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ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY AT THE CONVENTION OF EIIn
DEMOCRACY oy LOUISIANA, IN CONVENTION
AT BATON. .RoCGE, JUNE Is, 1858.

| ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY AT THE CONVENTION OF TuH
DEMOCRACY OF LOUISIANA, IN CONVENTION
AT BAToS-RoUaE, JUNE Is, 1855.
Resolucd, That the State of Louisiana, in the ude.
ment of this Convention will and ought to resist even
las last resor) to disruption of every tie which
binds her to the Union any action of Congress upon
the bect of slavery in the District of Columbia or
in places subject to the Jurisdiction of Corgress In
compatible with the safety, domestic tranquility, the
rights and honor of the saveholding States or any
act suppressing the slave trade between the slave-
holding States any refusal to admit State any
Territory hereafter applying because of the existence
of slavery therein Or any act prohibiting the intro
ductOn of slaves into the Territories of Utah and
New Mexico any act repeating materially modE-
flying the laws in force for recovery of fugitive savea
ResoLued, That we approve and endorse the action
of last Congress in the NebgaskaKansas act and
the principles therein established and in conformity
with these principles, the people of Kansas have tho
right when the number OF that population justfes IT,
to form Republican State Constitution with or with
out slavery as they may determine, and be admitted
into the Union upon equal footing with the other
States and that her rejection by Congress- on account
of slavery, would be just cause for the disruption
Of all the ties that bind the State of Louisiana to the
Union.
Resolved, That in accordance with the above reso-
utons, whilst we willing to act in party associa-
tions with all sound and reliable in every section
of the Union, not willing to affiliate with any
party that shall not recognize approve and carry QUE
the principles and provisions of the Nebraska Kansas
act, and that the Democratic party OF Louisiana will
cut off all connection with every man and party AZ
the North Or elsewhere that does not come up fully
and fairly to this line of action.
Resolved, That the National Democracy Of the
North, who have patrotically fought for the Kansas
and Nebraska acts and the maintenance of the
Fugitive Slave Law, against the combined forces
of KNOWN -Nothngism and Abolitionism, who seek
their repeal, and who stand pledged to support the
admission of Kansas into the Union as Slave State.
should she ask it. merit sympathies thanks and en-
couragement Of Southern in this patriotic posi-.
ton.
Resolved, That in the National Democratic party
OF the North alone have been found those patriotic
men who have thus stood by the rights of the South
and Judging the future by the past that party is the
only organization at the North that now exists or can
be formed with which the South can consistently
cooperate.
ResOSUed, That we sympathize with the friends OF
the slavery cause in Kansas in their manly efforts to
maintain their rights and the rights and interests Of
the Southern people, and that we rejoice at their re-
cent victories over the paid Adventures and Jesuit
cal hordes of Northern Abotonisn. That the deep
interest felt and taken by the people of Missouri in
| the settlement of Kansas and the decision of the
slavery question in it, is both natural and proper and
that it is their right and duty to extend to their
Southern brethren in that territory every legtmata
and honorable sympathy and support
| ResoIoed That we are uncompromisingly opposed
to the political organization commonly called the
Know Nothing Order OF American party, having no
sympathy with their secrecy, their Oats, their un-
constitutional designs, their religious intolerance.
their political prescription and their Abolition asso.
| citation at the North.
Resolued, That we hail with delight the late signal
triumph in Virginia Of the Democratic party and the
patriotic Wings, who co-operated in achieving thai
result over the Know-Nothing organization, as con
elusive evidence, that in the great practical questions
involved in that contest Southern men may honor.
ably and successfully combine, without regard ia
past political distinctions to the Constitution
from desecraon and the South from being prestrated
before the powers Of Northern fanatcism and msrnle
Resoiued, That the political necessity and the en
harrassmens constantly arising from our commercial
relations with Spain alike dictate the necessity Of the
annexation Of Cuba to this country at the earliest
period compatible with national honor and treaty
obligations
Resotped, That the Democratic and National brIn
cpes declared and set forth in the inaugural address
of President Pierce meet our cordial approval. and
that he is entitled to the thanks of the country fo
his enforcement Of those principles in the signature
and approval Of the NebraskaKansas bill, his fafthf,
execution of the Fugitive Slave law his various We
toes and other measuses of administrative policy Ii
conformity to those principles.