M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-10-02

eet of slavery ogiAiion in COngress and
therefore, the Democratic party ollhe Union, ]
on this national platform viii
abide BY and adhere 10 a faithful execution
of the acts known as the Compromise Meas
ures, settled by the Congress OF 1880 "theI
act for recIaiming lugitives freni service or
labor" included which act being designed
to carry outan express provision OF the con
stitutop, cannot, with fidelity thereto, be
repealed, or so changed as TO destroy or Inn
pair its efficiency. JAZZ .i!-f '.'r.t !.
That the de mocratic party will resist all
attempts al renewingrin Congress or out Of
it, the sgitation Of the slavery question, un-
der whatever shape or color the attempt may
be made. ~ I...f ...L II. .'
4. That the Democratic party will faith
fully abide by and uphold theprinci pies laid
down in the Kentucky and Virginia resOlu-
tions Of l79S, and in the report of Mr.. Madi-
son to the Virginia Legislature, in 1899 /;
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 may more distinctly meet the
issue on which sectional party, subsisting
Exclusively on slavery agitation, now relies
to test the fidelity of the people, North and
South,to the Constitution and the Union;
l. Resolrea, That claiming fellowship
with, and desiring the cooperation OF all
who regard the preservation of the Union
under the Constitution as the paramount is
sue--and repudiating all sectional parties
and platforms concerning domestic slavery,
which seek to embroil the States and incite
to treason and armed resistance to law in the
Territories; and whose avowed purposes. il
Iconsummated, must end in civil war and dis
Iunion--the American Democracy recognize
and adopt the principles contained in the Or
ganc law establishing the Territories oil
Kansas and Nebraska as embodying the only
sound and safe solution Of the "slavery
question" upon which the great national
idea VI the people Of this whole country can
repose in its teterminated conservatism oil
the Union-NoN-IETERFERENcE By CONGRESS
WITH SLAVERY NSTATE AND TERRITORY, OR
IN THE DIsTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
2. That this was the basiso OF the compro-
mises of 1850 confirmed by both the Dem
ocratic and Whig parties in national conven-
tions-ratified by the people in the elect ion
of 1852, and rightly applied 10 the organiza-
ton of Territories in 1854. i
3. That by the uniform application OF
this Democratic principle to the admis-
sion OF new States with or without domes-
tic slavery, as they may elec!-the equal
rights Of all the States will be preserved in
tact--the original compact Of the constitu-
tion maintained inviolate, and the perpetui-
ty and expansion Of this Union insured to its
capacity of embracing, in peace and harmo-
ny, every future American State that may be
constituted or annexed, with a republican
form of government.
Resolped, That we recognize the rights
of tile people ofall the Territories including
Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the le-
gaIly and fairly expressed will Of "a majority
of actual residents, and whenever the num-
Der of their inhabitants justilies it, to form a
with or without domestic slave
ry, and be admitted into the Union upon
terms Of perfect equality with the other
States.
RESOLVED, finally, That in view OF the
condition of popular institutions in the Old
World, (and the dangerous tendencies of Sec
tional agitation, combined with the attempt
to enforce civil and religious disabilities
against the right of acquiring and enjoying
citizenship in our own land,) high and sa.
cred duty is devolved with increased respon-
sibility upon the Democratic 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 continuing to
resist all monopolies and exclusive legisla-
ton fol the benefit of the few, at the expense
of the many, and by vigilant and constant
adherence 10 those principles and compromi.
ses Of the constitution which are broad
enough 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 capacities Of
this great and progressive people.
|. Resolved, That there are questions
connected with the foreign policy Of this
country which are inferior to no domestic
questions whatever. The time has come for
the United States 20 declare themselves in
favor of free seas and progressive free trade
throughout the world, and by solemn
manifestations 10 place their moral inhu,
ence al the side Of their successful exam
pie.
?. ResOlUcd, That our geographical and
political position with reference to otheI
States of this continent, no less than the in.
terest of our commerce and the development
of our growing power, requires that WI
should hold as sacred the principles inyUlv
ed in the Monroe doctrine; their bearing anC
import admit Of no misconstruction they
should be applied with unbending rigidi
ty.
8. RESOLVED, That the great highway which
nature, as we'll as the assent. of the State;
most Immediately interested in its mainten
ance, has marked out for free communica.
ion between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
constitutes one of the most important
achievements realized by the spirit Of mod
eTn times and the unconquerable energy o.
our people. That the result should be Sc.
cured BY timely and efficient exertion of thu
control which we have the right to claim
over it, and no power on earth should be suf
fered to impede or clog its progress by an,
interference with the relations it may sui
our policy to establish between cur govern
ment and the governments of the State
within whose dominions it lies. We can
under no circumstances, surrender our pre-
ponderence in the adjustment Of all ques
tions arising out oft.
A. Resolued, That in view Of so com
manding an interest the people OF the Unite
States cannot but sympathize with the effort