The Nevada Democrat., 1856-10-29
Platform OF the Democracy on the Slavery
Question.


Question:.
The resolutions of the Cincinnati Convention.
on this subject repeating the words of the reso-
lutions of former Democratic Conventions, are
as follows:
l. That Congress has no power under the
Constitution, to interfere with or control the
domestic institutions of the several States and
that such States are the sole and proper judges
of everything appertaining to their own affairs,
not prohibited by the Constitutions; th at all eff
forts of the abolitionsts or others, made to in
duce Congress to interfere with questions Of
slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation
thereto are calculated to lead to the most alar-
ming and dangerous consequences; and that all
such efforts have an inevitable tendency to di-
minish the happiness of the people, and endan-
ger the stability and permanency of the Union,
and ought not to be countenanced by any friends
of our political institutions.
2 That the foregoing proposition covers, and
was intended to embrace, the whole subject Of
slavery agitation in Congress- and therefore,
the Democratic party of the Union, standing on
this national platform will abide by and adhere
to q faithful execution Of the acts known as the
Compromise Measures, settled by the Congress
of 1850; "the acts for reclaiming the fugitves
from service of labor" included; which act be-
ing designed to carry out an express provision
of the Constitution, cannot, with fidelity there
to, be repealed, or SO changed as to destroy or
impair its efficiency ie -.. s=s..a. .,,.l rsF
3. That the Democratic party will resist all
attempts at renewing, in Congress. or out of IL,
the agitation of the slavery question, under
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made Lrr r.a. ..-..r .tls tf, aH
And here are the additional resolutions adopt
ed by the Cincinnati Convention, to cover the
controversy as it now exists: M q, .9
And that we may more distinctly meet the
issue on which sectional party, subsisting ex.
clusively on slavery agitation now relies to test
the fidelity of the people, North and South, to
the Constitution and the Union: f'H1u u
]. Resolped, That claiming fellowship with,
and desiring the cooperation of all who regard
the preservation of the Union under the Consti-
tuition as the paramount issue-and repudiating
all sectional parties and platforms concerning
domestic slavery, which seek to embroil the
States and incite to treason and armed resist
ance to law in the Territories; and whose avow-
ed purposes, if consummatcd, must end in civil
war and disunion--the American Democracy
recognize and adopt the principles contained in
the organic laws establishing the Territories Of
Kansas and Nebraska as embodying the only
sound and safe solution of the 'tslavery quesA
ton" upon which IFS great national idea of the
people of this whole country can reposc in its
determined conservatism of the Union--NoS-
INTERFERENCE By CONGRESS WITH SLAVERY IN
STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN THE DISTRICT oPCO-
LuMBIA.f . ..I la lro,r-sts
2. That this was the basis of the Compromises
of 1860 confirmed by both the Democratic and
Whig parties in national conventions-rat6e
by the people in the election of 1852. and right
ly applied to the organization of Territories in
1854
8. That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization Of
Territories. and to the admission of new States,
with or without domestic slavery. as they may
elect-the equal rights Of all the States will be
preserved intact-the original compacts Of the
Constitution maintained inviolate-and the per-
petuity and expansion of this Union insured to
the utmost capacity of embracing, in peace and
harmony, every future American State that may
be constituted or annexed, with a republican
form of government. uE "A a, .tF
Resolued, That We recognize the right of the
people of all the Territories, including Kansas
and Nebraska, acting through sthe legally and
fairly expressed will of majority of actual res
idents, and whenever the number of their inhab-
itants justifes it, to form Constitution, with
or without domestic slavery, and be admitted
into the Union upon terms of perfect equality
with the other States. iv saW
Who but Black Republican could see in
these fair and just principles that pro-slavery
spirit which is charged upon us?