HAVE A WELL-DEFINED POLITICAL CREED-THE PRINCIPLES LIE WIDELY SCATTERED IN VARIOUS DOCUMENTS, SPEECHES, PRINCIPLES OF THE GREAT LEADERS-WASHINGTON WASHINGTON'S LEGACY TO HIS COUNTRY-HIS PLEA FOR UNION- UNION A FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINE OF DEMOCRACY -WARNS AGAINST SECTIONALISM -THE HEAPING UP OF PUBLIC DEBT- URGES HIS, COUNTRY TO DEAL WISELY WITH FOREIGN NATIONS -TO GUARD AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF INNOVATION-JEFFERSON FREE GOVERNMENTS-ECHOES THE SENTIMENTS OF HIS PRED ECESSORS-SEVENTEEN PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY-A COM- PREHENSIVE AXIOM OF FREEDOM-ANDREW JACKSON, "THE CHAPTER VII. DEMOCRATIC PLATFORMS. 1844–1848-1852-1856. 1844 — RESOLUTIONS ADDITIONAL TO PLATFORM OF 1840-BALTI- CHAPTER VIII. DEMOCRATIC PLATFORMS, 1860-1864. CONVENTION AT CHARLESTON, APRIL 23RD, 1860-DIVISION IN THE CONVENTION HON. B. F BUTLER-RESOLUTIONS OF THE MI- NORITY CHICAGO CONVENTION, AUG. 29TH, 1864-RESOLUTIONS CHAPTER IX. ......... .Page 72 THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF 1868. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION, NEW YORK, JULY 4TH, 1868 -RESOLUTIONS IN RELATION TO THE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS PRESIDENT JOHNSON COMMENDED CHAPTER X. CHIEF JUSTICE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORMS, 1872-1876. BALTIMORE CONVENTION OF JULY 9TH, 1872, ENDORSES THE PLAT- FORM OF LIBERAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION HELD IN CINCIN- CHAPTER XI. THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF 1880. .Page 87. CONVENTION OF JUNE 22ND, 1880, AT CINCINNATI-THE PLATFORMS |