Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-10-01


The platform adopted By the Convention At
Charleston was q follow:
R<solped. ThayWe, thu Demscrsey = the Union,
u CcnveneGn aoDembIo1, do hedshy dsclass our
aArmat ion q the rsso11tions unShiu6ensly adopt
Democratic Cosvsution q 6slesstj,s IL the year
1856, believing that Democratic principles
Interchangeable in their nature when applied to the
same subject matters.
That portion of the Cincinnati platform relat-
ing to the slavery question 10 the following
Resolred, Thatwe reiterate, with renewed eper
gy Of purpose, the we'll considered 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 control the domestic
institutions VI the several states. and that sueh
States are the sole and proper judges Of every
thing appertaining to their own Affairs not pro-
hibited in the Constitution that all efforts Of the
Abolitionists or others, made to interfere with
questions Of slavery, Or to take incipient steps in
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 Union,
and ought not to be countenanced by any friend Of
our political Institutions.
2. Tha. the foregoing proposition covers and
was intended to embrace the whole subject Of
slavery agitation in Congress; and therefore the
Democratic party Of the Union, standing on this
national platform, will abide by and adhere to 3
faithful exesuton Of the acts known as tho Com
promise Measures, settled by the Congress Of 1850,
''the act for retaining futigitves from service
labor, included which act being 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cannot with fidelity thereto be repealed or SO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.
3. That the Democratic party will resist all at
temptS at renewing, in Congress or out Of it the
A1ffa nj ~ thn clav-n -LuH
ever shape or color the attempt may be made.
4. That tho 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 Virginia
Legislature in 1899; that it adopts those pIinci
pies constituting one of the main foundations
of its political Creed and is resolved carry hem
| out in their obvious meaning and import.
And that We may more distinctly meet the issue
on which sectional party, subsisting exclusively
on slavery agitation, North South, to the Con-
| stltution and the Union.
l. Resoloed, That, claiming fellowship with and
| desiring the cooperation Of all who regard the
preservation Of the Union under the Constitution
| as paramount issue, and repudiating ell section
al parties and platforms, concerning domestic sa
very, which seek to elnbro the States, and to in
cite to treason and armed resistance to law in Ter
| ritories and whose avowed purpose, if consum
| mated, must end in civil war and disun;on-the
American Democracy recognize and adopt tht
principles contained in the organic laws, estab.
fishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, a.
embodying the only sound and safe solution of ths
| 'slavery question" upon which the great nationa
| idea Of the people Of this Whole country can re-
pose in its determined conservation Of the Unior
| = Non Interference by Congress With Slavery IL
State and 1erritory,or in the District Of Columbia
2. That this was the basis Of the compromise.
| Of $50, confirmed both by the Democratic auG
| Wing parties, in National Conventlons-ratiieC
I NV fha hnla In ia tbo nc -.
rightly applied to the organization of Territories
| in 8l54.
l 3. That by the uniform application Of the Dem
ocratie principle to the organization 0
| Territories, and to the admission Of new States
with or without domestic slavery, as they ma,
elect, the equal rights of all the States will b.
preserved intact-the original compacts Of tn
Constitution maintained inviolate-and the per
petuIty and expansion OF this Union in
sured to it's utmost capacity of embracing, il
pc &c and harmony, every future American
| State that may be constituted or annexed, with
republican form Of government.
| Resolved, That VIC recognise the right Of tn
people of all the Territories, including Kansas an
Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly
expressed will of q majority of actual residents
| and whenever the number of their nhabitant
justifes it, to form q Constitution with or with
out domestic slavery, and be admitted into tn
Union upon terms OF perfect equality with tn
other States.
And the Char eston Convention passed the fol
lowing resolutions
Resolued, That it is the duty Of tho Unite
States to afford ample and complete protection I
all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, an
whether native or foreign born.
Resolved, That one of the necessities of the ag,
in military, commercial and postal point Of vie1
is speedy communication between the Atlanti
and Pacific States, and the Democratic part
pledge such constitutional power If the govern
ment as will insure the construction 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 q
shall be honorable to ourselves and just to Spair
Resolved, That the enactments of State Legisla
lures to defeat the faithful execution Of the fug
give slave law are hostile in character and subvel
sive to the Constitution, and revolutionary i
| their effects.
To the foregoing the Baltimore Convention I'D
ded the following resolution.
Resolred, That it is in accordance with the Gin
cinnat Platform, that during the existence Of tel
ritorial governments, the measure Of restriction
whatever it may be, imposed by the federal cor
stitution on the power of the Territorial Leglsla
ture over the subject of the domestic relations q
the same has been or shall hereafter be finally 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 government.