Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-07-16
The Democratic Platform.

The platform adopted by tho Convention 1t
Charles ton was as follows:
Resolred, That We, the Democracy Of the Union,
ia Convention assembled, do hereby declare our
ed and declared as platform Of principles BY the
Democratic Convention &C Cincinnati, in the year
1855, 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 is the following j
Rssolred, That we reiterate, with renewed eper-
~ 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-
sttutOn, to interfere with or control the domestic
institutions Of tho several States. and that such
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 incipisnt 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 c0untenanced by any friend Of
our political Institutions.
J. That 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 .
faithful execution oe the acts known as the Com
promise Measures, settled by the Congress Of 1885,
1.-THE act for retaining futgtives from service or
labor" included; which act being designed to car
~ out an express provision Of the Constitution,
cannot with fidelity thereto be repealed, or %
changed rs to destroy or impair its efficiency.
5. 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 purity 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 plinci.
pies ~ constituting one of the main foundations
Of its political creed and 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, subssting exclusively
on slavery agitation, North and South, to the Con-
stltution and the Union.
l. Resolped, That, claiming fellowship with and
desiring the cooperation Of al who regard the
presel vation Of the Union under the Consultation
as paramount issue, and rspudisting I'll section
al parties and platforms concerning domestic sla-
very, which seek to cmbr0ll the States and to in
cite to treason and armed resistance to law in Ter
ritorirs; and whose avowed purpose, If consun
mated, must end in civil war and disunion--the
American Democracy recognize and adopt tho
principles contained in the organic laws, estab-
fishing the Territories Of Kansas and Nebraska As
embodying tho only sound and safe solution Of the
slavery question" upon which the great national
idea Of the people Of this whcie country can re-
pose in its determined conservation If the Union
Aon- Interference Ly Congress Nth &dvery in
Sats and 1erritory,Or IN the District Of Coiunsbid
2. That this was the basis Of tho compromises
Of 1850, confirmed both by tho Democratic and
Wing parties, in National COnvent,ons-rati6ed
BY the whole people in the election of 1852, snd
!ss'!; applied to the organisation Of Territories
3. That by the uniform application Of tho Dom
0cratis principle to the organisation Of
Territories, and to the admission of new States.
With or without domestic slavery, - they may
elect, the equal rights Of I'll the States will DO
Constitution maintained inviolate-and the per-
petuity and expansion OF this Unien in
sured 70 its utmost capacity Of embracing, 10
Pc CO and harmony, every future American
state that may be constituted or annexed, With
republican form of government.
people of all the Territories including Kansas and
Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly.
expressed will Of majority Of actual residents,
and whenever tho number of their inhabitants
justi6ss it, to form Constitution, with or with.
slavery and ,: admitted into the
other States.
land the Charleston Convention passed the fol- |
lowing resolutions j
Resolved, That it il the duty Of the United |
States to afford ample and complete protection 70
oil its citizens, whether 1t home or abroad, and |
whether native or foreign born.
Resolved, That ono of the necessities Of the age
in military, commercial and postal point Of view
is speedy commun'c cation between the Atlsnsic |
and Pacific States, and the Democratic party |
pledge such constitutional power II the gevem- |
ment will insure the conetruction Of rairosd to
the Pacific coast ct the earliest practicable psfoJ
Resolved, That the Democratic party aES il f.
vor Of the acquisition Of Cuba on such terms ~
shall be honorable to ourselves aud just t. Spain
Resteed, That the enactments Of State l.sgisla-
tures to defeat the faithful execution Of the fug
give slave law aFs hostile inchsraetsr and subvsr
live 10 tho Constitotion, and revolutionary in
their effects.
To the foregoing the Baltimore Convention ad-
ded the following resolution
Resolved, That il is in accordance with the Gin
clnnati Platform, that during the sxistsnss II ter
ritorisl governments, the measure Of restriction,
whatevsr It may ~, imposed BY the federal con-
.titution on the pooer Of the Territorial Leglsla-
inre over the subject Of the domestic sslesioss
Inc SANE has beep q shall HEREAFTER y 1nelly DE-
lermined " the 6nprsas Court Of shs U1itsd
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