The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-02
PLATFORM M
OF the Pro-Slavery Democratic Party.
Adopted at Cincinnati.

The following are the resolutions on the sub
ject of Slavery. adopted by the old line party; !;
RESOLVED, That we reiterate with renewed
energy of purpose the we'll considered dec lara
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 tne
Constitution to interfere with or control the
domestic institutions of the several States; ana
that such States are the sole and proper Judges
of everything appertaining to their own at
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 ef-
70. is 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, "the act for retaining fu-
oitives f ON service or labor included; which
act being designed to carry out an express pro
vision of the Constitution, cannot, with fidei-
ty thereto, be repealed, or so changed as to de-
strey or impair its efficiency.
3. That the Democratic party will resist all
attempts atrtnewing in Congress o. out of 1T,
the agitation Of the slavery question, undr
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
+lot HnTNtC
those principles as constituting one OF the main
foundations of its olitca 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, subslstlng
exclusively on slavery agitation. now relies, to
testihe fidelity of the people, n North and South,
to the Constitution of the Union
/. RESOLVED, That claiming fellowship with,
and desiring the co operation of all who regard
the preservation of the Union under the Con
stitution as the paramount issue-and rcpudl-
ating all sectional parties and platforms con-
cerning domestic Slavery, which seek to en-
broIl the States, and incitc to treason and arm
ed resistance to law in the Territories; and
whose avowed purposes, II fconsumnated, must
end in civil war and disunion--the American
Democracy recognize and adopt the principles
contained in the organic laws establishing the
Territories of Kansas 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
nrepose in its determined conservatism OF the
Observation-Disclosures BY CONGRESS WITH
SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN THE Dis
TRICT OF COLUMBIA.
?. That this was the basis ofthe compromise
of l850--confrmed by both the Democratic and
Whig parties in National alConventions-ratl
by the people in the election of l852-and
rightly applied to the organization of Terr1to-
| rles in 1854.
8. 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
eiect-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 thai
may be constituted or annexed, with republl
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 J
and fairly expressed Will of ma jority of actua
residents. and whenever the number of the in
habtants iustifes it, to form constitution
with or without domestic slavery, and be ad
mitted into the Union upon terms of perfect
equality with the other States.