Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-09-15

~, PauoTm sooPted ~ the convention ~
Charleston was as follows:
Resoloed. That We, the Democracy Of the Union,
ID Convention assembled, do hereby declare our
animation of the reso 1tions unanimously adopt
ca and declared Is platform Of principles By the
democratic Convention &c Cincinnati, in the year
1900, 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 4
Hssotred, That We reiterste, with renewed oper-
81 Of purpose the well considered lecars tions Of
former Conventions upon the sectional issue Of
domestic slavery. and concerning the reserved
right, Of the States:
|. That Congress has no power, under the Con-
stitution, to interfere with control the domestic
institutions of the several states. and that such
states are the sole and proper judges Of every
thing appertaining TO their own affairs not pro-
hibited in the Constitution that all efforts Of the
Aboiitionists or others, made to interfere with
questions OF slavery, or to take incipeut steps in
violation thereto, arc calculated to lead to tho
most alarming and dangerous consequences and
that all such Efforts have Az inevitable tendency
TO diminish the happiness Of the people, and en-
danger the stability and permanency Of the Union,
and ought not to DO countenanced BY any friend Of
our political Institutions.
2. 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 Of the acts known Is the Com
promise Measures, settled by the Congress Of 1850,
the act for retaining futigitves from service or
labor. included; which act bong designed to car
ry out an express provision of the Constitution,
cannot with fidelity thereto DO repealed, or 90
changed as to destroy or impair its efficiency.
3. That the Democratic party will resist all At
tempts at renewing, in Congress or out Of it the
In Voru ,ndo hot
ever shape or color the attempt may be made.
4. That tho 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 Virginia
Legislature in i7e9; that it adopts those piinci.
pies a. constituting ono Of the main foundations
OF its political creed ana is resolved to carry them
out in their obvious meaning and iAport.
And that We may more distinctly meet the issue
on which sectional party, subsisting exclusively
on slavery agitation, North and South, to the Con-
stltutiOn and the Union.
l. ResotUed, That, claiming fellowship with and
desiring the cooperation of all who regard the
presel walton Of the Union under tho Constitution
IS paramount issue, and repudiating oil section
a parties and platforms concerning domestic sla-
very which seek t. embroll the States, and to in
cite to treason and armed resistance to law in Ter
mated, must end in civil war and disun;On-ihs
American Democracy recognise and adopt the
principles contained in the organic laws, cstab-
fishing the Territ. rcs Of Kansas and Nebraska,
embodying the only sound and safe solution Of the
slavery question" upon which the great national
idea If the people Of this wheie country can re-
pose in its determined conservation III tho Union
Ao"- Interference by Congress ,oith Slavery in
State and 7erritory,or IN the Dstrict of Columbia
2. That this was the basis Of the compromises
Of 1850, confirmed both by the Democratic and
Wing parties, in National Conventlons-rati6ed
by the whole people in the election Of 1852, and
rightly applied to the organization Of Territories
3. That by the uniform application Of the Dem
ecratie principle to the organisation 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 tho original compacts Of the
Constitution maintained inviolate-and tho per-
petulty and expansion of this Unien in
sured to its utmost capacity Of embracing, in
pc CO and harmony, every future American
State that may be constituted or annexed, with .
republican form Of government.
Resolred, That wo recognise the right of the
people of all the Territories, including Kansas and
Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly.
expressed will Of . ajority Of actual residents
and whenever the nunbaT of their inhabitants
justi6es 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
Res0lred, That it is tho duty of tho United
States to sford ample and complete protection t.
all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, and
whether native or foreign born.
ResoiUed, That one 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 If the govern
ment as will insure the conet ructon Of railroad Il
the Pacific coast at the earliest practicable period
Resolved, That the Democratic party are in f..
vor Of the acquisition Of Cuba on such terms q
shall be honorable to ourselves and Just to Spain
Resolued, That the enactments Of State legisla-
lures to defeat the faithful execution Of the fugi
give slave law are hostile in character and subyer
sive TO the Constitution, and revolutionary il
their effects.
To the foregoing the Baltimore Convention ad
ded the following resolution.
Resolced, 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 Leglsla-
sure over 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.