Des Arc citizen., 1860-08-29
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tional issue of Domestic Slavery, and concern
 ing the reserved rights of the States
 1. That Congress has no power, under the
 Constitution, to interfere with or control tht domestic institutions of the several States, anC that such States are the sole and proper judge!
 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 to interfere with questions
 of slavery, or to take incipient steps in rela.
 ton thereto, are calculated to lead to the mos
 alarming and dangerous consequences; anC
 that all such efforts have an inevitable tenden'
 cy to diminish the happiness of the people
 and endanger the stability and permanency ol
 the Union, and ought not to be countenanceC
 by any friend of our political institutions.
 ?. That the foregoing proposition covers
 and was intendedt 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 fugtives from service or labor," 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 cannot, with fidelity thereto, be repealed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. M
 3. That the Democratic party will resist all
 attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it. the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be
 made. Hsf
 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. 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 test the fidelity of the people. North and south, to the Cons itution 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 embroi 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- bodying the only sound and safe solution of the 'ssavery question" upon which the great national idea of the people of this whole coun- try can repose in its determined conservatism of the Union--NoN-INTERF BY Cow GREss WITH SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES OR IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
 2. That this was the basis of the Compro- misses of 1850--confrmed by beth the Demo- cratic and Whig parties in National Conven- 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 will be preserved intact-the original compacts of the Constitution maintained inviolate, and the 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 a 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 majority of actual residents, aud whenever the number of their inhabitants Justifes it, to form a con stitution, with CT 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 in our own land) high and sa- cred duty is devolved with increased responsi- bility upon the Democratic party of this coun- try, as the party of the Union, to uphold and n Aintan the rights of every State, and there- by the union of the States; and to sustain and advance among us constitutional liberty, by 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 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 throughout the world, and, by solemn manifes- ,ations, to place their moral influence by the side of their successful example.
 Z. RESOLVED, That our geographical and position with reference to the other States of this continent, no less than the in- crest of our commerce and the development ,f our growing power, requires that we should lold as sacred the principles involved in the Monroe Doctrine; their bearing and import ldmit of no misconstruction they should be applied with unbending rigidity.
 3. RESOLVED, That the great highway which nature, as well as the assent of the States most immediately interested in its maintenance, has marked out for free communication between he Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, constitutes ,ne of the most important achievements real zed by the spirit of modern times and the un- .onquerable energy of our. .aeople. That re- ult should be secured bxzf kly and efficient ,xertion of the contro n we have the 'ight to claim over it, v power on earth hould be suffered tAd6tPede or clog it's pro- sress by any interG1thce 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- terence in the adjustment of all questions growing out of it.
 4 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 oceanic Isthmus.
 g. RESOLVED, That the Democratic party will expect of the next Administr ation that