The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-06-07

people, anu GilldllRCE stLu per-
manency of the Union, and ought not to be
countenanced by any friend OF our political
institutions.
2 That the foregoing proposition covers,
and was intended to embrace, the whole sub
ject of slavery agitation in Congress; and there
fore, the Democratic party of the Union, stand
ing on this national platform, will abide by
and adhere to faithful execution of the acts
known as the Compromise Measures, settled
by the Congress Of 1850; ''the act Tor reclaim
ing fugitives from service or labor" included;
which act being designed to carry out an ex-
press provision of the Constitution, cannot,
with fidelity thereto. be repealed, or so chang ed
as to destroy or impair its efficiency.
! 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.
i l. That the Democratic party will faithful
ly abide by and uphold the principles laid
down in the kentucky and Virginia resolu-
tons Of 1898, and in the report of Mr.. Madi-
son to the Virginia Legislature, in 1899; that
it adopts those principles as constituting one
of the main foundations of its political creeds,
and is resolved to carry them out in their OBJ
vious meaning and import.
And that we may more distinctly meet the
issue on which sectional party, subsisting
exclusively on slavery agitation, now relies to
test the fidelity of the people, North and South,
to the Constitution and the U-iOn.
/ l. RESOLVED, That claiming fellowship with,
and desiring the cooperation of all who regard
the preservation Of the Union under the Con-
sttuton as the paramount issue-and repu-
dating all sectional parties and platforms con-
Il ole TO
broil the States and inclte to treason and
armed resistance to law in the Territories and
whose avowed purposes, if consummated,
must end in civil war and disunion-the
American Democracy recognize and adopt the
E principles contained in the organic laws estab-
fishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebras-
ka as embodying the only sound and safe So
luton Of the slavery question, " upon which
the great national idea of the people of this
whole country can repose IN its determined
conservatism of the Union-NoN-INTE
ENcE by CONGRESS WITH SLAVERY IN STATE
AND TERRITORY, OR IN TIE DISTRICT OF Co.
nUMBIA.
1.-THE reading of this resolution was inter-
rupted for some time by tremendous and pro-
longed applause.
2. That was the basis of the Compromises
of 1856-conirmed by both the Democratic
and Wing parties in national convention
ratified by the people in the election of 1852,
and rightly applied to the organization Of Ter
ritores in 1854.
3. That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization of
Territories, and to the admission of new
States with or without domestic slavery, as
they may select-the equal rights of all the
States will be preserved intact-the original
compacts Of the Constitution maintained invi-
olate and the perpetuity and expansion Of
this Union insured to its utmost capacity of
embracing, in peace and harmony, every fu-
; ture American State that may be constituted
or annexed, with republican form Of govern
ment.
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 act
ual residents, and whenever the number of
their inhabitants justfies it, to form Con-
stitution, with or without domestic slavery
and be admitted into the Union upon terms of
perfect equality with the other States.
ResozUed, finally, That in view Of the condi-
ton of popular institutions in the Old World
(and the dangerous tendencies of sectional
) agitation combined with the attempt to en-
force civil and religious disabilities against the
rights of acquiring and enjoying citizenship in
our own land,) high and sacred duty is de-
volved with increased responsibility upon the
Democratic party of this country, as the party
of the Union, to uphold and maintain the right
of every State, and thereby the Union of the
States; and to sustain and advance among us
constitutional liberty, by continuing to resist
all monopolies and exclusive legislation for the
benefit of the few at the expense of the many,
and by Yigilant and constant adherence to
those principles and compromises Of the Con-
stitution which are broad enough and strong
enough to embrace and uphold the Union as
it was, the Union as it is, and the Union as it
shall be- in the full expansion of the energies
and capacities Of this great and progressive
E people.
l. Resozeed That there are questions con-
nected with the foreign policy of this country
which are inferior to no domestic questions
whatever. The time has come for the people
of the United States to declare themselves in
favor of free seas and progressive free trade
throughout the world, and, by solemn mani
festations, to place their moral influence at the
side of their successful example.
2 ResolUed, That our geographical and polit-
, ical position with reference to other States of
this continent no less than the interest Of our
commerce anu the development of our grow
ing power, requires that we should hold as
, sacred the principles involved in the Monroe
doctrine; their bdaring and importa Omit of no
/ misconstruction; they should be applied with
unbending rigidity.
3. Resoioed, That the great highway which
f nature, well as the assent of the States most
Immediately interested in its maintenance, has
marked out for free communication between
the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, constitutes
one Of the most important achievements real
lied by the spirit of modern times and the I'M
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