Des Arc citizen., 1860-08-08

| that such States are the sole ana proper luuBes of everything appertaining to their own ar fairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts of the abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in rela- ton thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences; and that all such efforts have aninevitable tenden- cy to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countepanced by any friend of our political institutions.
 2. 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,o in- cluded: which act being designed to carry out an express provision of the Constitu- tion, cannot, with fidelity thereto, be repealed, or so changed as to destroy or impair it's eff ciency.
 3. That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of 1t, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
 l. That the Democratic party will faith
 
 down in the Kentucky and Virginia resom- tions of 1798, and in the report of MT. Madi- 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.
 And that we may more distinctly meet the issue on which a sectional party, subsisting exclusively on slavery agitation now relies to fac tho TIo1it x,off Ia nd 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 avowed 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- bodyiDg the only sound and safe solution of the ssslavery question: upon which the great national idea of the people of this whole coun- try can repose in it's determined conservatism of the n--NoN-INTERFERENcE BY Cow GREss WITH SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES OR IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
 2. That this was the basis of the Compro-e mises of 1S50--confirmed 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 1854.
 3. That by the uniform application of this Democratic principle to the organization of territories, and to the admission of new States, with or without domestic slavery, as they may elect--the equal rights of all the States wul be preserved intact--the original compacts of the Constitution maintained inviolate, and the perpetuity and expansion of this Union insur- ed to it's 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- gally and fairly expressed will of a majority of actual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants Justihes it, to form con stitution, 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 popular 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- crad duty is deyolved with increased responsi- bility upon the Democratic party of this coun- trv 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 monopolies 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 compromises 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.
 l. 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 throughout 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 of this continent, no less than the in- 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 immediately interested in its maintenance, has marked out for a free communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, constitutes one of the most important achievements real ized by the spirit of modern times and the un- conquerable energy of our people. That re- suit should be secured 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 it's pro- gress by any interference with the relations it may suit our policy to establish between our government and the government of the States within whose dominions it lies. We can, un- der no circumstances, surrender our prepon- derence in the adjustment of all questions growing out of it.
 i. RESOLVED, That in view of so command idg an interest, the people of the United States cannot but sympathise with the efforts which are being made by the people of Central Ameri- ca to regenerate that portion of the continent which covers the passage across the Inter- oceanic Isthmus.
 5. RESOLVED, That the Democratic party will expect of the next Administration that every proper effort will be made to insure our ascendencY in the Gulf of Mexico, and to maintain permanent protection to the great outlets through which are emptied into its xl H.. d oc tha oil nd