The Placer herald., 1856-09-13

the general government the power to cOmmenc
and carry on general system of internal i'm
proyements.
3. That the Constitution does not confer a,i
thority upon the federal government. directly ant
! indirectly, to assume the debts of the severa
States. contracted for local and internal improve
| ments. or other State purposes; nor would sucl
assumption be just or expedient.
| 4. That justice and sound policy forbid The
Federal Government to foster one branch of in
dustry to the detrment of any other, or to chersf
the interests of one portion to the injury of ano
ther portion of our common country; that every
citizen and every section of the country has
light to demand and insist upon an equality OF
rights and privileges, and complete and ample
protection OF persons and property from domestic
violence and foreign aggression.
S. That it is the duty of every branch of the
Government to enforce and practice the mos,
rigid economy in conducting our public affairs
and that no more revenue ought to be raised than
is required to defray the necessary expenses OF
the Government and for gradual but certain ex-
tinction of the public debt
6. That Congress has no power to charter II
National Bank; that we believe such an institution
Of deadly hostility to the best interests of our
country dangerous to our republican institutions
and the liberties Of the people. and calculated to
place the business of the country within the con-
troll Of concentrated money power. and above
the laws and will of the people; and that the re
suit OF Democratic legislation in this and all other
financial measures upon which issues have been
made between the two political parties of the
country. have demonstrated to practical men Of
all parties their soundness, safety and utility in
all business pursuits.
7. That the separation of the moneys of the
Government from all banking institutions is in
dispensae for the safety of the funds of the
Government and the rights of the people.
g. That the liberal principles embodied by JEFF
ferson lin the Declaration Of Independence, and
sanctioned in the Constitution, which makes ours
the land of liberty, and the asylum Of the oppres-
sed of every nation have ever been cardinal prin-
ciples in the Democratic faith and every attempt
to abridge the privilege of becoming citizens and
owners of the soil among us ought to be resisted
with the same spirit which swept the alien and
seditiOn laws from our statute book.
9. That Congress has no power under the Con-
stituon to interfere with or control the domestic
institutions of the several States, and that all such
States are the sole and proper Judges Of every
thing appertaining to their own affairs not pro-
hibited by the Constitution; that all efforts of the
Aboltionists Others made to induce Congress
to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take
ncipent steps in relation thereto. are calculated
to lead to the most alarming and dangerous CON
sequences, and that all such efforts have an inevi-
table tentency to diminish the happiness of the
people and endanger the stability and permanency
of the Union. and ought not to be countenanced
by any friend of our political Institutions.
Resolved. That the foregoing proposition
covers and was intended to embrace the whole
subject of slavery agitation in Congress and there
fore the Democratic party Of the Union, standing
on this national PLATFORM will abide by and ad
here to a faithful execution of the acts know as
the Compromise Measures settled by Congress- the
act for reclaiming tugitives from service or labor
included; which act being designed to carry out
an express provision Of the Constitution. cannot
with fidelity thereto be repealed or so changed
as to destroy or impair its efficiency.
Res0ied. 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 he made.
Resolved, That the proceeds of the public lands
ought to be sacredly applied to the national OBJ
jects specified in the Constitution. and that we
are opposed to any law for the distribution of the
proceeds among the States, as alike ineXpedient
in policy and repugnant to the Constitution.
ResOiDpd, That we are decidedly opposed to
taking from the President the qualified veto power
by which he is enabled. under restrictions and re-
sponsibilties amply sufficient to guard the public
interests, to suspend the passage of a bill whose
merits cannot secure the approval of two-thirds
of the Senate and House Of representatives, until
the judg gment of the people can be obtained there
on, and which has saved the American people
from the corrupt aud tyrannica dominion of the
Bank of the United States and from a corrupt
ing system of general internal improvements.
fully abide by and uphold the principles laid
down in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of
1892 and 1898, and in the report of Mr.. Madison
to the Virginia Leg stature in l799-that it adopts
those principles as constituting one of the main
foundations of its political creed, and is resolved
to carry them out in their obvious meaning and
import.
That in view of the condition Of the popular in
sttutons in the old world high and sacred duty
is devolved with increased responsibility upon
the Democracy of this country as the party of
the people to uphold and maintain the rights Of
every State and thereby the union Of the States
and to sustain and advance among them constitu-
tional liberty, by continuing to resist all monopo-
lies and exclusive legislation for the benefit of
the few, at the expense of the many. and by a
vioiant and constant adherence to those princi-
Piles and compromises of the constltuton-which
are broad enough and strong enough to embrace
and uphold the Union as it is. and the Union as
it should be-in the full expansion of the energies
and capacity Of this great and progressive people.
The following are the supplementary resolu-
tons in relation to the Kansas Nebraska question,
and the foreign policy of the government.
find Whereas, Since the foregoing declaration
was uniformly adopted by our predecessors in
National Conventions an adverse political and
religious test has been secretly organized by a
party claiming to be exclusively Americans, and
it is proper that the American Democracy should
clearly define its relations thereto: therefore,
Resolued, That the foundation of this Union OF
States having been laid in its prosperity. expan-
sion and pre-eminent example in free government
built upon entire freedom in matters of relig gious
concern, and no respect of persons in regard to
rank and place Of birth, no party can justly be
deemed national, constitutional or in accordance
with American principles which bases its exclu
siye organization on religious opinions and acct
dental birth place.
That we reiterate with renewed energy of pur.
roco thn uell considered dpcla rat ions Of fOpmn,
conventions upon the sectional issues of domestic
slavery and concerning the reserved rights OF tbe
States; and that we may more distinctly meet the
issues on which sectional party, subsisting ex
clusvcly upon slavery agitation, now relies to test
the fidelity Of the people North and South. on tht
Constitution and the Union.
Resolued That claiming fellowship with and
desiring the cooperation of all who regard the
preservation Of the Union under the Constitution
as the naramou nj issue and rennd iating all sec