Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-06-20

ecution of just and necessary war, after
peaceful relations shall have been res.
tored.
IS. That Congress has no power to
charter national bank; that we believe
such an institution one of deadly hostility
to the best interests Of the country, dan.
gerious TO our republican institutions and
the liberties of the people, and calculated
10 place the business Of the country with.
IN The control of a concentrated money
power; and above the laws and the will of
the people; and that the results of demo-
cratic legislation, in this and all other
financial measures, upon which issues
have been made between the two political
parties Of the country, have demonstrated
to candid and practical men of ell parties,
their soundness, safety, and utility in ell
business pursuits.
81. That Congress has no power I'm.
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 everything
appertRining to their own affairs. not
prohibited by the constitution; that all
efforts ofthe abolitionists or others made
to induce Congress to interfere with the
questions of slavery, or to take incipient
steps 10 relation thereto, are calculated to
lead to the most alarming and dangerous
consequences; and that all such efforts
have an inevitable tendency to diminish
the happiness ofthe people. and endangsr
the stability and Permanency of the I'm.
ion. and ought not to be oountennaoed
BY any friends Of our political institutions.
SO. That the separation of the moneys
OF the government from banking institu-
lions is indispensable for the safety Of
the funds Of the government and the rights
of the people.
'9. That the liberal principles en-.
bodied by Jefferson in the declaration of
independence, and sanctioned in the
constitution, which makes ours the land
ofliberty; and the asylum Of the oppressed
ofevery nation, have ever been cardinal
principles in the democratic faith, and
every attempt to abridge the present priv.
ledge Of becoming citizens and owners
Of soil among. US, ought to be resisted
with the same spirit which swept the
alien and sedltion laws from our statute
books.
RESOLVED, That the proceeds of the
public lands ought to be sacrediy applied
to the national objects specified in the
constitution, and that we are opposed to
any law ofthe distribution of such pro.
ceeds among the states, &c alike mex.
Pedient in policy, and repugnsnt to the
constitution.
''ResolUed, That we are decidedly CD.
posed to taking from the President the
qualified veto poverty which he is en-
abled, under restrictions and responsibles
amply sufficient to guard the public in.
terest, to suspend the passage of q bill
whose merits cannot secure the approval
oftwo-thirds of the Senate and House of
Representative, until the judgement of
the people can be obtained thereon, and
which has saved the American people
from the corrupt and tyranieal DONNA.
ton of the bank of the United States land
from corrupting system of general in.
Iernal improvements.
"Resolued, That the war with Mexico,
provoked on her part, by years of insult
and injury. was commenced by her army
crossing The. Rio Grande, attacking the
American troops, and invading our sister
state Of Texas,-and that upon the prin.
siples of patriotism and laws of nations, m
is just and necessary war on our part,
in which every American citizen should
have shown himself on the aide of his
country, and neither morally nor physi.
cally, by word or deed, have given aid
and comfort to the enemy
"ReSolued, That we would be rsjoieed
at the assurances ola peace with Mexico
founded on the just principles of 'indemni-
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, 10 is the duty the country to sus.
tain the adm inistration in every measure
necessary to provide for the vigorous
prosecution of the veT, should that treaty
be rejected.
"Resolued, That the officers and SOL.
dieFS who have carried the arms Of their
country into Mexico, have crowned 10
with imperishsble glory. Their uneon.
querable courage, their daring enterprise,
their unfaltsriRg perseverance, and feEii.
tuds when assaulted By innumsSable
foes. and that more formidable enemy,
the diseases of the elimate-exalt theiB
devoted patriotism into the highest hero.
ism, and give them right TO the profound
gratitude of their country and she id.
miration Of the world.
"Resolued, That the democratic N.
tional convention of the thirty sisiss com.
posing the American republic, tender
their fraternsl congratulations to the n.
tional conventions of the repuhlic Of
France, now assembled 90 the free suf
Grage representatives. ofthe soveFeignty
of thirty. ave millions Of fePublisass, %
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