Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-06-14
The baIIotings for President were as follows
After the fifteenth ballot, PIERcE's name


was withdrawn and after the sixteenth bal
lot, DeUGLAs' also.
JOIN c. BREcKENRTDGE, of Kentucky, was
nominated for Vice President, upon the first
ballot.
After the transaction of some other busi-
ness, the Convention adjourned
The Committee on Resolutions made a
lengthy report which was adopted by the Con
vcntion, after striking out a resolution relating
to a road to,the Pacific The report first re-
aflirms the Baltimore platform, and then pro
ceeds as follows =
And whereas, since the foregoing declara-
tion was uniformly adopted by our predeccs-
Sors in National Conventions, an adverse po-
litica and religions test has been secretly Or
ganizcd by party claiming to be exclusively
Americans, and it is proper that the Amcri-
can democracy should clearly define its rela-
tons thereto: therefore
Rcsolred, That the foundation of this Union
Of States having been laid in its prosperity,
expansion and preeminent example in free go
yernment, built upon entire freedom in matters
of religious concern, and no respect Of persons
in regard to rank or place of birth, no party
can Justly be deemed national, constitutional,
or in accordance with American principles
which bases its exclusive organization upon re-
Hgious opinions and accidental birthplace.
That we reiterate with renewed energy of
purpose the well considered declarations Of
former Conventions upon the sectional issue
of domestic slavery, and concerning the re-
served rights of the States and that we may
more distinctly meet the issue. on which sec
tional party, sQbsiSting exclusively on slavery
agitation now relies to test the fidelity of the
people, North and South, to the constitution
and the Union.
Resolrd, That claiming fellowship with and
desiring the cooperation of all who regard the
preservation Of the Union, under the COnsti-
tuition, as the paramount issue, and repudiat-
ing all sectional parties and platforms concern
ing domestic slavery, which seek to embr0il
the States and incite to treason and armed re-
sistance to law in the Territories, and whose
avowcd purposes if consumated, must end in
civil war and disunion, the American Democ-
racy recognize and adopt the principles con
tanned in the organic laws establishing the
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, as EN-
bodying the only sound and safe solution of
the slavery question upon which the great ma
tional idea of the people Of this whole country
can repoSe in its determined conservatism of
the Union non-interference by Congress with
slaves in States and Territories that this was
the basis of the Compromises of 1880 confirm
ed by both the Democratic aad Wing parties
in National Conventions, ratified by the peo-
pie in the election of 1852, and rightly applied
to the organization of Territories in 1854 ;
that by the uniform application of this Demo
cratic principle to the organization of Terri
tories and the admission of new States, with
or without domestic slavery, as they may elect,
the equal rights of all the States will be pre-
served intact the original compacts of the Con
stitution maintained inviolate, and the pcrpet-
nation and expansion of the 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
ReSolrrd, That we recognize the right Of
the people Of all the Territories, including Kan
sas and Nebraska, acting through the fairly
expressed will of the majority of actual resi-
dents--and whenever the number of their in
habitants juStifes it, to form constitution
with or without domestic slavery, and be ad-
mitted into the Union upon terms of perfect
equality with the other States.
Resnlrcd, fnaltu That in view Of the condi
tiOn of the popular institutions ofthc Old World
and the dangerous tendencies Of sectional agi
tation, combined with the attempt to enforce
civil and religious disabilities against the rights
of acquiring and enjoying citizenship in our
own land, a high and sacred duty has devolv
ed on increased responsibility upon the Demo
cratic party Of this country, as the party of
the Union, to uphold and maintain the rights
of every State and thereby the | niOn OF the
States, aud maintain the advance among Us
of Constitutional liberty, by continuing to re-
slst all monopolieS and all exclusive legislation
for the benefit of the few at the expense of
the many, and by yigiiant and constant adj
herence to those principles ah compromises
of the Constitution which are broad en0n%h
and strong enough to embrace and uphold the
Union as it was, 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.
|. RcsOlrod, That the questions connected
with the foreign policy of the country are in
fcror to no domestic question 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 manifestations to
place their moral influence by the side of their
successful example.
3. Resoired, That our geographical and po-
litical position with reference to other States
of the Continent, no less than the interests of
our commerce and the development of our
growing power, requires that We hold to the
sacred principles Involved in the Monroe doc
trine. Their bearing and import, which ad-
init ofno misconstruction, should be applied
with unbending rigidty.
,. Rerolccd That the great highway which
nature rs well rs the assent Of the States
most immediately interested in its maintain