The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-09
PL A FOR M
OF the Pro-Slavery Democratic Party,
Adopted at Cincinnati.

The following are the resolutions on the sub
ject of Slavery, adopted by the old line party
REsoEvkD, That we reiterate with renewed
energy of purpose. the ell-considered declara.
tions of former Conventions upon the sectional
issue of Domestic Slavery, and concerning the
reserved rights of the States
i. That Congress has no power under the
Constitution, to interfere with or control the
domestic institutions of the several States; and
that such States are the sole and proper, Judges
Of everything appertaining to their own az
fairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that
all efforts by the Abolitionists or others, made
to induce Congress to interfere with questions
of Slavery, or take iscipient syers in relation
thereto, are calculated to lead to the most
alarming consequences; and that all such eff
fo.ts have an inevitable tendency to diminish
the happiness Of the people and endanger the
stability and permanency of the Union. and
ought not to be countenanced by any friend of
our political institutions.
g, 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 Union, standing
on this NationeI platform. will abide by and
adhere to a faithful execution of the acts known
as the Compromise measures, settled by the
Congress for 1850, ''the act for reclaiming fu
gtives f,om service or labor" included; which
act being designed to carry out an express pro-
NlSloil vi Tie SOnSIIIutiOH, CtllIOt, Will
ty thereto, be repealed, or SO changed as to de-
stroy or impair its efficiency.
}. That the Democratic party will resist all
attempts at renewing in Congress or out OF It,,
the agitation of the slavery question, und r
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made. . t... s.. 5s...
a. 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 report of Mr.. Madison to the
Virginia Legislature, in 1885, that il. adopts
those principles as constituting one OF the main
foundations Oft olitical creed ,and is resolved
to carry them out in their obvious meaning and
import
And that may more distinctly meet the
issues on which a sectional party, subslstlng
exclusively on slavery agitation. now relies, to
test he fidelity of the people, North and South,
to the Constitution of the Union ss
!. RESOLVED, That claiming fellowship with I,
and desiring the co operation of all who regard
the preservation of the Union under the Con-
stitution as the paramount issue--and repudi-
ating all sectional parties and platforms con-
cernng domestic Slavery, which seek to en-
broil the States, and incitc to treason and arm
ed resistance to law in the Territories; and
whose avowed purposes, ifconsummated, must
end i'll civil war and disuniop-the American
Democracy recognize and adopt the principles
contained in the organic laws establishing the
Territories 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 its determined conservatism OF the
Union-NoN-INTERFERENCE BY CONGRESS WITH
SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN THE Dis
TRIcT OF COLUMBIA.
g. That this was the basis ofthe compromise
of l8HO-confrmed by both the Democratic and
Whigparties in N National alConventions-ratified
by the people in the election of l852-and
rightly applied to the organization of Terrific
ries in 1854.
8. That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization OF Ter
| ritories, and to 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-aud 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 constituted or annexed, with republ;-
can form of government.
RESOLVED. That we recognize the right OF
the people of all the Territories, including Kan
sas and Nebraska, acting through the legally
and fairly expressed will Of majority of actual
residents. and whenever the number of the in
habitants justifes it, to form constitution,
with or ithout domestic slavery, and be ad-
miUted into the Union upon terms of perfect
equality with the other States.