Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-08-25

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:he platform adopted by the Convention at
Charleston was as follows:
RssoloeeN. Thai %, tho Democracy a the Union,
ia 0.nvenf1en aaDsmbled, do hereby declare our
. firm ation q the resol ssions unaaimoos adopt
81 md declased = platform Of principles ~ the
iDcnocratio Convention at Cinsinnati, In the year
1855, believing that Den.csasis psieeiples are
unch Manageable IN their nature when applied to the
same subject matters.
Thar portion Of The Cincinnati platform rellt-
ing to the sIayerj question is the following
Essoired, That we reiterate, with ed eDer
" OF purpose, the well consic ere declarations Of
former Conventions upon the sectional issue Of
domestic slavery and concerning the reserved
rights Of the States:
l. That Congress has no power, under the Con-
stitution to interfere with con.rel the domestic
institutions Of the several States. and that such
states arc the sole and proper judges Of every
thing appertaining to their own affairs not pro-
hibited in the Constitution that all Efforts Of the
Aboliti0nists or others, made to interfere with
questions Of slavery, or to take incipient steps In
violation thereto, ase calculated to lead to the
most alarming and dangerous consequences and
| that all such efforts have inevitable tendency
| to diminish the happiness Of the people. and en-
danger the stability and pernanency Of the Mon,
and ought not To be countenanced by any friend OF
our political installations.
z That the foregoing proposition covers and
was intende. to embrace the whole subject of
slavery agitation in Congress and therefore the
Democratic party Of the Union staidiiug on this
national platform, will abide by and adhere to n
| faithful execution .: the acts known As the Com
promise Measures, settled by the Congress of $780,
1.-The act for retaining futigitvcs from service or
| abor," included; which act be ng 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cannot with fidelity thereto be repealed, or so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.
5. lhat the Democratic party will resist all at
tempts at renewing, in Congress or out Of it the
| agitation ot the slavery question. under what
!, ever shape or color the attempt may be made.
/ !. That the Demo ratio party will faithfully
| abide by and Uphold the principles laid down in
| the kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1913,
and on thoreport Of Mr.. Madison to the Virginia
Legislature in 1899; that il alopts those pAinci
| pes constituting one Of the main foundatiL
its political creed, AMI is resolved to carry them
out in taeir obvious meaning and import.
| And that We may more distinctly meet the issue
On which sectional party, subsistng exclusi .ely
On slavery agitation, North Sc nth, to the on
! sltuton and the Union.
| /. Resotced, That, claiming fellowship with and
| iesirng the cooperation Of all who regari the
| preservation OF the Union under the Constitution
Us paramount issue, and repudiating ali section
al parties ard plat oms, ming domestic sla
very, viii seek Il en- ro the States, and to in
cite to treason and armed resistance to law in Ter
| ritori' and whose avowed purpose, it consum-
| IN tied, must end in civil war and disun.on-lhe
American Democracy recognize and adopt the
fishing the Territ ries Of Kansas and Nebraska,
| cmbodying the only sound and safe solution Of the
slavery question" upon which tho great national
| idea Of the people OF this whelc country can re-
pose in its determined conservation at the Union
| Non Interference by Congress 10Th Sdrery IN
State and Zer,itory,or IN the District Of Columbia
2. hat this was the basis of the compromises
| Of 1850, confirmed both by the Democratic and
VIII parties, in National Conventlons-ra,i6ed
by the whole people in the election Of 1852, and
rightly applied to the organization OF Territories
| in ol54.
B. That by the uniform application of the Dem
ocratie principle to the organization d
| Terri tories, AMI to the admission i uew States
with or without domestic slavery, as they may
| elect, the equal rights Of all the states will b,
| preserved intact the orr ,ual cOmpacts Of thu
onsti,ution mainta ned inv iolate and the per
pc,ulty ani expansion of this Union in
ured TO its utmost capacity Of embracing, il
pc &c and harmony, every future American
state tn 1t may be constituted or annexed, With
republican form Of government.
Kesoiced, That recognize the right Of thu
people OF all the Territories, in uding Kansas an,
Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly
expressed will of a majority OF actua! residents
and whenever the number OF ther inhabitant
justifes it, to form Constitution. with or with
out domestic slavery, and be admitted into tn
Union upon terms of perfect equality with th
other .states.
land the Char eston Convention passed the fol
lowing esolutions
Resolued, That it is the duly OF the Unitct
States to ford ample and c,mplete protection t
all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, an,
whether native or foreign born.
ResotUed, l hat che Of the necessities Of the age
in a military, commercial and postal point OF viev
is speedy commun cation between the Atlanti
and Pacific states, and the Democratic part
pledge such constitutional power Of the govern
mcnt will insure the cons tructio of railroad +
the Pacific coast at the earliest practicable perioi
Resolved, That the Democratic party are in ia
vor Of the acquisition Of Cuba on such terms h
shall be honorable to ourselves and just to Spain
Reso,ced, That toe enactments OF State l.egisla
lures defeat the faithful execution Of the fugi
give slave law are hostile in character and subver
>ive 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
cnnati Platform, that during the existence nf ter
ritorial governments, the measure Of restriction
whatever it may be, imposed by The federal con
stituton on the poSer Of the Territorial Leglsla
,urc the subject Of the domestic relations q
the same has been or shall hereafter be final de
termned by the supreme Court of the Cnite'
States, should be respected by all good citizens
and enforced with promptness and fidelity b.
| every branch Of tho general government