The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-08-14
PLATFORM M
OF the Pro-Slavery Democratic Party,
Adopted at Cincinnati.
The following are the resolutions ON the ST


The following are the resolutions ON the sub
ect 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
l. 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 so,e and proper Judges
of everything appertaining to their own af-
fairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that
all efforts by the AboIitionists 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 et-
70. is have an inevitable tendency to diminish
the happiness of the people and endanger the
stability and perlnanencv of the Union, and
ought not to be countenanced by any friend OF
our political Institutions
2. That the foregoing proposition covers, and
W rs intended to embrace the whole subject OF
slavery agitation in Congress; and therefore
the Democratic party of the Union, standing
on this Nationel platform will abide by and
adhere to a faithful execution OF the acts known
as the COMPROMISE measures, settled the
Congress for 1850, ''the act for reclaimlng fu-
gitives ON service or labor" included; which
act being designed to carry out an express pro
vision of the Constitution, cannot, with hdeil-
ty thereto, be repealed. or so changed as to de-
stroy or impair its efficiency
g. That the Democratic party will resist all
attempts at renewing in Congress o: out OF 1t,
the agitation of the slavery question SundT
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made.
a That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold, the principles laid down
in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions OF
1898, and in the report of Mr. Madison to the
Virginia Legislature, in 1899; that it adopts
those principles as constituting one of the main
foundations ofits olitica creed and is esolved
to carry them out in their obvious meaning and
import.
And that may more distinctly meet the
issues on which sectional party, subslsting
exclusively on slavery agitation, now relies, to
test the fidelity of the people, North and South,
to the Constitution of the Union
/. 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 repudi-
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
end i'll civil war and dlsunlon--the American
F6COSHlZc anu duOEJt UilO
contained in the organic laws establishing the
| Territories of Kansas and Nebraska Cmbody-
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 its determined conservatism OF the
Observation-Disclosures BY CONGRESS WITH
SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN THE Dis
TRICT OF COLUMBIA.
q That this was the basis ofthe compromise
of 1650-confirme by both the Democratic and
Wing parties in National Conventions-ratified
by the people in the election of 1S52--and
rightly applied to the organization of Terrific
ries in 1854
3. That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization of Ter
ritories, and to the admission of new States,
with or without domestic slavery, as they may
elect-the equal rights of all the States will be
preserved intact-the original compacs of the
Constitution maintained inviolate-and the
perpetuity and expansion of this Union insured
To- its utmost capacity of embracing, in peace
and harmony, every future American State that
may be constituted or annexed, with republi-
can form of government.
RESOLVED. That we recognize the right of
the people of all the Territories including Kan
sas and Nebraska, acting through the legally
and fairly expressed will of majority of actual
residents and whenever the number of the in
habitants justifes it, to form a constitution
with or W ithout domestic slavery, and be adj
mitted into the Union upon terms of perfect
equality with the other States.
RESOLVED, That in Wow of so commanding
ali interest, the people of the United States can
not but sympathise with the efforts that are be-
ing made by the people of Central America to
regenerate that portion of the continent which
covers the passage across the inter oceanic 18TH
mus.
RESOLVED That the Democratic party will
expect of the next Administration that every
proper effort be made to insure our ascendency
in the Gulf of Mexico, and to maintain per
manent protection to the great outlets through
which are emptied into It's waters the products
raised out of the soil, and the commodities Gre
ated by the industry of the people of our west
ern valley, and Of the Union at large.
RESOLVED, That the Administration of FRANK
LIN PIERCE has been true to Democratic prnci-
pies, and therefore true to the great interests of
the country in the face of violent opposition
he has maintained the laws al home, and vim
dicated the rights of American citizens abroad;
and therefore we proclaim unqualified ad-
mil alton of his measures and policy.
Buchanan endorses the above thus:
s'Gentlemen, two weeks since I should
have made you longer speech, but noac
I Iha0e been placed upon a platform Of whicA
Imost henrtily approve, and Mot can speak
for me. Being the representative of the
great Democratic Party, and not simply
James Buchanan, I mast square my con-
duct according to the platform of that party,
and insert no new plank nor take one from 1t.
That platform is sufficiently broad and ma
tional for the whole Democratic party.
This glorious party, now, more than ever,
has demonstrated that it is the true con
servative party of the Constitution and
of the Union.