The Winchester appeal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1856-1856, 1856-06-21


country; that every citizen and every
section Of the country has right to
demand and insist upon an equality Of
rights and privileges, and complete
and ample protection of persons and
property from domestic violence or
foreign aggression; and that we may
more distinctly meet the issue on
which sectional party, subsisting ex-
clusively on slavery agitation, now re-
lies, we appeal to the fidelity of the
people North and South to the Consti-
tuition and the Union.
Rcsolved, That, claiming fellowship
with and desiring the cooperation Of
all in regard to the preservation of the
Union under the Constitution and the
paramount issue, repudiating all sec
tional parties and platforms concern
ing slavery, which seek to embroil the
States and incite treason and armed
resistance to law in the Territories,
whose avowed purposes if consuma-
ted must end in civil war and disun-
ion, the American Democracy recog-
nize and adopt the principles contain
ed in the organic laws establishing the
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska,
embodying the only sound and safe So
luton of the slavery question, upon
which great national idea the people
of the whole country can repose its de-
termined conservatism of the Union,
non-interterence by Congress with
slavery in the States and Territories,
or in the District of Columbia; that
this was the basis Of the compromises
of'5O, which are confirmed by both
the Democratic and Whig parties, an
nounced by both national conventions,
ratified by the people in the election of
'52, and rightly applied to the organi-
zation of Territories in "a. And that
by the uniform application Of this
Democratic principle to the organiZa-
ton Of Territories, and to the admis-
sion of new States, with or without
slavery, as they may elect, equal
rights of all States will be preserved
intact, the original compact otthe Con-
stitution maintained inviolatc, the per-
petuity and expansion of the Union in
sured to its utmost capacity, embrac-
ing in peace and harmony every fu-
ture American State, which may be
constituted or annexed with q republi-
can form of government.
Rcsolved, That we recognize the
right of the people Of all Territories
including Kansas and Nebraska, act
ing through the legally and fairly eX-
pressed will of majority OF actual
residents, and whenever the number
of inhabitants justilies it, to form a
Constitution with or without slavery
they should be admitted 10 the Union
upon terms of perfect equality with
other States.
Resolued, finally, That from the con-
dition of the popular institutions of the
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