Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-07-06


reling-no time to indulge ina spiri, o. fac
tion-no time for a man who has been a Dem
ocrat to give "aid and comfort" to the enemy,
and trusted that nothing would occur to dis
turb the harmony, or distract the c%ounsels, Of
the Convention. During the delivery Of this
speech, Col, McCooE was greeted with fire.
quent applause.
The Committee on Resolutions, through
their Chairman, then reported the following
RESOLUTIONS:
Resolred, That we the Democracy Of Ohio
do hereby adopt and affirm the platform Of
principles declared by the recent National
Democratic Convention, us follows
" Resoiced, THAT we, the Democracy Of the
Union, in convention assembled, hereby de-
clare our affirmation Oft resolutions unani-
mously adopted and declared as a platform of
principles by the Democratic Convention at
Cincinnati, in the year 1856, believing that
the Democratic principles are Interchangeable
in their nature, when applied to the same sub
iect matter, and we recommend as our only
further resolutions the following
Resoired, That il is the duty ofthe United
States to afford ample and complete protec-
llou 10 NJ NltiHtudi WntlneT ~ hume OF
abroad, or whether native or foreign born.
ResOiced, That one ofthe necessities Of the
age in q military, commercial and postal
point Of view, is speedy communication be
tween the Atlantic and Pacific States and
the Democratic parry pledge such %constitu-
lional measures as will insure the construc-
ton Of q railway to the Pacific coast at the
earliest practicable period
| Rsqofreh That the npunnuottn Navtu ARC
in favor of the acquisition Of the Island of
Cuba on such terms as shall be honorable to
ourselves and Just to Spain.
ResOired, That the enactments Of the State
legislatures to defeat the faithful execution
Of the Fugitive Slave Law, are hostile in
character, and revolutionary in their effect
The following is the supplementary resolution
adopted at Baltimore, which is included
"ResOired, That it is in accordance with
the true Interpretation Of the Cincinnati plat
form, that during the existence Of Territorial
government, the measure of restriction, what
ever il may be, imposed by the Federal Con.
%stitution on the powers of the Territorial Leg
stature over the subject Of domestic relations,
as the same has been or shall hereafter be
finally determined 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 Federal
Government"
Resotced, further, That the suppression Of
the African and foreign slave trnde by the
Federal Government after the year 1907, is
one Of the compromises on the faith of which
the Constitution was adopted, and one union
of slaveholding and non-slAYeholding States
firmly established that a revival of that trade
would not only renew those c%ruelties which
once provoked the Indignation Of the civilized
world, but would expose the slaveholding
States to n constant terror Of seFvitude, insur-
%rection, and the non-slaveholding States OF
the border, like Ohio, TO all the mischief and
annoyance Of o free black population. For
these reasons, with others, the Democracy Of
Ohio are opposed to any such revival, and to
any measure tending in that direction.
ResOlred, That the rendition Of fugitive
slaves upon demand of the persons entitled to
their service or labor, is a duty imposed on
every State Of the Union by the terms of the
Federal compact; that the laws passed by
Congress to secure such rendition in 1898 and
1850, ought to be promptly and faithfully exc
cpted, and that the leaders of the selfstyled
Republican party in Ohio, by a persistent dis
regard Of the Constitution Of tho United States,
in this particular, have shown themselves un-
worthy of the confidence of well-disposed, pa
l%triotic and peaceable citizens, and we hereby
accept the issue rendered by the Republican
party of Ohio in the nomination of Judge
BrinkerhOff, of notification or enforcement OF
the Fugitive Slave Law.
Sd. ReSOlped; That the opposition Of the
Republican party in Congress to the admission
of Oregon, exposes fully the utter hypocrisy
of their pretensions to be the peculiar friends
of free States.
4th. Resolred, That we affirm the absolute
sovereignty of the States of this Union, in re
gard to their domestic institutions and the
perfect compatibility of the confederation Oi
free and slave States to exist harmoniously
together under the provisions of our Fedora
lConstitution, and we hereby denounce and
condemn the doctrine of the "irrepressible
conflict" first proclaimed by Lincoln, and il
Illustrated afterwards by Seward, as hostile tC
the spirit of our government and destructive
of the existence Of the Union.
8, Resolred, That the Democracy of0hio
disapprove the lavish grants Of the public do
main, heretofore made by Congress to Rail
road Companies and other corporations, hui
are in favor of granting limited portions o.
the public lands to actual settlers, on condition
ola bona iide occupation and cultivation.
6. Resolped, That the Republican party
have in Massachusetts, by allowing a fugitive
slave from the South the right of suffrage anC
Office, in one year, and requiring for the same
purpose,O of the naturalized citizen, a residence
of two years after naturalization, equivalent
to an extension of the period for naturaliza
ton to seven years, attemptedtto degrade the
foreign white man below the level of the ne
gro and mulatto.
Z. ResOiDed, That we are opposed to the
policy of allowing to negroes, mulattoes, oil
other persons of visible admixture" of Afri
can blood, the right of suffrage, or any Other
political right, desiring that the laws of Ohio
shall be made, and her destines controlled BY
white men exclusively, and for the paramount
Interests Of the white race,
8. Resolped, That the recent invasion of
sister commonwealth by band of desperate
fanatics, for the execrable purpose of foment
ing a seryile instruction, through the agenc,
of arson, rapine and murder, was an act il
conflict with every principle Of law, human o
e divine, a gross violation of the duties of elf
izenship, and a crime that should be denOun
h ced by all who love the Union and are deter
, mined to uphold il; that while the bandit
= have Justly expatiated their crimes on tn
~gallows, the public judgment cannot ia. l.
4 condemn those who, with less courage bu
9 with greater discretion, by their teachings
instigate others to incur the perils Of treason
AM who, as advocates Of resistance TO Law
r. 'irrepressible conflict, y and other like treason
n able doctrines, seek to promote their ambition
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