The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-09-18
PLAT FOR M
Of the Pro-SIavery Democratic Party,
Adopted at Cincinnati.

AuDpLCu dl M
The following are the resolutions ON the SUBJ
ject of Slavery. adopted by the old line party
RESOLVED, That we reiterate with renewed
energy of purpose. the we'll considered declara-
tions of former Conventions upon the sectional
issue of Domestic Slavery, and concerning the
reserved rights of the States
!. i. IhatCongress has no power under the
| Constitution, to interfere with or control the
domestic institutions of the several States; and
that such States are the sole and proper judges
of everything appertaining to their own af-
fairs, not prohibited by the Constitution that
all 'effortstby the Aboitionists or others, made
toinducesC Congress to interfere with questions
of Slavery, or take incipient Steps in relation
theretoI are eacalculated to lead to the most
alarming consequences; and that alisuch ef-
folts have an inevitable tendency to diminish
the happiness,of the people and endanger the
stability and perinanency of the Union, and
ought not to be couatenanced by any friend of
onr political institutions.
2. Thatlthe 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
! on, this Nationel platform. will abide by and
adhere to a faithful execution of the acts known
/ as the Compromise measures, settled by the
Congress for 1850, "the act for reclaiming fu-
gitives fom service or labor" included; which
act being designed to carry out an express pro-
vision ofthe Constitution, cannot. with fdeli-
| ty thereto be repealed, or SO changed as to de-
! stroy or impair its efficiency.
| 3. That the Democratic party will resist all
attempts at trcnewing in Congress or out OF it,
! the agitation of the slavery question, under
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made.
| 4. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold, The principles laid down
in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of
1888, 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 ofits political creed ,and is resolved
to carry them out in their obvious meaning and
import.
And that We may more distinctly meet the
issues on which sectional party, subsisting
exclusively on slavery agitation. now relies, to
test he fidelity of the people, North and South,
to the Constitution of the Union li
!. l,sREsoLvED, That claiming fellowship with, !,
and desiring the co operation of all who regard
the preservation of the Union under the Con
stitution as the paramount iss,le--and repudi-
ating all sectional parties and platforms con-
|cerning domestic Slavery, which seek to en-
broll the States, and incite to treason and arm
/ ed resistance to law in the Territories; and
whose avowed purposes, if consummated, must
end inicivil war and disnnioD--the American
Democracy recognize and adopt the principles
{eontained in the organic laws establishing the
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska as cmbody-
| 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 it's determined conservatism OF the
/ IUnion-NoN BY CONGRESS WITH
SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, Oh IN THE Dis
TRICT- OF COLUMBIA.
2 That this was the basis ofthe compromise
of l950-confrmed by both the Democratic and
Wing parties in National Conventions-ratified
by the people in the election of lS52-and
rightly applied to the organization of Terrific
ries in 1854.
g. That by the uniform application of this
Democratic princip pie to the organization of Ter
ritories, AMI to the admission of new States,
with or without domestic slavery, as they may
elect-the equal rights of all the States will be
preserved intad&-the original compacts OF the
Constitution maintained mviolate-aud the
perpetuity and expansion of this Union insured
to- it's utmost capacity of embracing, in peace
and harmony, every future American State that
may be constituted or annexed, with republi-
can form of government. .Ertf
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
habitants iustifes it, to form a constitution,
with or Without domestic slavery, and be ad-
mitted into the Union upon. terms of perfect
equality with the other States. %o@i s@
RESOLVED, That in view of so commanding
an interest, the people Of the United States can
not but sympathise with the efforts that are be-
ing made-by the people of Central America to
regenerate that portion of the continent which
covers the passage across the inter oceanic 18TH
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Resolved. That the Democratic party will
expect OF, the next Administration that every
proper effort be made to insure our ascendency
in the Gulf of Mexico, and to maintain a per-
manent protection to the great outlets through
which are emptied into its waters the products
raised out Of the soil, and the commodities ere,
ated by the industry of the people of our west
ern valley, and of the Union at large.
+ RESOLVED, That the Administration of FRANK
LIN PIERCE has been true to Democratic princi-
ples and therefore true to the great interests of
the country; in the face of violent opposition
he has maintained the laws at home, and vim
dicated the rights of American citizens abroad;
and therefore we proclaim our unqualified ad
miration of his measures and policy.
Buchanan endorses the above thus:
/ .Gentlemen, two weeks since I should
have made you longer speech, but 'aoao
Ihaue been placed upon a platform Of aohich
Iaaost heartily approve, and Mut can speak
for me. Being the representative Of the
great Democratic Party, and not simply
James Buchanan, I mast square nay con-
duct according to the platform of that party,
and insert no neaO plank nor take one from 1t.
That platform is sufficiently broad and ma
tional for the whole Democratic party.
This. glorious party. now, more than ever,
has demonstrated that it is the true con-
servative party of the Constitution and
of the Union. 31j 5ZDa YJoa Iaa
HOLD YOUR HORSES.
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