Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1855-10-27
DemoCra.iC Principle.

The Louisiana Courier remark, npbn
the similarity Of tue language held by
National Democratic Conven tons in the
Northern States upon the subject Of terri
torlal seif-government, that great aud car
d'hAi principle of our party. 1t quotes
from "ths platform Of the New York True
Democrats or Hards, ado pied at the Syra-
cuse State Convention Oh the 23d of Au-
gust"
Resolved, That we insist. as an article
OF our creed, upon the weil-establisheG
Democratic doctrine Of State Rights OF
strict constructor OF the Constitution.
aud the principle ofhon- Intervention up
on all domestic State questions; and ,lla;
the peace and quiet of the country de-
mand that it should be left to the De opIe
OF the Territories, as il pertains TO the
people OF the states, TO determine all local
questions, Including the subject of slavery
to the end that a subject so disturbing in
It's nature and influence NAV be wholly
excluded from the acioh Of the Govern
men: OF the Union; aud that in further
ance of these principles we give our un-
qualified adherence 10 the Nebraska bill
aud oppose any effort to re.establish the
Missouri Prohibition.
That OF the Massachusetts, Dem ocrat;c
State Convention:
Resolved, That we are in favor oil the
great doetrir es of popular sovereignty for
Territory and for Stale, and are opposed
70 all violations oft, whether by the I'M
Just action of the Aboltionis,s of the free
States, or by border aggressions from the
slave States.
That OF the Vermont Democratic State
Conventions:
Resolved, That we denounce and repu.
date all attempts Of demagogues and mis-.
LED phllanthrop'sts to form sectional par
ties, believing the Government cannot be
administered expressly for one interest or
section but that all have equal rights and
privileges, and equal claims to protection.
The Constitution cannot be construed so
as to bestow special lavors upon any por-
ton OF the conlederacy, it being federal
relation to the several states, leaving 10 the
people Of each State Or Territory the ex-
elusive right TO institute and regulate their
| own internal affairs.
That Of the Pennsylvania Democracy:
Resolved, That we are in favor Of the
compromise measures Of 1850, including
the fugitive slave law, and in favor of the
Kansas Nebraska act. which repeats the
Missouri Compromise, and which pro-
vdes for the admission of said Territories
as States, with or without slsvery, as
their Constitution may prescribe at the
time OF their admission''-it being the
true inten, and meaning of said act not 10
legisia,c slavery into any Territory or State
nor 10 exclude it therelIom. but to leave
the people thereof perfectly free to form
and regulate their domestic institutions in
their own way, subject only to the Con-
s,itu,ion of.the United States.
The platforms adopted in many ether
States might be added TO those the Cou-
rier quoies but the unanimiiy with which
the entire Democracy of,he Union NORTH
and South, approve the Nebraska Till,
does not netd to be proven. There has
been no SO called Democratic STATE Con.
vention which has refused TO indorse tina,
bill and the prime ipIe on which it is fouu-
| ied.