Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-10-26
n. De-eer.tic Platform.

The DenocTatic Platform.
The platfsp .dopssd y the Convention .
Charleston Us ~ follows:
!. kesoleed, HAT ws,the DemDcraGy Of the Unioe,
ia Convootin assGnbled, do hereby declare or
Affirmation ofthe Spsolutiens unsgi mouely adope-
~ and declAfed Is plAtfogA Of pk1nciplee by tse
Democratic Convention ~ Cincinnati, in the year
1850, 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 10 The following
Rssotred, That We reiterate, with renewed eDer-
gy of purpose, the we'll considered declarations 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 oil 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 t. the
most alarming and dangerous consequences; and
that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency
to diminish the happiness Of the people, and en-
danger the stability and permanently Of the Cnien.
and ought not to be 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 0. the acts known rs the Com
promise Measures, se4ked by the Congress Of 1850,
"the act for retaining futigitves from service
labor" included which act being 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cannot with fidelity thereto be repealed, or so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.
3. 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.
I. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by aud 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 1893 that it adopts those pIinc-
Plies 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 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. ResoLsed, That, claiming fellowship with and
desiring the cooperation Of all who regard the
preservation Of the Union under the Constitution
as paramount issue, and repudiatng ell ecton-
al parties and platforms, concerning domestic sa-
very, which seek to embroll the States and to in
cite to treason and armed resistance to law in Ter
rtories +; and whose avowed purpose, If consum-
| mated, must end in civil war and disun;on-the
A HeTlCtH DcIuoctocy IcCOSulLc duu huDpb tue
principles contained in the organic laws, estab-
fishing the Territor es Of Kansas and Nebraska as
embOdy wing the only sound and safe solution Of the
'savery question" upon which the great national
idea Of the people of this whole country can re-
pose in its determined conservation OF tho Union
Non Interference by Congress 10Th Sarery IN
State and 7erritoryo in the Dirict of Columbia.
2. That this was the basis Of the compromises
Of 1850, confirmed both by the Democratic aud
Wing parties, in National Conventlons-rati6ed
by the whole people in the election Of 1852, and
rightly applied to the organization of Territories
B. That by the uniform application of the Dem
ocratls 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 ntact-the original compacts Of the
Constitution maintained inviolate-and the per-
| petulty and expansion Of this Unien in
sured to its utmost capacity Of embracing, ia
| pc and harmony, every future American
State that may be constituted or annexed, with a
| republican form of government.
Resolved, 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 nhabitant.
justifes it, to form Constitution, with or with.
out domestic slavery, and be admitted into thu
Union upon terms Of perfect equality with ths
| other States.
And the Charleston Convention passed the fol
| lowing resolutions !
| ReSolped, That it is the duty Of the United
States to afford ample and complete protection t
| all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, and
whether native or foreign born.
Resolved, 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 VI the govern
ment will insure the tructon Of railroad t,
| the Pacific coast at the earliest practicable perioa
Resolved, That the Democratic party are in ia
vor Of the acquisition Of Cuba on such terms al
shall be honorable to ourselves and just to Spain
| ResNred, That the.enactments OF State Legisla
lures defeat the faithful execution Of the fugi
give slave law hostile in character and subver
sive to the Constitution, and revolutionary il
| their effects.
To the foregoing the Baltimore Convention ad
ded the following resolution.
Resolrtd That it is in accordance with the Gin.
cinnat Platform, that during the existence of ter
ritoral governments, the measure of restriction
| whatever it may be, imposed by the federal con
| stitution on the power of the Territorial Lcglsa
ture the subject Of the domestic relations al
| the same has been or shall hereafter be finally dc
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