Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-02-03


platform, will abide by and adhere to a
faithful execution of the acts known as the
compromise measures settled by the last
Congress-the act for reclaiming Of fugi-
tives from service or labor included, which
act being designed to carry out the express
provision of the Constitution cannot be re-
pealed or so changed as to destroy or i'm
pair its efficiency"
"Resolved, that the Democratic party
will resist all attempts at renewing in Con-
gress or out Of it, the agitation OF the sla- |
very question under whatever shape or col
or the attempt may be made"
These were the declarations and avow-
ais of the Democratic party in 1852. Now,
what do they do in l9549 Why, they go
under the leadership of Stephen A. Doug
| las when he had made report saying that
that law of 1920 was sacredly conceived
in the Compromise of 1850, and repeal the
Missouri Compromise. Now, l believe,
they stand condemned by their own acts,
and l have here accomplished what l pro-
posed to do.
I THE DEMOCRACY SELF CONDEMNED.
What was the result of all thisi The
result was that in obedience to the declara-
ton that the people were to be fairly left
to choose for themselves between liberty
and slavery, that they adopted another
platform. Let mo come to that. l will
tell you what they did in 1856, in that
year the Cincinnati platform was adopted.
In consequence of the repeal OF the
Missouri Compromise, the Northern peo-
; pie interceded to get their own territory,
, upon the avowal Of the Kansas-Nebra
, bill, that the people we're to be left free to
form and regulate their domestic lnstltu-
tions in their own way, subject only to the
; Constitution of the United States" But
notwithstanding that avowal it made, they
! Immediately, as the report of the United
States Congress showed you, before sim
gle Free SoiIer or Republican had set his
foot into the new territory, commenced on
r the border of Missouri the organization OF
o the "blue lodges" to invade Kansas, with
: the avowed peacably if you could,
J and forcibly if you must--to have that land
9 for slave State, and "damn the Abolition
d ists they would shoot them bown as squir-
= rels," as l heard leading Democrat express
II himself in Lexington, while that conflict was
a going on. They passed these resolutions
g in 1856, and want you to pay strict at
IS tention to these, in comparison with the
other avowals:
d "Resolved, That we reiterate with renew
II cd energy of purpose, the well-considerec
l. declarations Of former Conventions upor
n the sectional issue of Domestic Slavery, anc
IS concerning the reserved rights of the
, States
!, That alludes 10 the former Democratic
n platform of 1852, four years before. Ii
u goes on:
d 81. That Congress has no power under
y the Constitution, to interfere with or con
W troll the domestic institutions OF the severa
n States and that all such States are the sol'
d and proper Judges of everything appertain
g. ing to their own affairs, not prohibited BY
g the Constitution, that all efforts of the alb
olitionists or others, made TO induce Con
- gress to interfere with questions of slavery
y, or take incipient steps in relation thereto,
le the very thing they have been doing to
u day, besides which we have heard them dc
n nouncing every man that does not come u
ne to their standard, and calling every ma
lg that stands on the "Squatter Sovereignty
,r, platform outside of the Democratic part
of are calculated to lead to the most ala
ry ming and dangerous consequences; an
20, that all such efforts have an inevitable ter
all dency to diminish the happiness of th
he people and endanger the stability and pc
as manency of the Union, and ought not
n be couutenanced by any friend of our p'
ng litical institutions.
on 2. That the foregoing proposition cover
Us and was intended to embrace, the who
u subject of slavery agitation in Congress
res and, therefore, the Democratic party of th
~, Union, standing on this national plattor
w will abide by aud adhere to faithful exec
- ton of the acts known as the Comprom
We, Measures, settled by the Congress of 1851
on "the act for reclaimiug fugitlves from Sc
he vice or labor" included, which act being d
Ter signed to carry out an express provision
ice the Constitution, cannot with fidelity ther
to to be repealed, or so changed as to destrC
rv, or impair its efficiency.
1t 8. That the Democratic party will resi-
all attempts at renewing, in Congress
out of it, the agitation of the slavery que
no. ton, under whatever shape or color the {
ant tempt may be made"
tic Oh yes Will resist. That is the Del
tho ocratic doctrine of 1856 in Cincinnati
far did you alude to it to-dayl Yes, you '
, ted the doctrine down, and yet here it
the 'that the Democratic party will resist
Irol attempts at renewing, in Congress or @
,ral of it, tho agitation of the slavery questi
,ole under whatever shape or color it may
,er- made" What do YOU say to that's The
ted is the Cincinnati platform which you
the chewed to-day. You denounced as tr'
uce sonable any attempt to renew that agi
Sla- ton under any shape whatever; let n
ion however, turn to another clause.
lost 4. "That by the uniform application
this Democratic principle to the organs
AL ton of Territories, and to the admission
mite new States, with or without domestic S
the very, as they may elect; the equal rights
ne 2 all the States will be preserved intact;
ter original compacts of the Constitution ma
on tanned inyiolate; and the perpetuity and
t of pansion of the Union insured TO its utm
capacity of embracing, in peace and b
evi- mony, every future American State 1
q ofl NAV he constitnted or annexed with a