Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-24
IOWa Breckinridgo and Lane
--.t.rv Platform, s

Iowa Breckinridge and Ian,
--tg7gr Platform.
i The following is the platform adopted b.
{ the National Democrats Of Iowa at thei
!, Convention in Davenport on the 18th inst
We publish it as matter Of news, findinl
nothing in it to endorse, though we mus
confess there is nothing Objectionable in tn
unmsaning platitudes of tho 9th resolution
7 WHEREAS, The National Democratic Con
vention that assembled in Charleston in Apri
last, failed to nominate candidates for Pres
dent and Vice.P President, and the adjourned
Convention at Baltimore divided, one part o
the Convention placing in nomination j. O
Breckinridge and Joseph Lane, and another
part ofsaid Convention placing in nomins
tion Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V
johnson !; and
| WHEREAS, The platform adopted by tht
Convention that nominated J. O. Breckinridgs
and Joseph Lane embodies the old time
honored principles Of National Democracy
and f..-. ...,,
! WHEBEAs, The National Democratic party
Va Ao"o uoS w uO" ROhItCuA uOktu6 "
enunciate, no new principle to proclaim, bu,
firmly adheres to it, old established land
marks, the OoNsrIrUiIoN TIE UNION, AND
THE EouALIrY OF THE STATES therefore be i,
Resotved, That we endorse and ratify the
nomination and the platform adopted by the
National Convention that nominated John
y. Breckinridge ind Joseph Lane, aud accept
it as the declaration Of our political faith.
Resoived, That the Supreme Court of the
United States is the only tribunal recognized
by the Constitution as the final srbiter and
exponent of that sacred instrument, and that
it has in the Dred Scott decision clearly
defended the principles upon which the rights
Of all citizens in person and property, should
be protected in the territories.
Resal9ed, That we deny and denounce
the doctrine Of the Republican party, that
Congress has the power and right to inter.
vene and prevent the emigration to the
Territories of the United States of citizens
with their property, as recognized by the
Federal Constitution and the Supreme Court
OF the United States and that we also deny
and denounce the assumption of the sd vocates
oi "squatter sovereig 'ty," that, though eac!,
citizen may have the right to 90 to the
Territories with his property, yet that the
Territorial governments, organized under the
acts of Congress, have the power of such
Intervention, as equally untenable and un.
constitutional, and that it involves the con-
tradictiOn thst citizens may have rights,
which rights, by the action of Congress, or
its agents, may be impaired Ct destroyed.
Rssolued, That the true Democratic and
constitutional doctrine is, that the Terrific
ries, being the common property OF all the
States, and all citizens being thereby joint
owners, all have Al equal right to settle in
them with whatever property they may
legally possess. And Congress cannot inter.
vene tor the purpose of establishing or
destroying the right of property, Of any
description but that it is its boundsn duty,
when necessary, to protect the rights and
privileges OF all citizens without partiality,
during the territorial condition; and that,
when the number of inhabitants OF any
Territory justifies it, the people thereof, 10
thea language of the Cincinnati platform,
have the right to form constitution with or
without slsvery, as the majority may deter
mine.
Resolved, That the real aim Of the Repub-
lican party. as eviDced by the writings ano
speeches Of its leaders, is directly or indi-
rectly to destroy the domestic institutions of
the South, aid to place the four mill ons Of
negroes now in this country upon legal
and political equality with the whites, leading
to mixture of races and consequent social
equality, by which they would reduce our
own country to the condition Of Mexico and
Central America, where ruin, degradation,
decay and death have followed this expert
ment, and they would thus, under the pre-
tense of freedom for the negro, render Fl ee-
dom for white men impossible.
Resolped, That we reiterate our allegiance
to the Constitution and the Union, and our
to support and sustain the
decision of the Courts that we believe in the
hearty acknowledgment. by every citizen and
every state, of the equality, and sovereignty
of each Safe in the Union, and that all
attempts by the North to hold up the South
and her institutions to Disgrace and oontume.
ly, are against the spirit Of the compromises
OF the Constitution, apd teLd to beget Sec
tional strife, and to impair and weaken the
Union.
Resoloed, That we do most cordially endorse
the present Democratic administration and
its principles, and we heartily discountenance
any and all attempts to bring it ,nto disre-
pute.