The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-30
PL AT Z OR !EI
OF the I'ro-Siavery Democratic Party,
4Ad pied at Cincinnati.

|. The following are the resolutions on the sub
ect OF slavery adopted by the old line party
RrsoLvfp. That we reiterate with renewed
energy of purpose. the we'll considered declara-
tions of former Conventions upon the sectional
issue of Domestic Slavery, and concerning the
reserved rights fthe States
/. That Congress has no power under the
Constitution. to interfere with or control the
domestic institutions of the several States; aud
that such States are the sole and proper Judges
of everything appcrtaining to their own af-
| fairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that
| all efforts by the Ahoitionists or others, made
to induce Congress To interfere with questions
of Slavery, or take ineipient s-crs in relation
thereto are calculated to lead to the most
alarming consequences; and that all such et-
fo. 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 he countenanced by any friend of
our political iastitEtions.
g That the foregoing proposition covers and
Is intended to embrace the whole subject OF
slavery agitation in Congress; and therefore
the Democratic party of the Union, standing
on this Natoue plat form will abide by and
adhere to Il faithful execution oil the acts known
as the Compromise measures, settled by the
Congress for 1850, ''thc act for reclaiming flu
gtives ON service OF labur," included; which
act being designed to carr, out an express pro-
vision of the Constitution. cannot. with fdrli
ty thereto, be repealed, SO changed as. to de
stroy or impair its efficiency.
}. That the Democratic party Will resist all
attempts at renewing III Congress O: out OF 1t,
the agitation of the slavery question, und u
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made.
A. That the Democratic party will faithfully
abide by and uphold, the principles laid down
fhn ,,,.Iy. .lntI nf
1893, and in the report of Mr.. Madison to the
Virginia Legislature, in 1899; that it adopts
those princip plies as constituting one of the main
ounu atoms of its olitca creed ,and is esolyed
to carry them out IN their obvious meaning and
import
Anil that may more distinctly meet the
issues OH which a sectional party, subsistlng
xclusively on slavery agitation. now relies, TO
est he fidelity of the people, North and South,
o the Constitution of the Union
|. RESOLVED, That claiming fellowship with,
and desiring the co operation of all who regard
he preservation of the Union under the Con
stltution as the paramount issne--and repudl-
.ting all sectional parties and platforms con-
'ernng domestic Slavery, which seek to en-
broll the States, and incitc to treason and arm
ed resistance to law in the Territories; and
whose avowed purposes, if fconsummated, must
end III 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
'ional idea of the people of this whole country
| caarepose in its determined conservatism OF the
Observation-Disclosures BY CONGRESS- WITH
| SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN THE DIS
rRicT OF CaLrMBIA.
=. Thatthis was the basis ofthe compromise
of 1SHo-confrmed by both the Democratic ano
| Whig parties in National Conventions-ratifeo
| by tine people in the election of lS52-and
| tightly applied to the organization Of Terrific
| fles in 1854
| 3. That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization of Ter
ritories, ami to the admission of new States
with or without domestic slavery, as they may
eiect-the equal rights of all the States will bt
preserved intaet-the orig ginal compacts of The
Constitution maintained inviolate-and the
perpetuity and expansion of this Union insured
u its utmost capacity of embracing, in peace
aad harmony every future American State tina
may be constituted or annexed, with republi
can form of government
RESOLVED. That we recognize the right o
the people of all the Territories, including Kan
sas and Nebraska. acting through the legal
( and fairly expressed will of majority of actua
residents, and whenever the number of the in
habtants iustifes it, to form constitution
| with or without domestic slavery, and be ad
| nitted into the Union upon terms Of perfec
| equality with the other States.