The North-Carolina standard., 1848-10-11
THE WHIG PLATFORM,

We learn from theNew York Express, that at a
IS immense Mass Meeting'' of the friends of Taylo
and Fillmore, held in New York City on the 27t
of last month, the following Resolutions were intro
duced and adopted
"Resolved, That the Whig Platform, upon whicl
we stand, is the old Whig platform, Of
1. Opposition to Executive, Prerogative, Monarch
cal, One-Man Power. Down with the arbitrary, self
will of one man, is the Wing idea and the Govern
of the People, in Congress constitutional!
expressed, is the main plank in The Whig PAatform.
| 2. The currency of the People is good enough cur
rency for the Government. The money that will bu!
our bread and meat is good enough money for the
salaries of ofce-hoders. No 49, 1000 locked VI
in Wall street, now, the vaults of the SubTreasu
ry, and distracted from the currency-but where th
merchant and mechanic safely trust their money
there should the servants of the People trust theirs
I also !-another plank tn the Wing Platform.
| Sd. Adequate Protection to the American citizer
and American Labor from the pauper labor of Europe
and from their -fed, ill-clad illhoused starving
petiton-another plank in the Whig Platform.
4th. prudent, but efficient, Development of the
resources aud capabilities of the Lakes. Rivers and
Harbors of the vast interior by the Federal Govern
ment. The Erie Canal, bringing here the trade OF
the West, supports and makes prosperous half a
million of human Beings in this city and its suburbs.
To double and treble that number by bringing here
the trade of Lake Superior, of the Upper Mississippi,
and of the Missouri, through adequate system OF
Internal Improvement in the great Nest Is another
stand.
Resolved That we cannot, and will not, desert the
old Whig platform, to stand upon any other,-and
that, with our consent, Cuba black plank u
catan yello,o plank, shall be added to it, by Lewis
Cass, or Buffalo composite, Mosaic work, by Mar
tin Van Buren.
Upon "Free Soil'' our platform has always stood,
and ever will stand and they who will stand with
upon it, are invited come, and shall be welcomed
thereon,-but we cannot leave it to mount any new
one, especially that which has but solitary prop
to support it, and that of very doubtful TIMBER to say
the least.
There it is-the Wing platform, plank by plank! |!
Opposition to the Veto-for National Bank, for
Protective Tariff, for River and Harbor Improvements
and all standing tile old platform of Free Soil
What will Mr.. Miller say to that -! He does not OBJ
ect, he says, to the ,cOrd platform, but the sub
stance of the Democratic platform. Very well. We
can say the same thing for his platform-the tcord
will do well enough, but the substance Of the above is
just what Giddings and Arthur Tappan would smack
their lips over, and call good doctrine. And this is
the platform erected in New York City, for Taylor
and Fillmore to stand upon Is it broad enough and
sound enough for the Wing Electors in this State
Whit says Mr.. Raynerl Is he satisfied with it
Does he suppose that the Shareholders of his Dis
trict will climb up this platform, and stand upon
it, even though he should set them the example!
We call upon the people to mark the Raleigh Re-
gster, and lift does not suppress the above Reso
lutions, passed by its brother Wings of New York,
as it did Mr. Webster's Marshfeld Speech and Fill
more's Erie Anti-Slavery letter.