The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-04-22

oppressed OF every latl0n, nave ever been /
cardinal principles in the Democratic faith
and every attempt to abridge the present
privilege of becoming citizens and the own
ers of soil among us, ought to be resisted
with the same spirit which swept the alien
and sedition laws from our statute books
ResolUed, That the proceeds of the public
lands ought to be sacredly applied to the ma
tional objects specified in the constitution
and that we are opposed to any law for the
distribution of such proceeds among the
States as alike inexpedient in policy, and re-
pugnant to the constitution.
ResolUed, That we are decidedly opposed
to taking from the President the qualified We
to power, by which he is enabled, under re-
strictions and responsibilities, amply sufi-
cient to guard the public interests, to sus-
pend the passage of bill whose merits can
not secure the approval of two thirds of the
Senate and House of Representatives until
the judgement of the people can be obtained
thereon, and which has saved the American
people from the corrupt and tyranical do
minion of the Bank Of the United States,
and from corrupting system of general in
ternal improvements.
Res0lUed, That in the recent development
of this grand political truth of the sovereign
ty of the people and their capacity and pow
er of self-government, which is prostrating
thrones and erecting republics on the ruins
of despotism in the old world, we feel that
high and sacred duty is devolved, with in
creased responsibility upon the democratic
party of this country, as the party of the peO-
pie to sustain and advance among US consti-
: tutional liberty, equality and fraternity, by
continuing to resist all monoplies and exclu-
sive legislation for the benefit of the few at
the expense of the many, and by vigilant
and constant adherence to those principles
and compromises of the constitution which
are broad enough and strong enough to en-
0 brace and uphold the Union as it was, the
9 Union as it is, and the Union as it shall be
: in the full expansion of the energies and ca
pacities of this great and progressive people.
: ResolUed, That the fruits of the great po
litical triumph of 1914, which elected Jas
K. Polk and George NJ. Dallas President
: and Vice President of the United States
1 have fulfilled the hopes of the Democracy
of the Union, in defeating the declared pur
= poses of their opponents to create Nationa
! Bank, in preventing the corrupt and uncon
!, stitutional distribution of the land proceed
: from the common treasury of the Union, TO
{ local purposes, in protecting the currenc,
e and the labor of the country from ruinou
/ fluctuations, and guarding the money Of tn
&c people for the use of the people by the es
IS adjustment of the Constitutional Treasury
II in the noble impulse given to Free Trade, b
the repeal of the Tariff of 1912, and the crea
9 ton Of the more equal honest and produC
IS tive Tariff of 1916; and that in our opinion
Il it would be a fatal error to weaken th
. bands of political organization by whic
W these great reforms have have been achieved
d d and risk them in the hands of their own &C
i versaries, with whatever delusive appeal
u they may solicit our surrender of that Wig
II lance, which is the only safeguard of liberty
d. Pesolred, That this Convention will sele'
~ eight candidates for Electors of PresideI
IT and Vice President from the eight Congre
= sonal Districts of this State, and two cal
ol didates for Electors for the State at large
u adopted.
~ Reso7ved, That this Convention now pr
ne coed to appoint four delegates for each Co
u; gressional District of this State and eigl
QelCgaUcS lot inc CtdUe at large 10 dJleuu ii
? Convention to be held in Baltimore in Jul
lel next.
10 Mr. Cochran of Wilkinson, moved tn
Oh the Delegates from each Congressional D
= trict be a committee to select and report
let the Convention, for each District, one Pre-
I'll, dental Elector and one alternate, and 70
TAI delegates to Baltimore; and that this &c
We, .vention elect two Presidential Electors, a
oio eight delegates to Baltimore, for the State
l., large.
Old Mr.. Nelson, of Cobb, moved to amend
lch follows:
or Resolred, That the delegates from ca
'm Congressional District select the delega
cry to Baltimore for the State at large and Il
ana the chair appoint committee of IS, to MOI
ana nate two electors for the State at large, a
tec- report the names to this Convention for el
sue ton.
The resolution as amended was agreed
d of
the The following ticket was selected for ell
bic tors of President and Vice-Prcsident Of
to United States:
ne Hon IT U JOHNSON