Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-07-17
PEAQgEiNENE:
Saturday, July ~, 1854.
Whig Platform.

The Wings of the United States in convention
assembled firmly adhering to the great couserva-
| tive principles by which they are controlled and
! governed and now as ever, relying upon the in
| teiligence of the American people, with an abb
ding confidence IN their capacity for self-govern-
ment, and their continued devotion to the constitu-
! ton and he Union, do proclaim the following as
the political sentiments and determination, for the
establishment and maintenance of which their
national organization as party is effected
l. The Government Of the United States is of
limited character and il is confined TO the exercise
! OF powers expressly granted by the constitution,
and such as may be necessary and proper for carry
ing The granted powers into full execution and all
powers not thus granted or necessarily implied are
expressly reserved for the States respectively and
to the people.
2. The State Governments should be held secure
in THEN reserved rights, and the General Govern
ment sustained in its constitutional powers, and
the Union should be revered and watched over as
. the palladium of our ibertiesn
3. That while struggling freedom everywhere
enlsts the wa nest sympathy of the Wing party,
we wilt adhere TO the doctrines of the Father of
his Country, as announced in his Farewell Address,
of keeping ourselves free from all entangng al
llances with foreign countries, and of never quit
ting our own to stand upon foreign ground That
our mission a republic is not TO propagate our
opinions, Or impose upon other countries our form
of government by artifce or force, but to teach
by example, and show by our success, moderation
and justice, the blessings of self-government and
the advantages Of free institutions.
T. That where the people make and control the
government, they should obey its constitution
laws and treaties as they would retain their self
respect and the respect which they claim and will
enforce from foreign powers.
s. Revenue sufficient for an economical admin
lstrtuon OF The Government in time OF peace,
ought 10 be derived from duty on imposts, and
not from direct faxes and in laying such duties
sound policy requires just discrimination, where
by suitable encouragement may be afforded to A
'lerlcan industry equally TO all classes and to al
parts of the country
g. The constitution vests in Congress the power
to open and repair halbors, and remove obstruc-
tlonS from naVleable rivers, whenever such inn
provements are necessary for the common defence
and for the protection and facility of commerce
with foreign nations or among the States, said I'M
provements being, in every instance, national and
general in their character.
7. The Federal and State Governments are parts
of one system, alike necessary for the common
prosperity, peace and security, and ought TO be re-
garded alike, with cordial. habtua and immo-
vable attachment. Respect for the authority OF
each, and acquiescence in the just constitutional
measures of each, are duties required by the plain
est consideration of NATIONAL Of State, and of in.
dividual welfare.
g. That the series of measures commonly
known as the Compromise, including the fugitive
slave law, are received and acquiesced in by the
Whig party of the United States as settlement
in principle and in substance-a final settlement
of the dangerous and exciting questions which
they embrace; and so far as the fugitive slave law
is concerned, we will maintain the same and in
sst on its strict enforcement, until time and expe
rence shall demonstrate the necessity of further
legislation to guard against evasion abuse, but
not impairng its present efficiency; and we dep
recae all further agitation Of the slavery question
as dangerous to our peace and will discountenance
all efforts at the renewal or countenance Of such
agitation in Congress out of it, whenever, wher
ever, and however the attempt may be made and
we will maintain this system of measures as po-
licy essential to the nationality of the Wing party,
and the integrity of the Union.