Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-08-22

ish the happiness of the people, and endan-
ger the stability and permanancy of the
Union, and ought not to be countenanced BY
any friend of our political institutions.
2. 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 I'm
ion, standing on national platform, will
abide by and adhere to faithful execution
of the acts known as the compromise meas
ures, settled by congress of 1850; athe act
for reclaiming fugitives from service or la
Dor" included; which act being designed to
carry out an express provision of the con-
stitution, cannot, with fidelity thereto, be
repealed, or so charged as to destroy or i'm
pair its efficiency.
3. That the democratic party will resist
all attempts at renewing, in congress or out
of it, the agitation of the slavery question
under whatever shape or color the attempt
may be made.
4. That the democratic party will faith
fully abide by and uphold, the principles
laid down in the Kentucky and Virginia
resolutions of 1888, and in report of Mr..
Madison to the Virginia Legislature, in 1899;
that it adopts those principles as constitu-
ting one of the main foundations of its po-
litical creed, and is resolved to carry them
out in their obvious meaning and import.
And that we may more distinctly meet
the issue on which a sectional party, sub
sisting exclusively on slavery agitation now
relies to test the fidelity of the people, north
and south, to the constitution and the I'm
ion
l. ResolVed, That claiming fellowship
with and desiring the cooperation, of all
who regard the preservation of the Union
under the constitution as the paramount is
sue-and repudiating all sectional parties
and platform concerning domestic slavery,
which seeks to embroil the states and incite
to treason and armed resistance to law in
the territories and whose avowed purpose,
if consumated, must end in civil war and
disunion-the American democracy recog-
nize and adopt the principles contained in
the organic laws establishing the territories
of Kansas and Nebraska as embodying the
only sound and safe resolution of the slave
cry question" upon which the great nation
al idea of the people of this whole country
can repose in its determined conservatism of
the Union-non-interference by congress
with slavery in state AID territory, or in the
District of Columbia.
2. That this was the basis of the COM
promises of lS50-confrmed by both the
democratic and whig parties in national
conventions-ratifed by the people in the
election of 1852-and rightly applied to
the organization of territories in 1854.
8. That by the uniform application of
this democratic principle to the organization
of territories and to the admission of new
states, with or without domestic slavery as
they may elect-the equal rights of all the
states viii be preserved intact-the original
campacts of the constitution maintained in
violate-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 consti-
tuted or annexed, with republican govern
ment.
Resolved That we recognize the right of
the people of all the territories, including
Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the
legally and fairly expressed will of major
ity of actual Residents, and whenever the
number of their inhabitants iustifes it; to
form constitution with or without domes-
tic slavery, and be admitted into the Union
upon terms of perfect equality with the 9TH
er states.
Resolved, finally, That in view of the
conditions of popular institution in the old
world land the dangerous tendencies of the
sectional agitation, combined with the at
tempt to enforce civil and religious disabili-
ties against the rights of acquiring and en-
joying citizenship, in our own land) high
and sacred duty is devolved with increased
responsibility upon the democratic party of
this country, as the party of the Union, to
uphold and maintain the rights of every
state, and thereby the union of the states 4;
and to sustain and advance among us con-
stitutional liberty, by continuing to resist all
monopolies and exclusive legislation for the
benefit of the few at the expense of the
many, and by a vigiant constant adherence
to those principles and compromises of the
constitution, which are broad enough and
strong enough to uphold the Union as it
was, the Union as it is, and the Union as it
shall be, in the full expansion of the ener-
gies and capacity Of this great and progress
siye people.
l. Resolved That there are questions