Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-06-07
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CON-
VENTION.

From the proceedings that have reached
us we make the following summary of
interesting items:
The committee on permanent organi-
cation reported the name of JOHN 4.
WARD, of Georgia, for President, which
was received with applause; also the
names of thirty Vice-Presidents, among
whom is Hon. EDWARD HAMMOND. of
this State. The committee also recon-
mended the adoption of the rules of the
last National Convention for the govern
ment of the present. The report was
unanimously adopted. The President,
upon taking the chair, delivered a neat
and appropriate address, in which he re-
viewed the past history of parties in our
country, and adverted to the existing
state of things, and the great duty at
present resting upon the Democratic
party.
A proposition for the admission of out
siders, with whom the city is overlooking,
was debated at length and finally laid
upon the table.
A report was made and carried in
favor of admitting the anti Benton dele
gates from Missouri.
The committee Oh Resolutions, through
Mr.. HALLETT, of Massachusetts, their
chairman, reported platform embracing
the general principles of the last Con-
vention, denouncing religious intolerance
and prescription on account of birth !;
affirming the principles Of the Kansas
and Nebraska act as embodying the only
solution of the slavery question consistent
with the non-interference of Congress
with slavery in the States and Terrific
ries. We give entire the resolutions
touching the new issues that have arisen
since the adoption Of the platform of
1852.
ReSolced, That an adverse political
and religious test has been secretly or
ganized by party claiming to be exclu-
sively American, and it is proper that
the American Democracy should clearly
define its relations thereto; therefore,
Rcsoiced, That the foundation of this
union of States having been laid in its
prosperity, expansion and pre-eminent
example in free government, built upon
entire freedom il matters of religious
concern, aud no respect to persons in re-
gard 10 rank or place of birth, no party
can justly be deemed national, constitu-
tional or in accordance with American
principles, which bases its exclusive or
ganization upon religious opinions and
accidental birthplace. That we reiterate
with renewed energy of purpose, the
well considered declarations of former
conventions upon the sectional issue of
domestic slavery and concerning the re-
served rights Of the States; and that we
may more distinctly meet the issue on
which sectional party, subsisting ex-
elusively on slavery agitation, now relies
to test the fidelity of the people, North
and South, to the Constitution and the
Union
Resoloc1, That claiming fellowship
with and desiring the cooperation of all
who regard the preservation of the Union
under the Constitution as the permanent
issue, and regulating all sectional par
ties 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
avowed purposes, if consummated, must
end in civil war and disunion, the Amer
lean 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 slavery
question upon which the great national
idea of the people of this whole country
can repose in its determined conservatism
of the Union; non-interference by Con-
gress with slavery in States and Terrific
ries: that this was the basis of the com
promises of 1850, confirmed by both the
Democratic and Wing partiesin National
Conventions, ratified by the people in
the election of 1852, and rightly applied
TO the organization of territories in 1884 ;
that oy the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization
of Territories and 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 invidatc, and the perpetua-
ton and expansion of this Union ensured
to its utmost capacity Of embracing In
peace and harmony every future Amer
lean State. that may be constituted or
annexed with a republican form OF gov
ernment.
Resolred, That we recognize the right
of Mc people of all the Territories, in
GLIDING Kansas and Nebraska, acting
through the fairly expressed will of the
majority of actual residents, and when
ever the number of their inhabitants
iustifes it, to form a constitution, with
or without domestic slavery, and be adj
mitted into the Union upon terms of per-
feet equality with the other States.
Upon the foregoing resolutions the
vote was taken by States, which was
unanimous in their favor, there being
2Gl aces, noes none.