White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-02
The Two Platforms.

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adopted by the Republican and Demo
cratic Territorial Conventions. Any
person viii find no difficult
ty in forming q preference. That of the
comes out plain and explicit
in every plank while the other Partakss
Of the milk and-wate style, coming out
emphatically in nothing. except declaring
Democrats, and rubbing down
the niggers. This is the party that de-
tests niggers. and want the slavery agita-
ton settled yet three-fOurths Of their
platform is niger.
The Democratic preamble starts out by
admitting that the slavery question is
settled in favor Of Kansas being a Free
State, and ends by declaring that they
know no difference between Pro- Slavery
and Free State men ! Now, who settled
the question of slavery? 1t was the Free
State party-and they did it after years
of oppression and tyranny. practiced
against them by the Pro- Slavery party.
Yet the Democratic platform says to
those Free State men, we know no differ
ence between you and those who murder
ed your friends, and would have per-
formed the same office for you, had oppor-
tunity offered How like you this, Free
State men? Do you consider yourselves
on the same footing with Stringfellow,
Atchison, Buford, Clark. Kelly. Emory.
Fugitt, Jones. Henry Clay Pate, and
their blood thirsty followers ?
Democracy has not one word to say
in rebuke of ruffianism and muir
der in Kansas, but places the perpe'
traitors Of those crimes upon an equal
footing with honest Free State people
Look at the beginning of the Preamble
of the Republican Platform, if you wan
to see these things denounced with the
fearless anathemas of honest men.
The first Democratic Resolution en-
dorses the Democratic party and the Gin
cinnati Platform. This is intended as {
silent and roundabout endorsement of thu
Administration which attempted to fore,
the Lecompton Constitution upon Kan
sas, and then cndeavored to bride he
people into its acceptance. On the othe
hand, read how the Republican platform
condemns the Administration, in almos
every plank, for its injustice and ras
calitv.
The Democratic Platform endorses tn
principles of Jefferson and Madison, ant
afterwards denounces intervention by Con
gress with slavery in the Territories
What will they do with the Ordinance o
1887, and the part which Jefferson enac
ted in originating that great act of Con
gressional intervention. and of whicl
Madison approved ? The Republican
T Platform endorses the principles of JeI
, ferson, and does it consistently, in EN-
bracing the principles of the Ordinanc
of 1887.
: The Republican Platform denounce
the attempt to reopen the African Slav
Trade What does the Democratic Plat
form say on this subject =? They say ths
negroes shall not vote, and that negroe
; shall not come into the Territory, an
r much more against the negroes but nc
: word do they say against the attempt {
the Democratic party to reopen the Al
rican Slave Trade, BY repeating law en-
acted by the founders of the Republic.
/ The Republican Platform favors Inter
nal Improvements and Pacific Railroad
What says the Democratic Platform o
: this subject? Not word. 1t endorse
the Democratic party; and that party
t it is well known, has always opposed In
e ternal Improvements.
The Republican Platform declares en-
phatically in favor of Homestead Law
and denounces the Democrats in Congres
for defeating Mr.. Grows bill. The DE-
mocratic Platform sorter thinks that
Homestead Law would be proper; "
it endorses the Democratic party, whic
: defeated the Homestead Bill and the As
ricultural College Bill and it indirectl
i endorses the President, who declared thu
, if these bills should pass, he would vet
them, because they would be great blel
. sing to the poor people of the Free Nortl
while at the same time he asked for thirt
millions of dollars, to purchase Cuba, j
order to make more Slave States.
!, The Democratic Platform most respee
fully, most O6ssquiOusly requests of Il
President to postpone the Kansas Ian
Sales for at least one year! The Repul
lican Platform denounces the sales as a
oppression to the poor people of Kansa
as they really are for they are ruinin
, many poor but industrious men. by CON
polling them to pre-empt or lose the
. land and in order to pre-empt. the