Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-06-14


Democratic MISUNDERSTANDING the Demo-
cratic resolutions passed at the Cincinnati Con-
vention, We find the followiag:
=. That the Constitution DOES not confer up
on the General Government for power to COM
mence and carry on a general system Of internal
improvements.
So the Democracy intend to follow in the foot
steps of Gen. Pierse and refuse any money from
the public treasury for internal improvements
Western men think Of this
The following resolutions cmbody the views Of
the Democracy on the Slavery question, of which
we shall have more to say in Il iuurc time.
Resolved, That we rciterate with renewed en-
crgv of purpose, the well considered declarations
Of former Conventions upon the sectional issue
of domestic slavery, and concerning the reserved
rights of States.
l. That Congress has no power under the
Constitution, to Interfere with control the do
nestle institutions of the several States, and
that such States are the sole AMI proper Judges
of everything pertaining to their own afliis, not
prohibited by the CONSTITUTE ~: that all eff0 ts
OF the abositi0nlSts and others, mlde TO induce
Congress TO Interfere with questions of slavery,
or 10 take lnSipieht steps In relation thereto,
are calculated to lead to the most alarming
consequences; and that all such efforts have
an inctitabe tendency to diminish the hap
piness of the people and endanger the stab!l-
itv aud perinanency of the Union, and ought
not to be count tnanced by any friend of our pO-
litical institutions.
:. hat 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
the national platform, will abide by and adhere
-. E.xl Is IL, IL
Compromise measures, settled by the Congress
of 1850 .'the act for retaining the iugitives
from service or labor" included which act be-
ing designed to carry out an express provision of
the Constitution, cannot with fidelity thereto, be
repealed or changed as to destroy or impair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 of the slavery question under what
ever shape or color the attempt may be made.
+. That the Democratic party Will faithfully
abide by and uphold the principle laid down in
the ken,ucNy and Virginia resolutions of lI9S,
and in the report of Mr.. Madison TO the Legisla-
turc of Virginia, 1919; that it adopts these prin-
cipleS as constituting one Of the main foGnla-
tons of its political creed and is resolved to
carry them out in their obvious meaning and i'm
port.
And that we may more distinctly meet the is
sue on which sectional party, su!,sStng ex-
clusvely on slavery agitation, relies to test
the fidelity OF the peop lie, north and south, to the
Constitution and Union
!. Resolved, That claiming fellowship with
and desiring the coop ration of all who regard
the pres rvation of the Un.on under the Consii-
tuition rs the paramount iSsue-and repudiatng
all sectional parties and platforms concerning 'do-
mestc slavery, which seek to embrOl the States
and incltc To treason and armed resistance to the
law in the Ter tories, and whose avowed pur-
poses, II consumatcd, must end in civil war and
disunOn--'he American Democracy recognize
and adort the principles contained in the organ
ic laws establishing the Territories of Kansas and
Nebraska aS embodying the only sound and safe
solution of the Slavery question upon which the
great national idea of the people of this whole
country repoSe in Its determined co,iscrya-
SIN of the Cnon-Non-inteIti renee By Congress
,ci.h hlare,y IN The Territories or in the Dr.
hict Of COLuMbid.
,. That this was the basis of the compromises
Of lS50--oontirmed by both the Democratic and
Wing parties in national Conventions ratified
by the people in the election of lS52--and right
~ applied to the organization Of Territories in
iS54.
s. That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle of the organization Of l err
rtorics, and 10 the admission of new States, with
or without domestic slavery, as they may elect
the equal rights of all the States will he preserved
intact-the original compact of the Constitution
maintained inviolaic--and the perpetuty and cx-
pansion of this Union insured to its utmost cap
acity of embracing in peace and harmony, every
future American State that may be constituted
or annexed, with Republican form Of govern
mcnt.
Resolved, That we recognize the right of the
people of the territories, including Kansas and
Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly
expressed will of maiorty Of actual residents,
ard whenever the numher of their inhabitants
juS.ilies it, to form IL constitution, with or with
out domestic slavery, and be admitted into the
Union upon terms OF perfect equality with the
other States.