The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-09-04
PLATFOR M
Of the PrO-Slayery Democratic Party,
Adopted at Cincinnati.

The following are the resolutions on the sub
/ iect of Slavery. adopted by the old line party
RESOLVED, That we reiterate with renewed
energy of purpose the well considered declara-
/ tions of former Conventions upon the sectional
issue of Domestic Slavery, and concerning the
reserved rights of the States
| |. That Congress has no power under the
Constitution. to interfere with or control the
domestic institutions of the several States; and
that such States are the soc and proper Judges
of everything appertaning to their own at
fairs. not prohibited by the Constitution; that
all efforts by the Aboitionists or others, made
| to in duce Congress to interfere with questions
of Slavery, or take incipient sseps III relation
thereto. are calculated to lead to the most
i alarming consequences; and that all such ef-
"a, IS have an inevitable tendency 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.
9 That the foregoing proposition covers and
was intended to embrace the whole subject Of
slavery agitation in Congress; and therefore
/ the Democratic party of the Union, standing
on this Nationel platform, will abide by and
/ adhere to faithful execution of the acts known
| as the Compromise measures, settled by the
| Congress for 1850, ''the act for reclaiming flu
gitives ON service OF Labor" included; which
act being designed to carry out an express pro-
vision of the Constitution, cannot with tideli-
| ty thereto, be repealed, or so changed as to de-
stroy or impair its efficiency.
g. That the Democratic party will resist all
attempts at atrtnewing in Congress or out OF 1T,
/ the agitation of the slavery question, undhr
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
| made.
A. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold, the principles laid down
/ in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions OF
i 1898. and i'm the report of Mr.. Madison to the
Virginia Legislature in 1899; that it adopts
those principles as constituting one OF the main
foundations ofts olitical creed land is lesolved
! to carry them out in their obvious meaning and
import.
And that we may more distinctly meet the
issues on which sectional party, subsisting
exclusively OH slavery agitation, now relies, to
test he fidelity of the people, North and South,
to the Constitution of the Union
/. RESOLVED, That claiming fellowship with,
and desiring the co operation of all who regard
the preservation of the Union under the Con
stitution as the paramount issue--and repudl-
ating all sectional parties and platforms con-
corning domestic Slavery, which seek to en-
broIl the States, and incitet to treason and arm
ed resistance to law in the Territories; and
whose avowed purposes, if fconsummated, must
end in civil war and disunionr-the American
Democracy recognize and adopt the principles
{contained in the organic laws e establishing the
| Territories of Kansas and Nebraska as cmbody.
ing 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 it's determined conservatism ot. the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BY CONGRESS WITH
SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN THE Dis
TRiCT OF COLUMBIA.
2. That this was the basis ofthe compromise
of 1850-confirmed by both the Democratic and
Whig parties in National lConventions-ratlfed
by the people in the election of ls52-and
rightly applied to the organization OF Terrific
ries in 1854.
! 3. That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization OF Fer
ritories, ami to the admission of new States,
with or without domestic slavery, as they may
eect-the equal rights of all the States will be
preserved intact-the original eompacts of the
Constitution maintained inviolate-and the
perpetuity and expansion of this Union insured
to its utmost capacity of embracing, in peace
and harmony every future American Stale that
may be constituted OF annexed, with republl-
can form of government.
! RESOLVED, That we recognize the right OF
the people of ali the Territories, including Kan
sas and Nebraska. acting through the legally
and fairly expressed will Of a majority OF actual
residents and whenever the number Of the in
! habitants iustiies it, to form constitution
with or without domestic slavery, and be ad-
mi,ted into the Union upon terms of perfect
equality with the other States