Des Arc citizen., 1860-08-15
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ionai issue of Domestic Slavery, and concern Ianr thn rnanrrcA richta of the Statea=--

that such States are the sole aud proper judges of everything sppertaining to their own as- fairs, not prohibited by the Constitution that all efforts of the abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in rela- tion thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tenden- cy 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.
 ?. That the foregoing proposition covers, and was intended to embrace, the whole sub iect of slavery agitation 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, set tied by the Congress of 1850; 'the act for re- claiming fugitives from service or labor," in cluded: which act being designed to carry out an express provision of the Constitu- tion, cannot. with fidelity thereto, be repealed, or so changed as to destroy or impair it's eff ciency.
 3. That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
 1. That the Democratic party will faith fully abide by and uphold the principles laid down in the Kentucky and Virginia resolu. tions of 17gS, and in the report of Mir. Madi- son to the Virginia Legislature in 1799; that it adopts those principles as constituting one of the main foundations of it's political creed, and is resolved to carry them out in their ob- vious meaning and import.
 And that we may more distinctly meet the issue on which a sectional party, subsisting exclusively on slavery agitation now relies to test the fidelity of the people. North and south, to the Cons tuition and the Union
 1. RESOLVED, That claiming fellowship with, and desiring the cooperation of all who regard the preservation of the Union under the Constitution as the paramount issue--and re- pudiating 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, if consnmmated, must end in civil war and disunion--the American Democracy recognize and adopt the principles contained in the organic laws establishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, as em- bodyiDg the only sound and safe solution of the sslavery question: upon which the great national idea of the people of this whole coun- try can repose in its determined conservatism of the n--NoN-INTERFERENcE BY Cow GREss WITH SLAVERY IN THE TERRIToR1Es OR IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
 g. That this was the basis of the Compro- misses of 1850--c onfirmed by both the Demo- cratic and Whg parties in National Conven- ton--ratifed by the people in the election of 1852 and rightly applied to the organization of Territories in 1S54
 B. That by the uniform application of this Democratic principle to the organization of territories 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 involate, and the perpetuty and expansion of this Union insur- ed to it's utmost capacity of embracing in peace and harmony, every future American State that may be constituted or annexed, with Republican form of government.
 RESOLVED, That we recognize the right of the people of all the territories, including Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the le- galy and fairly expressed will of majority of actual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants Justihes it, to form con stitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Uuion upon terms of perfect equality with the other States. RESOLVED, FINALLY, That in view of the condition of popalar institutions of the Old World (and the dangerous tendencies of sec tional agitation, combined with the attempt to enforce civil and religious disabilities against the rights of acquiring and enjoying citizenship, in our own land) high and sa- cred duty is devolved with increased responsi- bility upon the Democratic party of this coun- try, as the party of the Union, to uphold and maintain the rights of every State, and there by the union of the States and to sustain and advance among us constitutional liberty, by continuing to resist all monopolies and exclu- sive legislation for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many, and by vigilant and constant adherence to those principles and compromises 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 capacity of this | great and progressive people.
 1. RESOLVED, That there are questions con-
 nected with the foreign policy of this country which are inferior to no domestic question wh hatever. The time has come for the people | of the United States to declare themselves in | favor of free seas and progressive free trade
 throughout the world, and, by solemn manifes- tations, to place their moral influence by the side of their successful example.
 | 2. RESOLVED, That our geographical and
 political position with reference to the other States of this continent, no less than the in- l terest of our commerce and the development
 of our growing power. requires that we should | hold as sacred the principles involved in the Monroe Doctrine /; their bearing and import
 admit of no misconstruction they should be
 applied with unbending rigidity.
 l 3. RESOLVED, That the great highway which
 nature, as well as the assent of the States most | immediately interested in it's maintenance, has
 marked out for a free communication between
 the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, constitutes
 one of the most important achievements real
 ized by the spirit of modern times and the un-
 conquerable energy of our people. That re-
 suit should be secured by timely and efficient
 exertion of the control which we have the
 right to claim over it, and no power on earth
 should be suffered to impede or clog it's pro- gress by any interference with the relations it
 may sui our policy to establish between our government and the government of the States within whose dominions it lies. We can. un-
 der no circumstances, surrender our prepon.
 derence in the adjustment of all questions growing out of it.
 | i. RESOLVED, That in viewNof so command
 dg an interest, the people of the United States
 cannot but sympathise with the efforts which
 are being made by the people of Central Ameri-
 ca to regenerate that portion of the continent
 which covers the passage across the Inter-
 oceanic Isthmus.
 5. RESOLVED, That the Democratic party
 will expect of the next Administration that
 every proper effort will be made to insure our
 ascendency in the Gulf of Mexico. and to
 maintain permanent protection to the great |