Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-08

XII.-The American
party having arisen up
on the ruins and in spite
OF the opposition of the
Wing and Democratic
parties, cannot be in any
manner responsible for
the obnoxious acts of
violated pledges of Ell,
Their, And the system
attic agitation of the sla-
very question by those
parties having elevated
sectional hostility into q
positive element of po-
litical power, and brought
our institutions into per-
il, it has therefore be-
come the imperative du-
ty of the American par
ty to interpose for the
purpose of giving peace
to the country and per-
petuity to the Union. And
as experience has shown
it impossible to reconcile
opinions SO extreme as
those which separate the
disputants, and as there
can be no dishonor in
submitting to the laws,
the National Council has
deemed it the best
guarantee OF common
justice and of future
peace, to abide by and
maintain the existing
laws upon the subject Of
slavery, as a final and
conclusive settlement Of
that subject, in spirit and
in substance. And re-
garding it the highest
duty to avow their opin-
Ions upon a subject 60
important, in distinct
and unequivocal terms,
it is hereby declared as
thesense ofthis National
Council, that Congress
possesses no power, un-
der the Constitution, to
legislate upon the SUBJ
.ject of slavery in the
States where it does Or
may exist, or to exclude
any State from admis-
sion into the Union, be-
cause its Constitution
does or does not recog-
Mise the institution OF
slavery as q part of its
social system ; and eX-
pressly pretermitting
any expression of opin-
ion upon the power OF
Congress to establish or
prohibit slavery in any
Territory, it is the sense
of the National Council
that Congress ought not
to legislate upon the
subject Of slavery within
the Territories of the
United States, and thai
any interference by Con-
gress with slavery as it
exists in the District of
Columbia, would be a
violation Of the spirit
and intention of the
compact by which the
State of Maryland coded
the District to the
United States, and q
breach Of the National
faith.
1t will be seen by exam
lions, that, as to the polio
the subject of slavery in
substantially the same, !
of the Territory shall form
tic Institutions under the !
as they form them, so wi
recognise them, and at a
into the Copfederacy as a
State. This puts down Il
lean party want the Ter
Abolition Congress- m,
thrown out to alarm the S
extreme sectional ground,
ment of party ambition.
Territory are, as we decli
domestic institutions, thel
for them. On the contra
wishes to Danish this que
Councils, and repress fore
agitation. Democratic or
to the wall on this subject
party zeal, cry out that Z
found in the American plt
no pledges for the protect
institution can he deducei
ityl Neither the word 81
found in the Federal Con
to such argument, no pro-
the South could be derive
But they declare the Cons
in terms always acknowlet
cation. We say the his
the American platform, an
it, refer as Enthusiastically
Constitution of the Unite
Constitution, 1t embraces {
does not confine its solicit
to please personal ambition
What is the Democratic p
1t asserts that the people
right to frame their own (
der the Constitution of th
without construction, is tai
Of the American party
plains his understanding 0
form to be, that the peopl
they are under a Territorii
power to establish or aboli
oughtsto exercise that pow
ton of the Federal Cover
cepting the nomination, b
guage:
/" This legislation 1.-THE
founded upon principle