Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1848-06-17

fered to Mexico remains in doubt, II is the
duty of the country to sustain the admins
tration in every measure necessary to pro.
vide for the vigorous prosecution Of the war,
should that treaty be rejected.
Resolved That the officers and soldiers
who have carried the arms of their country
into Mexico have crowned it with imperisha.
bic glory Their unconquerable courage,
their daring enterprise, their unfaltered per-
severance and fortitude when assailed on all
sides by innumerable foes and that more
formidable enemy, the diseases of the climate,
exalt their devoted patriotism into the high
est heroism, and give them right to the pro-
found gratitude of their country, and the ad-
miraton of the world
Resolved That the Democratic National
Convention of the thirty States composing the
American republic, tender their fraternal con-
gratulations to the National Convention of the
republic of France, now assembled as the
fee-suffrage representatives of the sovereignty
of thirty-five millions of republicans, to estab-
lish government OH those eternal principles OF
equal rights for which their Lafayette and
ourWashington fought side by side in the strug-
gle for our own national independence and
we would especially convey to them, and to
the whole people of France, our earnest wish
es for the consolidation of their liberties,
through the wisdom that shall guide their
councils, on the basis of a democratic con-
stiution, not derived from the grants or con-
cessons of kings or pariamenis, but origina-
ting from the only true source of political
power recognised in the States of this Union
the inherent and inalienabie right of the
people in their sovereign capacity, to make
and 10 amend their forms of government in
such manner as the welfare OF the community
may require.
Resolved, That in the recent development
Of the grand political truth, of the sovereignty
of the people, and their capacity and power
for self-governmen,, which is prostrating
thrones and erecting republics on the ruins OF
despotsm in the Old World, we feel that
high and sacred duty is devolved, with in
creased responsibility, upon the democratic
party of this country, as the party of the
people TO sustain and advance among us con-
sttuiional liberty, equality, and fraternity,
by continuing to resist all monopolics
and exclusive legislation for the benefit
Of the few at the expense of the many, and
by vigilant and constant adherence to those
principles and compromises of the constitu-
ton which are broad enough and strong
enough TO embrace and uphold the Union as
it was, the Union as it is, and the Union as it
shall be, in the full expansion of the energies
and capacity of this great and progressive
people.
Voted, Tha, copy of these resolutions be
forwarded, through the American minister at
Paris, to the national convention Of the repub-
lie OF France.
Resolved, That the fruits of the great po-
li,ical triumph of 1914, which elected JAMES
and Vice President of the United States, have
fulfilled The hopes Of the democracy of the
Union defeating the declared purposes
of their opponents to create national bank !;
in preventing the corrupt and unconstitution-
al distribution of the land proceeds from the
common treasury of the Union, for local pur-
poses in protecting the currency and the la
bor of the country from ruinous fluctuations,
and guarding the money of the people for
the use of the people, by the establishment
of the constitutional treasury; in the noble
impulse given to the cause of free trade, by
the repeal of the tariff Of lsi2 and the crea-
tion of the more equal, honest, and produc.
tive tariff of 1916 and that, in our opinion,
it would be a fatal error 10 weaken the bands
of political organization by which these great
reforms have been achieved, and risk them
! in the hands of their known adversaries, with
whatever delusive appeals they may solicit
our surrender of that vigilance, which is the
only safeguard of liberty.
Resolved, That the confidence of the dem
ocracy Oft The Union in the principles, capacity,
(irmness, and integrity of James X. Polk. ma
infested by his nomination and election in
1914, has been signally justified blythe strict
ness of his adherence TO sound democratic
doctrines, by the purity ofpnrpose, the energy
and ability which have characterized his adj
ministra,ion in all our affairs at home and
abroad that we tender to him our cordial con-
gra,ua,ions upon the brilliant success which
has hitherto crowned his patriotic efforts; and
assure him, in advance that at the expiration
of his presidential term he will carry with
him to his retirement the esteem, respect
and admiration Of grateful country.
Resolved, That this convention hereby
present to the people of the United States
LEWIS CAss of Michigan, as the candidate o.
the democratic party for the office of Pres
dent; and WILLIAM o. BUTLER Of Kentucky
as the candidate of the Democratic party TO
the office of Vice-President Of the United
States.
THE Prince DE JoINvILLE-The Primo,
de Joinvile keeps diary during his presen
exile, and some extracts have been published
in the French papers, which show the pue
rility of his character. He says: "Disgus
at what has taken place in France has excl