Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-11-01

The Democratic Platform.
The platform adopted by the Convention At
Charleston was ~ follows:
Resotoed, That Ne, the Democracy Of the Union,
10 convention assembled, do hereby declare our
animation Of the resolut uDanim ously adopt-
% and declared ~ platform Of principles BY the
democratic Convention at Cincinnati in the year
looo, believing that Democratic principles are
same subject matters.
That portion Of The Cincinnati platform relAt-
ing 70 the slavery question is the following
HssotOed, That We reiterate, 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:
1. That Congress has no power, under the Con-
stituton to interfere with contrsl the dom 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-
hibitei in the Constitution that all efforts Of the
Abolitionists or others, made to interfere with
questions Of slavery, or to take incpient steps in
violation thereto, are calculated to lead to the
most alarm ng and dangerous consequences and
that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency
10 diminish the happiness Of the people, and
danger the stability and permanency Of the L Mon,
and ought MOTIF be countenanced by any friend Of
our political Institutions.
z 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 o: the acts known rs the Com
promise Measures, settled by the Congress Of 1885,
the act for retaining futgitives from service or
labor, included which act be ing 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cannot with fidelity thereto be repealed, or so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.
8. 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.
a. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold he 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 pIinci
pies 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 thatw may more distinctly meet the issue
on which sectional party, subsisting exclusi sely
on slavery agitation, North anu South, to the Con-
Stltution aud the Union.
l. Resolred, That claiming fellowship with and
desiring the corporation of all who regard the
preseI walton of the Union under the Constitution
as paramount issue, and repudiating ell section
| al parties and platforms, concerning domestic sIa-
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-
mated, must end in civil war and disun;on-the
American Democracy recognize and adopt the
principles contained in the organic laws, estab-
fishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska as
embodyn the 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 of the Union
| = Nom Interference by Congress 10Th Slavery in
State and 7erriory,or IN the Ui4rtct of Columbia
q That this was the basis of the compromises
| Of 1850, confirmed both by the Democratic and
| Wing parties, in National Conventlons-ratifed
| by the whole people in the election of 1852, and
r,,xbt Cd hoo
| in Sl54.
| 3. That by the uniform application of the Dem
| ecratis principle to the organization of
Territories, and to the admission Of new States.
vi without domestic slavery, as they may
elect, the equal rights Of all the States will be
| preserved ntact-the original compacts of the
Constitution maintained inviolate-and the per-
| petulty and expansion of this Union in
sured to its utmost capacity of embracing, in
pc ce and harmony, every future American
State that may be constituted or annexed, with q
republican form of government.
Resoiced, 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 maj ority of actual residents
and whenever the number of their inhabitants
| justfes 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.
| land the Charleston Convention passed the fol
lowing ssolutions
| Resolued, That it is the duty Of the United
States to sford ample and complete protection to
| all its citizens, whether at home or abroad and
| whether native or foreign born.
Resoiued, 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
will insure the struction of railroad to
the Pacific coast At the earliest prac period
Resolued, That the Democratic party are in fa
vor of the acquisition of Cuba on such terms as
shall be honorable to ourselves and just to Spain.
| Resoiced, That the enactments OF State Legisla-
lures to defeat the faithful execution of the fugi
give slave law hostile in Oh and subver-
| sive to the Constitution, and revolutionary in
their effects.
To the foregoing the Baltimore Convention ad
ded the following resolution
Resoiued, That it is in accordance with the Gin
cinnati Platform, that during the existence of ter
ritorial governments, the measure Of restriction
whatever it may be, imposed by the federal CON
| stitution on the power Of the Territorial Legsla
ture 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 tho general government