The true Democrat., 1856-06-24
Planks of the Democratic Platform on the Subject of Sla very-The rights of the South vindicated by the National Democracy.

Ho "o'oei"0io P'i'yj " tuei HaIloh"i N"' vention, has fully and unmistakably enunciated and defended the rights and institutions of the south. The Baltimore platform, upon which MT. Pierce was elected, is reaffirmed. The fol- lowing is the ninth resolution of the Baltimore platform:
 "9. That Congress has no power under the constitution to interfere with or control the do- mestic institutions of the several States, and that all such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs not prohibited by the constitutions; that all efforts of the abotionists 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 dangerous consequences, and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and en- danger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions"
 The following are the resolutions by which the above resolution was reaffirmed as the de- mocratic creed = including he yt7tgitive slare Law:
 Resozvea, Tha. 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 national platform, will abide by and adhere to faithful execution of the acts known as the compromise measures set tied by Congress, the act for retaining fllgi- tiveS from service or labor included which act belnS designed to carry out an express provision of the constitution, cannot with fidelity there to, be repealed, or so changed as to destroy or impair its efficiency.
 Resolved, That the democratic party will re- slst all attempts at renewing ill Congress or out of 1t, the agitation of the slavery question, un- der whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.'
 In order to be still more explicit in the enun- citation of the rights of the south and in qua ranteeing and protecting them, the national de- mocratic convention adopted the following, in addition to the resolutions we quoted above:
 "And that we may more distinctly meet the issue on which sectional party, subsisting ex- clusively on slavery agitation, now relies, to test the fidelity of the people, north and south to the constitution and the Union:
 l. ResolUed, 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 repudiat ing all sectional parties and platforms concern ing domestic slavery, which seek to embroi the States and lnclte to treason and armed resistance to law In the territories; and whose avowed | purposes, if consummated, must end in civil war and dlSunlOn-the American democracy recognize and adopt the principles contained in the organic laws establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska as embodying the only sound and safe solution of the "Slaverv aues- ton" upon which the great national idea of 1 the people of this whole country can repose in its determined conservatism of the Union-- NoN- INTERVENTION BY CONGRESS WITH SLAVE BY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN THE Dis TRICT OF COLUMBIA.
 The reading of this resolution was inter- rupted for some time by tremendous and pro- longed applause.
 2. That this the basis of the compromi- ses of 105O-conhrmed by both the democratic and whig parties in national conventions-rati- fled by the people in the election of 1852, and rightly applied to the organization of territories in 1854
 3. That by the uniform application of this democratic principle to the organization of ter rltorles, and 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 intact-the original com pacts of the constitution maintained invioate--and the per- petultv 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
 Resotued, That we recognize the right of the people of all the territories, including Kansas . Nph tba fairly expressed will of majority of actual re- sidents, and whenever the number of their in- habltants justities it, to form constitution with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States.'
 Was there ever better platform for southern men of all parties to stand upon? It is full, complete and distinct. There was no lodging no shirking-no evasion--no pretermittng no ignoring-by the democratic national con- vention. The whole ground is covered-everv issue is fair y and plainly met. The fugitive slave law is boldly ndorsed and guaranted.- Non-nterference by Congress with slavery, not only in the States, but in the territories and in the District of Columbia, is broadly asserted as the policy of the national democracy. The hand of an all-wse and benefcent Providence, who has raised this Union to the high prospe- rity it enjoys, directed the deliberations of the national democratic convention. While we honor the patriots who sat in that convention, we should not forget our dependence upon the Great Being who guided and inspired their councils.
 What comparison does the democratic plat form bear to the Know Nothing platform!- The Know Nothing platform evades-preter- mits-ignores, the whole slavery question: The word slavery'' is not even mentioned in it. It is an abolition platform, disguised to deceive the south. The fugitive slave law is not alluded to-slavery in the territories is not mentioDed-slavery in the District of Columbia is passed by without the slightest notice The south is compromised and surrendered by the Know Nothing platform to the abolition fana- ties Had a platform, embodying the strong slavery sentiments the democratic platform does, been introduced into the Know Nothing convention at Philadelphia, it would have broken the Know Nothing party into thou- sand fragments. The abolition yell-the shriek of freedom-the black republican war whoop, would have been. heard from one end of the land to the other
 Providence has entrusted the rights and the institutions of the south in the hands of the na- tional democracy. Read the democratic plat form-study it-ponder over it-rehect upon it-it protects the south-it guarantees to the southern people their institutions and their pro- perty. There is not sentence-a word-a letter, that even the most rabid southerner would wish to alter or efface from that noble platform. Let every southerner pray God grant to the democracy an overwhelming vic- tory.