Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-06-12

We regret that our space will not permit the
publication Of n more detailed account of the pro-
ceedngs of the Convention. We subjoin the reso-
lutions constituting that portion of the platform
adopted in addition to the Baltimore resolutions.
The entire platform will be published next week,
together with the resolutions on foreign policy,
&c.
And whereas, since the foregoing declaration
was uniformly adopted by our predecessors in
National Conventions, an adverse political and
religious test has been secretly organized by q
party claiming to be exclusively Americans, and
it is proper that the American democracy should
clearly define its relations thereto therefore,
!. Resolved, That the foundation Of this Union
Of States having been laid in its prosperity, ex-
pansion and preeminent example in free govern
ment, built upon entire freedom in matters of
religious concern and no respect Of persons in re-
gard to rank or place of BIRTH no party can justly
be deemed national constitutional, or in accordance
with American principles, which bases its exclu-
siye organization upon religious opinions and ac-
cdental birthplace.
2. That We reiterate with renewed energy of
purpose the we'll considered declarations Of for
mer Conventions upon the sectional issue Of do
mestic slavery and concerning the reserved rights
of the States ; and that we may more distinctly
meet the issue on which a sectional party, subsis-
ing exclusively OH slavery agitation now relies to
test the fidelity of people, North and South, to
the constitution and the Union
8. Resolved, That claiming fellowship with and
desiring the cooperation of oil who regard the
preservation of the Union, under the constitution,
as the paramount issue, and repudiating all Sec
tional parties and platforms concerning domestic
slavery, which seek to emboil the States and in
cite to treason and armed resistance to law in the
Territories, and whose avowed purposes, if consum-
mated, must end in civil war and disunion, the
American democracy recognize and adopt the
principles contained in the organic laws estab-
fishing the Territories Of Kansas and Nebraska, rs
embodying the only sound and safe solution of
the slavery question upon which the great nation
al idea of the people of this whole country can
rppose in it's determined conservntiOns Of the
Union; non-interference by Congress with slavery
in States and Territories; that this was the basis
of the compromises of 1850, confirmed by both
the democratic and whig parties in National Con-
ventions, ratified by the people in the election of
1852, and rightly applied to the organization OF
Territories in 1854; that by the uniform applica-
ton of this democratic principle to the organza-
ton 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 con-
stituton maintained inyiolate, and the perpetual
tion and expansion of this Union insured to its
utmost capacity Of embracing in peace and har-
mony ever future American State that may be
constituted or annexed with a republican form Of
government.
4. Resolved That We recognize the right of the
people of all the Territories including Kansas and
Nobr clyo SSn1
will ofthc majority ofactual residents, and when
ever the number of their inhabitants justifes it,
to form o constitution with or without domestic
slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon
terms of perfect equality with the other States.
s. Resolved, That the democratic party re-
cognizes the great Importance, in political and
commercial point Of view, Of n safe and speedy
communication within our own Territory between
the Atlantic and Pacific consts of this Union; and
it is the duty of the federal government to exercse
promptly all its constitutional powers for the at-
tainment of that object.
G. Resolved, finally, that the condition of pop
ular institutions in the Old World and the danger
Gus tendencies to sectional agitation, combined
with the attempt to enforce civil andreligous dis
abilities against the right of acquiring and enjoy
irg citizenship in cur own land, ligh and sacred
duty has devolved, with increased responsibility,
upon the democratic party of this country, MS the
party of the Union to uphold and maintain the
rights of every State, and thereby the Union Of the
States, and to sustain the advance among US of
constitutional liberty, by continuing to resist all
monopolies and exclusive legislation for the bene-
fit of few at the expense of the many, and by
vgiant and constant adherence to those principles
and compromises of the constitution which are
broad and strong enough to embrace and uphold
the Union as it was and the Union as it shall be,
in the full expansion of the energies and capacity
of this great and progressive people.