, 1863-06-13


our columns this week that we are compelled to
omit it for want ofroom.
The Democratic Platform.
The following is the platform adopted at
the Democratic Union Convention, held at
Vancouver on the 28th uIt. 1t came to
hand too late for us to make extended COM
ment; but it needs none. It inUerprets it.
self, and will recommend itself to every in
telligent Democrat and true Union man.
On this platform George E. Cole stands as
the nominee of the Convention for the Of
fce of Delegate to Congress. On the prin-
ciples here set forth he rests the chances of
his election, and whoever places him in
position in contradistinction to this misrep-
resents him:
Whereas We, the Democracy, of the Territory
of W ashington, in convention assembled, are now
and ever have been opposed to traitors, aiders
abettors and sympathzers. with foreign foes and
domestic rebels, TO all men and parties who would
subvert and destroy the rights Of the States and
General Government, or the liberties of the people
either by force of arms or by acts not sanctioned
by Constitutional authority; and
Whereas, We believe the principles of the
Democratic party are founded in truth, have stood
the test Of experience for the last 10 years, and
have carried the Nation safely, prosperously hon
orably and successfully through all fore gn wars,
and domestic rebelious, and that it is alone by
the strict adherence TO those principles, that the
Union as our fathers made it, can be maintained
in its integrity, the Constitution be preserved in
violate, and the liberties Of the people be secured
and perpetuaed; therefore,
Resolved That the written Constitution of the
United States is the supreme law of the Nation;
that no power created by it is independent of, or
superior to it; that all authority emanatng from it.,
is subordinate to i, and that any exercise of au-
thority which would abridge the rights it guaran-
tees, is an assumption of power in conflict with
liberty which is the inheritance of the American
people that freedom of speech, freedom of the
press, trial By juy, and before the civil tribunals
ofthe country, are rights which cannot be ignored,
or abridged but by recognition of tyranny
ResOlUed, That we reconize manifest dife1-
ence between any Administration of the Govern
ment and the Government itslt-the one is tran
STORY, limited in duration only to that period of
time for which the officers elected by the people
are charged with the conduct of The same-the
other is permanent and intended by its founders
" eHuuTe lOIbNtI.
Resolred That all laws passed by the proper
law-making power, whether constitutional or un-
constitutional, polite impoltic, should be
obeyed and enforced by every good citizen, until
repealed by the power that enacted them, or de-
clar' null bv the courts
ReSoIUed, That the Democracy of the Territory
of Washington are for The Union, the whole
Union and in favor of the vigorous prosecution of
the efforts of the Government in crushing the pres
ent unholy and wicked rebellion, when such efforts
are not actuated by any other motives, than a
the Nation and the enforcement of its laws that
we are forever opposed to conclusion of any peace
involving in its terms the acknowledgment of the
Independence of the so-called Southern Con-
federacy, and that we hereby soemnly pledge
ourselves that, come veal woe, in life or death,
now and forever, to stand by, and defend the flag
ofour Country in its hour of peril.