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
and Vice President of this Union. Because OF
the adoption of this platform, the fre-eaters
and disunonsts bolled from the Convention
and set up their irregular candidates. We call
upon every Democrat iuto whose hands this
paper may fall, TO read this Platform carefully
und thoroughly, and having done so, TO make
up his mind conscien:iously and witi,ou. pre-
iudicp, as 10 whether it does not set forth the
rue Democratic doctrine. One thing cannot
be denied viz ii is the Cincinnati Plat
form, OIL which James Buchanan was elected
It is the Platform demanded by Yancey aud
his contederateS IN 1886, under the same
threats made by them and carried out at Charles
ton and Baltimore it is the Platform on which
Pierce was 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 it 2 Honor,
honesty, consistency forbIds
The Platform and Resolutions adopted By
the Democratic National Convention al
Cincinnati, Charleston and Baltimore.
The Platform adopted by the Convention at
Charleston was as follows
ReSoiyed, That we, the Democracy of the
Union, ia Convention assembled, do hereby de-
clare our affirmation of the resolutions unanl-
mously adopted and declared as a 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-
ting to the slavery question is the following !
ReSoIued, That we reiterate, with renewed
energy OF purpose, the well-consldeEed declara-
ton of former Conventions upon the sectional
ISSUE of domestic slavery, and concerning the
reserved rights fthe 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 AbolIti0nists or others, made to
interfere with the question of slavery, or TO
lake inciplent steps IN ralaton thereto, are
calculated to lead TO the most alarming and
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 couutenanced by any friend Of
our political institutions
That the foregoing proposition covers and
was intended 10 embrace the whole subject of
slavery agitation IN Congress and, therefore,
the Democratic party of the Union, standing on
thls 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, ''the act for recIaIming fugI-
lives from service or labor" included ; which
act being designed 10 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 reslst'all
attempts at renewing, 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 Vir-