Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-06-12

ton of Territories and the admission of new
States, with or without slavery, as they
may elect, the equal rights of all the States
will be preserved intact, the original COM
pacts of the Constitution maintained invio-
late, and the perpetuation and expansion of
this Union ensured to its utmost capacity of
embracing, in peace and harmony, every flu
ture American State that may be con-
stituted or annexed with a republican form
of government.
Resolved, That we recognize the right Of
the people of all the Territories, including
Kansas and Nebraska, acting through. the
fairly expressed will of the majority ofactu-
al residents, and whenever the number of
their inhabitants justifes it, to form a con-
stitution, with or without domestic slavery,
and be admitted into the Union upon terms
of perfect equality with the other States.
Resolved, That, in view of the condition
of the popular institutions of the Old World,
and the dangerous tendencies of sectional
agitation, combined with the attempt to en-
force civil and religious disabilities against
I the rights of acquiring citizenship in our
own land, high and sacred duty has de-
volved an increased responsibility upon the
Democratic party of the Union, to uphold
and maintain the rights of every State and
thereby to sustain and advance among us
constitutional liberty, by continuing to re-
sist all monopolies and exclusive legislation
for the benefit of the few at the expense of
the many, and by vigilant adherence to those
principles and the compromises of the Con-
stitution which are broad and strong enough
to 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 capacity
of this great progressive people.
Rcsozved, That the questions connected
with the foreign policy. of the country are
inferior to no domestic question whatever;
that the time has come when the people of
the United States should declare themselves
in favor of free seas, of progressive free
trade throughout the world, and by solemn
manifestations, place their moral influence
by the side of their successful example.
Resolred, That our geographical and po-
litical position with reference to other States
of this continent, no less than the interest
of our commerce and the development of
our growing power, requires that we hold
sacred the principles involved in the Mon
roe doctrine that their bearing and import
should admit of no misconstruction and
should be applied with unbending rigidity.
Resolued, That great highway of Ma
ture, as we'll as the assent of those States
most Immediately interested in it's mainte-
nance, has been marked out for a free COM
munication between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, and constitutes one of the most i'm
portant achievements realized by the spirit
of modern times and the uncomfortable en-
ergy of our people that this result should
be secured by the timely and efficient con-
troll which we have righteto claim over it;
that no power on earth should be suffered
to impede or clog its progress; nor should
we allow any interference with the relations
which it may suit our policy to establish
with the Governments or States within
whose dominion it lies; that we can, under
no circumstances, surrender our preponder-
ance in the adjustment of all questions arts
ing out of it.
Resolced, That, in view of so command
ing an interest, the people Of the United
States cannot but sympathize with the eff
forts which are being made by the people Of
Central America to regenerate that portion
of the continent which covers the passage
across the oceanic isthmus.
Resolred, That the Democratic party will
expect Of the next Administration that eve
ry proper effort will be made to insure our
ascendency in the Gulf of Mexico f; to main
tain permanent protection of the great
outlets through which are emptied into its
waters the products raised upon the soil, and
the commodities created by the industry of
the people of our Western valleys and the
Union at large.
The following resolution, as amended,
was passed in the closing session of the Con-
vention:
Resozoed, That the Democratic party re-
cognizes the great Importance, in political
and commercial point of view, of speedy
and safe overland communication between
the Atlantic and Pacific; and that it is the
duty of the Federal Government to exercise
all reasonable constitutional power for that
object, thereby binding together the union
of these States in Undesirable bonds-open-
ing the rich trade of the east, and uniting
the country from the Pacific to the Missis-
sippi and the great lakes of the North.
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
The following table exhibits the compo-
sition Of the Electoral College, upon the vote
e