The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-09-25
PLAT FOR M
Of the Pro-SIavery 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 sole and proper judges
of everything appertaining to their own al
fairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that
all efforts by the Abolitonists or others, made
to induce Congress to interfere with questions
of Slavery, or take incipient Steps in relation
thereto, are calculated to lead to the most
alarming consequences; and that all such eff
fo,ts 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.
g. 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 Natonel platform. will abide by and
adhere to faithful execution of the acts known
as the Compromise measures, settled by the
Congress for 1850, e'the act for reclaiming fu-
gtives ftom service or labor Included; which
act being designed to carry out an express pro
vision of the Constitution, cannot, with fideli-
ty thereto, be repealed, or so changed as to de-
stroy or impair it's efficiency. :,
3. That the Democratic party viii resist all
attempts atrcnewing in Congress OF out OF 1T,
the agitation of the slavery question, und1r
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made
a. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold the principles iald down
in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions OF
| 1898, and in the report of Mr.. Madison TO the
Virginia Legislature, in l799; that IL aoopts
those principles as constituting one of the main
foundations of its political creed and is resolved
to carry them out in their obvious meaning and
import.
And that we may more distinctly meet the
issues on which sectional party, subsistlng
exclusively on slavery agitation, now relles, 70
testihe fidelity of the people, North and South,
to the Constitution of the Union
| l. RESOLVED, That claiming fellowship with
and desiring the cooperation 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-
cerning domestic Slavery which seek to en-
broil the States, and incite to treason and arm
/ ed resistance to law in the Territories; and
whose avowed purposes, if ifconsummated, must
lend in civil war and disunion-the Amerlcan
Democracy recognize and adopt the principles
contained in the organic laws establishing the
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska as emoody
4 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 OF the
/ nion--NoN-INTERFERENCE BY CONGRESS WITH
SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN THE DIS
TRTCT OF COLUMBIA.
/ 3 That this was the basis ofthe compromise
of 185O-confrmed by both the Democratic anc
| Whig parties in National Conventions-ratlflec
by the people in the election of lS52-anc
/ rightly applied to the organization OF TerrIto
ries in 1854.
i g. That by the uniform application OF TINS
Democratic principle to the organization OF Ter
1 ritories, and to the admission of new States
with or without domestic slavery as they may
elect--the equal rights of all the States VIII D.
! preserved intact-the original compacts OF TN
i Constitution maintained invlolate-and th'
perpetuity and expansion Of this Union insured
to its utmost capacity of embracing, IN peace
and harmony, every future American State tha
NAV be constituted or annexed, with arepubll
eanform of government.
RESOLVED That we recognize the right o
the people of all the Territories, including Kan
sas and Nebraska, acting through the legal.
and fairly expressed will Of q majority OF actua
residents, and whenever the number OF the In
habitants iustifes it, to form constitution
with or without domestic slavery, and be ad
mitted into the Union upon terms OF perfec
equality with the other States.