Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-06-24


tons of the several States, and that
such States are the sole and proper
judges of everything appertainiug
to their own affairs, not prohibited
by the constitution; that all efforts
Of the abolitionists or Others made
to induce Congress to interfere with
questions of slavery, or to take in
eipient steps In relation thereto, are
calculated to lead to the most alarm
ing and dangerous consequences; and
that all such efforts have an ineyita-
BILE tendency to diminish the happi-
ness of the people and endanger the
stability and perrlanency of the
Union, and ought not to be cou nte-
nanced by any friend of our political
Institutions.
] 'Resolyed, That the foregoing
proposition covers and was intended
to embrace the whole subject of the
slavery agitation in Congress; and
therefore the democratic party of the
Union, standing on this national
platform. will abide by and adhere to
THE faithful execution of the acts
\ known as the compromise measures
jsettled by the last Congress, the act
for the retaining of fugitives from
service or labor included; which act,
being designed to carry out an ex-
press provision of the constitution,
cannot with fidelity thereto be re-
pealed or so changed as to destroy
or impair its efficiency.
1 "Resolved, That the democratic
party will resist all attempts at re-
newing, in Congress or out of it, the
agitation on the slavery question, I'M
der whatever shape or color the at
tempt may be made.
/ ssResolved, That the proceeds Of
the public lands ought to be sacredly
applied to the national objects spec
flied in the constitution; and that we
are opposed to any law for the distrl-
button of such proceeds among the
States, as alike Iinexpedient in policy
land repugnant to the constitution.
/ "Resolved, That We are decidedly
lOpposed to taking from the President
the qualified veto power, by which
he is enabled, under restrictions and
respd nsibilities amply sufficient to
guard the public interest, to suspend
the passage of a bill whose merits
cannot secure the approval of two.
thirds of the Senate and House of
Repre sentatives, until the judgment
Of the people can be obtained there
on, al nd which has saved the Ameri-
can people from the corrupt and
tyral nical domination of the Bank
Of the United States, and from a
CORFU pting system of general inter
ndi improvements.
'"Reso,ved, That the democratic
party will faithfully abide by and up
hold the principles laid down in the
Kent lucky and Virginia resolutions
IofI1798, and in the report of Mr.
Madison to the Virginia legislature
in 1899; that it adopts those princi-
pies as constituting one of the main
found atoms of its political creed,
and is resolved to carry them out in
their obvious meaning and import.
HResolyed, That the war with
Mexico, upon all the principles of
patriotism and the laws of nations,
was a just and necessary one on our
part, in which every American citi-
zen should have shown himself on the
side of his country, and neither NOR
ally or physically, by word or deed,
have given 'aid and comfort to the
enemy
4Resolved, That we rejoice at the
restoration of friendly relations with
our sister Republic Of Mexico, and
earnestly desire for her all the bless
ings and prosperity which we enjoy
under Republican institutions, and
we congratulate the American peo-
Iple upon the results of that war,
which have so manifesily justified
the policy and conduct Of the DEM
ocratic party, .and insured to the
United States indemnity for the past
and security for the future 4
Resolved, That in view of the
condition of popular institutions in
the old world,a high and sacred duty /
is devolved with increased response
'bility upon the Democratic party,
of this country as the party of the
people, to uphold and maintain the
rights of every State, and thereby
the Union Of the States, and to sus-
tain and advance among US constitu-
tional liberty, by continuing to re-
sist all monopolies and exclusive leg