The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-17

ger the stability and permanencY of the
Union, and ought not to be courteuanced
by any friend Of our political institutions,
?. That the foregoing proposition covers
AID was intended TO embrace the whole sub
jcct of slavery agitation in Congress, and
therefore the Democratic party of the Union,
standing on this national platform, will
abide by and adhere TO a faithful execution
of the acts known as the Compromise meas
ureS, settled by the Congress of 1850: 1.-THE
act for retaining fugitves from service or
labor . included; which act being designed
to carry out an express provision of the
Constitution, cannot, with fidelity thereto,
be repealed, or SO changed as to destroy or
impair its efficiency.
3. That the Democratic party will resist
all attempts at renewing in Congress, or
out of it, the agitation of the slavery ques-
ton, under whatever shape or color the at
tempt may be made.
4. That the Democratic party will faith
fully abide by and uphold the principles laid
down in the Kentucky and Virginia rcsolu-
tions of 1892 and 1898, and in the report of
Mr.. Madison to the Virginia Legislature in
l799-that it adopts these principles as con
shutting 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 a sectional party sub
sisting exclusively on slavery agitation, now
relies to test the fidelity of the people North
and South, to the Constitution and the
Union
l. ResoIped, 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 purpose,
If consummated, must end in civil war and
disunion, the American Democracy recog-
nze and adopt the principles contained in
the organic laws tablishing the territories
of Nebraska and Kansas, as embodying the
only 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 conservation of the
Union, and non-interference of Congress
with slavery in the territories or in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
2. That this was the basis of the compro-
misses of 1850, confirmed by both the Dem
ocratic and Wing parties in National Con-
vention, ratified by the people in the election
OF 1852, and rightly applied to the organi.
cation of the territories in 1854
3. That by the uniform application OF
the Democratic principle to the organiza-
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 Constitution maintained
inviolate, and the perpetuity and expansion
of the Union insured to its utmost capacity
of embracing, in peace and harmony, every
future American State that may be consti-
tuted or annexed with republican form OF
government.
Resotved, That we recognize the right OF
the people Of all the territories, including
Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the
legally and fairly expressed will of the ma
/ jority of the actual residents, and whenever
! the number Of their inhabitants justfes it,
| to form a Constitution, with or without do
nestle slavery, and be admitted into the
Union upon terms of perfect equality with
! the other States.