets the issue forced upon US
The very central plank of this platform
and the vital power that was expected
to sustain the whole work, was the agi
tation of "the slavery question:" the
disavowal Of the legal authority of tn,
territorial government of Kansas, re
fusal to vote at elections, the construc
ton of the revolutionary goyerRmen
at Topeka, and many other-we ma,
say, almost infinite devices, by whicl
the democracy of the North were sough
to be discredited and defeated. W
met this formidable array of sectiona
falsehoods, and tricks wit
this declaration:
"Resolved, That We recognize tn
right of the people of all the Terrific
ries, including Kansas and Ncbrask;
acting through the legally and tairl
oppressed qoiU Of a majority Of actnaI n
sidents, and whenever the number {
their inhabitants justifes it, to form
constitution, with or a0ithout donaest
Slavery, and be admitted into the Unto
upon terms of perfect equality with tn
other States"
We thus present the REGARD of the il
sue which the convention at Cincinna
adopted, and upon which Mr.. Buchar
an was placed in nomination and cleo
ed by the sufrages of the America
people. Nothing can be more clea
more explicit, more reasonable, and jus
It is a national basis upon which ever
honest man can stand-a basis of esser
tial union, as broad as the confederac
and as deep as the most patriotic pu'
poses and instincts could make it. An
how were the nominees of the great d.
mocracy received by the country? Di
the North or the South hesitate, falte
or stumble in their support? Wa til
lone of approval tame, questionable, {
doubtful? Were not the men and tt
platform fully sustained? We answ'
in the potent language of Mr. Dougla
as he addressed the hastily-assemble
people of this city, who, with hearts fiji
ed with noble impulses, called upon II
distinguished senator from Illinois fl
a word of approval, encouragement, al
advice. After avowing that "we had
candidate for the presidency whose re
utation was as wide-he was about
say, as the republic, but he would $:
MS civilization" he proceeded to the di