The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-09-11
PLAT z OR M
OF the Pro-Slayery Democratic Party,
bf Adopted at Cincinnati. 4l

4 AU0pteu ENJlAClntl3L1s- q h-.
The following are the resolutions on the sub
ject of Slavery. adopted by the old line party
REsoLvEp, That we reiterate with renewed
energy of purpose. Che well considered deGlara-
tions of former Conventions upon the sectional
4 issue Of Domestic Slavery. and concerning the
reserved rights Of the States
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 af-
fairs, not prohibited blythe Constitution; that
all efforts by the Abolitionsts or others, made
to induce Congress to interfere with questions
of Slavery, or take incipient Steps III relation
thereto. are calculated to lead to the most
alarming consequences; and that all such eff
fo is have an inevitable tendency to diminish
the happiness of the people and endanger the
stability and permauency of the Union, and
ought not to be countenanced by any friend OF
our political Institutions.
9 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 Nationel platform. will abide by and
adhere to faithful execution Of the acts known
as the Compromise measures, settled by the
| Congress for 1850, 'the act for reclaiming fu-
gitives Fl ON service or labor, y included; which
act being designed to carry out an express pro
vision of the Constitution, cannot, with hdell-
| ty thereto, be repealed, or SO changed as to de-
stroy or impair its efficiency.
3. That the Democratic party will resist a Ii
attempts atrcnewing III Congress o: out OF 1t,
the agitation of the slavery question, und2r
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made. asa5 ts1
A. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold, heprinciples 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 ofits political creed land is resolved
to rythem out in their obvious meaning and
import Is 51a S. i4Ua
And that ne may more distinctly meet the
issues on which sectional party, subsisting
exclusively oh slavery agitation. now relies, to
testthe fidelity Of the people, North and South,
to the Constitution of the Union
/. RESOLVED, That claiming fellowship with,
and desiring the cooperation ofallwho regard
the preservation of the Union under the Con-
stitution as the paramount issHe-and repudl-
ating ali sectional parties and platforms con-
cerning domestic Slavery, which seek to en-
broil the States, and incitc to treason and arm
ed resistance to law in the Territories; and
whose ayowed purposes, ifconsummated, must
end III 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 -emhody-
ing the oaly sound and safe solution of the
Slavery question upon which the great ma
tional idearof the people of this whole country
caarepose in its determined conservatism OF the
Union-HoN7 INTERFERENCE BY coNGREsS WITH
SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRIToisY, OR IN THE DIS
TRicr OF CoLuMBIA.
,. That this was the basis ofthe compromise
of l850-confrmed by both the Democratic and
Whig parties in National Converts ons-ratified
by the people in the election of l852-and
rightly applied to the organization of Terrlto-
res in .lS54.I W
3. That by the uniform application of this,
Democratic principle TO the organization of Ter
ritories, and to the admission Of new States,
with or without domestic slavery, as they may
elect--the equal rights ofall the States will be
preserved intact-the original compacts of the
CONSTITUTION maintained inviolate-and the
perpetuity and expansion Of this Union insured
to its utmost capacity of embracing, in peace
and harmony, every future American Stale that
may be constituted or annexed, with republi
can form ofgovernment. Iii
RESOLVED. That we recognize the right of
the people of all the Territories, including Kan
sas and Nebraska, acting through the legally
and fairly expressed will Of majority of actual
residents. and whenever the number Of the in
habitants justifies it, to form a constitution,
with or without domestic slavery, and be ad-
mitted into the Union upon terms of perfect
equality with the other States.
RESOLVED, That in view of so commanding
an interest the people of the United States can
not but sympathise with the efforts that are be-
ing made by the people Of Central America to
regenerate thatportion of the continent which
covers the passage across the 1nter-oceanlc 18th
mus.
expect of the next Administration that every
proper effort be made to insure our ascendency
in the Gulf of Mexico, and to maintain a per-
manent protection to the great outlets through
which are elnptied into It's waters the products
raised out of the SOIL and the commodities ere
ated by the industry ofthe people of our west
ern valley, and of the Union at large
RESOLVED, Thatthe Administration of FRANK
LIN PIERCE has been true to Democratic princi
PIES and therefore true to the great interests of
the country; in the face Of violent opposition
he has maintained the laws al home, and vim
dicated the rights of American citizens abroad;
and therefore we proclaim our unqualified ad-
miration Of his measures and policy.
Buchanan endorses the above thus:
s.Gentlemen, two weeks since ! should
have made you longer speech, but noep
Ihape been ploced upon a platform Of ahieh
Inaost heartily approve, and that can speak
for ne. Being the representative Of the
great Democratic Party, and not simply
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