The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-06-18


merits cannot secure the approval Of two thirds
of the Senate and House of Representatives un-
til the judgment of the people can be obtained
thereon, and which has saved the American peo-
Bple from the corrupt aud tyranical domination
ofthe Bank of the United States and from q
corrupting system of general internal improve
Ments.
10. That the liberal principles embodied hy
Jefferson in the Declaration of independence.
and sanctioned in the Constitution, which makes
ours the land Of liberty and the asylum of the
oppressed ofevery nation, have ever been eardi
nal principles in the Democratic faith. and every
attempt to abridge the privilege of becoming
citizens and the owners of soil among US, ought
to be resisted with the same spirit r'hich swept
the alien and sedition laws from our statute
books t.t.-r.
And WHEREAS, Since the foregoing rdeclara-
sion was uniformly adopted by. our predecessors
in National Conventions; an adverse political and
religious test has been secretly organized by a
partyclaiming to be exclusively American, it is
proper that the American Democracy should
clearly define its relations thereto, and declare
its determined opposition to all secret political
societies, by whatever name they NAV he called
! ResolUel, That the foundation of this union of
v,
expansion and pre- eminent example in free gov
eminent built upon entire freedom in matters Of
religious concernment and no respect to person
III regard to rank or place of birth; no partycan
Justly be deemed national, constitutional, or in
accordance with American principles, which ba-
SIS its exclusive organization upon religious
opinions and accidental birth-pla And hence
a political crusade in the nineteenth century and
in the United States of America against catho-
lies and gn-born, is neither justified by the
past history or the future prospects ofthe coun-
try, nor in unison with the spirit of liberation
and enlarged freedom which peculiarly dstn-
gpishes the American system Of popular govern
ment.
Resol0el, That we rcitcratc with renewed
energy ofpurpese, the well considered decara-
tions offormer Conventions ulDn the sectionol
issue OF domestic Slavery, and concerning the
reserved rights of the States
| /. That Congress has no powers utldcr the
Constitution, to interfere with or control the do
mestic institutions of the several States and that
such States are the sole and proper judges of
everything appcrtainiRg to their own affairs, not
prohibited by the constitution; that all efforts Of
the abolitionists or others, made to induce Coaq-
gress to interfere with questions of slavery; or
to take incipent steps in relation thereto, arc
gcrots consequences; and that all such efforts
have an inevitable tendency to diminish the hap
pincss ofthe people, and endangcr the stability
and permanency cfthc Union, and ought not to
be conntenapced by amy friends Of our political
Institutions
z. That the foregoing proposition covers, and
was intended to embrace the whole subject of
slavery agitation in Congress; and, therefore the
democratic party Of thc Union, standing on this
national platform, will abide by and adhere to
faithful execution of the acts known as the Com
promise Measures, settled by the Congress of
1850, 'the act for rcclainiug lugitiyes from SER
vice or labor" included; which act being design
cd to carry out an express provision of the Con-
stitution cannot, with fidelity thereto, be re-
pealed or so changed as to destroy or impair its
efficiency.
.. That the Democratic party will resist all
attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it,
the agitation ofthc slavery question, under what
ever shape or color the attempt mry be made.
T. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold the principles laid down in
the keRtucky and Virginia resolutions of 1873,
and in the report of Mr. Madison to the Virginia
Legislature, in 1893; that it adopts those princi-
pies as constituting one ofthe main foundations
of its political and is resolved to carry them
/
And that we may more distinctly meet the
issue on which sectional party subsstilig ex-
cluslvely on slavery agitation, now relics to test
the fidelity of the people, North and South, to
the Constitution and the Union:
!. ResOIUes& That claiming fellowship with.
and desiring the cooperation ofalt who regard
the preservation of the Union under the Const-
tuition as the paramount issue--and repudating
all sectional parties and platforms concerning
domestic slavery, which seek to embrol the
States and incite to treason and armed resist
ance to law in the Territories; and whose avow-
ed purposes, if consummated, 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 ard Nebraska as embodying the only
sound and safe solution ofthe slavery question:
upon which the great national idea of the pco-
pie this whole country can repose in its deter
mined conservatism of the Union--NoN-I INTER-
FERENCE BY CONGRESS- WITH SLAVERY IN STATE
4 AND TERRITORY, or IN THE DISTRICT OF CoLUM-
BIA.
2. That this was the basis Of the Comprom-
ises of 1950-confirmed by both the Democratic
and Wing parties in national conventions--rat-
ified by the people in the election of 1852, and
rightly applied to the organization Of Territories
| in 1854.
3. That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization of Ter
ritorics, and to the admission of new States,
with or without domestic slavery as they NAV
elect---thc equal rights of all the States will be
preserved intact-the original compacts of the
Constitution maintained inviolate, and the per-
petuity and expansion ofthis Union insured to
its utmost capacity of embracing, in peace and
harmony, every future American State that may
be constituted or annexed, with republican
form ofgovernment-
Reso7Oed That we recognize the rights of the
people Of all the Territories, including Kansas
and Nebraska, acting through the the legally and
fairly expressed will ofa majority Of actual resi-
| dents and whenever the number of their inhabi-
tants justlfies it, to form Constitution, with or
without domestic slavery, and be admitted into
the Union upon terms Of perfect equality with
the other States.
Resolued, finally, That in view of the condition
Unpopular institutions in the Old World, (and
the dangerous tendencies Of sectional agitation,
combined with the attempt to enforce civil and
religious disabilities against the right Of acquir-
ing and enjoying citizenship in our own a high
and sacred duty is developed with increased re-
sponsibility upon the Democratic party of this
country, as tho party Of the Union, to uphold
land maintain the rights ofevery State, and there-
| by The Unionof the States; and to sustain and
advance among us, constitutional liberty, by
continuing to resist all monopolies and exclusive
legislation for the benefit Of the few, at the ex-
| pensc of the many, and bv yigilant and com