Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-06-18

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sectional party. subsisting exclusively on
slavery agitation, now rifles Ia !pst tts Gdeli-
II 81 !he Renble, North and Seplh, TO the
Constitution and the Union-=
Resolved, That claiming fellowship with
and desiring the cooperation of all who
regard The preservation of the Union under
lhe Constitution as the paramount Issue, and
regulating all sectional parties and platforms
concerning domestic slavery, which seeks to
embroil the States and iuriie treason and
armed resistaIpp 10 law In the Territories,
aud Nhase avowed purposes. il consumma.
tel. must end in civil war and disunion, the
American democracy recognise and adopt
the principles contained in the organic law
establishing the Territories of Kansas and
Nebraska, as embodying the Only soum aud
safe solution of the slavery question, upon
which the great nalona! idea ef the people
Of this whole country can rrpGse In its de.
trrmiped conservatism OF the Union: non.
interference by Congress with slavery in
States and Territories; that this was the
basis of the compromises Of 1850, confirm.
ed by both the democratic and whig parties
in national conventions, ratified by lhe peo.
pie in the election Of 1892, and rightly ap.
pled to The organization Of territories in
la54; that by The uniform application of
this democratic principle to The organization
of territories aud the admission of new
States, with ur without domestic slavery, as
they may elect, tic equal rights Of all the
States will be preserved intact, the original
cnmpmcis of the constitution maintained in.
violate, and the perpetpatior and expansion
nf this Union ensured TO its utmost capacity
nt embracing, in peace and harmony, every
! future American State that may be constis
lulcd or annexed with republican form of
government. =
Resolved, That ne recognize the right Of
the people Of all tho Territories, including
Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the
luirly expressed will Of the majority Of ac-
lual residents and whenever the number OF
their inhabitants jusIifes it, to form a con-
stitution, with or without domestic slavery,
and be admitted into Ihe Union upon terms
of perfect equality with tue other States.
THE FOREIGN PoLIcY OF Tue GOVERNMENT.
Resolved, finally, That by the condition
Of the popular institutions Of the old world
and the dangerous tendency Of sectional
agitation, ,combined with the attempt to en-.
force evil and religious disabilities agains,
the right of acquiring citizenship in our owl
land, the high and sacred duty is devalFed
with increased responsibility upon the Demo
cratic party of the country, as the party oI
The Union, TO uphold and maintain the rigbI
of every State, and thereby the Union o.
the States, and sustain and advance Among
us constitutional liberty, by continuing tt
resist all monopolies and exclusive Legislation
for the benefit OF the few, at the expense o
the many. And, by the visilant adherence
TO these principles aud tho compromises o
the constitution, which are broad aud strong
enough to embrace and uphold the Unior
as it was, and the Union as it is-the Unior
as it shall be in the full expansion Of til,
, energies and capacities of this great progress
} sive people.
}, First-Resolved, That the question con