Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-06-21

sedltlon laws from our statute book.
.. That Congress has no power under
the Constitution to interfere with or con-
troll the domestic institutions of the sew
eral States, and that all such States are
the sole and proper judges of everything
appertaining to their own affairs not pro-
hlbited by the Constitution; that all
efforts of the abolitionists or others made
to induce Congress to interfere with
questions of slavery, or to take incipient
steps in relation thereto. are calculated
to lead to the most alarming and danger
Gus consequences, and that all such efforts
have an inevitable tendency to diminish
the happiness of the people and endanger
the stability and permanency of the
Union, and ought not to be countenanced
by any friend of our political institu-
tons.
Resotced, That the foregoing PROPOSE
ton 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 ad-
here to a faithful execution of the acts
known as the Compromise measures set
tied by Congress, the act for retaining
/ tugltlveS from service or labor included |:
which act being designed to carry out an
express provision of the Constitution,
cannot with fidelity thereto be repealed
or so changed as to destroy Or impair its
efficiency.
Resolred, That the Democratic party
Will resist 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.
Resoiced, That the proceeds of the
public lands ought to be sacredly applied
to the national objects specified in the
Constitution, and that we are opposed to
any law for the distribution of such pro-
cceds among the States, as alike inexpe
dent in policy and repugnant to the Con
stitution.
Res0tCed, That We are decidedly OBJ
posed to taking from the President the
qualified Veto power, by which he is
enabled, under restrictions and response
bilities amply sufficient to guard the pub
lie interests, to suspend the passage of
bill whose merits cannot secure the APP
proval of two thirds of the Senate and
House of Representatives until the iudg-
ment of the people can be obtained there
on, and which has saved the American
people from the corrupt and tyranncal
dominion of the Bank of the United
States, and from corrupting system of
general Internal improvements.
Pcsoiced, That the Democratic party
will faithfully abide by and uphold the
principles laid down in the Kentucky and
Virginia resolutions of 1892 and 1898,
and in the report of Mr.. Madison to the
Virginia Legislature in 1799-that it
adopts those principles as constituting
one of the main foundations of its politi-
cal creed, and is resolved to carry them
out on their obvious meaning and i'm
port.
That in view of the condition of the
popular institutions in the Old World, a
high and sacred duty is involved with
increased responsibility upon the Demo-
cracy of this country, as the party of the
people, to uphold and maintain the rights
of every State, and thereby the union of
the States-and to sustain and advance
among them constitutional liberty, by
continuing to resist all monopolies and
exclusive legislation for the benefit of
the few, at the expense of many, and by
vigilant and constant adherence TO
those principles and compromises of the
Constitution-which are broad enough
and strong enough to embrace and uphold
the Union as it is, and the Union as it
should be-in the full expansion of the
energies and capacity of this great and
progressive people.
The following resolutions were also
adopted by the Convention as a part of
the Platform of the Democratic party.
Ind Whereas, Since the foregoing
declaration was uniformly adopted by
our predecessors in National Conven-
tons an adverse political and religious
test has been secretly organized by a
party claiming to be exclusively Amer
lean, and it is proper that the Amer
lean Democracy should clearly define
its relations thereto; therefore.
Resotocd, 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 in matters Of religious
concern, and no respect to persons in re-
gard to 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 a sectional party, subsisting ex-
clusiyely on slavery agitation, now relies
TO test the fidelity of the people, North
and South, to the Constitution and the
Union
Resol,ed, That claiming fellowship
with and desiring the cooperation Of all
who regard the preservation Of the Onion
under the Constitution as the paramount
issue, and rcpudiating 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 contaminated, must
end in civil war and disanion, the Amer