The Placer herald., 1864-09-10
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL PLATFORM.
Adopted at Chicago, August 80, 1864.

Adopted mt Chicago, August 80, 1864.
Resoioed. That in the future as in the past we
will adhere with answering fidelity to the Uni
on under the Constitution as the only solid ioun-
datlon OF our strength, security and happiness AS
people, and as a framework of Government
equally conducive to the pros pertv and welfare
oil ALI the States, both Northern and Southern
ReSoired. That this convention does explicitly
desire, as the sense of the American people. that
after four years of failure to restore the Union
by the experiment Of war. during which under
the pretense of military necessity, or of a war
power higher than the Constitution itself. it has
been disregarded in every part, and public liber-
ty and private rights trodden down and material
property OF the country essentially impaired -
justice humanity and liberty and the public wei
fare demand that immediate efforts be made for
q cessation of hostiities. with view to an ult-
mate convention OF all the States, or other peace
able means to that end that, at the earliest
practicable moment peace may he restored on the
basis Of the Federal Union OF the States
ResOired. That the direct interference of the
military authority f the United States in the re-
cent elect ons held in Kentucky. Maryland. Mis-
souri, and Delaware was Il shameful violation of
the constitution. and repetition Of such acts in
the approaching election W i'll be held revolution
airy and resisted with ali the means of power un-
der our control.
Resolved, That the aim and object Of the dem
ocratic party is to preserve the Federal Union
hereby declare that they consider the uSuvpaton
OF extraordinary and dangerous powers not grant
ed by the constitution. the subvcIsion OF civil iv
military laws in the States not in Instruction
the arbitrary military arrest. imprisonment. trial
and sentence of American citizens in States where
the civil law exists in full force. the suppression
OF the freedom OF speech and of the press. the de-
NAL Of the right OF ylum. the omen and avoWed
disregard of State rights. the employment Of I'M
usual test oatbS. and interference with and denial
OF the right OF the right of the people to bear
arms in their defence, calculated TO prevent
the restoration of the Union aud the perpetul-
ton of a Government deriving its just powers
from the consent Of the governed.
Resolved, That the shameful disregard by the
Administration of its duty in respect TO orr fell
low citizens who are now, and long have been
prisoners of war in a suffering condition, deserves
the everest reprobaion. on the score alike OF
public and common humlnity.
Resofred That the sympathy of the democratic
party is heartily and earnestly extended to the
sodiery OF our army who now are and have been
in the field under the flag of their country and in
the event of our attaining power they will receive
all the care. protection and regard that brave
soldiers OF the Republic have so nobly earned.
PERHAPS So.-The Atlantic Monthly SAYS
that our boosted age Of inventions turns out
after all, to have been only gathering up
what antiquity has let fall re-lscoveriug
and putting to practical account what the
past discovered, but could not. or. with mis-
called digniiy, would not, turn to the use of
common life. Steam carriages. hydraulic
engines diving bells, which we have regard
ed with SO much compacency as our peculiar
property, worked their wonders in the teen
ing brain of an old monk who lived six hun
dred years ago. Printing. stereotypes Iithol
graphy, gunpowder. Colts revolvers and
Armstrong guns, Corgreve rockets, coal gas
and chloroiorm, daguerreotypes reapng ma
chimes and the electric te egraph are nothing
new under the sun. Hundreds of years ago
the idea VS. born, but the world was too
Young to know its character or prize It's
service. and S, the poor little banlIing was
left to shiver itself to death while the world
stumbled on as aforeime. How many eras
of birth there may have been do not
know but ii was reserved for our later age
to receive the young stranger with open
arms, and noursb his infant limbs to manly
strength. Richly are we rewarded in the
precision and power with which he Performs
our tasks, in tho comfort with which he
adorns, and the know ledge with which he
ennobles our daily life.