Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-10-20
The Democratic Platform.

Tho platform adopted by the Convention at
Charleston was as follows.
Resoiued, That We the Democracy OF the Union
in Convention assembled, do hereby declare our
affirmation Of the resolutions unanimously adopt
cd and declared ~ platform Of principles by the
Democratic Convention at cincinnati, in the year
1880, 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 j
Hesotred, That We reiterate, with renewed eDer
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-
stitution to interfere with or con.rs the domestic
institutions Of the several States. and that such
states are the sole and proper Judges OK every
thing appertaining To their own affairs not pro-
hibted in the Constitution that all efforts Of the
Aboitionists or others, made to interfere with
questions Of slavery or to take incipent 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
| danger the stability and permanency Of the Union,
and ought not 10 be countenanccd by any friend Of
our political Institutions.
| 2 That the foregoing proposition covers and
was intende. 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 as the Com
promise Measures, settled by the Congress Of 1850,
"the act for retaining futigitves 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| cannot with fidelity thereto be repealed, or SO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.
). That the Democratic party will resist all At
tempts at renewing, in Congress out Of it the
agitation OF the 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 Virginia resolutions of 1885,
and on the report Of Mr.. Madison to the Virginia
Legislature in 1893 that it adopts those pIinci
pies as constituting one OF the main foundations
OF its political Creed ana is resolved to carry them
out In their obvious meaning and rapport
And thatwe may more distinctly meet the issue
on which sectional party, subsisting exclusively
on slavery agitation, North ana South to the Con-
Stltution and the Union.
|. ResoLUed, That, claiming fellowship with and
desiring the cooperation Of all who regard the
preservation Of the Union under the Constitution
| as paramount ISSUE and repudiating all section
al parties and Platforms concerning domestic sla-
very, which seek ID embroll the States, and to in
cite to treason and armed resistance to law in Ter
ritorios ; and whose avowed purpose, If consuin-
| mated, must end in civil war and disun.on the
| American Democracy recognize and adopt the
| III tuc organic lANs, estuD-
fishing he Territories Of Kansas and Nebrask a as
embod wing the only sound and safe solution Of the
slavery question upon which the great national
idea Of the people Of this whore country can re-
| pose in its determined conservation of the Union
| = Aon Interference by Congress 10Th lSlauery IN
State md Ierritory or IN the Dirrict Of Columbid
9 That this the basis of the compromises
| Of $40, confirmed both by the Democratic and
Wing parties, in National Convcntlons-ra
| by the whole people in the election of 1852, and
rightly applied to the organization of Territorie.
| in sl5a.
! 3. That by the uniform application of the Dem
| ecratle 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 nviolate--and the per-
| petuity and expansion of this Union in
sured to its utmost capacity of embracing, in
| pc zee and harmony, every future American
| State that may be constituted annexed, with a
| republican form Of government.
Resotced, 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 a majority of actual residents
and whenever the number of their inhabitants
| justifes it, to form Constitution, with or with.
out domestic slavery, and BIO admitted into the
| Union upon terms Of perfect equality with the
other States.
| And the Charleston Convention passed tho fol-
| lowing -es0lutions
| ReSolced, That it 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 of the necessities Of the age
| in military, commercial and postal point Of view
| is speedy communication between the Atlantic
| and Pacific States, and the Democratic party
| pledge such constitutional power ef the govern
ment will insure the nstruction Of a railroad to
the Pacific coast at the earliest practicable period
Resciued, That the Democratic party are in IA
| vor Of tho acquisition of Cuba such terms as
shall be honorable to ourselves and just to Spain
Resoired, That the enactments OF State Leyi sla-
lures to defeat the faithful execution Of the fugi-
give slave law are hostile in haractcr and subver-
| ,ive to the Constitution, and revolutionary in
| their effects
| To the foregoing the Baltimore Convention ad-
| ded the following resolution
Resotued, That 1t is in accordance with the Gin
cinnati Platform, that during the existence Of
ritorial governments, the measure of restriction,
whatever it may be, imposed by the federal con-
stitution the power Of the Territorial Leglsla-
ture the subjec 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.
THOMAS WELLS.