The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-07-05
POLITICAL PLATFORMS.
A Series of Interesting Documents.
MizestO1ae8 IN the Development OF POIGti-
cal Parties Since the Organiza-
tiO1a of the GOUe1n naert.
1852.

DEMOCRATIC, BALTIMORE, JUNE 1sT.
Resolutions /, 3, 8, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of
the p atfOrm of 1S48 were reaffirmed
to which were added the following:
Resolved s. That it is the duty of
every branch of the government to en-
force and practice the mcst rigid econ
Ony in conducting public affairs, and
that no more revenue ought to be raised
than is required to defray the necessary
expenses of the government, and for
the gradual nut certain extinction of
the public debt.
9. That Congress has no power to
charter a national bank; that we be-
lieve such an institution one of deadly
hostility to the best interests of the
country, dangerous to our republican
institutions and the liberties of the
peop'e, and calculated to place the
business of the country within the con
troll of a concentrated money power
and that above the laws and the will of
the people; and that the results of
Democratic legislation, in this and all
other financial measures, upon which
issues have been made between the two
political parties of the country, have
demonstrated to candid men of all
parties, their sOundness, safety, and
utility, in all business pursuits.
10. That the separation of the moneys
of the government from banking insti
tutions, is indispensable for the safety
of the government and the rights of the
people,
II. That the liberal principles EN-
bodied by Jefferson in the Declaration
of Independence, and sanctioned in the
Constitution, which makes ours the
To- -
Oppressed of every nation, have ever
been cardinal principl in the Demo
cratic faith, and every attempt to
zens and the owners of the soil among
us, ought to be resisted with the same
spirit that swept the alien and sedition
laws from our statute book
10. That Congress hasn0p power under
the Constitution to interfere with, Or
control the domestic institutions of the
several States, and that such States are
the sole and proper judges of every
thing appertaining to their own affairs,
not prohibited by the Constitution; !;
that all efforts of the AbOlltionists or
others, made to induce Congress to in
terfere with questions of slavery, or to
take incipient steps In relation thereto,
are calculated to lead to the most
alarming and dangerous consequences; :;
and that all such efforts have an inevi-
table tendency to diminish the happi-
ness of the people, and endanger the
stability and perm9nency Of the Union,
and ought not to be cOuntenanced by
any friend of cur political institutions
13. That the foregoing proposition
covers, and is intended to embrace, the
whole subject of slavery agitation in
Cong -ess; 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 Compromise meas
ures settled by the last Congress, 1.-THE
act for reclaiming fugitives from SER
vice or labor" included; which act, be-
ing designed to carry out an express
provision of the Constitution, cannot,
with fidelity thereto, be repealed, nor
so changed as to destroy or impair its
efficiency.
IA. That the Democratic party will
resist all attempts at renewing in Con
gress, or out Of it, the agitation of the
slavery question; under whatever shape
or color the attempt may be made.
Here resolutions 13 and IA of the
platform of 1S4S were inserted.
1907,
PLATFORM, BALTIMORE, JUNE 18TH.
The Wings of the United States, in
convention assembled, adhering to the
great conservative principles by which
they are controlled and governed, and
now as ever relying on the intelligence
of the American people, with an abid-
ing confidence in their capacity for self
government and their devotion to the
Constitution and the Union, do pro-
claim the following as the political sen
timents and determination for the
establishment and maintenance of
which their national organization as
party was effected.
First. The Government of the United
States is of limited character, and to
it is cOnfided the exercise Of powers
expressly granted by the Constitution,
and such as may be necessary and
proper for carrying the granted powers
into full execution, and that powers
not granted or necessarily implied are
reserved to the States respectively and
to the people.
Second. The State governments
should be held secure to their reserved
rights, and the General Government
sustained in it's constitutional powers,
and that the Union should be revered
and watched over as the palladium of
our liberties.
Third. That while struggling freedom
everywhere enlists the Warmest sym
pathy Of the Whig party, we still ad-
here to the doctrines of the father of
this country, as announ .ed in his fare
we'll address, of keeping ourselves free
from all entangling alliances with
foreign countries, and of never quitting
our own to stand upon foreign ground !;
that our mission as republic Is not to
propagate our opinions, or impose on
other countries n11r form of oOYern-