The Yazoo Democrat., 1860-06-02

our Republican institutions, and that the
Federal Constitution, the rights of the States
and the Union of the States, must and shall
be preserved.
i 8. That to the union Of the States the
nstion owes Its unprecedented increase in
population; its surprising developments of
material resources its rapid augmentation
of wealth; iis happiness at home and its
honor abroad and We hold in adherence
all schemes for disunion, come from what
ever source they may; and we congratulate
the country that no Republican member of
Congress has uttered or countenanced the
threats of disunion 80 often made by the
Democratic members Of Congress without
rebuke and with applause from their politi-
cal associates and we denounce those whose
threats of lisunion, in case of popular
overthrow of their asceDdancy, as denying
the vital principles of free government,
and as an avowal of contemplated treason,
which it is the imperative duty of an indig-
uant people sternly to rebuke and forever
silence.
I 4. That the maintenance, inviolate, of the
rights of the States, and especially of each
State, to order and control its own domestic
institutions according to its own Judgment
exclusively, is essential to that balance of
power on which Che perfection and endurance
of our political fabric depends; and we de.
nounce the unlawful invasion by armed
force of the soil of any State or Territory,
no matter under what pyesext, as one of the
greatest crimes.
g. That the present Democratic adminis-
tration has far exceeded our worst apnrehen
sions id its measureless subserviency to the
exactions of a sectional interest, as especial.
y evidenced in its desperate exertions to
force the infamous Lecompton constitution
upon the protesting people of Kansas in
constituting the personal relations between
master and servant to involve an unqualified
property in persons ia its attempted en-
forcement everywhere, on land and sea,
through the Intervention Of Congress and Of
the Federal courts, Of the extrsNe preten.
sions of purely local interest; and in its
general and unyarying abuse Of the power
entrusted to it by the people.
g. That the people justly view with alarm
the reckless extravaganza which pervades
every department of the Federal Govern
ment. That q return to the rigid economy
and accountability is indispensable to arrest
the systematic pluOder of the public pseasu
ry by favored partisans, while the recent
startling developments Of frauds and cor
ruptions at the Federal Metropolis, show
that an entire change Of the administrator
is impcratively demanded
7. Thas the new dogma that the Consti
tuition of its own force carries slavery into
any or all the Territories of the Uu4sea
States, is dangerous political heresy, at
variance With the explicit provision Of that
instrument Itself with cotemporaneous ex-
positi ms, and with legislative aud judicial
precedents and that it is revolutionary in
its tendency, and subvdtsive Of the peace
and harrsony of the country,
s. That the normal condition of ahI the
territories Of the United States is that of
freedom that as our Republican fathers,
when they bad abolished slavery in ala of
our national territory, ordained that no per-
fsOn should be deprived Of life, liberty or
property, without due process Of law, it be
comes our duty by Legislation, whenever
Such Legislation is necessary, to MAINTAIN
this provision of the Constitution against all
attempts to violate it and we deny The
authority Of Congress, or II territorial legs
atIre, or Of any individuals, to give legal
existence to slavery III any Territory of the
United States.
I 8. That we brand the ro;ent re opening of
the slave trade under the cover of our ma
tionaI flag, aided by pervcrsions of judicial
power, as crime against humanity and
burning shame to our country and age, and
We call upon Congress 10 take prompt aud
sfhciedt measures for the total and 6ual sup
preston of that execrable traffic.
10. phat in the recent vetoes by their fed
eral governors Of the acts of the Legislature
of Kansas and Nebraska prohibiting. slavery
IN those Territories, we find practical illus,
traton of the bOasted Democratic principle
of non Intervention and popular sovereignty,
embodied in the Kansas Nebraska bill, aud
IA demonstration of the deception and fraud
involved therein.
IL. That Kansas should of right be imme.
diately admitted as a State under the Con
stitution recently formed and adopted by her
people, and accepted by the House of Rep,
resentatives.
II. That while providing revenue for the
General Government by duty on imports,
sound policy requires such an adjustment of
these imports as to encourage the develop
ment of the industrial interests of the whole
country and we commend that policy of ma
tional exchanges which secures to the work
ing men liberal wages, to agriculture remu-
nerating prices, to mechanics aud manufactu-
rers an adequate reward for their skill, labor
and enterprise, and to the nation commercial
prosperity and independence.
ID. That we protest against any sale or
alienation to others of the public lands held
by actual settlers, and against any view of
the free homestead policy, which regards the
settlers as Paupcrs or suppliCants for public
bounty; and we demand the passage by
Congress of the complete and satisfactory