Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-06-12

Aud hence a political crusade in the nineteenth |
century, and in the United States of America,
against Catholics and foreign born, is neither usti
fed by the past history the prospects of the
country, in unison with the spirit of tolera-
ton aud enlarged freedom which peculiarly distin>
cuisines the American system OF popular govern
ment. -.zl
Resolved, That we reterate with renewed ener-
gy OF purpose, the well considered declaration 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 Con-
stituton, to interfere with or control the domestic
institutions of the several States, and that such
States the sole and proper judges of everything
appertaining to their affairs, not prohibited by
the Constitution; that all efforts of the Aboioniss
or others, made to induce Congress to interfere
with questions of slavery, or to take ncipient steps
in relation thereto, calculated to lead to the
most alarming and dangerous consequences; and
that all such efforts have inevitable tendency 10
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
2 That the foregoing proposition covers, and
intended to embrace the whole subject of
slavery agitation in Congress; and therefore the
Democratic party Of the Union, standing on this
national platform, will abide by and adhere to a
faithful execution of the acts known as the Com
promise measures settled by the Congress of $780,
1.-THE act for retaining fugtives from service
labor" included; which act being designed to carry
out an express provision of the Constitution can
not, with fidelity thereto, be repealed, SO chang.
ed as to destroy or impair its efficiency.
3. That the Democratic party will resist all at
tempts at renewing, in Congress out of it, the
agitation Of the slavery question, under whatever
shape or color the attempt may be made.
4. That the Democratic party will faithfully abide
by and uphold, the principles laid down the Ken.
lucky and Virginia resolutions Of 1898, and in the
report of Mr.. Madison to the Virginia Legislature,
in $780, that it adopts those principles consttut
ing one of the main foundations of its political
creed, and ia resolved to carry them cut in their
obvious meaning and import.
And that we may more distinctly meet the issue
on which a sectional party, subsistng exclusively
on slavery agitation relies to test the fidelity
OF the people North or South, to the Constitution
and the Union
/. Resolved, That claiming fellowship with, and
desiring the co operation of all who regard the
preservation of the Union under the Constitution
as the paramount issue-and repudating all
tional parties and platforms concerning domestic
slavery, which seek TO embroil the States, and in
cite to treason and armed resistance to law in the
Territories; and whose avowed purposes, if consum-
mated, must end in civil and disunOn-the
American Democracy recognize and adopt the prn-
cples contained in the organic laws establishing
the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska as embody.
ing the only sound and safe solution OF the slavery
question" upon which the great national idea of the
people Of this whole country repOse in its de-
termined conservatism Of the Observation-Disclosures
ence by Congress with Slavery in the States and
Territory, or in the District of Columbia.
2. That this was the basis of the Compromises
of l650-confrmed by both the Democratic and
Whg parties in national Onventions-ratfed by
the people in the election of l852-and rightly ap.
piled to the organization of Territories in 1854.
8. That by the uniform application of this Dem
ocratic principle to the organization of Territories
and 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 cOmpacts of the Constitution maintain
ed inviolate-snd the perpetuity and expansion Of
this Union insured to its utmost capacity Of EN-
bracing, in peace and harmony, every future Amer
lean State that may be constituted or annexed,
with a republican form of government
Resolved, hat We recognize the right Of the
people of all the Territories including Kansas and
Nebraska acting through the legally and fairly
pressed will of majority of actual residents, and
whenever the number of their inhabitants iustifes
it, TO form Constitution, with without domestic
slavery, and be admitted into tbs Union upon terms
Of perfect equality with the other States.
Resolved, finally, That in view of the condition
Of popular institutions in the Old World, land the
dangerous tendencies of sectional agitation, COM
bned with the attempt to enforce civil and religious
disabilities against the rights of acquiring and en-
joying citizenship in our own land)-a high and
sacred duty is devolved with increased responsible
ity upon the Democratic party OF this country as
the party of the Union, TO uphold and maintain the
rights OF every State, and thereby the Union Ofthe
States; and to sustain and advance among us con-
stitutonal liberty by continuing to resist all mon
l. L. r. Il - G E
the few at the expense Of the many, and by ygi-
liant and constant adherence those principles aud
compromises of the Constitution, which are broad
enough and strong enough to embrace and uphold
the Union as it was, the Union as il is, and the
Union as it shall be, in the full expansion Of the
energies and capacity of this great and progressive
people.
/. Resolved, That there are questions connected
with the foreign policy of this country, which
inferior to no domestic question whatever. The
time has come for the people of the United States
to declare themselves in favor of free and pro-
gressve free trade throughout the world, and by
solemn manifestations, to place their moral inhu-
ence at the side Of their successful example.
2. Resolved, That our geographical and political
position with reference to the other States of this
continent no less than the interest of our com
merce and the development Of our growing power,
requires thai should hold sacred the princi-
pies involved in the Monroe Doctrine; their bear.
ing and import admit OF no msconstruction; they
should be applied with unbending rigidity.
8. Resolved, That the great highway which ma
ture, well the assent Of the States must imme-
diately interested in its maintenance, has marked
out for a free communication between the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans constitutes one OF the most i'm
porEant achievements realized by the modern times
and the uneonquerable energy OF our people.
That result should be secured by a timely and
efficient exertion of the control which We have the
right to claim over it, and no power earth should
be suffered to impede or clog its progress by any
interference with the relations it may suit policy
TO establish between our government and the gov
! eminent of the States within whose dominions il
/ lies. We can, under no circumstance, surrender
our preponderance in the adjustment Of all ques-
| tons arising out of it.
| 4. Resolved, That in view of so commanding
interest, the people of the United States not
! but sympathize with the efforts which are being
made by the people of Central America to regen-
crate that portion of the continent which covers
the passage across the Interoceanic Isthmus.
g. Resolved, That the Democratic party will
| expect Of the next Administration that every pro-
per fort be made 10 insure our ascendancy in the
| Gulf Of Mexico, and to maintain permanent pro.
lection to the great outlets through which are
empted into its waters the products raised out oil
the soil, and the commodities created by the indus
try OF the people OF our Western valleys and OF the
Union at large. B. F. HALLErT, Chairman.
The Committee also reported tho following reso
! luton for the action Of the convention:
| Resolved That the Democratic party recognizes
the great importance, in political aud commercial
point Ut view. OF safe and speedy communica-
lion, by military and postal roads, through our own
territory, between the Atlantic and Paei6c coasts
of this Union and that il is the duty of the Feder-
al Government to exercise promptly all its consti-
/ tutional power for the attainment Of that object.
/ We shall give the vote upon this platform heres
/ after.