The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-23
PLAT FOR M
OF the Pro-Slavery Democratic Party,
Adopted at Cincinnati.

The following are the resolutions on the sub
ject of Slavery. adopted by the old line party:
RESOLVED, That reiterate with renewed
energy of purpose the we'll considered decl LARA
tiuus of former Conventions upon the sectional
issue of Domestic Slavery, and concerning the
reserved rights of the States
! |. That Congress has DO power under the
Constitution, to interfere with or control the
domestic institutions of the several States; and
that such States are the soc and proper Judges
of everything appertaning to their own at
fairs no, prohibited by the Constitution; that
all efforts by the Abolitionists or others, made
! to induce Congress to interfere with questions
of Slavery, or take incipient s.eps III relation
thereto, are calculated to lead to the most
alarming consequences; and that all such ef-
/ fo. is have an inevitable tendency to diminish
! the happiness of the people and endanger the
stability and pernancncy of the Union, and
ought not to be countcnanced 10y any friend of
our political Institutions.
2. That the foregoing proposition covers and
! W is intended to embrace the whole subject OF
slavery agitation in Congress: and therefore
the Democratic party of the Union, standing
on this Nationcl platform. will abide by and
adhere to faithful execution of the acts known
as the Compromise measures, settled by the
Congress for 1850, "thc act for retaining flu
gitvcs ON service or labor, included; which
act being designed to carr, out an express pro
|
ty thereto, be repealed, or so changed as to de
stroy or impair its efficiency.
3. That the Democratic party will resist all
attempts atrCnewing i'll Congress o: out OF 1T,
the agitation of the slavery question, und r
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made
L. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold the principles laid down
i'll the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of
1898, and in the report of Mr.. Madison to the
Virginia Legislature, in 1899; that it adopts
those principles as constituting one of the main
foundations of its olitica creed and is lesolved
to carry them out in their obvious meaning and
import.
And that We may more distinctly meet the
issues which sectional party, subsistng
exclusively on slavery agitation. now relies, to
test he fidelity of the people, North and South,
to the Constitution of the Union
! l. RESOLVED, That claiming fellowship with,
and desiring the operation of all who regard
the preservation Of the Union under the Con-
stitution as the paramount issue--and repudI-
ating all sectional parties and platforms con-
cerning domestic Slavery, which seek to en-
broil the States, and incite to treason and arm
ed resistance to law in the Territories; and
whose avowed purposes, lfconsummated, If must
! end in civil war and disunon--thc American
| Democracy recognize and adopt the principles
contained i'll the organic laws e ,tabishing the
7
ing the only sound and safe solution of the
Slavery question upon which the great ma
tional idea of the people of this whole country
can repose in its determined conservatism OF the
| Unlon--NoN-INTERFERENCE BY CONGRESS WITH
SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRIToRY, OR IN THE DIS
TRrcT OF COLUMBIA.
=. That this was the basis ofthe compromise
of 161C-cohfrmed by both the Democratic and
Whig parties in National Conventions-ratifed
by the people in the election of le52-and
rightly applied to the organization of Terrific
rles in 1854
3. That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization of Tel
ritories, and to the admission of new States,
with OF 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 inviolatc-and the
perpetuity and expansion of this Union insured
| to its utmost capacity of embracing, in peace
and harmony, every future American State that
may be constituted or annexed, with republi-
can form of government.
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
habtants justifes it, to form a constitution,
with or without domestic slavery, and be adj
,ted into the Union upon terms of perfect
/ equality with the other States.