Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-09

York, has been admitted to probate. He left
q property amounting to 81 500, 900. 0. which
his daughter Mary Ann, wife Of John Dean,
the coschman, will not receive one cent. as she
was especially dsinherited by codicil.
-Thaddeus Hayatt 10 beginning to tire Of
what he at first regarded as q luxury Jail
lie loses its attractions with its novelty. He
wen. there from choice, and with q flourish.
He writes . letter to the Nep York Tribune
calling the Jail a human sty," and wants to
know when and how he is to get out.
-Geo Raymond, Frenchman. was chok ed
to death recently while 'ating his dinner At
lti, hmond, Va.
Cincinnati National Platform.
Below we give the resolutions Of the Cincinnati
National Convention, adopted June 4th, 1856,
which nominated James Buchanan for President.
We shall, from time to time, republsh those as the
creed of the Democracy
Resolved, That the foundation OF this Union OF
States having been laid in, and its prosperity,
expansion, and pre-eminent example in free gov.
ernment built upon entire freedom in matters Of
religious concernment, and no respect OF person in
regard to rank place Of birth no party can
Justly be deemed national, constitutional, or in
accordance with American principles which bases
its exclusive organization upon religious opinions
and accidental birth place And hence political
crusade in the nineteenth century, and in the
United States of America, against Catholic and
foreign born, is neither justified by the past hlsto-
ry future prospects of the country nor in unison
with the spirit Of liberation and enlarged freedom
which distinguishes the American system Of pop.
ular sovereignty.
R4soirei. That we reiterate with renewed ener-
gy of purpose. the well considered declaration 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 Con-
stitution to interfere with control the domestic
institutions of the several States, and that such
States the sole and proper judges OF every
thing appertaining to their own affairs not pro-
hibited by the Constitutions that all efforts of the
abolitiOni.ts, or others, made to induce Congress
to interfere with questions Of Slavery, or to take
incipent steps in relation thereto, are calculated
to lead to the most alarming and dangerous con-
sequences, and that all such efforts have an inev-
i:aolc tendency to diminish the happiness Of the
people and endengcr the stability and permanency
at the Union, and ought not to be countenanced
By any friend of our political institutions.
.. 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 a
faithful execution of the acts known as the Com
promise measures, settled by the Congress Of 1885,
''the act for retaining fugitives from service or
labor" included; which act being designed to
carry out express provision of the Constitut on,
cannot, with fidelity thereto, be repealed, or SO
changed as to destroy impair its efficiency.
g. That the Democratic party will resist all
attempts at renewing, in Congress out Of it, the
agitation of the slavery question, under whatever
shape or color the attempt may be made.
4. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold the principles laid down in
the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1898,
and in the report of Mr. Madison to the Virginia
Legislature in 1899. that it adopts those principles
as constituting Of tho 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 is
sue which a sectional party, subsisting ex-
cusiyely upon slavery agitation now relies to test
the fidelity of the peorie, North and South, to the
Constitution and the Union
l. Resolced, That claiming fellowship with, nd
desiring the cooperation Of all who regard the
preservation of the Union under the Constitution
the permanent issue-und repudiating all Sec
tional parties and platforms concerning domestic
slavery, which seek to embroi the States and in
cite to treason and armed resistance to law in the
Territories and whose avowed purposes, if con-
summated, must end in civil war and disunion
The American Democracy recognize and adopt
the princiIl lie contained in the organic laws es-
tablishing the Territories Of kansas and Nebras-
ka as cmbodying the only sound and safe solution
of the slavery question" upon which the great
national idea of the people Of this country can
repose in its determined conservatism of the
Union Non interference by Congress with Slave
ry in State or Territory, or in the District of Co.
lumbia.
2. That this was the basis Of the Compromise
Of ls50-confrmed by both the Democratic and
Wing parties in National Convention-rati6ed by
the people in the election of l852-and rightly
applied in the organization of Territories in 1854
3. That by the Uniform application Of this De-
cratic principle to the organization Of Territories,
and to the admission of new states, with or with
out domestic slavery, as they may elect the equal
rights Of all the States will be preserved intact
the original compacts Of the Constitution main
tanned inviolate-and the perpetuity and expan
sion Of the Union insured TO its utmost capacity of
embra:ing, in peace and harmony every future
State that may be constituted annexed, with q
republican form of government.
Resolved, That We RECOGNIZES tho right of the
people of all the Territories, including Kansas
and Nebraska acting through the legally and
fairly expressed will uf majority Of actual resi-
dents, and whenever tho number Of their inhabit-
ants justifies it, to form Constitution, with or
without domestic slavery, and be admitted into
the Union upon terms OF perfect equality with the
other States.
Resolred, finally, That in view Of the condition
Of popular institutions of the Old World, and the
dangerous tendencies Of sectional agitation, com
bined with the attempt to enforce civil and rclg-
ious disabilities against the right Of acquiring and
sacred duty is devolved with increased response
biIity upon the Democratic party of this country,
: the party Of the Union, to upheld and maintain
tho rights of every State in the Union of the
States and to sustain and advance among con-
stitutional liberty, by continuing to resist all
monopolies, and exclusive legislation for the ben
eft of the few, Mt the expense Of the many, and
by a viGlant and constant adherence to those
principles and Compromises of the Constitution,
which are broad enough and strong enough to
embrace and uphold the Union rs it was, the
Union as it shall be, in the full expansion Of the
energies and capacity Of the great and progressive
people.
!. Resolced, That thereare questions CONNECT
with the foreign policy Of this country, which arc
inferior to no domestic question whatever. The
time has come for the people Of the United states
declare themselves in favor Of free seas and pre-
gressive free trade throughout the world, and by
solemn manifestations to place their moral in
huence Mt tho side Of their successful example.
2. Resoired. That our geographical and political
position with reference to the other states OF this
continent, no less than the interest Of our CON-
mercc and the development Of our growing power,
requires that We should hold sacred tho princi-
ples involved in the Monroe doctrine their bear
ing and import admit of no missonstruction; they
should be applied with unbending igidity.
3. Resolved, That tho great highway which
nature as we'll as the assent of those most imme-
diately interested in the maintenance, VAS marked
out for free communication bctWscn the ATTAIN
tic and the Pacific oceans, and constitutes one Of
the most important achievements realized by the
spirit Of modern times and tho uncomfortable en-
erey of our people, That result should be secured
by a timely and efficient excrtion of the control
which we have the right to proclaim over u, ana
no p.wer on earth should be suffered to impede
or clog its progress by any interference with the
relations which it may suit our policy to establish