Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-10-19

III: platform adopted BY the Convention at
Chsricston was ~ follows
Ke'otssd, That ", tho Dea0crsly Of the Union,
ia Coavention ssselnbled, - hereby declare osr
animation Of the resplations unaniunously adopt.
% ana declared ~ . plaucen Of prinspleo BY Ne
DenocAtic Convention seCincinAati, in tie year
1906, believing that Denscsstie peiuctrass arc
Interchangeable in their nature when applied to the
same subject matters.
That portion Of ,hs Cincinnati platform relAt-
ing to the slavery question is the following
Hssosred, That ~ reiterate, with renewed epcr-
81 OF purpose, the well considered declarations Of
former Conventions upon the sectional issue Of
domestic slavery. and concerning the reserved
rights Of the States:
|. That Congress has no power, under the Con-
stitution to interfere with control the domestic
institutions Of the several States. and that such
| states are the sole and proper judges Of every
thing appertaining to their own affairs not pro-
hbited in the Constitution that all efforts Of the
Abolitonists or others, made TO interfere with
questions Of slavery, or to take incpient steps
violation thereto, are calculated TO lead to the
most alarming and dangerous consequences and
that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency
to diminish the happiness Of the people, and en-
| danger the stability and permanency Of the Mon,
and ought not to be countenanced by any friend Of
our political Institutions.
z That the foregoing proposition covers and
was intendeS to embrace the whole bjcct OF
slavery agitation in Congress; and therefore the
Democratic party Of the Union, standing on this
| national platform, will abide by and adhere to q
faithful execution o: the acts known as The Com
promise Measures, settled by the Congress Of 1880
the act for retaining futgitives from service OF
labor, included; which act be ne designed to car
ry out an express provision of the Constitution
| cannot with fidelity thereto be repealed, or So
changed as to destroy or impair its efficiency.
| $. That the Democratic party will resist all At
Temps at renewing, in Congress or out Of il the
agitation OF the slavery question. under what
ever shape or color the attempt may be made.
| 4. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold the principles laid down in
the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions Of 1898
and on the report Of Mr.. Madison to the Virgins
Legislature in 1899 that it adopts those plinci
pies as constituting one Of the main foundation.
OF its political creed, and is resolved to carry them
| out in their obvious meaning and aport.
And that We may more distinctly meet the issue
| on which sectional party, subsisting exclusively
| on slavery agitation, North ana South, to the on
| stltution and the Union.
/. ResOLred, That claiming fellowship with and
desiring the cooperation of all who regard tn,
preservation OF the Union under the Constitution
| as paramount issue, and repudiating all section
| al parties and platforms, concerning domestic sla
| very, which seek t. embroll the States and to in
cite to treason and armed resistance to law in Ter
rtories and whose avowed purpose, If consun
| mated, must end in civil war and disun;on--tht
| American Democracy recognize and adop. the
principles contained in the organic laws, estab.
fishing the Territories Of Kansas and Nebraska, u.
embodying the only sound and safe solution 81 The
slavery question" upon which the great ationa
| idea Of the people of this whcIe country can re-
| pose in its determined conservation oi the Unior
| NJ Non -Interjerencc by Congress Wth .Sarcry in
STATE and Ierrttory,or IN the Dt$rict Of Columbia
2 That this was the basis of the compromise,
Of 1850, confirmed both by the Democratic and
| Wing parties, in Nationa! Conventlons-ratifet
fho rhalA v,los thnn ac -
rightly applied to the organization of Territories
| in 1854.
g. That by the uniform application of the Dem
ocratia principle to the organization q
| Territories, and to the admission Of new States
| with or without domestic slavery, as they maO
elect, the equal rights Of all the States will b,
preserved intact-the original compacts Of tn,
| Constitution maintained inviolate-and the per
petulty and expansion OF this Union in
sured TO its utmost capacity of embracing, il
pc ce and harmony, every future American
| State that may be constituted or annexed, with
republican form of government.
i Resolved, That We recognize the right Of tn,
people of all the Territories, including Kansas ant
Nebraska. acting through the legally and fairly
expressed will of a maj GRITTY of actual residents
| and whenever the number Of their inhabitant
| ustfes it, to form Constitution, with or with
out domestic slavery, and be admitted into tn
Union upon terms OF perfect equality with tn,
other states.
land the Charleston Convention passed the fol
lowing .esolutions
Resolced, That it is the duty Of the United
States to afford ample and complete protection t,
all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, ant
whether native or foreign born.
Resolved, That one of the necessities Of the age
in a military, commercial and postal point Of viev
is speedy communication between the Atlanti,
and Pacific States, and the Democratic part,
pledge such constitutional power sf the govern
ment will insure the ruction Of railroad I.
the Pacific coast at the earliest practicable period
Resolved, That the Democratic party are in "a
vor of the acquisition Of Cuba on such terms q
shall be honorable to ourselves and Just TO Spain
Resolved, That the enactments of State Legisla
lures to defeat the faithful execution Of the fupi
give slave la w hostile in CHI aracter and subyer
sivo to the Constitution, and revolutionary il
their effects.
To the foregoing the Baltimore Convention ad
ded the following resolution
Resolred, That it is in accordance with the Gin
cinnat Platform, that during the existence Of ter
ritora governments, the measure Of restriction
whatever it may be, imposed by The federal con
stitution on the power Of the Territorial Leglsla
ture over the subject of the domestic relations q
the same has been shall hereafter DO fnally de
termined by the Supreme Court Of the Unite,
States, should be respected by all good citizens
and enforced with promptness and fidelity b,
| every branch of the general poyaynment