Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-06-08

Commemorative subjoin the resolutions
adopted by the Locofoco national convention.
and call the attention of our readers to them
They were reported by Hallet, of Boston.
Rcsolucd, That the American democracy
place their trust in the intelligence, the patri
otism, and the discriminating justice of the
American people.
Rcsolued, That we regard this as a distinc
tive feature of our political creed, which we
are proud to maintain before the world as the
great moral element in form of government
springing from and upheld by the popular will
and we contrast it with the creed and practice
of federalism under whatever name or form
which seeks, TO palsy the will of the constitu
ent, and which conceives no imposture toe
monstrous for the popular credulity.
| Re8otUSd therefore, That, entertaining these
views, the democratic party of this Union
through their delegates assembled in genera
convention of the states, coming together il
spirit of concord, of devotion to the doctrine.
and faith of a free representative government
and appealing TO their fellow citizens for the
rectitude of their intentions, renew and re-as
sert, before the American people, the decla
rations of principles avowed by them when
on former occasion, in general convention
they presented their candidates for the popu
lar suffrages:
l. That the federal government is one of IL
mited powers, derived solely from the consti
tuition, and the grants of power shown therein
ought to be strictly construed by all the de-
partments and agents of the government, and
that it is inexpedient and dangerous to exercise
doubtful constitutional powers.
g. That the constitution does not confer
upon the general government the power tc
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internal Improvements.
3. That the constitution does not conf er au-
| thority upon the federal government, directly
or indirectly, to assume the debts of the sew
eral States, contracted for local internal i'm
provements, or other State purposes, MOI
would such assumption be just and expedi-
ent.
4. That justice and sound policy forbid the
federal government to foster one branch of in
dustry to the detriment of another, or to cher
lsh the interests of one portion to the injury Of
another portion of our common country: thai
every citizen, and every section of the coun-
TRIP, has right to demand and insist upon an
equality of rights and privileges, and to
complete and ample protection Of person and
property from domestic violence of foreign ag-
gression.
5. That it is the duty of every branch of the
government to enforce and practise the most
rigid economy in conducting our public affairs
and that no more revenue ought to be raised
than is required to defray the necessary expen-
ses of the government, and for the gradual
but certain extinction of the debt created
by the prosecution of just and necessary war
after peaceful relations shall have been res
tored.
6. That Congress has no power to charter q
national bank; that we believe such an insti
tuition one of deadly hostility to the best in
terests of the country, dangerous to our re-
publican institutions and the liberties of the
people, and calculated to place the business OF
the country within the control of a concentrat
ed money power, and above the laws
and will OF the people; and that the re-
suits of democratic legislation, in this and all
other financial measures upon which issues
have been made between the two political
parties of the country, have demonstrated to
candid and practical men of all parties, their
soundnesG, safety, and utility in all business
pursuits.
z. That Congress has no power under the
constitution to interfere with or control the
domestic institutions of the several States,
and that, such States are the sole 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
induce Congress to interfere with questions OF
slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation
thereto, are calculated to lead to the most
alarming and dangerous consequences, and
that all such efforts have an inevitable tenden-
cy to diminish the happiness of the people
and endanger the stability and permanency
OF the Union, and ought not to be coun-
tenanced by any friend of our political insti-
tutions.
8. That the separation of the moneys of the
government from banking institutions is in
dispensable for the safety of the funds OF
the government, and the rights of the peo-
Pile.
9. That the liberal principles embodied by
Jefferson in the declaration of independence
and sanctioned in the constitution, which
makes ours the land of liberty, and the asylum
of the oppressed of every nation, dave ever
been cardinal principles in the Democratic
faith, and every attempt to abridge the present
privilege of becoming citizens and the owners
of soil among US, ought to be resisted with the
same spirit which swept the alien and sedltion
laws from our statute books.
ResolUed, That the proceeds of the public
lands ought to be sacredly applied to the ma
tional objects specified in the constitution, and
that we are opposed to any law for the distri
button of such proceeds among the States, as
alike inexpedient In policy and, repugnant
to the constitution.
Re8olued, That we are decidedly opposed tc
taking from the President the qualified veto
power, by which he is enabled, under restrc
lions and responsibilities, amply sufficient to
guard the public interest, to suspend the pas
sage of a bill whose merits cannot secure the
approval of two thirds of the Senate and
House of Representatives until the judgement
of the people can be obtained thereon. anc
which has saved the American people from the
corrupt and tyrannical domination of the Bank
OF the United States, and from corrupting
system of general internal Improvements.
Re8oLued, That the war with Mexico provo
ked on her part, by years of insult and injury
was commenced by her army crossing the Rio
Grande, attacking the American troops, ant
invading our sister State of Texas; and that up
on all the principles of patriotism and the law!
of nations, it is a just and necessary war or
our part, in which every American either
should have shown himself on the side of hi
country, and neither morally nor physically, BY
word or deed, have given ''aid and comfort tt
the enemy
ResolUGd, That we would be rejoiced at thu
assurances ola peace with Mexico, founded OF
the just principles of indemnify for the past AM
security for the future; but that while the rati
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