Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-07-19

I'M UblOWIux UOub4 -"
WIG NAV interest onrPeade's, % snow
ing that the Breckenridge ticket Is con-
sidered bv some people in Virginia as
sectional q. the Lincoln ticket. In re-
ferrinQ 10 a recent meeting, it says:
Although it wss professaily breck-
;nridpe and Lane ra i6catiou meeting.
one o. the speakers, Beverly b. Doug
las, ESQ, Of King William, made an
earnest and effective appeal to the De-
mocracy of Richmond, not to ratlfy the
nomination Of the Scceder's ticket, ~
least for the present. We presume that
some of the leaders Of the party desire
the assembly Of State Convention, and
leave it to that body TO decide between
Breckinridge and Douglas.-But the
friends efDouglas in Virginia are scarce
" green enough to be caught in snch =
trap as that. Those delegates to Balt'-
more who remained in the Convention,
are bound, in honor and good faith. TO
get mp an electoral ticket for him IN
Virginia, and do all in their power to
secure the democratic vote Oft State
for him A large majority, perhaps, OF
the rcmocrasic voters Of Virginia. pre-
fer Douglas to BreckinriJge, AS will be
demonstrated at the polls in November.
Besides, douglas will.ohtain large vote
in every State in the Union, North and
South, while Breckinrige will obtain no
vote at all in anv Northern State with
the exception. perhaps, Of California and
Oregon. Indeed Breckenridge is as
much sectional candidate as Lincoln,
and is the nominee Of thoroughly sec
tional party, that is looking auxIouslv to
an early dissolution of the Union. The
national and conservative Democracy OF
Virginia, therefore, cannot vote for
Breckenridge.
As Mr. FARSswoRrH and Arnold are
both republicans, and are both equally
determined that the States shat all he
free, we propose that they stump the dis
trict together each candidate to speak
one hour only, and neither to make any
allusion to the other, AMI TO the contest
for Congress- In this way the people
can tell which OF the two is capable Of
doing the republican party most good
Ohicogo democrat.
This is most important dispute !.
Wentworth's plan for its settlement is
nc st admirable. The man that proves
himself Il best abolltlonist-the most
! devoted to Lincoln's work of interfer-
ence with the constitutional rights of the
| southern states, is to "takc the pot, "
60 to Congress and join in the war 81
fauactisim and disunion. Wentworth
has the merit of frankness, to say the
least, in his abolition crusades.-Spring-
field Register.
The Democratic Platform.
| The platform adopted by the Convention at
Charles ton as follows:
| Rcsoloed, That we, the Democracy Of the Union
III Convention assembled, do hereby declare our
| affirmation of the resolutions unanimously adopt.
ed and declared as platform of principles by the
Democratic Convention nc 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
Resolred, That we reiterate, with renewed eper-
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-
stitutior. to interfere with or control the domestic
Institutions of the several states. and that such
States 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 incipisnt steps In
violation thereto, are 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 tho 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 .
| faithful execution OF the acts known ~ tho Com
promise Measures, settled by the Congress Of 1850,
the act for rcclaimin0 futigitives 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.
g. That the Democratic party will resist ell at
tempts at renewing, in Congress or out Of it tho
agitation OF tho 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 Virgins resolutions of 1898
and on the report Of Mr.. Madison to the Virginia
Legislature in 1899; that il adopts those pIinci
pies constituting one Of the main foundations
of its political creed ana is resolved to carry them
| Nut in their obvious meaning and import.
And that we may more distinctly meet tho issue
on which sectional party, subsistng exclusively
slavery agitation, North anu Sc nth, to the Con-
| stltutiOn and the Union.
! !. Resolced, That, claiming fellowship with and
| desiring the cooperation Of all who regard the
preservation of tho Union under the Constitution
as paramount issue, and repudiating all section
al parties and plato: ms, concerning domestic sla-
very, which seek t. embro the States. and to in
cite to and armed resistance to law in Ter
ritoriss and whose avowcd purpose, if consuin-
mated, must end in civil war and disunion--lhe
American Demo cracy recognise and adopt the
| principles contained in the organic laws, estab-
fishing the Terrt, ries Of Kansas and Nebraska, US
embodying the only sound and safe solution Of the
slavery question" upon which the great national
idea Of the people Of this Whole country can re-
| pose in its determined conservation IL the Union
: Nom Interference by Congress With Slavery in
STATE and Terrtory,o IN the Dtstrict Of Columbia.
| ,. That this was the basis Of the compromises
Wing parties in National Conventions-ratified
! by the whole people in the election Of 1852, and
rightly applied to the organization Of Territories
| in Sl54.
3. That by the uniform application Of the Dem
| ocrstie principle to the organization u
| Territories, and to the admission Of new States.
with or without domestic slavery, as they may
elect, the equal rights Of all the States will be
preserved intact-the original compacts Of the
Constitution maintained inviolate-and tho per-
| petulty 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 =