The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-07-04

Of Kansas and Nebraska a. 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 conservatism OF the
Union-NoN-INTERFERENcR BY CONGRESS
WITH SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY,
OR IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
q. That this was the basis of the Com.
promises of lS5O-coDfrmed by both the
Democratic and Wing parties 10 national
Conventions-ratified by the people in the
election Of lS52-and rightly applied 10 the
organization of Territories in 1864.
8. That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization OF
territories. and to the admission of new
States will be preserves intact-the original
compacts of the Constitution maintained in.
Violate-and the perpetuity and expansion
Of this Union insured to it's utmost capacity
of embracing, In peace and harmony, every
future American State that may be constitu
ted or annexed, with q republican form Of
government. a a...
Resolved, That we recognize the right Of
sS :sS p11pie ui ali ;a1 Territories, including
Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the
legally and fairly expressed will of major.
ity of actual residents, and whenever the
number OF their inhabitants justifies it, TO
form Constitution, with or without domes.
tic slavery, and be admitted into the Union
upon terms OF perfect equality with the 9th.
er States.
Resolued, finally, That in.view, of the con.
dition OF popular institutions in 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 "a high and
sacred duty is devolved with increased res.
possibility upon the Democratic party of
this country, as the party of the Union, to
uphold aud maintain the rights OF every
Stste, and thereby tho Union OF the States;
and to sustain and advance among US consti.
tional liberty, by continuing to resist all
monopolies and exclusive legislation for the
benefit OF the few at the expense Of the m any
and by vigiant and constant adherence,
10 those principles and compromises of the
Constitution, which are broad enough and
strong enough to embrace and uphold the
Union as 1t 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.
l. ResoIUed, 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 declure them
selves in favor OF free seas and progressive
free trade throughout the world, and, BY
solemn manifestations, 10 place their moral
Influence at the side OF their success ul ex
ample.
2. Resolced, That our geographical and
political position with reference to the other
States of this continent, no less than the
interest OF our commerce and the develop
ment OF our growing power, requires that
we should hold as sacred the principles in.
volved in the Monroe Doctrine: there
bearing and import admit of no misconstruc
tion; they should be supplied with unbend.
ing rgidIty.
8 ResoIued, That the great highway which
nature, as we'll as the assent OF the States
most Immediately interested in its maintain.
ance, has marked out for free commun'ca.
ton between the Atlantic and the Pacific
oceans, constitutes one OF the most impor.
tnnt achievements realized by the spirit of
modern times and the unconquerable energy
OF our people. That result should be secur.
ed 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 its progress by
any interference with the relations it NAV
suit our policy to establish between our
government and the governments Of the
States within whose dominions it lies. We
can, under no circumstances, surrender our
prePonderance in the adjustment of all ques
tlons arising out OF it,
4 Resoiued, That in view Of so command
ing an INTEREST. the people of the United
states cannot but sympathiz, with the ef-
'orts which are being made by the people
OF Central America to regenerate that por-
tlon OF the continent which covers the pas
sage across the Interoceanc Fsthmus.
3. Resolued, That The Democratic party
will expect OF the next Administration that
every proper effort be made to insure our
ascendency in the Gulf of Mexico, and to
maintain perment protection to the great
outlets through which are emptied into its
waters the products raised out of the soil
ana the commodities created by the indus
Try OF the people of our Western valleys,
and OF the Union at large.
1t is not necessary to read the resolutions
which compose the Cincinnati Platform q
second time to see that their grand, leading
idea is "Non interference by Congress with
State and Territory, or in the District of
Columbia" There is not q man in the
length and breadth Of the country who does
not know that one Of the cardinal doctrines
Of the Democratic party for the past sixteen
years has been "Non. interference"
The National Democratic Conven ntion has
simply re.affirmed that grand Democratic
doctrine, and nominated candidates pledged
to its support. 1t was because the Conyen.
tion did this, that the secession occurred at
and the secession at Baltimore
came Of the secession at Charleston. They
have constructed their platform and nomi.
mated candidates. What is their platform e!
1t is the report rejected ut Charleston, and
adopted by the seceders without the crossing
OF 1 or the dotting of an l. It is in the
words
THE BoLTERs' PLATFORM.
Resolued. That the platform adopted by
the Democratic party at Cncinn ati be affirm.
ed, with the following explanatory resou.
tions -
First That the Government of Terri.
tory organized by an act Of Congress is pro.
visional and temporary, and during its exist.
ence all citizens Of the United States have
an equal rig ht to settle with their property
in the Tarrifnru Mifhnnf fhnir rinhta n;thar