Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-10-16

former Conventions upon the sectional issue of do
nestle Slavery, and concerning the reserved rights
of the States:
!. That Congress has no power, under the Con
stiuton, to interfere with or control the domestic
institutions of the several States, and that such
States are the sole and properudges of everything
appertaining to their affairs, not prohibited by
the Constitutions that all efforts of the Abotionsts
or others, made 10 interfere with questions OF
slavery to take ncipient steps in violation there
to, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and
dangerous consequences; and that all such efforts
have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happ-
ness of the people, and endanger the stability and
permanency of the Union, and not to be countenan-
ccd BY anv friend of our political institutions.
2. That the foregoing proposition covers, and
was nted to embrace, the whole subject of slavery
in Congress; and therefore, the Democratic party of
the Union, standing on this national platform, will
abide by and adhere to faithful execution of the
acts known as the Compromise Measures, settled
bv the Congress of 1850; the a" act recailling fug
tives from service or labor, !" included; which act
being designed to carry out an express provision of
the Constitution, cannot, with fidelity thereto be
repealed, changed as to destroy or impair its
efficiency.
:. That the Democratic party will resist all at
tempts at renewing, in Congress or ont of it, the
agitation of the slavery question, under whatever
shape or color the attempt may be made.
4. 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 Legis-
lature, in 1899: that it adopts those principles as
constituting one Of the main foundations of political
creed and is resolved to carry them out in their OBJ
vious meaning and import.
/ And that may more distinctly meet the issue
on which sectional party, subsisting exclusively
on slaverv agitation relies to the fidelity of the
people, north and SOUTH to the Constitution and the
! Union:
! /. Resolred, That claiming fellowship with, and
desiring the cooperation Of all who regard the pre-
scrvation of the Union under the Constitution rs a
paramount ssue-and regulating all sectional par
| ties and platforms concerning domestic slavery,
which seek to embrol the States and ncite to trea
son and armed resistance to law IN the Territories
and whose avowed purpose, if contaminated, must
end in civil war and disunion-the American De-
mocracy recognize and adopt the principles con
tanned in the organic laws establishing the Terrific
ries of Kansas and Nebraska, as embodying the on
ly sound and safe solution of the "slavery question
upon which the great national idea of the people Of
this whole country can repose in its determined
conservatism of the Union-NoN- INTERVENTION D,
CONGRESS WITH SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY
OR IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
g That this the basis of the Compromises Of
lS5 )--confrmed by both the Democratic md Wing
puties in national Conventions-ratifed by the
ople i'm the clccto on OF 1852, and rightly applied
10 the organization Of tn. Territories Of 1854.