Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-09-14
The Democratic Platform.


The platform adopted by the Convention at
Charleston was as follows
Resotoed, That we, the Democracy of the Union,
In Convention assembled, do hereby declare our
affirmation of the resol atoms unanimously adopt
cd and declared as platform of principles By the
Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, in the year
1856, believing that Democratic principles are
| Interchangeable IN their nature when applied to the
| same subject matters.
That portion of the Cincinnati platform relat-
| ing to the slavery question is the following !:
Resotred, That we reiterate, with wed ener-
gy 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 conrol 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
Abolitionists or others, made to interfere with
questions Of slavery, to take incpent steps in
| violation thereto, 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 permanency Of the Union,
and ought not to be countenanced by any friend Of
| our political Institutions.
| 2. That the foregoing proposition covers and
was intcndes 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 q
faithful execution o. the acts known as the Com
promise Measures settled by the Congress Of 1850,
the act for retaining futigitives from service or
labor" included which act being designed to car
| ry out an express provision Of the Constitution,
cannot with fidelity thereto be repealed, 80
changed as to destroy or impair its efficiency.
s. That the Democratic party will resist all at
tempts at renewing, in Congress or out Of it 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 l796,
and on the report Of Mr.. Madison to the Virginia
Legislature in 1899; that it adopts those piinci
| pies as constituting one Of the main foundations
OF its political creed ana is resolved to carry them
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 and South to the Con-
| stltution and the Union.
/. Resol0ed, 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 all section.
al parties and platforms, concerning domestic sla.
very, which seek to cmbrol 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 dsun.on-ihe
American Democracy recognize and adopt the
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fishing the Terrt, ries of Kansas and Nebraska as
embodying the only sound and safe solution Of the
slavery question" upon which the great national
idea Of the people of this wheie country can re-
| pose in its determined conservation III the Union
- Nom Interference Ly Congress acith Slavery in
State and 7erritory,or IN the District of Columbia
| 2. That this was the basis of the compromises
| OF 1850, confirmed both by the Democratic and
Wig parties, in National Conventions-rati6ed
by the whole people in the election of 1852, and
rightly applied to organization of Territories
| in 1854.
3. That by the uniform application Of the Dem
| ecratie principle to the organization Of
Territories, and to the admission Of new States.
with without domestic slavery, rs they may
elect. the equal rights Of all the States will be
CONSTITUTION maintained inviolate-and the per-
petuity and expansion Of this Union in
sured to its utmost capacity Of embracing, in
pc &C and harmony, every future American
State that may be constituted or annexed, with q
| republican form Of government
| Resolced, That We recognize the right Of the
people Of all the Territories, including Kansas and
Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly
expressed will OF q majority Of actual residents,
| and whenever the number Of their inhabitants
justi6es it, to form Constitution, with with
out domestic slavery, and be admitted into the
Union upon terms Of perfect equality with the
other states.
land the Charleston Convention passed the fol-
| lowing esolutions y
Resolred, That it is the duty Of the United
States to afford ample and complete protection to
| al its citizens, whether ut home or abroad and
whether native or foreign born.
Resoiued, That one of the necessities Of the age
in military, commercial and postal point Of view
| is speedy communication between the Atlantic
and Pacific States, and the Democratic party
pledge such constitutional power VI the govern
ment will insure the contraction Of railroad to
the Pacific coast At tho earliest practicable peroa
Resolved, That the Democratic party are in f..
vor of the acquisition Of Cuba on such terms as
shall be honorable to ourselves and just to Spain
| Received, That tae enactments OF State Legisla-
lures to defeat the faithful execution of the fug
give slave law are hostile in character and subver-
sive 70 the Constitution, and revolutionary in
| their effects.
To the foregoing the Baltimore Convention sd-
| ded the following resolution.
Resolved, That it is in accordance with the Gin.
cinnat Platform, that during the existence Of ter.
ritorisl governments, tho measure Of restriction,
whatever it may be, imposed by The federal con-
stitution on the po~er Of the Territorial Leglsla-
ture over the subject Of the domestic relations -
tho Same has been shall hereafter be finally de-
termined BY the Supreme Court Of the United
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