The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-10-30

world, (and the dangerous tendencies OF
sectional agition, combined with the at
tempt to enforce civil and religious disa5iIi-
ties against the right Of acquiring and en-
joying citizenship in our own land,) high
and sacred duty is devolved with increased
responsibility 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 of the States;
and to sustain and advance among US, consti.
tutional liberty, by continuing to resist all
monopolieS and exclusive legislation for the
benefit of the few, at the expense of the
many, and by vigiant and constant adhe.
renee TO those principles and compromises
of the Constitution which are broad enough
and strong enough to embrace and uphold
the Union as it was, the Union as it is, and
the Union as it shall be, in the full expansion
OF the energies and capacities of this great
aud progressive people. ,-.. .s-
... FOREIGN POLICY. .ga
/. Resolved, That there are questions
connected with the foreign policy of this
country which are inferior to no domestic
questions whatever. The time has come
for the people OF the United States to declare
themselves in favor Of free seas and pro-
grcssive free trade throughout the world, and
by solemn manifestations, to place th cir
moral influence al the side of their success
ful example, .,....,.s
g ReSotced, That our geographical and
political position with reference to other
States Of this continent, no less than the in.
terest of our commerce and the development
of our growing power, requires that we
should hold as sacred the principles involv-
ed in the Monroe doctrines; their bearing
and import admit of no msconStruction; they
should be applied with unbending rigidity.
3. Resolved, That the great highway
which nature, as we'll as the assent OF the
States most Immediately interested in its
maintenance, has marked out for free com.
mu nicatop between the Atlgntic and Pacific
Oceans, constitute one Of the most ilnpur-
taht achievements realized by the spirit Of
modern times and tie unconquerabIe energy
OF cur people That result should be secur
ed by timely and ctG lent exertion OF the
control which We have the ri.ht to claim
over it, and no puwOr on earth should be
suffered to impede or clog its progress by
any interference with the relations it may
suit cur policy to establish between our
government aud the governments of the
States within whose dominions it lies We
can, under no circumstances, surrender our
in the adjustment OF all ques.
tons arising out of it, ... ..... .....
4. Reso!usa, That in view of 50 comman
ding un interest, the people Of the United
States cannot bnt symp thize with the efforts
which are being made by the people of Cen
trail America to regenerate that portion OF
The continent which covers the passage
across the inter. oceanic Isthmus.
5. Resolved, That the Democratic party
the greut importance, in politi-
,al and commercial point of view, of a safe
and speedy communication by Military and
postal road, through our own Territory, be-
ween the Atlantic and Pacific COASTS Of this
Union, and that it is the duty of the Federal
Government to exercise promptly, all its
constitutional power for the attainment of
hat object.