...platform, but the only resolution touching slavery was the seventh which was as follows: "Resolved that Congress has no power under the Constitution to interfere with or control any domestic institutions of the several States; and that such States are the sole and proper judges...

...of the several States; and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything pertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts, by Abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take...

...Congress has no power to charter a United States Bank. *7» Resolved, That Congress has no power... to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several states. "8. Resolved, That the separation of the moneys of the Government from banking institutions is indispensible...

...country within the control of a concentrated money power, and above the laws and the will of the people. 7. That Congress has no power, under the Constitution,...States are the sole and proper judges of everything pertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts, by abolitionists...

...both sides. The slavery question was becoming more and more prominent. The National Democrats resolved "that Congress has no power under the Constitution...or others made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery or to take incipient steps in relation thereto are calculated to lead 'to the...

...conventions upon the sectional issue of domestic slavery and concerning the reserved rights of the States. 1. That Congress has no power under the Constitution...proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affain not prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts of the abolitionists, or others, made to...

...control of a concentrated money power and above the laws and the will of the people. "7. Resolved, That Congress has no power under the Constitution...not prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts by Abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take...

...that it was "inexpedient and dangerous to exercise doubtful constitutional powers"; that Congress had "no power under the Constitution to interfere with...institutions of the several States"; and that such States were "the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs not prohibited by...

...terms. The position which the party was to maintain on the slavery issue found expression as follows: "Congress has no power under the Constitution to interfere...control the domestic institutions of the several states; . . . that all efforts by Abolitionists or others made to induce Congress to interfere with questions...

...ideas. Their seventh resolution, adopted from earlier pronouncements by the Baltimore convention, ran : That Congress has no power under the Constitution...or others made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery or to take incipient steps thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming...