The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-16
PLATFOR M
Of the PrO-Slavery Democratic Party,
Adopted at Cincinnati.

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
|. 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 appcrtaining to their own af-
! fairs, moi prohibited by the Constitution; that
all efforts by the Abotionists or others, made
to induce Congress to interfere with questions
of Slavery, or take incipient s,ers in relation
thereto are calculated to lead to the most
alarming consequences; and that all such eff
fo. is have an inevitable tendency to diminish
the happiness of the people and endanger the
stability and perlnanency of the Union, and
ought not to be countenanced by any friend OF
our political Institutions
2. That the foregoing proposition covers and
W Us intended to embrace the whole sub ject of
slavery agitation in Congress; and therefore
the Democratic party of the Union, standing
on this Natonel platform. will abide by and
adhere to a faithful execution Of the acts known
as the Compromise measures settled by the
Congress for 1880 ''the act for reclaiming flu
gltives f. om service or labor" included; which
act being designed to carry out an express pro
vision of the Constitution cannot. with tideli-
ty thereto, be repealed, OF SO changed as to de-
stroy or impair its efficiency.
3. That the Democratic party will resist all
attempts atrtnewing in Congress OF out of it,,
the agitation of the slavery question, under
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made. %
a. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold. theprinciples 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 of its oltical creed ,and is resolved
to carry them out IN their obvious meaning and
import.
Am, that c may more distinctly meet the
issues on which sectional party, subsisting
exclusively on slavery agitation, now relies, to
test he fidelity of the people, North and South
to the Constitution of the Union
|. RESOLVED, That claiming fellowship with,
and desiring the co operation of allwho regard
the preservation of the Union under the Con
sttution as the paramount issue-and repudi-
ating all sectional parties and platforms con-
corning domestic Slavery, which seek to en-
bron the States, and incite to treason and arm
ed resistance to law in the Territories; and
whose avowed purposes, ifcOnsummated, if must
end i'll civil war and disunion--the American
Democracy recognize and adopt the principles
contained III the organic laws establishing the
Territories of X lnsas and Nebraska as 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
canrepose in its determined conservatism OF the
Unlon--NoN-INTERFER FERENCE BY CONGRESS WITH
SLAVERY In STATE AND I TERRIToRY, OR IN THE DIS
TRICT oF COLUMBIA.
2 That this was the basis ofthe compromise
of Extraordinarily dby both the Democratic and
Wing parties in N ational Conventions-ra ratified
by the people in the election of l852-and
rightly applied to the organization of Terrific
ries in 1854.
B. That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization OF L er-
ritories,s am, 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 compacts 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 viii of majority of actual
residents. and whenever the number of the in
habitants iustifes it, to form constitution,
with or without domestic slavery, and be ad
mioted into the Union upon terms of perfect
equality with the other States.