The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-06-01
The Ohio Democratic Platform.

The Democratic State Convention fOhio,
in the recent Convention, AT Columbus,
adopted the following Douglas PLATFORM
How will it suit the Bright and Hendricks
Democracy of indiana Will il receive the
endorsement OF the Charleston Convention
The Democracy Of Ohio, by their dele
gates in Convention assembled, hereby af-
firm the platform of principles adopted by
the General Convention of the Democratic
party, at Cincinnati, on the 4th of June
1886:
Resolred, That the organized Territories
OF the United States, although not endowed
with all the attributes of sovereignty, are
only held in the territorial condition until
they attain II sufficient number of inhabit-
ants TO authorize their admission into the
Union ms States aud, therefore, are Justly
entitled to the right of self government, and
the undisturbed regulation Of their domes
tie or local affairs, subject to the ConStiu-
ton of the United States; aud that any at
tempt by Congress, or any of the States, to
establish or maintain, prohibit or abolish.
the relation of master aud slave in Terri
tory, would be departure from the origi-
nal doctrine of our American institutions :;
and that we adhere, immovably, to the prin-
ciple of "non-interpentioR by Congress rith
sidcery IA the States aud Territories" as
declared in the Kansas Nebraska bill, and
openly disclaim fellowship with those,
whether at the South, or the North, or the
West, who counsel the abandonment, linz
itatlon, or avoidance of that principle.
Resotred, That the suppression Of the
African and foreign slave trade, by the Fed
eral Government, after the year eighteen
hundred and seven, is one of the compro-
miSes on the faith of which the Constitution
was adopted, and our Union of slaveholding
and non-slaveholdiag States firmly estab-
lished; that a revival of that trade would
not only renew those cruelties which once
provoked the indignation of the civilized
world, but would expose the slaveholding
States to Il constant terror of servile insur-
reclion, and the non-slaveholding States of
the border, like Ohio to all the mschiefs
aud annoyance of free black population !;
for these reasons, with others, the Democra-
cy of Ohio are opposed to any such revi-
val, and 10 any measure tending in that di-
rcctiOn.
Re,otred, That the roGdition of fugitive
Slaves, upon the demand of the persons en-
titled 10 their service or labor, is a duty i'm
posed OH every State of the Union by the
terms of the Federal compact; that thelaws
passed by Congress to Secure such rendition,
in 1893 and 1850, ought to he promptly
executed and that the leaders of the self
styled Republican party in Ohio, by per-
Sistent disregard of the Constitution of the
United States in this particular, have shown
themselves unworthy of the confidence OF
well-disposed, patriotic, aud peaceable citi-
zens.
Resolred, That we..affirm the absolute SOW
ereignty of the States Of this Union in re-
gard to their domestic institutions, and the
perfect compatibility; of the confederation
OF free and slave States TO exist harmonious
ly together under the provisions of our Fed
; erai Constitution.
/ ResoIged, That the acquisition of the
( i''ald of Cubs is, in our opinion, eminently
desirable for the safety and prosperity OF
our Republic, and VIC should hail with pleas
ure any measure consistent with Justice, that
would accomplish this object. We can
never consent to its appropriation by any OF
/ the powerful States Of Europe, and would
/ incur all the danger of war rather than ac-
Z quiesce in such a result.