The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-05-29
THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM.

THE CINCINNATI PLAfFOHM.
The late National Democratic Convention at Charles
ton re-afirmed the Cincinnati Platform We publish be-
low that portion of it in regard to the slavery question
There is party except the Democratic party in ex
stence the present day that could re-arm as con-
servatise resolutions these;
Resolved, That reiterate with renewed energy of
purpose, the well considered declarations of former
Conventions upon the sectional issue of Domestic
Slavery and concerning the reserved rights OF the
States.
/. That Congress has no power under the Constitu-
ton to interfere with or control the domestic nstitu
lions of the several States and that such States are
the sole and proper judges of everyth ng appertanng
to their own affairs, not prohiolted by the Consttu-
tion that all efforts of the aboonists Others made
to induce Congress interfere with questions of slave
ry to take incpient steps in relation thereto are
calculated to lead the alarming consequences;
and that all such efforts have inevitable tendency
to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger
the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought
not to be countenaneed by any friend of political
institutions.
2. That the foregoing proposition covers, and
intended to embrace the whole subject of slavery ag
aton in Congress- and therefore, the Democratic party
of the Union standing this national PLATFORM will
abide by and adhere faithful execution of the acts
known as the compromise measures, settled by the
Congress of 1885, 1.-THE act for retaining fugves from
service or labor included; which act being designed
to carry out express provision of the Const utiOn,
cannot, with fidelity thereto be repealed changed
as to destroy or impair its efficiency.
at renewing in Congress out of it, the agitation of
the slavery question under whatever shape color the
attempt may be made
4. That the Democratic party will faithfully abide
by and uphold, the principles laid down in the Ken
lucky and Virginia resolutions of 1898, and in the
port of Mr. Madison to the Virginia Legislature, in
1899: that it adopts those principles constituting
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 subsstng exclusively slave
ry agitation relies the fidelity of the peo
pie, north and South, to the Constitution and the
Union
l. Resolved, That claiming fellowship with and de-
string the cooperation of all who regard the preserva
ton of the Union under the Constitution as the para
mount sSue-and repudatng all sectional parties and
platforms concerning domestic slavery, which seek to
embroil the States and ncite to and armed
sistance to law in the Territories and whose avowed
purposes, if consummated, must end in civil and
disunion the American Democracy recognize and
adopt the principles tanned in the organic laws
ablishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska
embodying the only sound and safe solution of the
''saverv question npon which the great national idea
of the people of this whole country repose in its
determined conservatism Of the Unon--NoN -INTERFER-
ENcE BY CONGRESS WITH SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRI
TORY, y THE DISTRICT COLUMBIA.
2. That this was the basis of the Compromises of
.a5O-confrmed by both the Democratic and Wing
parties in national Conventons-ratisd by the people
in the election of 852an5 rightly applied to the
ganizatOn of Territories in 1854
3. That by the uniform applications Of this Demo-
cratic principle the organization of territories and to
the admission of new States with without domestic
slavery, they may elect-he equalrgh of all States
will be preserved intact-the original compacts of the
Constitution maintained in vioateand the perpetuity
and expansion of this Union insured to its utmost capac
ity of embracing, in peace and harmony every future
American State that be constituted annexed,
with a republican form of government.
Resolved, That recognize the right of the people
of all the Territories including Kansas and Nebraska
acting through the legally and fairly expressed will of
majority of actual residents and whenever the num-
Der of their inhabitants jastes it, to form Constitu
tion with without domestic slavery and be admitted
into the Union upon terms ofperfect equality with the
other States.
Resolved finally, That in the view of the condition
of popular institutions in the Old World land the dan
gerouS tendencies ofsectional agitation combined with
the attempt to enforce civil and religious disabilities
against the rights of acquiring and enjoying citizenship
in own land "a high and sacred duty IS devoved
with increased responsibility upon the Democratic par
ty of this country the party of the Union to uphold
and maintain the rights of every State and thereby the
Union of the States and to sustain and advance among
constitutional liberty, by continuing resist all
monopoes and exclusive legislation for the benefit of
the few at the expense of many and by ygilant and
constant adherence to those principles and comproms
of the Constitution, which broad enough and
strong enough to embrace and uphold the Union it
was, the Union it is, and the Union it shall be-
in the full expansion of the energies and capacity of
this great and progressive people