Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-26
POSITION
or THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
IN 1856!
-UPON---
WOW Nv TIE VENTTOV
POPULAR SovEREIGNTYl
Extracts from the Kansas-Nebraska
Act.

POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY! !
Extracts from the eKansas-Nebraska
Act.
"The Constitution and all laws of the
United States, which are not locally in.
applicable, shall have the same force with
in the said Territory of Kansas as else
where within the United States, except
the eighth section of the act preparatory
to the admission of Missouri into the I'm.
ion, approved March 6, 1920, which being
Inconsistent wih tie principie Of non inter
rentton By Congress wM slavery in the
States and Territories, as recognized by
the legislation of 1850, commonly called
the Compromise Measures, is hereby de
clared imperative and void; Il Jeing tie
true intent and meaning Of this act not TO
(egislote S(oveyy into any TERRITORY or .Stote
nor to erclude uHerefrom, bm TO LEAVE
THEPEOPLETHEREOF PERFECT
LIZ FREE TO FORM AND REGU.
LATE THEIR DOMESTIC INSTlTU-
TIONS IN THEIR OWN WAY SUB
JECT ONLY TO THE CONSTlTU-
TlON OF THE UNITED STATES :
4'rooided, that nothing herein contained
shall be construed to rerjce or put in force
any TAR or regulation which may have ex
isted prior to the act of the 9th March.
1920, OF EITHER PROTECTING,
ESTABLISHING, PROHIBITING OR
ABOLlSHlNG SLAVERY"
EXTRACT FROM THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM.
Il. ReSolced, That, claiming fellow :
ship with and desiring the corporation
of all who regard the preservation of the
Union, under the Constitution, as the
paramount issue, and repudiating all sec
tional parties and platforms concerning
domestic slavery, which seek to embroil
the State, and incite to treason and armed
resistance to law in the Territories, and
whose avowed purposes, if consumated,
must end in civil war and disunion; the
american Democracy recognize and odopt
The principles contained in the orgonic lawS
establishing the Territories of Kansas and
Nedrosho as embodying tie only sound and
safe solution cf'Me slaOeyy question, upon
which the great national idea of the pe0-
pie of this whole country can repose in
its determined conservatism of the Union
NON-ITERVETION BY CONGRESS-
WITH SLAVERY IN STATE AND
TERRITORY AND IN THE DIS
TRlCT OF COLUMBIA.
~. That this was the basis of the
compromises of 1850. confirmed by both
the Democratic and Wing parties in Ma
tional Conventions, ratified by the people
III the election of 1852, ond rightly appiied
TO tie organization Of Territories IN 1854"
EXTRACT FROM MIR. BUcHANAN's LETTER OF
ACCEPTANCE, DATED JUNE 10th, 1856
"The recent legislation of Congress re-
sprcting domestic slavery. derived as it
has been, from the original and pure foun-
tain of political power, the will of the
majority, promises ere long to allay the
dangerous excitement. This legislation
is founded upon principles as ancient as
free government itself, and, in accordance
with them; has simply declared that TIL l.
PEOPLE OF a TERRITORY, LIKE
THOSE OF A STATE, SHALL DE-
eide FOR THEMSELVES WuETu.
Err SLAVERY SHALL OR SHALL
NOT EXIST WITHIN THEIR LINZ
IT'S. The Kansas Nebraska Act does
no more than give the force Of law to
this elementary principle of self. f.govern-
ment. This principle will surely not be
controverted by any individual of any
party pro 'essing devotion to popular gov
ernment Besides, how vain and ilusory
would any other principle prove, in prac-
tce, in regard to the Territories! This is
apparent from the fact, admitted by all,
that after Territory shall have entered
the Uuion and become a State no Consti.
tutonal power would then exist which
could prevent it from either abolishing
or establishing slavery, as the case may
be, according to its sovereign will and
pleasure"
EXTRACT FROM MAJOR BRECKENRIDGE S
SPEECH AT LEXINGTON, AFTER HIS NoMI-
NATION To THE vICE-PREsIDENCY.
"Upon the distracting question of do
mestic slavery their position is clear. The
whole power of thr Democratic organiza-
ton is pledged to the following PROPOSE
tons: THAT CONGRESS SHALL
NOT INTERVENE UPONTlIIS SUB
JECT IN THE STATES, IN THE
TERRITORIES OR IN THE DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA; THATTHE
PEOPLE or EACH TERRITORY
SHALL DETERMINE THE CUES
TION FOR THEMSELVES, and be ad-
mitted into the Union upon footing of
perfect equali y with the original States,
without discrimination en account of the
allowance or prohibition of slavery"
EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS OF THE NATION
AL DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE TO THE PEo-
PIE OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1856
FINALLY. in 1850, after a 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 splrit of onr institu-
tons places it-lN THE HANDS AND
UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE
PEOPLE OF THE TERRITORIES
THEMSELVES, restrained only by the
Constitution.
"rhe whole nation re- diced in this wise
adjustment, and all parties claimed it as
a tinality as to this principle of Teritor-
tGi orgdnizrtion. For once the question
of slavery in the Territories was settled
upon the principles of our Revolutionary
fathers, who demanded voice and vote