Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1852-10-20
THE OFFICIAL PLATFORM OF THE
WHIG NATIONAL CONVENTION.

And note its bright hours only.
THE OFFICIAL PLATFORM OF THE
WING NATIONAL CONVENTION.
A" FIRsT.-The Government of the United
States is Of limited character and 1t is confn-
ed to the exercise of powers expressly granted
by the constitution, and such as may be necessa-
~ and proper for carrying the granted powers
into full execution and that, all powers not thus
granted or necessarily implied, are expressly
reserved to the States respectively and to the
people.
"SECOYD.-The State Government should be
held secure in their reserved rights, and the Gen
eral Government sustained in its Constitutional
powers and the Union should be preserved and
watched over as the palladium of our liberty.
"THIRD.-That while struggling freedom
everywhere enlists the warmest sympathy of the
wing party, we still adhere to the doctrines OF
the Father of his Country, as announced IN his
Farewell Address, of keeping ourselves free
from all entangling alliances with foreign coun-
tries and of never quitting our own to stand on
foreign ground. That our mission as a Repub-
lie is not to propagate cur opinions or impose on
other countries our form Of Government, by ar
tifice or force, but to teach by example, and
show BY our success, moderation and justice, the
blessings of selfgovernment, and the advantage
of free institutions.
"FoURTH-That where the people make and
control the Government they should obey its
Constitution, laws, and treaties as they would
retain their selfrespect and the respect which
they claim and viii enforce from foreign powers.
"FIFTH.-Government should be conducted
on principles Of the strictest encOnomy, and rev.
enue sufficient for the expenses thereof, in time
of peace, ought to be mainly derived from
duty on imports, and not from direct taxes, and
III levying such duties, sound policy requires a
Just discrimination and protection from fraud,
by specific duties, when practicable, whereby
American industry, equally to all classes and to
all portions of the country.
"SIxTH.-The Constitution vests in Congress
the power to open and repair harbors and re-
move Instructions from pavigable rivers, and it
is expedient that Congress shall exercise that
power, rhenecer such Improvements are ReceS-
sary for the common defence, or for the protec-
ton and facility of commerce with foreign ma
tons or among the State, such Improvements
being in every instance, national and general in
their character.
SEvENTH-The Federal and State Govern
mentS are parts of one system alike necessary
for the common prosperity, peace and security;
and ought to be regarded alike with cordial,
habitable, and immoveable attachment. Res
pect for the authority of each, and to acquies
cence in the Just constitutional measures of each,
are duties required by the plainest considera-
tiOns of national, of State and of individual
welfare.
"EIGHTH.-The series of acts of the 31st
Congress, commonly known as "The Compro-
mise or adjustment, 1.-THE act for the recovery of
fugitives from labor, included, are received and
acquiesced in by the Wings of the U. States, as
a FINAL settlement, in principle and substance,
of the subjects to which they relate; and so far
as these acts are concerned; are 1ciU maintain
them, and insist on their strict en- forcement, I'M
til time aud Experience shall demonstrate the
necessity Of further legislation to guard against
the evasion of the laws on the one hand, and
the abuse of their powers on the other-1aot I'M
pairing their presest efficacy to carry ont the
reqlSifsNeats Of Che coastitution; and we depri-
cate al further agitation of the questions thus
settled, as dangerous to eur peace, and will dis
countenance all efforts to continue or renew
such agitation, wteneeex.s ankerere7, or hOrecer,
made; and We viii maintain this settlement as
essential to the aatio1sdzty Of the Whig party,
anctthe i"teg1ftsl cf &c Union.
London Police.--From an article in NE New
York Commercial Advertiser on the subject of
the police system of London weqdote as follows:
'The police Of the metropolis consists of two
commissioners; (appointed by the Crown who
are ma gistrates Or the districtscyer which they
pfeside;sf cfIef slperintendeht;; .lSssuperinten-
dents; 124 inspeetors; 585 screams, and A.
1917 cOnstables. In all, $685. persons.
!, About 300 mon are on duty all night, and
about 1900 all day. During the night they
never cease patrolling the whole time they are
on duty, being forbidden ever to sit down. The
police district IS mapped out in divisions, the
into sections, and the sections into
beats, all being numbered and the limits care
fully defined.
To every beat certain constables are special !
ly assigned and they are provided with the little
maps called beat-cards. The business of the |
constables on duty is to perambulate his beat in
a fixed time, according to an appointed route.
AS soon as he has gone over 1t, he Immediately /
begins his route again, so that the patrolllng l
knows at any moment where the con-
stable ought to be found, unless something I'M
usual has occurred, so that, adds the reviewer,
''every Street, road, lane and alley and court
within the metropolitan police district-that is,
the whole of the metropolis Except that small /
part called the city of London,) the county of
and all the parishes (2l6 in number)
in the counties of Surrey, Kent, Essex, and
Hartfordshire, which are not more than fifteen
miles from Charing Cross, comprising an area
Of about 700 square miles, 80 miles in circum-
erence, with a population of two and a half
nillions-is visited constantly, night and day."
There are eighteen divisions, containing III
police stations, each of which is central point,
or the division or subdivision in which it is sit
lated, where all communications are received
rom the constables of that division.