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pous that Il is rroEg thus to devote 10 our own
temporary uses, and thus dissipais, the proper
" which belongs not 10 one age only, but 10
many generations. The Wings, therefore,
have promised that the annual proceeds Of the
gradual alienation Of this magnificent estate be
divided among the STATES, to be by them invest.
ed in Public Works Of permanent utility, where
of the annual income shall be sacredly devoted
TO the EducaliUn ofIh People. BY this policy
the men to-day would be benefited quite as am
| ply and palpably as al present, while the patr-
mony Of the people, instead Of diminishing an
nuay, would be steadily increasing in ploduc'
live value, as the Proceeds Of the Lands were
steadily transmitted into beneficenl and prohia-
bic canals, railroads, &c. Let This policy be
steadily pursued for the remainder o. this cen
Jury, and our States might each have School
Funds adequate 10 their necessities, invested in
Public Works Of the highest and mos, universal
benefconcc. Such is the Wing Land Policy,
so sweepingIy condemned by the Baltimore
Convention, whose gesolulions altogether con-
tain no equivalent for il in utility and bench
cence."
WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES.
The ninth proposition, by way Of novelty,
afims that certain things contained in the De-
claraIion Of Independence are true. Ii is pity
thai such a heroic body Of sages did not grant
their sanction to the whole instrument, by adopt
! ing il entire. Perhaps, however, the ''Progres'
sve principles of Democracy" have left much
/ Of it out Of dale; that passage in particular
which lays it down as one of the most solemn
Of principles that "Governmenls derive all their
] Of tho ~
an axiom, decidedly which the Democratic and
Cass scheme of "absorbing, if necessary, all
Mexico" somewhat lramples upon. II, indeed,
"the liberal principles embodied By Jefferson in
the Declaration oflndependence, of and sanctioned
in the Constitution, which makes ours the land
Of liberty aud the asylum Of the oppressed OF
every nation, have ever been cardinal principles
10 the Democratic laith," (as the Platform
says,) then we should like TO know what bus,.
ness this "land Of liberty and asylum Of the op.
/. pressed" has going away TO unfortunate Mexi.
co and miserable California, with the beIled De-
claralion Of independence in its mouth, and the
delaced Constitution in its hand, TO enslaye a
people already 50 unhappy! They can quoIe
the Declaration and the Constitution, can they!
Then let them answer that question out OF Ell
ther, if they canl Or dare they quote out of
the former this charge against the British King:
"fle has affected to render the Military ndepen-
dent of and superior to the Civil power!" No;
for ibis exactly fits the assumption OF the Prosl-
dent that, by the existence OF foreign war, he
has acquired power which renders him in ma
ny respects independent Of The Constitution and
the Laws. Or this other: "lle has refused his
assent to laws the most wholesome and neces-
sary for the public gOod!" for this applies with
precision to the Veto Of the President on laws
for the faciaon Of commercial intercourse
by improvements of navigable waters. We
say nothing of the general allegation, in the
same great instrument, of the history Of then
King being one Of repeated usurpalions," all
tending to the establishment OF an absolute ty-
ranny; which TO have quoted would have been
direct personal attack upon the President, the
fruits of whose elevation TO the Presidency
"have fulfilled the hopes Of the Democracy OF
the Uuion."
To our fathers, these were the crimes OF a
King; but, enacted, with many more, by a Pre-
SideAL, they merit in the eyes OF those eTireme
Republicans, our "Democratic" brethren. the
very highest applause, as thus, in the "PlaI-
form"
"Resolped, That the confidence Of the Demo
cracy of the Union in the principles, capacity
and lirmness, aud integrity Of James K, Polk,
manifested by his nomination and election in
1874, has been signally justified by the strict
d ness ofhs adherence TO sound Democratic doc
trnos, by the purity of purpose, the energy and
ability which have characterized his Admins
lralion in all our affairs at home and abroad"
Yo European tyrunts that are being tumbIed
down! ye Louiscs of France and Blvaria! ye
Ferdnands and Fredericks and Nicholases and
all! Listenl Because We like not the Veto
power, nor annexng, nor the Executives maxi
ING wars aud laws as he likes, nor variety of
other small Presidential Prerogatves, the King
hating Democracy is pleased TO say we are hor-
riblo FedeeaIsts! and, in short, great friends of
yours Come, thenl we will for once be your
friends, and make you friendly suggestlon.-
Ye are shaking in your shoes: look how fast our
monarch sitsl You are having your ministers
chased away: ours aspire TO the purple! Nay,
you yourselves are being chased away; get a
"Dcmocralic party" such es this about you;
leave those humber seats called thrones fling
away those weak baubles, crowns and sceptres;
cast away those shallow names Of king and en-
peror; get yourselves (t is not difficulty nominat'
cd by Locoloco Convention, and rise TO sub
staniiaI poworl You, fugitive Philip, shall re-
turn to Paris with your Guizot, put down all
discussion, and insult your Congress. You Of
Austria shall dragoon Italy I'LL doomsday.--
You Frederick William, shall "reannex" as
many Soswcks as you list, and complaccnt
Diets shall affirm by resolution that Denmark
invaded uou, And you, oh Democratic Mich
oasl shall, with liue manifest destiny, con.
quer Circassia and give laws to your California,
Poland, sligmatzng as "moral traitors" every
sorr who shall dare TO question your consIilu-
tionolilyl
This is all the answer that the 18th, l4lh,
aud 18Th propositions of the Platform about Eu-
ropean dcspotisms and their fall need or merit.
Such manifest claptrap hardly deserves the Ger.