Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-07-20

Prom The Dubuque nsrsld.l
Gen. Dodge returned on Saturday
evening 70 his old home in the City Of
Burlington, to the great qualification
Of his old friends and neighbour, who
recognize 10 him = face long familiar
to Iowa.
Gen. Dodge will accept the nomina-
ton thrust upon him by the Demo
cratic party in Iowa.
It is due to the Democratic party
and to the voters Of the State, to
know precisely the platform upon
which Gen. Dodge new stands
LIST. He is unequivocally and bitter.
" opposed to Slave Code made for
the Territories by Congress, and will
give it no countenance whatever.
I'd. He regards the re-opening of
the slave trade as detestable, and i'm.
possible, and as at war with the De-
mocratic party, and an attempt to re-
new it would be an outrageous insult
to the civilization of the age, and the
general signal for the disbanding of
the party.
Sd. He is in favor of making the
fair and direct vote of the whole of
the qualified voters of territory up
on every part Of their Constitution an
absolute prerequisite to the admis-
sion Of the territory into the Union, as
a State. And at no time since he has
been IN public life would he have con-
sented to the admission of Territory
as State into the Union until the
Constitution had been fairly submitted
to the whole people without force or
fraud. In holding this doctrine he is
out carrying out the very principle in
volved in the admission Of our own
State. When Congress had changed
our boundary,as Delegate, he refused
to accept the change until the whole
matter was submitted to our people,
aud they voted upon it.
4th. He holds sacred the Doctrine
Of Popular Sovereignty. as set forth in
the Kansas Nebraska bill, and as in
terpreted by his own speeches,in which
he told Mr.. Soule he would fight
against slavery in the Legitimate way,
be would vote against it, and lnever
yield in its favor until outvoted, and
then hewould bow to the sovereign will
of the majority-and here he now
stands. He is opposed to all Congress
nalinterference in any form whatever.
or for any purpose whatever in conflict
with the rights of the people in regu-
lating their domestic institutions in
their own way.
5th. He is heartily in favor of a
Homestead law, and was its friend
long before the birth Of the Republican
party.
lie will amply and ably present his
views in letter of acceptance in re-
spouse to his nomination, or he will
fully canvass the State and speak fully
to the people.
An attack has been made upon our
late Convention blythe Chicago Herald
That paper has done its utmost to de-
stroy the party in Illinois, but it did
not succeed. suppose it will CON-
mence its work in Iowa, and might do
harm but for three reasons First,
nobody reads it second, if they did
they would at once discover its affinity
with Black Republicanism !; third, we
have in Iowa five hundred men in
every county in the State now engaged
in farming and the humber walks Of
life who altogether don't drink half
the rotgut necessary to the editorial
establishment Of that papers, and who
could off-hand write better article,
or in the neighborhood would expose
any of the shallow fabrications gotten
up by that mischievious sheet.
OCCASIONAL.
BURLINGToN, July II, 1859.