...and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs not prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts of the Abolitionists or others, made...to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take 1ncipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most 1 There were about 350,000...

...slavery in the several states, concluding its long and somewhat obscure sentence with the assertion " that all efforts of the abolitionists or others made...dangerous consequences; and that all such efforts . . . ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions."' Though the priority...

...conttol the domestic institutions of the several states. . . . All efforts of the abolitionists or others to induce Congress to interfere with questions of...lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences. . . . Therefore the Democratic party of the Union, standing on this national platform, will abide by...

...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 take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous...

...proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution. That all efforts of the Abolitionists or others made...dangerous consequences, and that all such efforts have the inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability of the Union,...

...calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences, and that all such efforts have the inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friends of our political institutions/' The platform...

...proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts of the abolitionists or others made...tendency to diminish the happiness of the people, and to endanger the stability and permanence of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend...

...and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affain not prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts of the abolitionists, or others,...most alarming and dangerous consequences, and that ail such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the...

...that "all efforts of the Abolitionists or others to induce Congress to interfere with the question of slavery or to take incipient steps in relation...to the most alarming and dangerous consequences." It was then defiantly declared that "the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing, in...

...the South gained sway in party counsels. The platform of 1840, section 7, censured "efforts made by abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to...slavery or to take incipient steps in relation thereto." Upon this platform Van Buren was defeated, but the section just quoted was used as the basis for all...