The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-07-13
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

The following is the Platform of the Nation
al Democratic Party, on which STEPHEN A
DOUGLAS and HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON
have been placed as candidates for President
aud Vice President Of this Union. Because of
the adoption Of TINS platform, the ire-eaters
and disunionists bolted from the Convention
ana SGT mp their irregular candidates. We call
opon every Democrat iuto whose hands this
paper may fall, to read this Platform carefully
and thoroughly, and having done SO, TO make
up h,s mind conscien:Iously and without pre-
iudic-, as TO whether it does not set forth the
:rue Democratic doctrine. One thing cannot
BE- denied viz it is tie Cincinnati Plat
form, on which James Buchanan was elected !;
it is the Platform demanded by Yaacey and
his conlederates IN 1856, under the same
threats made by them and carried out at Charles
ton and Baltimore it is She Platform on which
Pierce as elected, on which Cass was placed
as a candidate, and on which Polk was carried
into the Presidential chair. Are Democrats
now prepared to violate and desert II ? Honor,
honesty, consistency forbds
The Platform and Resolutions adopted by
The Democratic National Convention at
Cincinnati, Charleston and Baltimore.
The Platform adopted by the Convention at
Charleston was as follows
ResoIUed, That we, the Democracy of the
Union, in Convention assembled, do hereby de-
cIlre our affirmation of the resolutions unani-
mously adopted 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.
TIE portion Of the Cincinnati platform rela-
ung to the slavery question is the following i
Resolved That we reiterate, with renewed
energy Of purpose, the weII-consIdered decIara-
ton 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
Constitution, TO interfere with or control the
domestic institutions Of the several States, and
That such States are the sole and proper Judges
OF everything appertaining to their own affairs
not prohibited by the Constitution that all eff
forts OF the AbohtOnIsts or others, made to
interfere with the question of slavery, or to
take lncIPlent steps IN ralation thereto, are
calculated to lead to the most alarming aud
dangerous consequences and that all such ef
forts have an inevitable tendency to diminish
the happiness of the people, and endanger the
STABILITY and permanency of the Union, and
ought no: to be countenanced by any friend of
our political institutions.
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 ad-
here to faithful execution of the acts known
as the COMPROMISE Measures, settled by the
Congress Of 1850, s'the act for recaIming fugl-
!lveS from service or labor" included which
act being designed to carry out an express pro-
vision OF the Constitution, cannot with fidelity
thereto be repealed, or SO changed as to destroy
or impair lis efficiency
That the Democratic party will resist,all
attempts at rene wing, in Congress or out of 1t,
the agitation of the slavery question, under
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made
That the 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 Vlr-