Democratic banner., 1847-11-08
Of the DensocI attic Meet
ing at BOWIing-Green.

ing atBOwIing-Green.
At q large and enthusiastic meeting of
l;he Democrats held in Bowling Green on
the lst inst, Thomas Berkeley, Esq, was
called to the chair, and r. ]. c. Faggg,' ap-
pointed secretary.
By request of the chairman Col. N. P.
Minor briefly explained the object of the
meeting, and moved that a committee of
eight be appointed to draft a Preamble and
Resolutions expressive of the sense of the
meeting. The chairman thereupon~ appoint
ed Messrs. Owens, Vaughan, Mase, Muir
ray, Vannoy, Minor, Mackay and Clifford.
During the absence of the committee
A. H. Buckner and Peter Carr, Esqrs., be-
ing called upon responded in an appropri-
ate and forcible manner.
The committee then returned and through
their chairman, Mp. Minor, submitted the
FLOWING report which was unanimously
adopted:
where the people gre the true source of all
mower. we hold it net only the right, but
we regard it as a sa cred duty incumbent
upon the sovereign peeps" to assemble at
times in masses, that they ma examine
we'll the signs of the times-that they may
look back upon the political sea over which
the ship of State has passed, that they may
avoid the breakers and quicksands which
threaten them in front-that they may hold
converse with each other upon the great
political topics of the day-that they may
set sentinels upon the outer wall whose
warning voice may be heard in the hour Of
peril. In the discharge of this duty we
conceive that we can best effectuate this
design by adhering strictly to the last words
of the Father Of his country-'in recurring
frequently to first prinnciples"-forit is on
|ly by a rigid and uncompromising adhere
ance to the doctrines of the Constitution,
and the sacred principles expoundod and
enforced by the immortal trainers of that
instrument, that We may expect the fabric
of our Government TO stand unframed a.
mid the fierce shocks and commissions
which have buried in forgetfulness other
Republics that promised almost as fair asi
our own. And frequent recurrence to the
stormy period Of our national existence
and the principles upon which it was found
ed, may aid us often in deciding difficult
and complex political questions. We hold
first, that all powers belong of right to the
people-that our Government is one Of
limited jurisdiction-that the States are
sovereign and free, they having in a spirit
of compromise and concession granted to
the Federal Government SO much power
only as would enable it to carry out tile OBJ
jects of its creation; and that those powers
which the General Government may exer-
else are expressed and defined, and not left
to the maynard caprices of wild and lati-
tudinous co]nstructionists. And when these
and defined grants of power give
way for the loose doctrine of implication,
then, at once, do we lose sight of the paths
which our fathers trod and enter into a
wilderness of unknown and unseen difficult
ties and dangers, which must ultimate in
our national ruin. That we view the es-
Establishment of a National Bank, the impo-
sition of an onorous Tariff, the Distribu-
ton, the Bankrupt Law, and the wild and
reckless scheme Of Internal Improvement.
as the offspring Of that loose and latitudin-
Gus construction, which would render the
Constitution Of this land a mere cypher in
~ "N"A "a shS hASn AunStioioIicS u NOh-
eminent. The struggles which nave from
time to time disturbed the harmony of the
country, which have arrayed against each
other the parties Of the present day, almost
Remembering States, and at times %conyul-
sing all, are but the result Of labored ef-
forts to effect the triumph of a l~atitudinous
construction Of the Constitution. The
attempt of the Federal party in 1910 to
hoodwink and humbug the people by a base
and degrading appeal to their lowest pas
siOns and apPetites, was but another cue
which ingenuity had invented to bring their
peculiar principles into action. And their
last hopeless struggle of 1874 under a lead
er of acknowledged talents, and their now
abortive attempts to bring upon the politi-
cal turf Gen. Zachary Taylor, the hero of
five splendid victories, that the bright lau-
rels which he has won, in that war which
these political hucksteIs have denounced,
as "GOd GbhOred," "inhuman," &C., might
be soiled and furnished by a base subservi-
ency to their baser designs;-all these
things should stimulate us to reduubled en-
srgy in the struggle which is soon to come,
and should teach us to listen to the dying
words of the immortal Jeferson-0Wa arm