The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-07-13
A Virginia Platform.

CoincidenfIin sentiment with the Resolu-
tons of the Mississippi Democracy, which ny
at the head 81 our editorial columns IS the
following Platform proposed by the richmond
Enquirer and advocated by haf'paper with
almost matches ability, as the embodiment
of the political sentiment of the Democracy OF
the Old Dominion
We endosse the language Of the Concord,
n. H., Deflssrstic Standard, in saying that
this Platform cs5bodes the true doctrines with
regard to the relations, rights, and duties OF
the States and the Federal Government with
respect to de public domain, of the Union.
It is no more nor less than the Cincinnati
Platform honestly and fairly interpreted. The
propositions Are stated with such precision
and clearnessss to carry irresistible conviction
to the mind ofsthe impartial reader. Truth
and justice lie 1t the bottom of them, anG
they should Be received as sound doctrine, not
only by the Democracy, butby the great body
of the People " the Union;
From the Ricfmond Enquirer.
CARpINAL DkMocRATIc PRINCIPLES ON THE
SLAVERY ouEsfIoN.-Absolute non-interfer-
ence by the General Government, to introduce
or to exciude sayes, in any of the Territories
of the Union
No Federal Gave code. No Congressional
discrimination ii favor Of slave property in the
| Territories, and no Congressional diserimina-
ton against ii
Wleneyef. ii any of the Territories, the
safetyof slave persons or the right of slave
property, or It's right or safety of any de-
scriptin of n6rs0ns Or property is unconstitu-
] tiapa1lf II. g it is the power and duty of
Congress, not less than Of any and every other
/ Department of The General Government, to
exercise its proper functions for the security
| of equal protection to the rights and safety of
every species of persons and property.
The full and 1unimpaired right of popular
sovereignty, Emitting the people of each Ter
ritory, on application for their admission as a
new State into the Union, to enact their own
State Constitution, by fair and full reference
to popular vote, without force, fraud or Fed
eral dictaiion, and by such Constitution to
provide for the maintenance or the prohibition
of the institlton of slavery, as to them may
seem best
The same principles as embodied in the fol-
lowing resolutions unanimously adopted by
the Virginia delegation to the National DEM
oclatic Convention at Cincinnati
/. Resofued That the Constitution of the
United States is compact between sovereign
and co-equal States, united upon the basis o.
perfect equality of rights and privileges
2. Resolved That the Territories of the
Union are common property in which the
States have equal rights, and to which the
citizens of every State may rightfully migrate
with any property recognized as such IN any
of the States Of the Union, and in the Const
tuition of the 2 nited States.
3. ResoEged, Therefore, that the Congress
of the United States has no power to abolish
or prohibit slavery in any of the Territories o
the United States, and such power pertains
only to the people inhabiting the same, wheI
in the exercise of rightful authority they form
their State Constitution with view to admis
sion into the Union.
4. Res0lted That the Missouri restriction
was violation of the foregoing principles, ant
its repealby the Kansas Nebraska Law wa
wise just and necessary.
5. Resotred, That Congress has no Consti
tutional right to abolish slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia, --.-
g. Resolved, That the duty of affording ad
equate protection in the Territories previous
to their legal organization as States, to equa
rights of person and property respected unde
the Constitution of the Union, is ineumben
on the proper legislative authority thereof