Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1848-06-08

ments, or other State purposes; mol
wouIasneh assumption be jdstand exi
pedient
A. That justice and sound policy for
bid the federal governmen, TO foster
one branch of industry To the deltimen
of another or TO cherish the interests
Of one portion TO the injury of another
portion of our common coup:ry, tina,
every citizen, and every section Of 'he
country has a right to demand and IN
siSt upon an equality Of rights and
privileges, ami to complete an ample
protection Of persons and property from
domestic violence or for+lgn aegre>-
sion.
5. That tits the duty Of every
branch of the government to enfnrce
and practice the mos; rigid economy n
conducting our public affairs, and that
no more revenue onght to be raised
than is required to defray the necessary
expenses of,he government. and Tor
the gradual but certain extinction OF
the debt created by the prosecution Of a
Just and necessary war, after peaceful
relations shall have been restored.
6. That Congress has no power to
charter a national bank; that we be-
lieve such an institution one Of deadly
hostility to the best interests of ,he
country, dangerous to our republican
institutions and the liberties otthe PEG
pie, and calculated to place the bust
ness Of the country within the control
ola concentrated money power, and
above the laws and the will of the peo-
pie; and that the results of democratic
legislation, in this and all other fInan-
cal measures upon which issues have
have been made between the two po-
ltical parties of the country, have dem
onstrated 10 candid and practical men
of all parties, their soundness, safety
and utility in all business pursuits.
7. That Congress has no power un-
der 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 every
thing appert aiming to their owa 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 IN
cipient steps in relation thereto, are
calculated to lead to the most alarming
and dangerous consequences; and that
all such efforts have an Inevitable ZEN
dency to diminish the happiness Of the
people, and endanger the stability and
permanency of the Union, and ought
not to be countenanced by any friend Of
our political; institutions.
s. That the separation of the mon.
eys Of the government from banking
institutions is indispensable for the
safety of the funds of the government
and the rights of the people. H.
9. The the liberal principles embod'
led 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, have eve
been cardinal principles in the democrat
ic faith, and every attempt to abridgt
the present privilege of becoming cit
liens and the owners Of soil among us
ought to be resisted with the same spl'
it which swept the alien and seditior
laws from our statute books. r.
RESOLVED, That the proceeds of thu
public lands ought to be sacredly ap
piled to the national objects specihee
in the constitution; and that we are op
posed to any law for the distribution 0
such proceeds among the States, az
alike iuexpedient in policy, and repng
nant to the constitutions.
Resolued, That we are decidedly op.
posed to taking from the President ths
qualified veto power, by which he L
enabled, under restrictions and respon
sibilitles, amply suffcien; to guard thu
pablo interest, to suspend the passage
of a bill whose merits cannot secure
the approval oftwo-thi:ds oftbe Senate
and House Of Representatives until TIT
judgment Of the people can be obtained
thereon, and which has saved sth'
American people from the corrupt ant
tyrannical domination. of the Bank 0
the United States, and from corrup
ting system Of internal improvements.
Resolred. That the war with Next
CO, provoked on her part, by years o
insult and injury. was commenced BY
her army crossing The Rio Grande, at
lacking the American troops, and in
vading our sister State of Texas, = ant
,ha. upon all the principles Of patriot
ism and the laws of nations, ii is a jus
and necessary war Oh our part, u
which every American citizen .shonl'
have shown himself on the side of hi