Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-10-31
The Democratic Platform.


The platform adopted BY the Convention u
Chsrieston Vas - follow:
Kesotced, That We, the Democracy Of the Union,
Ia Convention assembled, do hereby declare our
animation Of the resolutions unanimously adopt
ed and declared q platform of principles BY the
Democratic Convention &C Cincinnati, 10 the year
1000, believing that Democratic principles are
unchangeAbIe in their nature when applied to the
same subject matters.
That portion Of the Cincinnati platform relAt-
ing 10 the slavery question is the following
Rssolred, That we reiterste, 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:
|. That Congress has no power, under the Con-
sttuton to interfere with control the dome este
institutions Of the several States and that such
States the sole and proper judges of every
thing appertaining to their own affairs not pro-
hibited in the Constitution that all efforts Of tho
Abolitionists 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 That the foregoing proposition covers and
was intended to embrace the whole subject of
slavery agitation in Congress and therefore the
national Platform, will abide by and adhere to =
faithful execution o. the acts known as the Com
promise Measures, settled by the Congress Of 1850,
1.-THE act for retaining futigitves from service or
labor," included which act be ng designed to car
| ry out an express provision Of the Constitution
| cannot with fidelity thereto be repealed, or 80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
yer hAp anPcp nj aP ha ttav mt ho do
A. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold the principles laid down in
| the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of l79s,
| and on the report of Mr.. Madison to the Virginia
Legislature in 1893 that IL adopts those pInci
Piles as constituting one of the main foundations
OF its political creed, and is resolved to carry them
out IN their obvious meaning and Import.
And thatwe may more distinctly meet the issue
on which q sectional party, subsisting exclusively
on slavery agitation North and South, to the Con-
stltution and the Union.
| l. ResoLged, That, claiming fellowship with and
desiring the corporation of all who regard the
| preservation of the Union under the Constitution
as paramount issue, and repudiating oil section
al parties and platforms, concerning domestic sa
very, which seek to embrOll the States, and to in
cite to treason and armed resistance to law in Ter
| ritories and whose avowed purpose, if consum-
ated, must end in civil war and disunon--t the
| American Democracy recognize and adopt the
principles contained in the organic laws, estab-
fishing the Territ.ries of Kansas and Nebraska,
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 OF tho Union
| : Non Interference by Congress with Slavery in
State and Ierritory,or IN the DiErict Of Columbia.
| 2. That this was the basis of the compromises
! Of 1850, confirmed both by the Democratic and
Wing parties, in National Conventions-ratifed
| by the whole people in the election of 1852, and
rightly applied to the 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 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 nvolate-and the per-
petuity and expansion of this Union in
sured to its utmost capacity Of embracing, in
pc CO and harmony, every future American
| State that may be constituted or annexed, with q
| republican form of government
| Resolved, 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 majority of actual residents
and whenever the number of their inhabitants
| justifes it, to form Constitution, with or with.
out domestic slavery, and be admitted into the
Union upon terms of perfect equality with the
| other States.
| And the Oh ar eston Convention passed the fol
| lowing -ssolutiOns :
| ReS0tred, mat 1t is the duty OF the United
States to afford ample and complete protection to
| all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, and
| whether native or foreign born.
| RESOLVED, That one of the necessities of the age
in a military, commercial and postal point Of view
| is speedy communication between the Atlantic
| and Pacific States, and the Democratic party
| pledge such constitutional power Of the govern
ment as will insure tn nstructon Of railroad to
the Pacific coast At the earliest practicable period
Resolved, That the Democratic party are in ia
| vor of the acquisition of Cuba on such terms az
shall be honorable to ourselves and just to Spain.
| Resolved, That tne enactments Of State Legisla-
lures defeat the faithful execution of the fugi
give slave law hostile in Oh aracter and subver-
sive TO the Constitution, and revolutionary in
| their effects.
| To tho foregoing the Baltimore Convention ad
| ded the following resolution
! Resoired That it is in accordance with the Gin
cnnat Platform, that during the existenee Of ter
| ritorial governments, the measure of restriction
whatever it may be, imposed by the federal con
sttution the power of the Territorial Leglsla-
ture over the subject of the domestic relations as
the same has been shall hereafter be finally de-
termined by the Supreme Court of the United
States, should be respected by all good citizens
and enforced with promptness and fidelity by
| every branch Of the general government.