Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-08-03
DEMOCRATIC PARTY In 1856.
NON INTERVENTION AND POPULAR
SOVEREIGNTY.

March 6, 1920, aoAich being Inconsistent
With the principle Of Intervention by
Congress wttb slavery an the States and Ter
rstor'es, as recognized by the legislation of
1850, commonly called the Com promise
Measures, is hereby declared imperative and
void; 1T being the true intent and meaning
Of THIS act not to legislate Slavery into arg
Territory or State, nor to exclude at there
from, but TO LEAVE THE PEOPLE
THEREOF PERFECTLY FREE TO
FORM AND REGULATE THEIR DO
MESTIC INSTITUTIONS IN THEIR
OWN WAY, SUBJECT ONLY TOTHE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES: Prouided, that aotAiss herein
contsiaed skaN be construed to revive or put
an force any lac or rsgslotiom which may
have existed prior to the act of 9Th March,
1920, EITHER PROTECTING, ESTAB-
LISTING, PROHIBITING OR ABOL-
ISHING SLAVERY" eye OF
Extract from the Cincinnati Platform.
II. 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 concernin { domestic slavery. which
seek to embroil the States and incite to trea-
son and armed resistance to law in the Ter
rltorles, and whose avowed purposes, ifcon-
|summated, must end in civil war and disu-
MON; the American Democracy recognize
and adopt the principles contained IN the
organic laws establishing the Territories of
Kansas and Nebraska as embodyimg the only
sound and safe solution of the slavery ques-
hon,' upon which the great national idea of
the people of this whole country can repose
in its determined conservatism of the u
nion-NON- INTERVENTION BY COM
GRESS WITH SLAVERY IN STATE
AND TERRITORY AND IN THE Dis
TRICT OF COLUMBIA tfs;fs
'.z. That this was the basis of the COM
promises of 1850, confirmed by both the
Democratic and Wing parties in National
Conventions, ratified by the people in the
election of 1852, and rightly applied to the
organization Of Territories IN 1854"
Extract from Mr.. Buchanan,s Letter Of
Acceptance, dated June 16, 1860.
1.-The recent legislation of Congress re-
speeding domestic slavery, derived. as it has
been, from the original and pure fountain
Of political power, the will of the majority,
promises ere long to allay the dangerous ex-
element This legislation is founded upon
principles as ancient as free government it
self, and, in accordance with them, has
simply declared that THE PEOPLE OF A
TERRITORY, LIKE THOSE OF A
STATE, SHALL DECIDE FOR THEM
SELVES w ETHER SLAVERY
SHALL OR SHALL NOT EXIST WITH
IN THEIR LIMITS. The Kansas-Ne-
braska Act does no more than give the force
Of law to this elementary principle of self
government This principle willsurely not
be oontrovcrted by any individual of any
party protesting devotion to popular govern
ment, Besides, how vain and illusory
would any. other principle prove, in prac-
tice, in regard to the Territories This is
apparent from the fact, admitted by all, that
after a Territory shall have entered the u
MON and become State no Constitutional
power would then exist which could prevent
it from either abolishing or establishing sla-
very, as the case may be, according to its
sovereign will and pleasure @ .
EXIT act from Major Breckinridge's Speech
at Lexington, after his Nomin alton TO the
slce-FfeSidehCy. sg c.t
upon the distracting question of domes-
tic slavery their position is clear. The whole
power of the Democratic organization is
pledged to the following propositions -
THAT CONGRESS SHALL NOT IN
TERVENE UPON THIS SUBJECT IN
THE STATES, IN THE TERRITORIES
ORIN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA;
THAT THE PEOPLE OF EACH TER
RITORY SHALL DETERMINE THE
QUESTION FOR THEMSELVES and be
admitted into the Union upon footing of
perfect equality with the original States.
without discrimination on account of the al
lowance OF prohibition of slavery" t
Extract from an Address of the N atiOnaI
! Democratic Committee to the People of
the United States in 1856. s.--.r
FINALLY, in 1850, after period of great
agitation Throughout the country, the leading
patriots and wise men of both parties, such
as Clay, Webster, Cass and others, decided
upon leaving this question where it always
ought TO have been left, and where the true
spirit of our institutions places tin THE
HANDS AND UNDER THE CONTROL
OF THE PEOPLE OF THE TERRIFIC
A"AA1O Il lA1I4uOI2Af LAO, IeStrdlueu only Dy
the Constitution. b.
"The whole nation rejoiced in this wise
adjustment, and all parties claimed it as
fnality as to this principle of Territorial o.
ga"ization. For once the question of sla-
very in the Territories was settled upon the
principles of our Revolutionary fathers, who
demanded a voice and vote in regulating
their own institutions; the same great funda-
mental principles of human government
which underlie and uphold our whole repub-
lican principles suited to all Terri
tories and to all times, and as broad and en-
ing as eternal truth. This form of ad-
justment was denominated NON-INTER-
VENTION B Y CONGRESS-SE ELF
GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE OF
THE TERRITORIES
TUE AccoMAc MuRDEREss Miss Simp-
son. who was convicted of the murder OF
man named Budd, in Accomac, passed
through here last week on her way to the