The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-08-21
PL AT OR M
OF the Pro-Slayery Democratic Party,
Adopted ut Cincinnati.

Adopted at Cincinnati.
The following are the resolutions on the sub
ject of Slavery. adopted by the old line party:
RESOLVED, That we reterate with renewed
energy of purpose the well considered declara-
tions of former Conventions upon the sectional
issue of Domestic Slavery, and concerning the
reserved rights of the States
l. That Congress 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 at
fairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that
all efforts by the Aholitionists or others, made
to induce Congress to interfere with questions
of Slavery, or take incipient steps in relation
thereto, are calculated to lead to the most
alarming consequences; and that all such eff
fo. is 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 countenanccd by any friend Of
our political institutions.
2. 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
on this Nationel platform. will abide by and
adhere to faithful execution of the acts known
as the Compromise measures, settled by the
Congress for 1850, ''the act for reclaiming flu
gtives f ON service or labor" included; which
act being designed to carry out an express pro-
vision of the Constitution, cannot, with hdell-
ty thereto, be repealed, or so changed as to de-
stroy or impair its efficiency.
i 3. 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
A. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold, the principles laid down
in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions OF
1898, and in the report of Mr.. Madison to the
Virginia Legislature, in 1893; 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 a 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
!. RESOLVED, That claiming fellowship with,
and desiring the cooperation 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 incitc to treason and arm
ed resistance to law in the Territories; ano
whose avowed purposes, if fconsummated, must
end III civil war and disuniop-the American
Democracy cognize and adopt the principles
contained in the organic laws establishing the
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska as embody
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 tht
Union-NoN-INTERFERE BY CONGRESS WITH
SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN THE DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA.
2. That this was the basis of the compromis'
= oF i 10th fIo Ic n
Whig parties in National Conventions-ratlfiet
by the people in the election of ls52-ant
rightly applied to the organization of Terrlto
! ries in 1854.
|, g. That by the uniform application of thi
: Democratic principle to the organization OF Ter
ritories, and to the admission of new States
with or without domestic slavery, as they ma.
! elect-the equal rights of all the States will b
u = preserved intact-the original compacts of tn
= Constitution maintained inviolate-aud tn
perpetuity and expansion of this Union insured
to its utmost capacity of embracing, in peac
and harmony, every future American State tha
II Il maybe constituted or annexed, with republi
. can form of government.
RESOLVED. That we recognize the right Q
y the people of all the Territories, including Kan
u sas and Nebraska, acting through the legal
and fairly expressed will of majority of actua
y residents, and whenever the number OF the In
habitants iustif1es it, to form constitution
|, with or without domestic slavery, and be ad
y milted into the Union upon terms of perfec
II equality with the other States.
.
Q RESOLVED, That in Wow of so commandin
:. an interest, the people Of the United States can
Il not but sympathise with the efforts that are be
i ing made by the people of Central America t
regenerate that portion of the continent whic
covers the passage across the inter-oceanlc 18TH
mus.
$ RESOLVED, That the Democratic party Wi
a expect of the next Administration that ever
\ proper effort be made to insure our ascendenc
). in the Gulf of Mexico, and to maintain a pei
i manent protection to the great outlets throug
+ which are emptied into its waters the product
raised out of the soil, and the commodities Gre
d ated by the industry of the people of our wes
r. ern valley, and of the Union at large.
# RESOLVED, That the Administration of FRAME
, LIN PIERCE has been true to Democratic prime
$ Piles, and therefore true to the great interests
), the country in the face of violent oppositio
Is he has maintained the laws at home, and vii
!, dicated the rights of American citizens abroad
and therefore we proclaim our unqualified &C
miration of his measures and policy.