Resolved,  That  we  reiterate  with  renewed
energy  of  purpose  the  well-considered
declarations  of  former  conventions  upon
ihe  sectional  issue  of  domestic  slavery,
and  concerning  the  reserved  rights  of  the
states —

1.  That  Congress  has  no  power  under
the  constitution  to  interfere  with  or  con
trol  the  domestic  institutions  of  the  several
states,  and  that  all  such  states  are  the  sole
and  proper  judges  of  everything  apper
taining  to  their  own  affairs  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
tion  thereto,  are  calculated  to  lead  to  the
most  alarming     and     dangerous      conse
quences,  and  that  all  such  efforts  have  an
inevitable  tendency  to  diminish  the  hap
piness  of  the  people  and  endanger  the
stability  and  permanency  of  the  Union,
and  ought  not  to  be  countenanced  by  any
friend  of  our  political  institutions.
2.  That  the  foregoing  proposition  covers
and  was  intended  to  embrace  the  whole
subject  of  slavery  agitation  in  Congress,
and  therefore  the  Democratic  party  of  the
Union,  standing  on  this  national  platform,
will  abide  by  and  adhere  to  a  faithful  exe
cution  of  the  acts  known  as  the  compro
mise  measures,  settled  by  the  Congress  of
1850 — "the  act  for    reclaiming    fugitives
from  service  or  labor"   included;  which
act,  being  designed  to  carry  out  an  express
provision  of  the  constitution,  can  not,  with
fidelity  thereto,  be  repealed,  or  so  changed
as  to  destroy  or  impair  its  efficiency.
3.  That  the  Democratic  party  will  resist
all  attempts  at  renewing  in  Congress,  or
out  of  it,  the  agitation  of  the  slavery  ques
tion,  under  whatever  shape  or  color  the
attempt  may  be  made.
