...to the maintenance of slavery. The republican platform adopted at Chicago in 1860 runs thus : — " The maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States,...control its own domestic institutions, according to its own judgment, exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection aml endurance...

...afford security. The Ciiicago manifesto of the Northern party, now supreme, adopts as its fourth article the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states,...to order and control its own domestic institutions, while the small party of thorough-going abolitionists, •without political importance, though now...

...of directly opposite character, in thesa words : " That the maintenance inviolate of the rights •/ the States, and especially the right of each State...and control its own domestic institutions according toils own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and...

...made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And more than this, they were placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, in the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read. I now reiterate those sentiments, and in doing...

...made this and many similar declarations, and have never recanted them. And more, than this, they were placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, in the clear and emphatic resolution which I now n-ad. I now reiterate those sentiments, and in doing...

...the last Presidential election, declared its doctrine on this point in tho following words : — ' That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each to order and control its domestic institutions, according to its own jndgment exclusively, is essential...

...the resolutions adopted by the Convention which ushered the present administration into power : — " Resolved^ That the maintenance inviolate of the rights...control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance...

...where it exista." I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. And, more than this, they placed in the platform, for my...the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read : Ketolrfd, That (lie maintenance Inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of...

...the resolutions adopted by the Convention which ushered the present administration into power : — "Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights...control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance...

...Government, we will now, and ever, steadily, heartily and patriotically stand by the Government. Benolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclnsively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and perpetuation...