The Kanzas news., 1859-05-28
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The Democratic and Free State Plat
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We publish below, for the benefit of those
who may have aca4iosity to read them. the
platform adoptes by the so-called Democra-
ey, at Tecumsel 9ptbe 10th inst, and al
SO the one ,;adopE h@the Free State Half
Breed party, ataBig springs on the 18th. :
There are now. tbreetlistinet political parties
in Kansas and We ask our readers to, give
their several eFesds7 careful psrnsai. and
we have no feEs as to the result. InIthe
future electoB of Kansas, the people of al
most every county in the Territory viii roll
up a majority in favor Of the party that has
SO faithfully stood by them in timesof trou-
bic and distress,H Let the platforms speak
for themselves, Here they are! lao {fb
- DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. a
WHEREAS, The members of this conyen-
ton here met, in, pursuance OF call OF
the Central Committee of the Democratic
party of Kansas and being animated by a
sincere devotion TO the Constitution of the
Union the rights of the States;s and the
sovereign and reserved rights of the peo-
pie. and
- WHEREAS, The slavery question is prac-
tically settled in favor of a free State be-
yound the possibility of further controversy,
and.
WHEREAS, We recognize no difference
between Pro slavery and Free State men as
such; therefore belt ....r. (.
1st. Resolved, That we affirm our abid-
ing faith and confidence in the principles of
the Democratic party, as enunciated by
Jefferson, Madison, Jackson and the foun-
ders of our government, and re-enunciated
in the Cincinnati Platform.
Cd. Resolved, That we affirm the abso-
lutte sovereignty of the States of this Union
in regard to their domestic Institutions,
and the perfect compatibility Of the confed-
Grafton of free and slave States to exist har-
moniously together under the provisions of
our Federal Constitution.
Sd. RESOLVED, That the people of the
Territory, according to the true meaning of
the Act of Congress, known as the Kan
sas- Nebraska Act" have the sole and ex-
elusive right, in the organization of State
government, to form and regulate their do
the viii of the majority, fairly and fully ex
pressed at the ballot box, subject only to
the Constitution of the United States.
9TH. Resolved, That non-interyention by
Congress, with the domestic institutions of
the States or Territories, is the vital and
distinct feature of the Democratic party,
and any deviation from that principle, either
for OF against those institutions, is impolitic,
ilhberal and unjust. s-
+ 5th. Resolued, That we assert the orig
inal and essential inferiority of the negro
race, and hereby call upon the Constitution
al Convention to prohibit negro and mulatto
suffrage, and exclude all free negroes from
the future State of Kansas.
6th ResoEUed, That said Convention
should submit said Constitution to direct
vote of the people for ratification or rejec-
ton.
7th. Resolved, That the Democratic par
ty condemns all efforts to array the people
of this Union against one another, either on
account of locality, birth place or religion,
but. on thecontrary, practice what in theo-
~ it processes, that patriotic spirit which
united the people of every cline in the great
struggle for American Independence.
8th.F Resotred, That the registry law,
passed by majority of the late Legislature,
is anti Democratic, infamous and contrary
to justice. ID. Gt ali
9th, Resotved, That the unequal and OPP
pressive tax law, passed by: a majority of
the late Legislature, meets with the unqual-
fled disapprobatiOn of the Democratic party.
10th. Resolved, That the objects of the
pre-emptior law would be better effected
by giving a homestead to every bona fide
settler and cultivatore of the public lands,
without limit as to time; and that we re-
spectfully urge upon the President of the
United States the propriety of postponing
the public sales Of the government lands in
Kansas, for at least twelve months.