The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-08-04
rhe Platform.


The following are the resolutions, as
reported By Col. G. B. FLooD, Chair
man of the Committee, and which we're
adopted with entire u~nanimity by the
Democratic State Convention
The committee on Resolutions, after
a protracted session, in a spirit of har-
mony and of concession, present the fol-
lowing as the result Of their labors:
LIST. ResolUed, That we re-afirm
and indorse the principles set forth in
the platform of the Democratic Nation
al Convention which assembled at Gin
%cinnati in 1856.
End. ReSokucd, That we accept the
adjustment of the late Kansas coutro-
versy by the passage at the recent session
of Congress, of the conference Bill"
for the conditional admission of Kansas
into the Union; recognizing the right
of the people of that Territory alone to
decide finally aud for themselves, with
out intervention from any quarter, the
question of admission under any Consti-
tuition. - ~
3rd. Resolred, That we regard the
Lecompton controversy, SO called, as
at an end, and as being o settled issue;
therefore, we refuse to recognize it as a
Test, to be prescribed by either side of
those who differed III opinion upon it,
believing that all who uphold the cardi-
nal principles of the party, and sustain
its organization by voting the Democrat
ic ticket, as good enough Democrats for
all purposes.
4th. ReS0l0e2, That in the future
we are opposed to the admission of a
new state into the Union, until the pop.
~ulation thereof shall equal the ratio for
a representative in Congress, and until,
as in the case of Minnesota, its pro-
posed constitution shall have been sub
mitted to and approved by a vote of the
people.
5th. ReSolUed, That We have full
and abiding confidence in the ability,
patriotism and elevated purity of char
acter OF James Buchanan, the present
Chief Magistrate of the United States,
and in his wisdom and experience, to
administer our National affairs.
9th. Resolved, That We congratulate
the country upon the settlement, by the
present democratic administration, OF
the pretended right of Great Britain to
search or visit our merchant vessels on
the high seas in time of peace-thus ad-
justing a controversy which had remain.
ed unsettled from the formation of our
government, and which has already cost
US one foreign war.
18th. RESOLVED, That the Legislative
enactments of tho last Democratic Gen.
eral Assembly of Ohio, we've eminently
wise and judioious, and calculated tc
promote the best interests of the people;
and We are unalterably opposed to ne
gro suffrage and negro-equaiity, without
reference to shade OF proportion of Afri
can blood, and call upon tue Legislature
to take such immediate measures as viii
enable the people of Ohio, to effectuall.
overcome tho effort now being made
whether throagh the judiciary or other
wise, to establish such suffrage and equal
ity as the policy of the State.
18th. ReSoLUcd, That we approve ant
endorse the law us ~expounded by the re
cent decision of the Supreme Court o
Ohio, requiring the imposition of equa
taxes upon the banking property in tn
State, with that Of individuals.
9th. Resolued, That to the supper
of our principles and the Ticket thi
day nominated, We pledge our individu
al and united efforts, and cordially III
vite every patriot in Ohio to rally unde
our banner, and assist us,in redecmin
{ the State from the rule of Abolitionism