Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-07-03
whig Platform.

q The Southern delegates assembled in BaltI
#more on the evening of the 18th inst, at Car
roll Hall, Hon. John G. Chapman, of Maryland
Sin the chair, and R. A. Upton, Of Louisiana
Secretary; when the following series of resolu'
B tons was reported by a committee previously
I appointed:
n The Wings of the United States in convention
a assembled, firmly a~dherlng to the great coLsef'a'
tive principles by which they are controlled ahe
: governed, and now, as ever, relying upon the IN
q teIIipence of the American people, with an abb
j DING confidence in their capacity for seli-goVcrn-
8 ment, and their continued devotion to the ~conStitu-
4 ton and the Union, do proclaim the following as
d the political sentiments and determination; tor the
q Establishment and maintenance of which theli
& national organization as a party is effected;
u /. The Government of the United States is OF a
Alimited character, and it is confined to the exercise
q of powers expressly granted by the constitution
8 and such as may be necessary and properlo f carry
= inc the granted powers into full execution; and all
a mowers not thus granted or necessarily Implied are
q exnresslv reserved for the States respectively and
3 to the people. ,,
q 9. The State Governments should be held secure
lin their reserved rights, and the General Govern
ament sustained in its constitutional powers, and
3 the Union should be revered and watched over as
4 "the palladium of our liberties"
] 3. That while struggling freedom everywhere
4 enIists the warmest sympathy OF the wing party,
] we will adhere to the doctrines of the Father OF
q his Country, as announced in his Farewell Address,
of keeping ourselves free from all entangIlng al
sliances with foreign countries, and OF never quit
! ting our own to stand upon foreign ground. That
sour mission as a republic is not to propagate our
I Opinions, or impose upon other countries our form
of government, by artltlce or force, but to teach
I 49,, -,,- ,,.,,~- yllI1rotrnn
and Justice, the blessings of seEl-government, and
4 the advantages OF free institutions,
4 4. 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.
I 5. Revenue sufficient for an economical admin
sistration of the Government in time OF peace,
fought to be derived from a duty on imposts, and
not from direct taxes; and, in laying such duties,
sound policy requires a just discrimination, where
by suitable encouragement may be afforded to A
merican industry, equally to all classes and to all
parts of the country.
6. The constitution vests in Congress the power
Ito open and repair harbors, and remove obstruc-
stions from n~avigable rivers, whenever such I'M
provements are necessary tor the common defence,
and for the protection and facility of commerce
with foreign nations or among the States, said i'm
IIOfC li!S NO cS4i'S XII t'SiS A@N"hSS: aHSN N-i
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 a cordial, habitual and lmmo-!
|vable attachment. Respect for the authority of
each, and acquiescence in the just constitutional
of each, are duties required by the plain!
consideration OF national, of State, and of in
welfare.
s. That the series Of measures commonly
known as the Compromise, including the ~fugitivei
slave law, are received and acquiesced in by the
Wing party Of the United States as a settlement
in principle and in substance-a final settlement
the dangerous and exciting questions which,
they embrace; and, so far as the fugitive slave law
is concerned, we will maintain the same and III |
sist on its strict enforcement, until time and expe-s
rience shall demonstrate the necessity of further
legislation to guard against evasion or abuse, but
not iinpairing its present efficiency; and We dep-E
recate all further agitation OF the slavery question
as dangerous to our peace, and will diseountenance I
all efforts at the renewal or countenance of suchS
agitation. III Congress or out of it, whenever. wher-s
ever, and however the attempt may be made; and
we will maintain this system of measures as a po-S
Icy essential to the nationality of the Wing party
and the integrity of the Union.