The Arkansas banner., 1844-06-05

popular government, reinstate the national executive, on a fair, sober, and deliberate ex- pression of the general will.
 5 That this meeting regards the bill ol Hon. Alexander Duncan, now before Con gross, for holding the election of President on the same day throughout the Union, as well calculated 10 prevent many of those frauds on the elective franchise. which are charged and believed 10 have been mainly conducive to t6e democratic defeat in 1840; and that no friend of purity of elections, ought to vote against so obvious corrective of growing and pernicious evil.
 6 That this meeting will calmly and trust fully await the deliberations of the coming democratic national convention, confident that they will be guided By the known pre- ference of their constituency, and result in a nomination that shall be approved and rati- fled by the whole democracy of the Union; that around the choice of their convention, that democracy, in support of principles, with the spirit of freemen, and not as wor- shippers of an idol, will rally to the rescue of the fair fame and purity of our institu- tons, and the defeat of. willy and unscru- pulous adversary.
 z That the principles which the democra- cy invoke in support of their cause, they re- cognise now, and at all times, as the only true and solid foundation of republican go- vernment:- and equal laws, dispensing alike to all the same measure of protection, benefit, and adYantage; encouraging alike all the great departments of industry and enter prise, not eXactinQ tribute from one branch to sustain another, nor, by bounties or pro- hibitions, fostering one pursuit, by levying contributions on the productive energies of all others.
 S. That the democratic party of the Union, constituting the greater portion of the labor ing and mechanical classes of the community, repel the charge that they are against protect ing the home industry of the country. They denounce wasteful and extravagant admin istration of the government; desire to coll fine the tariff within the necessary require ments to discharge the debts and eXpendi- lures of the general government; and admit and claim such incidental protection in it's de- tails as shall encourage, equally and alike, all the departments of the productive indus try of the country, without selecting particu- lar favorite branches as exclusive objects of government bounty: they do not entertain one doctrine for the North and another for the South on this subject.
 9. That the proceeds of the public lands ought not to be taken from the general reve- nue of the country, to be distributed among the several States of the Union, thus adding, to the taxes on consumption already subsist- ing, the amount of the fund which is set apart for the use and benefit of the general government for national purposes.
 10. That 1t is the duty of the general go- vernment ill the first instance to pay the ex- isting debt of the Union out of all available means within her control, and stunning the exercise of a disputed constitutional power to assume the-debts of the States, which must result in additional burdens to the whole people of the Union-leading inevitably 10 all imposition of higher duties, or the levy of direct tax on the part of the general government. In the language of Mr. Clay, we ''know of no such principle in the con- stitution which authorizes the federal govern ment to become a collector for the States, nor any principle of safety or propriety which admits of the States becoming such recipients of grataity from the general Goyernment.n- Gales $ .seatoa's Register, vok s, part l, D. 6S.
 II. That this meeting declares uncom-. promising hostility against another bank of the United States under any form, disguise, or denomination, as a curse to the country, and rod of oppression 10 the people, and, as fully proved in the history and explosion of the recent bank, an unsafe depository and agentGor collecting and disbursing the moneys. intrusted to its custody.
 12 That it is the duty of the general go- vernment, through it's own officers and agents, directly responsible to Congress and the Treasury Department, and under the super vision and control of both, to collect dis purse, and hold the custody of the public free from the trammels of any bank ing system whatever.
 l3. That the democratic party. recognise the widest liberty of religious and political opinion; thatit knows no distinction between native and naturalized citizen; and satisfied that, under the protecting panoply of our constitution and laws, there is ample verge and room for all to dwell in harmonious brotherhood, this meeting most earnestly de- precates prescription or exclusiveness by either, as destructive to our institutions, and subversiye of the great cause of universal liberty throughout the globe.
 IL That this meeting considers the rean- nexation of Texas to the United States, of which it was rightfully a portion previous 10 the improvident cesslon of 1919, a measure to our security against foreign aggression in that quarter, the extension of the domestic commercial exchanges of our country, and the securing the blessings of republican government to people allied to us in blood and political sympathy; and that we shall hail the day when her now solitary star shall blend in harmonious order with the constellation that blazes on the American flag
 After the reading of the above resolutions, Col Benjamin c. Howard, who holds the first place in the affections eff the democracy of the city and State, appeared and obsefeed that as he had often addressed his fellow