The true Democrat., 1856-07-08


 ton of the country has right to demand and insist upon equality of rights and privileges. and pletc and ample protection of person and property from domestic violence and foreign aggression.
 ,. That 1t is the duty of every branch of the Gov ernment to enforce and practice the rigid econo my in conducting public affairs and that more revenue ought to be raised than Is required to deray the necessary expenses of the Government, and for gradual but certain extinction of the public debt.
 6. That Congress has no power to charter a nation al bank; that believe such an institution one of deadly hostility to the best interest of our country dangerous to republican institutions and the lib critics of the people, and calculated place the bu>i ness of the country within the control of conccntra- ted money power. and above the laws and will of the people; and that the results of Democratic legislation m this and all other financial measures upon which issues have been made between the two political par ties of the country have demonstrated to practical men ot all parties their sounduess safety and utility in all business pursuits.
 '. That the separation Of the moneys of the Gov ernment from all banking institutions is ndspensa- ble for the safety of the funds of the Government and the rights of the people.
 5. That the liberal principles embodied by .Jetfer- son Tn the Declaration of Independence. and sane toned ill the Constitution which makes the land Of belty, and the asylum of the oppressed of every nauon have ever been cardinal principles in the De mocratc faith; and every attempt to abridge the pri vlege of becoming citizens and owners of soil among Us ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and sedition laws from statute book
 g. That Congress has no power under the Consti- tuition to interfere with control the domestic nsti tutUnS of the several States and that all such States are the sole and proper judges of everything apper tainng to their affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts of the ubotonists or others made to induce Congress to interfere with questions o slavery, to take incipent steps in latlon thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency diminish thC ity and pernanencv of the Union, and ough. not to be countenanced by any friend of our political nsti tutions.
 ReSolred, 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 this national plat form, will abide by and adhere to faithful eXecu- ton of the acts known as the compromise measures settled by Congress, the act for retaining tugives from service CT labor included; which act being de- signed to carry out express provision of the Con ettuon. cannot, with fidelity thereto. be repealed or So changed as to destroy or impair its efficiency.
 Resolfed, hat the dem cratic party will eSist all attempts at renewing in Congress or out of it. the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
 Reso1rfd, That the proceeds of the public lands ought to be sacrediy applied to the national objects specified in the constitution and that we are opposed to any law for the distribution of the proceeds among the States alike ineXpedient in policy and repug- nant to the stitutOn.
 Resolred. That are decidedly opposed to taking from the President the qualified veto power, by which he is enabled. under restrictions and responsi blities amply sufficient to guard the public interests to suspend the passage ot bill whose merits cannot secure the approval of two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, until the judgment of the people can be obtained thereon. and which has saved the American people from the corrupt and tyraMni- cal dominion of the Bank of the United States and from corrupting system of general internal i'm proVementS.
 Res11yed, That the Democratic party will faithfully abide by and uphold the principles laid down in he Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of l7s2 and l7gS and in the report of Mir. Madison to the Virginia le- golature in l799-that it adopts those principles as constituting one of the main foundations of it's po- tica creed and is resolved to carry them out in their obvious meaning and import.
 That i'll view of the condition of the popular insti- tutions in the old world high and sacred duty is involved with increased responsibility upon the De mocracy of this country, the party of the people to uphold and maintain the rights of every State and thereby the union of the States-and to sustain ad advance among them constitutional liberty. by con- tlnuing to resist all monopoes and exclusive cgsla hon for the benefit of the few the expense of the many, and by vgilant and constant adherence to those principles and compromises of the constitution which are broad enough and strong enough to em- brace and uphold the Union as it is and the Union as it should bein the full expansion of the energies and capacity of this great and progressive people
 The following are the supplementary resolutions III relation lo the NeDrlSka question: and the foreign policy of the government.
 ind UheJeas Since the foregoing declaration was uniformly adopted by our predecessors in National Conventions an adverse political and religious test has been secretly organized by party claiming to be exclusively Americans, and it is proper that the American Democracy should clearly define it's rea- tiOns thereto: therefore,
 ReSolred. That the foundation of this Union of States having been laid in its prosperity, expansion and pre- e-eminent example in free government, built upon entire freedom in matters of religious concern and respect of persons in regard to rank or place of birth, no party can justly be deemed national, constitutional or in accordance with American prin- cpes which bases its exclusive organization upon re- ligious opinions and accidental birth place.
 That reterate with renewed energy of purpose the well considered declarations of former conven~ tions upon the sectional issues of domestic slavery and concerning the reserved ghts of the States; and that may more distinctly meet the issue on which sectional party, subsistng exclusively on slavery agitation relies to test the fidelity of the people North and South to the Constitution and the Union
 Reso1yed, That claiming fellowship with and desir- ing the co operation o1 all who regard the preserva ton of the Union under the Constitution the para mount issue and repudiating all sectional parties and platforms concerning domestic slavery which seek to embro the States and incte to treason and armed resistance to law in the territories and whose avowed purpose. if consummated must end in civil war and disunion. the sAmerican Democracy recognise and adopt the principles contained in the organic laws
  embodying the only sound and safe solution of the slavery question upon which the great national idea of the people of this whole country repose in its determined conservatism of the Union and NON FRY IN THE STATES AND TERRITORIES, OR IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; that this was the basis of the compromises of lS50 confirmed by both the Democratic and Whg parties in national conventions, ratified by the people in the election of 1852 and rightly applied to the organization of ter ritories in lS54 that by the uniform application of this Democratic principle to the organization of terri tories and the admission of new States, with with out domestic slavery, as they may elect the equal rphts of the States will be preserved intact the or- gnal compacts of the constitution maintained invio-
 late and the perpetuation and expansion of the Union insured to its ostcapacity of embracing in peace and harmony, every future American State that may be constituted or annexed with republican form of government.
 Resolned That we recognize the right of the peo- pe of all the territories including Kansas and Ne braska acting through the fairly expressed will of the majority of actual residents and whenever the num- Der of their inhabitants ustifes it, to form consti tution with or without domestic slavery and to be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equa ty with the other States.
 Adopted unanimously.
 THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. Reso1red, finally, That by the condition of the popular institutions of the old world and the danger nns tendency of sectional agitation. combined with an attempt to enforce civil and religious disabilities asainst the right of acquiring citizenship in our own Iand the high and sacred duty has devolved with in creased responsibility upon the democratic party of this country the party of the Union 70 upAotd and mn;nta;n the riqht o srey State, and thereby the s4 1aion a tss the States, and to sustain and advance among % us constitutiona liberty by continuing to re- sist ali monopolies and exclusive legislation for the benefit of few at the expense of the many ana oy vigilant adhereance to these principles and the com promises of the constitution, winch are oI9ao ana strong enough to embrace and uphold the Union as
 it was the Union it is and the Union asi shall DC
 in the full expansion of the energies and capacities o this great and pro9ressi ve people.