The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-16

{ lsh The happiness Of the people sud endans
ger the stability aud periuanency of the
Union, and ought hot to be couutenanced
by any friend of our political institutions.
?. That the foregoing proposition covers
and 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 faithful execution
of the acts known as the Compromise meas
ures, settled by the Congress of 1850: "the
act for reclaiming fugitives from service or
labor included; which act being designed
to carry out an express provision Of tie
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be repealed, or so changed as to destroy or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
tons 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 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. ResolUed, 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-
nize and adopt the principles contained in
the organic laws establishing 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 organza-
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 aud harmony, every
future American State that may be consti-
tuted or annexed with n republican form OF
| government.