Des Arc citizen., 1860-08-22
DIES ARC WEEKLY GgTgBBJge
tional issue of Domestic Slavery, and concern

tional issue of Domestic Slavery, and concern ing the reserved rights of tine States 1. That Congress has no power, under inc
 Constitution to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States; and
 that such States are the sole and proper judges
 of everything appertaining to their own af- fairs, not prohibited by the Consultation that all efforts of the abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress 10 interfere with questions
 of slavery, or to take ncipient steps in rcIa- ton 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 cndanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions. 3. That the foregoing proposition covers, and was intended to embrace, the whole sub ject 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-
 ton, cannot, with fidelity thereto, be repealed,
 or so changed as to destroy or impair it's eff
 ciency. W thk t
 3. That the Democratic party will resist all |
 the agitation of the slavery question, under
 whatever shape or color the attempt may be
 made. se
 4. That the Democratic party will faith
 fully abide by and uphold the principles laid
 down in the Kentucky and Virginia resolu-
 tions of 179S, and in the report of Mir. Mad-
 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. skEEn
 And that we may more distinctly meet the
 issue on which sectional party, subsisting
 exclusively on slavery agitation now relies to
 test the fidelity of the people, North and south,
 to the Constitution 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 ayowed purposes, if consummated, 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- bodying 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-INTERrERENcE BY CoN-l GREss WITH SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES OR IN THE DISTRICT or COLUMBIA.
 2. That this was the basis of the Compro- misses of 1S50-confrmed by both the Demo- cratic and Whig parties in National Conven- tion--ratifed by the people in the election of 1852, and rightly applied to the organization of Territories in 1851.
 3. That by the uniform application of this Democratic principle to the organization of 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 inyiolate. and the perpetuity and expansion of this Union insur- ed to its 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- galIy and fairly expressed will of a majority of actual residents, and whenever the number nf their inhabitants -5ustitiss it to form ~eea 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- biity 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 monopoies 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 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 whatever. The time has come for the people of the United States to declare themselves in favor of free seas and progressive free trade 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 or tnlS continent, no less than the ln- 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.
 3. RESOLVED, That the great highway which nature, as we'll as the assent of the States most interested in it's maintenance, has marked out for free communication between he Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, constitutes one of the most important achievements real zed by the spirit of modern times and the un- .onquerable energy of our people, That re- 'ult should be secured by timely and efficient | ,xertion of the control which we have the | light to claim over it, and no power on earth | hould be suffered to impede or clog it's pro- | ,ress by any interference with the relations it | nay suit our policy to establish between our government and the government of the States within whose dominions it lies. We can, un- Ter no circumstances, surrender our prepon- ference in the adjustment of all questions rowing out of it.
 1. RESOLVED, That in view of so command dg an interest, the people of the United States annot but sympathise with the efforts which re being made by the people of Central Ameri- a to regenerate that portion of the continent which covers the passage across the Inter- ceanic Isthmus.
 5 REsoLyEn That inc Democratic narfxr