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Show , 'tiijtvtt of bW readers who bavlisdaniied .th'e'aacqunts(,tqf thahirpcccdiiigsof tho Charleston Contention! will not", perhaps, takeit amiss tor hare, tho, .'terms; Majdrlty rcpof ',and, Idiuority, report xplainci We make tho followinj extract from;:tbc imig. iTtiEosp.'V 'c ' ::' fThe following aro.the platforms of the two diyJsiouS ofr iihe. Pomocratie party; whoso ' delegates lately assembled, at ChaIcstbtt;,Thy'are1dc8lgnatc Majority aftd tho Minority repbrts. .The latter, as will be, rcmemljered, Waj ndqpt-fcd ndqpt-fcd by ihovCouventloft;:whiclf actidri ;on Jhc'partpf that:? body- jed" tb;i'thb wlth drawol.pf tho ,(delcgatcs., of lihoJ seTeral u)lieraStatcsi;aS .' JUtteJpmi tlio 4 prntrorni'': adopted by thoVpemdcraUb party at Cincinnati bo nffirfiicdi'Avlth;tue'fblIbw yesolutibiifii -'-"-. - tqry brgafllzcdjbyan aotbf Congfcss,;is provisional and temporary sod jduriDgf ta existcncbv'nll dtlzens, qffetho Ujiitcd States bttTeaiV their propertyiH;tlte'yTrrK their rights cither of person or property" bcing.desfrbycd, br'linpairc"d.?by Congressional Congres-sional brTerritbrial legialation. ?,ind.,.Thatit;isthe.dutyqf ral. Cj qvcromenf , ,in a jilts: departmentatp" protect;' Thob ncccs3ary.t1io, riglit'bf pcr-'sdu,iahd;prqpcrfyiiV--t1 wherever else its Cbiistitutibnal :authbrUy extendav' ,J:j;;r-'4 u VC?: .Sd:, That wheb tbis6tttcr"j tdry'hayinglan adequate population'.'form a? Stafo ConstiiullbniH.ho' rightf ofebve-reignty ofebve-reignty pbrnmencesp and, .being: cbtisum-"matcd cbtisum-"matcd by, admission. into tho Puto6r tbey etaad on aii cqual.sfbbting witbnho;ipeo plq.qf btliertfStatesviiidtho Sta;tbthus organized ougliVto befadmittd bita tho Federal Pnion, whtlier WCbustitutibn" pronibiU or recognizes the "iustltutiott of slavcry,- 4tb.' That. the Democratic party are in fayor.qt. the acquisition pf tbe . Island Vof Cuba, bii Bo'cb terms as.shall.bb hoiibrable. to,'0urselye3'and'.. just to -Sainj at tbo earliest practicable moment. ' ' ' 5th., That" thp., criaclmenta - qf. .State legislatures to defeat the faithful', execu-tion, execu-tion, pf the Fugitive Slave Pawaro'hbs-Jtito Pawaro'hbs-Jtito in.charactcrrarprsbf ;thb r Cod-, stftutiori nnd . revolutionary fu:tlicir,'efll:cC vfitb., ibui thrPehibciracy.ef tho'Unlti" ed Statcsrecdgbizelt; as thb; imperative dutyjqf this. Government tq, protcetUho tiaturalizcd citizen'ln all Jils rigbts,' wficthc'rrat homo IhbiSamo cxlcnt -as:its native bbrncUK zens .4; & , i i v v WnsiiEA vOaeqf , the grcatestmccessl-tics grcatestmccessl-tics qf tfie'ago, in' a. poIUjcal, cominorcial, postal and military 'point of,"icw, 7ii a speedy communication between the I'a cifie and Atlantic, Coasts; Therefore belt Ifaohtit, TTljat the Pcmocraticparty do hereby pledgo thcmtclvcs to uso every :mcasln 'iheirpower to secure the passage pass-age of some bill to thq Cbustitutlonaf au-tharity au-tharity of Congress for the construction of a.i'acifiqilail'oad, from tho Mississippi Mississip-pi river, tqthe Pacific Ocean; at, tho ear liest practicable moment. iiixowTr nEroBt. Resolved That wq, tho Pcmqcracy of the Puiou, Ju Convention assembled, hereby declare our nffinnanco of the resolutions reso-lutions mtanimously ndoptcd.nnddcclared i.f.v. i-.1... -rt C crntic Convention at Cincinnati, in th i year 1850, believing that the Dcmocrnti f principles ate uqcliaugeable in their nn - turc when applied to: thq samp subjee s matters; and we recommend as the onlj s further refiolutipnstho following: i. luasmiicb as difference of opiniloti cxisfi 5 in the Democratic !pnrty as to the nat'un 9 and extent of rihe powers pf a Territoria s Legislature, and as to tha powers, aiic duties of Congress, under' the Cqnstitu ) tion of tho United Sfates; dycr thb.lnsti , tution of slavery Within the Territories, b J?oiThat the Pcmocralic part) will abide by the decisions of "the Supreme Court of the United States on tho ques ; tious of Constitutional law, ; JUsolud, That.it is tho duty of tht ; United States to afford ample and com ; plete protection to all iweitizcnstwhethei 1- at. home or abroad, and whether native oi foreign born, i- Racked, That one of tho necessities ! if tho age, in a military, commercial ami a postat point of view; is speedy cammunl cation Wtween the Atlantic and Facifii v States, and the Democratic party pledgi - such Constitutional Government aid s will insure the construction of a xaitroai i- to the Pacific, coast, at tho earliest, pra e ticable period. . . .. JUsohtd, That tho Democratlp part r, are in ttiot of thio npquisitioR-.of tl f; Island of Cuba on snch tenns ee shall t i, honorable to ourselves and just to Spain i, Hesohcd, That the enactments of Stai Pegislatariie tb 'defeat the' faitlifal cxeca ' : , h- iMl tioncf thodgitireSkiTblawarelkMtil , WiWm In qharactcr; sabversltW of the Cbastitaw lR tj tIon,Bd wtplulbBrylB:tBeircfcctr ' |