Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1856-07-30

country, nor in unison with the spirit o.
liberation and enlarged freedom which
peculiarly distinguishes the American
system Of popular government.
Resolved, That we reiterate with re-
newed energy Of purpose, the weli-con-
sfdered declarations of former Conven-
tons upon the sectional issue Of Domes.
tic Slavery, and concerning the reserved
rights of the States.,- ! -. NJ.
II H. That Congress has ne power under
the Constitution, to interfere with or con-
troll the domestic institutions Of the sew
eral States, and that such States are the
sole and proper judges Of everything ap-
pertaining to their own affairs, not pro-
hibited BY the Constitution; that all eff
forts Of the abolitionists or others, made
to induce Congress- to interfere with
questions of slavery, or to take incipient
steps in. relation thereto, are calculated
to lead to the most alarming and danger
GUS consequences; and that all such eff
forts have an inevitable tendency to di-
minish the happiness Of the people, and
I endanger the stability and permanency
of the Union, and ought not to be countc-
nanced by any friend Of our political in
situations. Zt- .
2. That the foregoing proposition COW
ers, and was intended to embrace, the
whole subject Of slavery agitation in Con.
gress.; and therefore, the Democratic
party Of the Union, standing. on this ma
tional platform, viii abide by and adhere
to faithful execution of the acts known
as the Compromise Measures, settled by
the Congress of 1850; "the actor re-
claiming fugitives from service or labor"
inchded which act being designed to
carry out an express provision of the
Constitution, cannot, with fidelity there
to, be repealed, or so changed as to de-
stroy or impair its efficiency. T. ,
8. That the Democratic party will re-
sist all attempts atrenewing, in Congress
and out oft, the agitation Of the slavery
question. under, whatever shape or color
the attempt may be made. r 7.... l. !
( A. That the Democratic party will
faithfully abide BY and uphold the prin-
ciples laid down in the Kentucky and
Virginia resolutions of 1898. and in the
report of Mr.. Madison to the Virginia
Legislature, in 1893; that it adopts those
principles as constituting one of the main
foundations Of its political creed. and is
resolved TO- carry them out in their OBJ
vious meaning and import H.. i
And that we may more distinctly meet
the issue on which sectional party,
subsisting exclusively on slavery agita-
ton, now relies to test the fidelity Of the
people, North and South, to the Consti-
tuition and the Union: s.-'E..
I. Resotped, That claiming fellowship
with, and desiring the cooperation Of all
who regard the Preservation of the I'm
ion under the Constitution as the para
mount issue-and repudiating all sec
tional parties and platforms Concerning
domestic slavery, which seeks to. em5reil
the States and. incite to treason an arm
ed resistance to law in the Territories
and whose ayowed purposes, if consum-
mated, must end in civil war and disun-
ion--the American Democracy recognize
and adopt 4he principles contained in
the organic laws establishing the Terri |
tories Of Kansas and Nebraska as embo
dying the only sound and safe solution
Of the slavery question upon which
the great national idea Of the people of
this whole country can repose in its de-
conservatism of the Union
Non interference by Congress with sla.
very in State and Territory, or in the
District of Columbia.
9. That this was the basis of the Com
promises of 1850-confmed by both the
DeIhoertic and the Wing parties in ma
tional cenventions-ratifed by the people
in the election ofl859, and rightly appli-
ed to the organization of Territories in
1854. .:,~. 49,. '.....
y 3. That by the uniform application of
this Democratic principle 10 the organi-
zation Of Territories, and to the admis.
sion ofsnew States, with or without do
nestle slavery, as they may elect-.he
equal rights Of all the States will be pre-
served ,intact-the original compacts of
the Constitution maintained inviolate--
and the perpetuity and expansion of this
Union insured to its utmost capacity of
in peace and harmony, every
future American State that may be con
stituted or annexed, with a, republican
form of government. 49, TE.'sf
ResoiUed, That we recognizethe right
of the people of all the territories, includ-
ing Kansas and Nebraska, acting through
the legally and fairly expressed will Of a
majority of actual residents, and whenev-
er the number of their inhabitants justi-
fees it, to form constitution, with or
without domestic slavery, and be admit
ted into the Union upon terms of perfect
equality with the other States. /. =. H..
Resolved, finally, That in view of the
condition of popular institutions in the
Old World, land the dangerous tenden.
cies of sectional agitation. combined with
the attemptto enforce civil and religious
disabilities against the rights of acquir-
ing and enjoying citizenship in our own
land, a high and sacred duty is involyed
with increased responsibility upon the
Democratic party OF this country, as the
party Of the Union. to uphold and main
tain the rights Of every State, and there
by the union Of the States; and to sus-
tain and adyanca among ms constitu tim