Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-02

be countenanced by any friend of our po-
ltical Institutions.
Resoired, That the foregoing PROPOSE
tion covers, and was intended to embrace,
the whole subject of slavery agitation in
Congress, and therefore, the Democratic
party of the Union, standing upon this
national platform, will abide by and adhere
to faithful execution of the acts known
as the compromise measures settled by the
! Congress of 1850; ''the act for retaining
iiigitives from service or labor,' included !;
which act, being designed TO carry out
an express provision of the constitution,
cannot, with fidelity thereto, be repealed,
or so changed as to impair or destroy its
efficacy.
Resolred, That the Democratic party
resist all attempts at renewing, in Con
gress or out of it, the agitation of the sla-
very question, under whatever shapeor CO.
lor the attempt may be made.
Resolrcd, 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 re-
port of Mr.. Madison to the Virginia Leg
islature, in 1870; that it adopts those
principles as constituting one of the main
foundations of its political creed, and is
resolved to carry them out in their obvious
meaning and import.
And that we NAV more distinctly meet
the issue on which sectional party, sub
sisting exclusively Oh slavery agitation,
now relies4o test the fidelity of the people,
North and South, to the constitution and
the Union.
ResolUed, That claiming fellowship with
and desiring the corporation of all who
regard the preservation of the Union, un-
der the Constitution, as the paramount is
she, and repudiating all sectional parties
and platforms concerning domestic slavery
which seek to embroil the States and ex-.
cite treason and armed resistance to law in
the Territories, and whose avowed purpose,
if consumnated, must end in civil war and
disunion, the American democracy recog-
nize and adopt the principles contained i'll
the organic laws establishing the Terrific
ries OF Kansas and Nebraska, as embody-
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 It's determined con-
servatism of the Union and non-interfer-
ence by Congress with slavery in the Ter
tories or in the Distsict of Columbia.
Resolped, That this was the basis of
the Compromise of lS5O-confirlned by
both the Democratic and Wing parties i'll
national Conyentions-ratificd by the peo-
pie in the election in 1S52-and rightful-
" applied to the organization of Territories
in 1854.
Resolred, That by the uniform appli-
cation of this domestic principle to the Or
ganization of Territories, and to the admis-
sion of new States, with or without domes-
tic slavery, rs they may elcct-the equal
rights of all the States will be intact
the original compacts of the constitution
maintained inviolate-and the perpetuity
and the expansion of the Union increased
to its utmost capacity of embracing, in
peace and harmony, every future American
State that may be constituted or annexed
with Republican form of Government.
Resolved, That We recognise the right
of the people of all the Territories, includ-
ing Kansas and Nebraska, acting through
the legality and fairly expressed will of the
majority of actual residents; and whenev
er the number of their inhabitants .iustities
it, to form a constitution, with or without
domestic slavery, and be admitted into the
Union upon the terms of perfect equality
with other States.
Resolyed, finally, That in view of the
condition of popular institutions in the Old
World, land the dangerous tendencies of
sectional agitation, combined with the at
tempt to enforce civil and religious disa-
blities against the right of acquiring and
enjoying citizenship, in our own land, y a
high and sacred duty is devolved with in
creased 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; and to sustain and advance
among us constitutional liberty, by contin-
uing TO resist all monopolies and exclusive
legislation for the benefit of the few at
the expense of the many, and by vigilant
and constant adherance to those principles
and compromises of the constitution, which
are broad enongh and strong enough to
embrace and uphold the Union as it was, the
Union as it is, and the Union as it shall
be, in The full expansion of the energies
and capacity of this great and progressive
people.
Resolred, That there are questions con-
nected with the forei On policy Of this coun-
try, which are inferior TO no domestic ques-
ton whatever. The time has come for the
people of the United States to declare
thenselve in favor of free seas, and pro-
gressive free trade throughout the world,
and, by solemn manifestations, to place
their moral. influence at the side of their
successful example.
Resolped, That our geographical and po-
litical position with reference to the other
States of this continent, no less than the
interest of our commerce and the develop
ment! of our growing power, requires that
We should hold as sacred the principles III
volved in the Monroe Doctrine; their bear
ing and import admit of 10 misconstruc-
ton; they should be applied with unbend
ing rigidity.
Rosolred, That the great highway
which nature rs well as the assent of the
States most Immediately in its mainte-
nance, has marked out for free commu-
nication between the Atlantic and Pacific
] Oceans. constitutes one of the most inlnnrt-