The State guard., 1848-06-20

by Jefferson in the Declaration of lnde- pendance, and sanctioned in the consttu- i ton, which makes ours the land of liberty, ana the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in .he democratic faith, and every attempt to abridge the present privilige of becom- ing citizens and the owners of soil among us, ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and sedilion 1 laws from our statute books.
 ResolUed, That the proceeds of the public lands ought to be sacredly applied to the national objects specified in the con- stitution and that we are opposed to any law for the distribution of such proceeds among the States, as alike inexpedient in policy, and repugnant to the constitution.
 Resol0ed, That we are decidedly oppos- cd to taking fiom the President the quali- fled veto power, by which he is enabled, under restrictions and responsibilities, amply sufficient to guard the public inter- est, to suspend the passage of a bill whose merit cannot secure the approval of two- thirds of the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives until the judgement of the peo- pie can be obtained thereon, and which has saved the American people from the corrupt and tyrannical domination of the Bank of the United States, and from cor rupting system of general internal inn provements.
 ResolUed, That the war with Mexico pro- voked on her part, by years of insult and injury, was commencedby her army eros sing the Rio Grande, attacking the Ameri- can troops, and invading our sister State of Texas,-and that upon all the princi- pies of patriotism and the laws of nations, it is as just and necessary war on our part, in which every American citizen should have shown himself on the side of his country, and neither morally or physically, by word or deed, have given "aid and com fort to the enemy"
 Resolced, That we would be reioiced at the assurances of a peace with Mexico, founded on the just principles of indemn- ty for the past and security for the future but that while the ratification of the liber- al treaty offered to Mexico remains in doubt, it is the duty of the country to sus- tain the administration in every measure necessary to provide for the vigorous prose- cuton of the war, should that treaty be rejected.
 ReSolued, That the officers and soldiers who have carried the arms of their coun- try into Mexico, have crowned it with inn perishable glory. Their unconquerable courage, their daring enterprise, their un- lalterinG perseverance, aud fortitude when asssailed on all sides by innumerable foes, and that more formable encmy--thc dis eases of the climate-exalt their devo. ted patriotism into the highest heroism, and give them a right to the profound gratitude of their country and the admira. ton of the world.
 Resolped, That the Democratic Ma. tional Convention of the thirty States composing the American Republic, tender their iraternal congratulations to the Ma iional Convention of the Republic ol Trance, now assembled as the free suffrage representatives of a sovereignty of thirty five millions of Republicans, to establish government on those eternal principles of equal rights, for which their LAFAYETTE and ow WASHINGTON fought side by side, in the struggle for our National Indepen- dence and we would especially convey te them and to the whole people of France, our earnest wishes for the consolidation of their Liberties, through the wisdom that shall guide their councils, on the basis of democratic Constitution. not derived from the grants or concessions of kings or dynasiies, but originating from the only true source of political power recognised in the States of this Union the inherent and inalenable right of the people, in their sovereign capacity, to make and to amehd their forms of government in such manner as the welfare of the community may require.
 Reso,ced, Thatthe recent development of this grand political truth, of the sovereign ty of the people and their capacity and power for self government, which is pros- trating thrones and erecting republics on ruins of despotsm in the old world, we feel that high and sacred duty is devol- ved, with increased responsibility upon the democratic party of this country, as the party of the people, to sustain and ad. vance among us constitutional liberty, equality and fraternity, by continuing to resist all monoplies and exclusive legisla- ton for the beno fit of the few at the ex- pence of the many, and by vigilant and constant adherence to those principles and promises of the constitution which are broad enough and strong enough to en- brace and uphold the Union as it is, and the Union as it shall be in the full expan- sion of the energies and capacity of this great and progressive people,
 Resolvcl, That a copy of these resolu- tions be forwarded through the American | Minister at Paris to the National Con. vention of the republic of France. Resoloed, That the fruits of the great political triumph of ls44, which elected JAMES K. POLK and GEORGE NJ. DALLAS President and Vice President of the Uni ted States, have fulfilled the hopes of the democracy of the Union in defeating the declared purpose of their opponents to cro t,i a Notiopn1 Ronly r., e,a,,.. 4:.... .l !.