East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-07-19
THE PLATFORM.

The following is the platform adopted
by the Charleston Convention, together
with the additional resolutions adopted
at Baltimore. We bespeak for il care.
full and attentive perusal:
The platform adopted by the conven-
ton at Charleston was as follows
Resolved, That we, tho Democracy OF
the Union, in convention assembled, do
hereby declare our affirmation of the res
olutions, unanimously aeopted and de-
clared as platform of principles by the
Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, in
the year 1856, believing that democratic
principles are Interchangeable in their ma
tnre when applied to the same subject
matters.
[The portion of the Cincinnati plat
form relating to the slavery question is
the following]-
Resolrsd, That we reiteratc, with re-
newed energy of purpose, the well-con-
sdered declarations of former conven-
tions upon the sectional issue of domestic
slavery and concerning the reserved
rights of the States:
/. That Congress has no power, un-
der 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 prohib-
tied by the constitution; that all efforts
of the abolitionists or others, made to
interfere with questions of slavery, or to
take incipient steps in violation thereto,
are calculated to lead to the most alarm
ing and dangerous consequences that
all efforts have an inevitable tendency to
diminish the happiness Of the people, and
endanger the stability and permanenoy of
the Union, and ought not to be counten-
anced by any friend of our political in
stitutions.
2. That the foregoing proposition
covers and was intended to embrace the
whole question Of slavery agitation in
congress; and therefore the democratic
party of the Union, standing on this na.
tional platform, will abide by and adhere
to faithful execution Of the acts known
as the Compromise Measures, settled by
the Congress of 1850, "the act for re-
claiming fugitives from service or labor"
included; which act being designed to
carry out an express provision Of the con-
stitution, cannot with fidelity thereto be
repealed, or 80 changed as to destroy or
impair its efficiency.
3. That the Democratic party will re-
sist all attempts Of renewing, in Congress
or out Of it, the agitation Of the slavery
question, under whatever shape or color
the attempt may be made.
4. That the democratic party will
faithfully abide by and uphold the prin-
ciples laid down in the Kentucky and
Virginia resolutions of 1893, and on the
report of Mr.. Madison to the Virginia
Legislature in 1899; that it adopts those
principles as constituting one Of the
main foundations Of its political creed,
and is resolved to carry them out to their
obvious meaning and import.
And that we may more distinctly meet
the issue on which sectional party, SUBJ
ssting exclusively on slavery agitation,
North and South, to the Constitution
and the Union.
2 Resolred, That claiming fcllewship
with and desiring the cooperation of ell
who regard the preservation of the Union
under the Constitution as paramount
issue, and rcpudiating all sectionsl parties
and platforms, concerning domestic
slavery, which seek to embroil the States,
and to incitc to treason and armed resist
ance to law in the Territories and whose
avowed purpose, if consummated, must
end in civil war and disunion-the Amer
icen Democracy recognize and adopt the
principles contained in the organic Laws,
establishing the Territories Of Kansas
and Nebraska, as 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 repose in its determined conservation
of the Union ---NoNINrtRyERExcE NY
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