Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-07-13

The Democratic Platform.
The platform adopted BY the Convention At
Charleston was a. follows:
Re.olced, That We, the Democracy Of the Union,
ia Convention assembled, do hereby declare our
affirmation of the resolutions unanimously adopt
ed and declared Is platform of principles By the
Democratic Convention ss Cincinnati, in the year
1855, believing that Democratic principles are
Interchangeable in their nature whom applied to the
same subject matters.
THAT portion Of tho Cincinnati platform rslAt-
ing to the slavery question is the following:
Rssolred, That We reiterate, with rene we'd eper-
gy of purpose, the we'll considered declarations Of
former Conventions upon the sectional issue Of
domestic slavery, and concerning tho reserved
rights Of the States:
/. That Congress has no power, under the Con-
sttution to interfere with or 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 Consultation that al efforts Of tho
Abolitionists or others, made to interfere with
questions of slavery, or to take incpisnt steps in
violation thereto, ate calculated to lead to the
NEST alarming and dangerous consequences and
that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency
to diminish tho happiness of the people, and en-
danger the stability and permanency Of the Union,
and ought not to be countenanced by any friend Of
our political Institutions.
2. That the foregoing proposition covers and
was intended to embrace tho 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 1885,
8the act for reclaiming futgitives from service
labor" included which oct being dssigned to car
ry out an express: provision Of tho Consultation,
cannot with fidelity thereto be repealed, or 20
changed as to destroy or impair it efficiency.
3. That the Democratic party will resist I'll It
tempta at renewing, in Congress or out Of it the
agitation Of the slavery question. under what
ever shape OF color the attempt may b made.
abide by and uphold the principles laid down in
the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions OF 1898,
and on the report Of Nj. Madison 70 the Virginia
Legislature in 1899; that il adopts those piinci-
pies a. constituting one Of the main foundations
Of its political creed and 10 resolved to carry them
out in their obvious meaning and import.
And that We may moro distinctly meet the issue
on which sectional party, subsisting exclusively
on slavery agitation, North and South, to the Con-
stltution aud the Union.
l. Rssolvsd, That, claiming fellowship with and
desiring the corporation Of al who regard the
presei walton Of the Union under the Constitution
~ paramount issue, and repudiating III section
III parties and platforms, concerning domestic sla-
very, which seek to embroll the States. and to in
cite to treason and armed resistance 70 law in Ter
ritories and whose avowed purpose, If consum-
mated, must end in civil war and disuni0n-the
American Democracy recognise and adopt the
principles contained in the organic laws, estab-
fishing the Territories Of Kansas and Nebraska,
embodying the only sound and safe solution Of the
slavery question" upon which the great national
idea Of the people Of this whrie country can re-
pose in its determined conservation Of the Union
= Non Interference By C0ngress wiM Nccevy IN
State and Territory, or in the District Of Columbia.
2. That this was the basis Of the sempromises
Of 1850, confirmed both By the Democratic and
Whig parties, in National Cenvsntions-Ssti6sd
BY the whole people in the election Of 1859, and
rightly applied to the reorganization Of Territories
10 1854.
3. That by the uniform application Of tho Dem
ocratie principle to the organization Of
Territories, and 70 the admission Of new States.
with or without domestic slavery, ~ they may
elect, the equal rights Of oil the States will be
preserved intact-the original eompacts Of the
Constitution maintained invi0ste-and the per-
petuity and expansion OF this Union in
sured to its utmost capacity Of smbrseing, in
peece and harmony, every future American
State thst may be constituted or annexed, with .
republican form Of govsrnnent.
Resolved, That No recognise the right Of the
people Of eli the Territories, including kansas and
Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly.
expressed will Of majority Of actual residents,
and whenever the number 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.
[And the Charleston Convention passed tho fol-
lowing resolutions
Resolved, That it il the duty Of the United
States TO afford ample and e1mplste protection to
oil its citizens, whether ct home or abroad, and
whether native or fore,gn born.
Resolred, That one Of the necessitiss Of tho age,
in military, commervisl and postal point Of view
is speedy commun:cation between the Atlantic
and Pacific States, and the Democratic party
pledge such constitutional power Of the govern
ment - win insure the construction Of railroad to
the Pacific coast at the earliest practicable period.
Resolped, That the Democratic party ere in ia
vor of the acquisition Of Cube on such terms -
shall DO honorable to ourselves and just to Spain.
Resolced, That tas snactmeuts Of State I.sgisla-
lures to defeat the faithful execution Of the fugi
give slave Law are hostile character and subvsr
sive 70 the Constitution, and revolutionary in
their effects.
To the foregoing the Baltimore Convention adj
ded the following resolution:
Resolptd, That it is in accordauce with the Gin.
ciunati Platform, that during the existence Of Ter.
ritorial 9svsfHmmt1 The nsaslrs Of restriction,
Whatever it nay Be, imposed by The federal con-
ottution on the poWer Il the TssTitorsol Lsglals-
ture over the ssbsct a the domestic rslstio1s q
tho ssme hes bsss q shall beseaftsr b finally de-
terminsd b. the Supcens Court Of the Uaited
States, should b ro0poetod ~ IN eo6d ciGssas,