Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1859 — New Democratic Platform. [ARTICLE]

New Democratic Platform.

'l’lie Albany Evening Journal in publishing the debate in the Senate recently on the Slavery question, collates from the sentiments expressed, by the Democratic Senators upon that occasion, what it regards as the new Democratic l’latf >nn. The Democratic Senators proclaim, ns to Slavery in the Territones,that ('.’.ingress c m do nothing to keep the Settlers from having it, a nil that the Settlers can do nothing to keep from having it, themselves. They insist that if goes wherever the Federal Government goes, hut it does not stop "here the Federal Government stops, (\,r no seal ol State or stall ofoffic” • can keep it out. 1 That, wherever we plant th • A n irican Fi.ig, I there we plant Slavery. That wherever we i carry the Constitution, there we carry the auction block, the manacles, and tin* lash! They claim that la .vs establishing it, by ! whomever passed, must be enrolled on that - statute book, hut that la is prohibiting it by whomever passed, are worthless as blank paper. W hen Mew Mexico adopts a law in its iavor, they pronounce it a chain o! iron. When K/tisas adopts a law agtinst it, they pronounce it a rope of sand. New {States, they declare, may freely copy | the institution of South Carolina, hut. they declare it is treason for them to copy the institutions of New York. In a word, they hold that anybody may legislate Slavery in, but that nobody can legislate it out! They demand Congressional\ legislation to protect it in the Territories, and failing to get that, threaten to dissolve, lirst i their Party and then the Union! Upon this consistent and attractive platform they propose to tighttlie battle o r 1860.> OT7"A personal liberty hill lias been reported from the Judiciary Committee of the Pennsylvania Assembly. Its purpose is to grant lugiliye slaves the right of trial bv Jury. It also prohibits the use of the jails for the detention ol fugitives, and permits Judges to release them upon bail, without a minimum limit,