North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-09
DEMOCRACY.

uiCu dS lONOWS.
The people, the only source of legitimate power
The absolute and lasting severance of Church and
State.
The freedom, sovereignty, and independence of the
respective States.
The Union, confederacy, compact, neither con-
solIdation, nor Capitalization.
The Constitution of the Union, a special written
grant of power, limited and definite.
The civil, paramount to the military power.
The representative obey the instructions Of his
constituents.
| Elections free and suffrage universal.
No hereditary office, nor order, nor title.
| No taxation beyond the public wants.
| No national debt, if possible.
No costly sPlendor of administration.
| No prescription of opinion, of public discus
sion.
No unnecessary interference with individual con-
duct, property, or speech.
No favored classes, and no monopolies.
No public monies expended, except by warrant of
special appropriation.
No mysteries of government inaccessi BILE to the
public eye.
Public compensation for public service; salaries
moderate and pervading economy"
The above is the creed of the party which Jefferson
founded, and these principles JersOns principles.
They are the IS sun and substance " of Democracy,
so far abstract declarations concerned fruits
may be all The pages Of the history of this
try, from the commencement of the government to
the present time.
The Editor of his Register says his Whigism is
" opposition to Democracy" OF course, then, he
is opposed to the principles of Jefferson, Madison,
Jackson, and Polk, presented above.
We present below the Virginia and Kentucky Re-
solution of 1898, the former drawn up by Mr.. Madi-
son and the latter by Mr.. Jefferson. The Virginia
Resolutions are as follows:
Resolued, That the General Assembly of Virgin
ia doth uneeuvocally express firm resolution to
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States and the Constitution of this State, against
every aggression, either foreign domestic and that
they will support the Government of the United
States in all measures warranted by the former.
The General Assembly most solemnly declares
warm attachment to the Union Of the States to main
tain which, it pledges all its powers and that for
this end, it is their duty to watch over and oppose
every nfacton of those principles, which constitute
the only basis of that Union, because faithful OBJ
servance Of these alone its existence and
the public happiness.
That this Assembly doth explicitly and perempto-
ry declare, that it views the powers of the Federal
Government, resulting from the compact to which
the States pares limited by the plain and
intention Of the instrument constituting that compact
no farther valid than they authorized by the
grants enumerated in the compact; and that in case
Of deliberate, palpabe and dangerous exercise of
power not granted by the said compact, the States
as parties thereto have the right, and in duty
bound, to interpose for arresng the progress of the
evil, and maintaining in their respective limit the
The General Assembly doth also express its deep
regret that spirit has, In sundry instances been
manifested by the Federal Government, to enlarge
its powers by forced construction of the tuition
al charter which defines them; and that indications
have appeared of design introduce certain gen.
eral phrases (which having been copied from the very
limited grant of powers in the former articles OF confed
Grafton, the less liable to be constrGed)
destroy the meaning and the effect of the partcu
lar enumeration which necessarily explains and lin
its the general phrases; and so as to consolidate the
States by degrees into one sovereignty, the obvious
tendency and inevitable result of which, would be to
transform the present republican system of the Unit
ed States into an absolute, or at best, mixed mon
archy.
That the General Assembly doth particularly pro- !
test against the palpable and alarming infracton of
the Constitution in the two late of the Alien
and Sedtion Acts, passed at the last session of Con-
gress the first of which exercises power nowhere
delegated to the Federal Government; and which, |
by uniting legislative and judicial power those of
the executive, subverts the general principles of
free Government, well the particular organiza-
ton and positive provisions of the Federal Constitu
ton; and the other of which acts exercises in like
manner power which, more than any other, ought !
to produce universal alarm; because it is levelled
against the right of freely examining public charac-
tiers and measures, and Of free communication among
the people thereon, which has been Justly Deem
ed the only effectual guardian of every other right.
That the people of this Commonwealth, having |
felt, and continuing to feel the most a
lection for their brethren of the other States the
Of all, and the most scrupulous fidelity to that Con-
sttuton which is the pledge of mutual friendship; |
the General Assembly doth solemnly appeal to the |
like disposition in the other States, in confidence that
they will with this Commonwealth in declar-
ing it does hereby declare, that the afore-
said unconstitutional and that the necessary and
proper measures will be taken by sach for eo-operat-
ing with this State in maintaining unimpaired the
authorities, rights and liberties reserved the States
respectively, or to the people,"
The Kentucky Resolutions as follows: |
Resolpcd, That the several States composing the !
United States of America not united on the pri,,.
cipls Of unlimited submission to their General Gouer,,-
s but that by compact, under the style and title of
Constitution of the United States, and of amend. |
ments thereto, they constituted General Government
for special purposes delegated to that Government
definite powers, reserving to each State itself the
residuary mass of right to their selfgovernment
and that whatsoever the General Government as.
sumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthor-
itatve, void, and of force That to this compact
each State acceded State, and is integral par
~, its coStates forming as to itself the other party
That the Government created by this compact, was
not made the exclusive final judge of the extent of
power delegated itself since that would have made
its discrefon and notthe Constitution, the measure of
it's powers, but that in all other of compact
among parties having no common Judge, each party
has equal right to Judge for ITSELF as we'll OF the
Of the mode and measure of redress
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