The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-12-19
4 SOUND -PLArRonM.

A SOUND PLATEOAm Ne
The following resolutions, passed at a
recent State Convention of the Democ-
racy of New Hampshire, have been al
most unanimously approved by the Dem
ocratic press Of the State. Someo of our
contemporaries suggest that tbsy should
be adopted by ourcoming State Cohyen-
ton. To our mind, they are iust what
we want. They are sufficiently explicit
to satisfy certain ultraists we might
name, and yet are free from sury lusages
and offensive declarations that might
offend certain Democrats in this latitude
We can see nothing in them inconsist-
ent with the Platform recently adopted
by the Democracy ofthis County, and
we believe they would be generally &C.
ceptable to Democrats in this section OF
the State. Democrats hereabouts agree
to disagree as to the policy of repeating
the Missouri Compromise but the. doc
trine of popular Sovereignty all endorse
which ought to be satisfactory. But
Resoir,d, That while the shifting
organizations of our opponents have bei-
Their -permaneney of name nor consist
ency of doctrine, it is at once the merit
ard the glory of the Democratic party
its great and guiding principles are i'm
mutable, its purpose fixed, and its name
time-h"nored and u~nchungiBg.
ResolUed, That we hold to Il strict
construction of the constitution. ab.ti-
hence from the exercise of u~ndelegated
or doubtful powers, an eeonom cal ad.
ministration Of the State and Federal
governments, and a scrupulous observ
ance of the reserved righis Of States and
individuals.
"ResolUed, That the Demooracy has
no secrecy, and requires 10 oath; that
while it publicly ayows, as a fundamen-
tai principle, freedom of conscience,
without distinction of religious faith,
the political equality of all whom the
law recognizes as American citizens.
without reference to the accident of
birth, it relics for success upon open
discussion and the Intelligence of the
PEG, lie; We therefore, denOunce the
Know Nothing organization, 50 called,
as intollerant in its warfare upon the
freedom of religious belief and the tsa-
cred rights of conscience, urjustly ex-
elusive in its requirements of birth aid
blood. aud santi-republican aud danger
Gus in its methods of secret p~olitita ac-
ton, as eorrup.ing in its encouragement
Of secret combustion and falsekood
reprehensible in its objects. and unmarl-
ly aud ~dishonorable IN the modes by
which it seeks their accomplishment
Resolred. That we believe in the
cardinal doctrines of State rights and
popular sovereignty, that we recognize in
the broadcast sense, as just and salutary,
the principle that to the people Of every
organized State and Territory belongs
the right and prerugatire Of regulating
for themselves their own domestic aud
local affaDs within the limits of the con-
stitutioH; aud that we den0unce all vi
ola'ions of this principle, whether by the
interference IF abolitionists of the free
States or by the aggressious of their
abettors in the work Of sectional agita-
ton from the slave States.
"Resolred. That the constitution Of
the United States is fouA.Ad upon the
fundamental principle of entire aud alb
%solute equality among all the States of
this Union; aud it is o competent for
Congress, or any ether power, to impose
upon new States coming into the Union
any condition or restriction in respect
to their domestic institution s or internal
concerns, which the federal constitution
has not imposed upon the original States;
aud that any effort on the part of Con
gress. or any other power, to violate the
principal, should be met aud resisted
by all good citizens as an attempt to
trample upon the constitution and de-
stroy the Union