Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-09-28
The democratic Party and the Slave
ry Agitation.

al want no new plank in the Cincinnati
platform. 1t is AZ comprehensive a. this
Union.-J' ID. C. Atkins letter 10 the Democrat
&c Jubilee Conmunee Sept II.
We have already expressed the opinion
that there is common ground involving no
comprumise of principle no concession of
any right belonging TO the North or South,
ON which democrats OF every section can
unite. which they solemnly pledge them
selves TO hold, and which has thus far fully
proved the wisdom of those who first assum-
I'D j.. That common ground is to be found
in strict adherence to the principles of the
Cincinnati platform Washington ConstitutiOn,
Sept. 81.
II. as have full faith they will, the Dem
ocratic ATTY shall determine, in the Pref
DENTAL election of 1860, to adhere to the
princirles rmb,dird In the compromise meas
urrs of 1885, aud ratified by the people in
the Presidential election of 1852. and re-
affirm, in the Kansas Nebraska act Of 1884
and incorporated in the Cincinnati Platform
OF 1856, as expOunded by Mr.. Buchanan in
his letter accepting the nomination, aud APP
proved by the people-in that event my
friends will be at liberty to present my name
TO the (Charleston) Convention, II they see
proper TO do so.-Letter Of S. 4. Douglas 10
j. b. Dorr, June 22,
We give the above extracts to show the
tration, Dr. DOUGLAS and Mr.. ANKINs and we
might give other similar expressions, in vari-
Gus quarters at the South, and throughout
the North, in relation to the re-adoption of
the Cincinnati platform as IL is. Aud what is
this platform on the subject of slavery! 1t
is:
aResolped. That we recognize the right of
the people Of all the Territories including
Kansas aud Nebraska, acting through the
legally and iuirly-expressed will of a majority
of actual residents and whenever the number
Of their inhabitants jnstifes il, To form a CON
stitution with or without domestic slavery,
and be admitted into the Unnn uLon terms
Of peri ct equality with the other States.
Rssolved, That the Democratic party will
resist all attempts ut renewing, in Cungr, -
or out of ii, the agitation of the slavery qut =
ton. under whatever shape o r color the at
tempt may be made"
Now, how do these professions tally with
the practices of the democratic leaders +!
What was the oratorical pabulum OF Mr..
ATKINS during bis recent canvass with Mr..
ErrIERIDGE and of the daily editorials OF the
Washington ObnstitutionS and of the oft re-
curing letters and speeches of Mr.. DoUGLAs
What is the stock In trade of all the demo
cratic journals and speakers throughout the
Union, but the slavery question, in some
form or othery
They wrangle among themselves; they de-
nounce their sdversaries everywhere as un-
sound on the slavery question; they still in-
sist that the slavery question overshadows
and displaces all others, that il is paramount
and the all-important one of the times. What
are the pledges of such men worth! Ofwhas
value are their platform or their promises :
And so has it been for years. In 1852 they
devoted their best energies to convincing the
people that the slavery controversy was at
an end. But In less than twelve months
from the Inauguration Of the President they
then managed to elect, they revived the
agitation with ten-fold violence. They sue
ceeded in splitting the country. contrary to
the advice and remoustrance of WAsHINGroS.
into parties founded on s geographical lines"
They next made the SOLEMN pl dge above
quoted, at Cincinnati; and yet to-day, ac-
cording to democratic theory, the question Is
farther from final settlement than ever IL
was. The only Wing administration which
has blessed the government for fifteen years
did SETTLE the question, in such way that II
was even more vehemently claimed as q
finality by The Democracy than by the OPP
position. They have now had eight years OF
rule, and the country Is witness TO the result