Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-06-12


or labor" included; which act being design
ed 10 carry out an express provision of the
Constitution, can not, with fidelity thereto,
be repealed, or so changed as to DESTROY or
impair It's efficiency.
3. 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 be made.
t. That the Democratic party will faith
fully abide by and uphold the principles laid
down in the Kentucky and Virginia resolu-
lions of 1898, and in The report of Mr.. Madi-
son to the Virginia Legislat re in 1893;
that it adopts those principles as costitutIng
one of the main foundations of its political
creed, Is resolved to carry them out in their
obvious meaning and import.
And that We may more distinctly meet
the issue on which "A sectional party, subsist-
ing exclusively on slavery agitation, now
relies t. test the fidelity of the people, North
and S nth t. the Constitution and the Union;
/. Resolued, That claiming fellowship with
and desiring the cooperation of all who re-
gard the preservation of the Union under
the Constitution as the paramount. issue
and reoudiating all sectional parties end
platforms concerning domestic slavery,
which seeks to ernbroil the Sta!es and ex-
C te to treason and armed resistance to law
in the Territories; and whose avowed pur-
cd md IN ot,
and disunion-the American Democracy
recognize and adopt the principles contain
ed in the organic laws establishing the Ter
ritories of kanzas and Nebra ska, as embody-
ing the only sound and safe solution of the
"slavery question" upon the great national
idea of the peopla Of this whole country can
repose in its determined conservatism of
the on-NoN-iS-TERFERENCE BY Con
GREss WITH SLAVERY IN STATE AND TER
RIToRY, OR IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
2. That this was the basis of the COM
promises of 1650-confrmed by both the
Democratic und Wing parties in the national
conrention---ratifed by the people at the
election Of 1852, and rightly applied to the
Organization of Te.r.tpr:es in 1854.
3. Trat by the uniform app i;ation ofthis
Democratic principle to the organizat on OF
Territories. and TO the admission of new
States, with or witho ut domestic slavery, as
they may elect-the equal rights of all the
Stat will be preserved ihtact-;he original
com1acts of the constitution maintained in
violate-lnd the perpetuity and expansion
+6fth Union insured to its utmost capacity
Of embracing, in reace and harmony, every
future Amer. al State that may be cousi-
tuted or annexed, with republican form OF
government.
Reso'rei, That we r7cpgnize the right of
D he people of all the Territories, including
Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the
legally and fairly expressed will of major
ity Of actual residents, and whenever the
number OF their inhabitants justihes it, to
form a Constitution, with or without domes-
tic slavery, and be admitted into the Union
upon terms of perfect equality with the
yther States.
Resotrsd, finally, That in view of the con-
dition OF popula, institutions in the old world
(and the dangerous tendencies of sectional
agitation, combined with the attempt to en-
force civil IN! religious disabilities against
the RI hts of acquiring and enjoy ing citizen
ship in our own land IA high and sacred duty
is devoiyed with increased responsibility
upon the Democratic party of this country,
as the party oi the Union, to uphold and
ma ntaiE the rights of very State, and there
by the Union of the States; and to sustain
aid advance among Us constitutional liberty
by continuing tc resist all monopuE,s and
exclusive legislation for the benefit of the
few nj the Expense Of the many, and by a
Wig liant and constant adherence to those
principles and compromises Of the Constiu-
ii n viii :h are Grotd enough and strong
enough to embrace ard uphold the Union
as it shall! b.. in t e full expansion of the
energies and capacities of this great and
progressive people.
/. ReSo'red, Th at there IRE questions con-
nected with the foreign policy Of this coun-
try which are inferior to no domestic ques-
uns whatever. the tim. has come for the
people OF the ted States to declare them
selves in favor of free seas and progressive
free trade throughout the world, and, by
solemn manif stations, to place their moral
influence at the side of their successful ex-
ample.
,. R-solrd, That our geographical and
political position with reference TO other
st les of continent mo less than the
Interest ofour commerce and the de, e!op.
mentS Of our growing power, requires that
we should hold as sacred the principles in
vUlved in the Monroe doctrine their beariny
and import admit Of no msconstruction:
they should be applied with unbendDp
rigidity.
8. R@Solred. That the great highway which
nature, as well as the assent of the States
most Immediately interested. in its mainten
aace, has marked out for free commun;ca
t on bttween the Atlantic and the Pacific
Oceans, constitutes one of the most imDor-
tant ach evements realized by the spirit of
modern times and the unconquerable e energy
of our peop'r. The result shoull be secured
by timely AMI efficient pxertion of the con-
troll which we have the right to claim over
it, and no power On earth should be suffered
to impede or clog its progress by any inter-
ference with the relations it may suit our
policy TO establish between our governments
the States within VIII Jse dominions il lies
We can, under no circumstances, surrender
our Preponderance in the adjustment of all
questions arising ont of it.
1. Il s0iuel, That in view of SO command.
ing an interest the people of the U. States
clLnot bul sympathize with tie efforts which
are being made by the people of Central
America to regenerate that portion of the |
continent which covers the passage across |
the 1nteroceanic IsthmuS.
B. Resolved, That the Democratic party
will expect of the next Administration that
every proper effort will be mlde to insure
our ascendancy in the Gulf OF Mexico, and to
maintain permanent protection to the |
great outlets through which are emptied in
to its waters the products raised ont of the