Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-06-03

m manner so precisely anticipating what Ye would
have said of it, that to save ourselves the Eoube of
composition, we adopt it entire. "T9 Public
Lands, we repeat after the Tribune, aresacredy
pledged, not by the Constitution, but by pm act of
the last Congress, TO the payment of ONE Twenty
/ Million Loan, (as they must also be pr other
Loans J they are mortgaged and used up br many
years to come, to satisfy the Land Bounhts grant
\ ed to the Volunteers in this War. Thu. we are
eating up, wasting away, devouring the National
patrlmony, entrusted to not for the use of this
only but for future generations so that thirty
years hence our Public Domain will probably not
be half SO extensive nor so valuable as il was
thirty years ago. Now, the Whig idea imports
that a Is Wrong thus to devote to our own tenn
porary uses, and thus dissipae, the PROPERTY which
belongs not to one age only, but to msny genera
tons. The Whigs therefore, have proposed that
the annual proceeds of the gradual alienation of
this magnificent estate be divided among the States,
to be By them invested in Public Works of per-,
manent utility, whereof the annual income shall be
sacredly devoted to the Education of the People.
BY this policy, the men of to-day would be bene-
fitted quite as amply and palpably as al present
4 while the patrimony of the People, instead of d-
II minishing annually, would be steadily increasing
/ in productive value the Proceeds of the Lands
~ steadily transmitted into benefcent and pro-
ftable canals, railroads, &c. Let this policy be
steadily pursued for the remainder of this century,
+ and our States might each have School Funds
II adequate to their necessities, invested in Public
Works of the highest and most universal benef-
cerce. Such is the Whig Land Policy, so sweep
| ingy condemned by the Baltimore Convention,
whose resolutions altogether contain no equivalent
: for it in utility and benefcence."
WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES.
The ninth proposition, by way of novelty, af-
firms that certain things contained in the Declara-
tion of Independence are true. 1t is pity that
such heroic body of sages did not grant their
sanction to the whole instrument by adopting it
entire. Perhaps, however, the progressive prin-
ciples of Democracy have left much of it out of
date that passage, in particular, which lays down
as one of the most solemn of principles that g Go
vernnents derive all just powers from the
sent Of the governed !" an axiom, decidedly, which
the Democratic and Cass scheme of absorbing. if
Necessary, all Mexico" somewhat tramples upon.
If, indeed, the liberal principles embodied by JEFF
erson 10 the Declaration OF Independence and sane
toned in the Constitution, which makes ours the
land of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed OF
every nation, have ever been cardinal principles
in the Democratic faith,'' las the Platform says,)
then we should like to know what business this
I" land Of liberty and asylum Of the oppressed !" has
going away to unfortunate Mexico and miserable
California, with the beled Declaration of Indepen-
deuce in its mouth, and the defaced Constitution in
its hand 10 enslave people already so unhappy !!
They can quote the Declaration and the Constitu-
ton out of either, if they can Or dare they quote
out of the former this charge against the British
King: He has affected to render the Military in
; dependent Of and superior to the Civil power -
No. for this exactly fits the assumption of the Pre-.
sident that, by the existence of foreign war, he
has acquired power which renders him in many
respects independent of the Constitution and the
Laws Or this other He has refused his as
sent to laws the most wholesome and necessary
for the public good ~ for this applies with pre-
cision to the Teto of the President on laws for the
facilitation Of commercial intercourse by improve
ments OF navigable waters. We say nothing of the
general allegation in the great instrument, of
the history of the then King being one of "re-
peated usurpaons," all tending to the establishment
of an absolute tyranny which to have quoted
would have been direct personal attack upon the
President, the fruits of whose elevation to the Pre-
sidency have fulfilled the hopes of the Democracy
Of the Union"
To our fathers, these were the crimes of a King !;
but, enacted with many more, by President, they
merit, in the eyes of those extreme Republicans,
our Democratic brethren, the very highest ap-
pause, as thus, in the platform: -
Resored That the confidence Of the Democracy Of the
Union in the principles, capacity, rmness and integrity Of
JANIS X PoLK manifested by his nomination and election
in 1884, has been sgnay justified by the sictness of his ad
herenc sound Democratic doctrines by the purity pur
pose the energy and ability which have characterized his Ad
mnistration in all our affairs at home and abroad"
Ye European tyrants that are being tumbled
down We Louises of France and Bavaria We
Ferdinands and Fredericks and Ncholases and all
Listen Because zoe like not the veto power, nor
annexing nor the Executives making wars and
laws as he likes, nor variety Of other small Pre-
siden,ia prerogatves, the King-hating Democracy
is pleased to say we are horrible Federalists and,
in short great friends Of yours Come, them we