The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-06-11
OHIO DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
This Convention met in Columbus on the 26th
alt, and made the following nominations

| For Governor, Rufus p Ranney, of Portage
Lieut. Governor, W. H. Stafford, of Ross; Supreme
Judge, H. @. Whitman, of Farfelu Auditor G..
| V. Dorsey, of Miami Treasurer, w. Bushnell. Of
Richlandi Secretary Of State, Joseph Reiuhardt,
of Franklin Board of Police Works James Tom
linSon, of Washington; School Commissioner,
Charles W. Allen, of Harrison
In the repsrt of the proceedings which we find
in the Cincinnati Enquirer, 1t is stated that the
Committee on Resolutions reported the following
platform, which was unanimously adopted, with
out debate, and amid the most enthusiastic do
monstratiOns Of applause;
The Democracy of Ohio, by their delegates in
Convention assembled, hereby affirm the platform
of principles adopted by the General Convention
of the Democratic party, at Cincinnati, on the 4th
of June 1856.
ResolUed, 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 sufficient
number of inhabitants to authorize their admis.
sion into the Union as States and, therefore,
are justly entitled to the right of sefgovernment,
and the undsturbed regulation of their domestic
or local affairs, subject to the Constitution of the
United States; and that any attempt by Congress
or any of the States, to establish or maintain,
prohibit or abolish the relation Of master and
slave in Territory, would be q departure from
the original doctrine of our American institutions;
and that we adhere immovably to the principle Of
"Non-interventon, by Congress with slavery in
the States and Territories" as declared in the
Kansas Nebraska bill, and openly dscIain fellow
ship with those, whether at the South, or the
| West who counsel the abandonment, limitation
or avoidance of that principle.
ResolUsd, That the suppression Of the African
and foreign slave trade by the Federal Govern
ment, after the year 1907, is one of the compro
misses on the faith of which the Constitution was
adopted, and our Union of slaveholding and non
savehodng States firmly established; that
revival of that trade would not only renew those
cruelties which once provoked the Indignation OF
the civilized world, but would expose the slave
holding States to a constant terror Of servile in
surrection, and the slaVehOlding States Of the
border, like Ohio, to all the mischiefs and annoy
ances of free black population; for these rsa
sons with others, the Democracy of Ohio are
opposed 10 any such revival and to any measure
tending ia that direction.
Resolved, That the rendition Of fugitive slaves,
upon demand of the persons entitled to their
service or labor, is duty imposed on every State
of the Union by the terms of the Federal compact;
that the laws passed by Congress to secure such
rendition, in 1893 and 1850, ought to be promptly
and faithfully executed; and that the leaders OF
the selfstyled Republican party in Ohio, by
persistent disregard of the Constitution of the
United States in this particular, have shown
themselves unworthy of the confidence of we'll
disposed, patriotic and peaceable citizens
Rcsoleed That the opposition of the Republican
party in Congress to the admission of Oregon,
expresses fully the utter hypocrisy of their pre-
tensions to be the peculiar friends of the free
States.
Resolued, That we affirm the absolute sover.
eighty of the States of this Union in regard to
their domestic institutions, and the perfect com
patbility of the confederation of free and slave
States TO exist harmoniously together under the
provisions of our Federal Constitution
Resolved That the acquisition of the Island of
Cuba is, in our opinion, eminently desirable for
the safety and prosperity of our Republic, and we
should hail with pleasure 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 acquiesce in
such result
Resolved, That the Democracy of Ohio disap-
prove the lavish grants of the public domain,
heretofore made by Congress to railroad compa
MES and other corporations but are in favor Of
granting limited portions of the public lands to
actual settlers on condition of bona fde occupa-
ton and cultivation.
ResolUei That the Republican party have in
Massachusetts,, by allowing a fugitive slave from
the South the right of suffrage and Office in one
year, and requiring for the same purpose Of tie
naturalized citizen q residence of two years after
naturalization. equivalent to an extension of the
period for naturalization to seven years, attempted
to degrade the foreign white man below the level
of the negro and mulatto.
ReSolped, That the yigor and efficiency of the Ad-
mnisration, manifested in the adjustment of our
difficulties with Great Britain, in regard to the
right of search in the prompt and successful
redress of wrongs inflicted upon us by the Gov
ernment of Paraguay; the decisive suppression
Of the rebellion in Utah in the enforcement of
the neutrality laws; in the impartial execution
of the acts of Congress for the suppression of the
African slave.trade, and for the rendition of fug
tive slaves, commands our cordial appreciation
and we have full confidence in its ability and in
cliRation to protect the rights of citizens and
uphold the honor Of the flag.
ReSolUed, That we are opposed to comforting
upon negloes, mulatoes or other persons Of visi
Bile admixture of African blood the right Of suf-
frage, or any other political right; desiring that
the laws of Ohio shall be made and her destinies
controlled, by white men exclusively, and for the
paramount interests VI the white race.
ResolOed, That VIC approve of the principles Of
the Independent Treasury Law, passed by the
last Legislature of this State.
ResolUed, That We, the delegates in this Con
vention, representing the Democratic party Of
Ohio, and proposing no departure from its ancient
and well-tri principles, nevertheless appeal to
the people OF Ohio at large, as our fellowcitzens
equally interested with us in the maintenance Of
the Federal Union, according to the letter and
spirit OF the Constitution and equally desirous of
the blessings of peace and public order, to unite
with us in rebqking the wantOn, factiOus, revou.
tionary designs of the leaders of the sef-styled
Republican party, and thus avoid (what seems
otherwise inevitably conflict of more violence
bstwesn the United States and those of our own
State; conflict of the most sorrowful character,
disastrous and perhaps fatal to us, but certainly
calculated, at all events to bring the name Of
American liberty into contempt abroad.
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