Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-06-21
e, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 81, 1856.

establishing the territories of Kansas
and Nebraska, as embodying the only
sound and safe solution of the slavery
question upon which the great national
idea of the people of this whole country
can repose in its determined conservatism
of the Union; interference by Con-
gress with slavery in States and Terrific
ries that this was the basis of the com
promises of 1850, confirmed by both the
Democratic and Wing parties in National
Conventions, ratified by the people in
the election Of 1852, and rightly applied
to the organization of territories in 1854 /;
that oy the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization
Of Territories and 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 perpetual
ton and expansion of this Union ensured
to ITS utmost capacity of embracing in
peace and harmony every future Amer
lean State that may be constituted or
annexed with a republican form of gov
eminent.
Resolsed, That we recognize the right
of the people of all the Territories, in
GLIDING Kansas and Nebraska, acting
through the fairly expressed will of the
majority of actual residents, and when
ever the number of their inhabitants
justiiies it, to form constitution, with
or without domestic slavery, and be adj
mitted into the Union upon terms of per-
feet equality with the other States.
Col. Inge, of Cal, introduced the
following, which was adopted in commit
tee after considerable debate:
Resolced, That the Democratic party
recognizes the great importance, in
political and commercial point of view, of
a safe and speedy communication within
our own territory. between the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts of this Union; and it
is the duty of the federal government to
exercise promptly all its constitutional
powers for the attainment of that object.
The committee also reported the fol-
lowing additional resolution on
TIE FOREIGN POLICY OF TIE GOVERNMENT.
Resoleed, Finally, That by the con-
dition of the popular institutions of the
old world, and the dangerous tendency
of sectional agitation, combined with the
attempt to enforce civil and religious
against the right of acquiring
in our own land, the high and
sacred duty is devolved with increased
upon the Democratic party
of this country, as the party of the Union,
to uphold and maintain the right ofevery
State; and thereby the union of the
States; and sustain among us constitu-
tional liberty, by continuing to resist all
monopolies and exclusive Legislation for
the benefit of the few, at the expense of
the many. And by the vigilant adhe-
renee to these principles and the COM
promises Of the constitution, which are
broad and strong enough to embrace and
uphold the Union as it was, and the
Union as it is-the Union as it shall be
in the full expansion of the energies and
capacities of this great progressive peo-
pie.
First-Resoloed, That the question
connected with the foreign policy of the
country is inferior to no domestic ques-
ton whatever. The time has come for
the people of the United States to de
clare themselves in favor of free seas and
progressive free trade throughout the
world. And, by solemn manifestations,
to place their moral influence by the side
of their successful example.
Second-Resoleed, That our geograph-
zeal and political position with reference
to the other States of this continent, no
less than the interests of our commerce
and the development Of our growing
power, requires that we hold the sacred
principle involved in the Monroe doc
trine. Their bearing and import admit
Of no misconstruction, and should be APP
piled with unloading rigidity.
Thirdly-Rcsolocd, That the great
highway which nature as well as the as
sent of the States most Immediately in
terested in its maintenance has marked
out for the free communication between
the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans con-
stitutes one of the most important
achievements to be realized by the spirit
of moderation, in the uncomfortable en-
ergy Of our people, and that result should
be secured by timely and efficient excr-
ton of the control which we have right
to claim over it. And no power on earth
should be suffered to impede or clog It's
progress by any interference with rela-
tons that it may suit our policy TO es-
tablish with the government Of the States
within whose dominion it lies; and we
can, under no circumstances, surrender
our preponderancc in the adjustment Of
all questions arising out Of it.
Fourthly--Resol0ed, That in view of
SO commanding an interest the people Of
the United States cannot but sympathize
with the efforts which are being made by
the people Of Central America to regen-
crate that portion Of the continent which
covers the passage across the oceanic
Isthmus.
Fifthly-Resolred, That the DEM
ocTatic party will expect from the next
Administration eyery proper effort TO be
made 10 insure our oscendancy in the
Gulf Of Mexico, and maintain perma-
nent protection Of the great outlets
through which are empted into its
waters the products raised on the soil,
and the commodities created by the in
dustry Of the people Of our Western val
leys and the Union at large,