The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-07-22

ity OF rights and privileges, and to complete
and ample protection Of persons and'property
from domestic violence on foreign aggression.
3. That il is the duty of every branch OF the
Government TO enforce and practice the most
rigid economy in conducting our public affairs,
and that no more revenue ought to be raised
than is required TO deiray the necessary ex-
penses of the Government, and for the gradual
but certain extinction of the public debt
g. That Congress has no power to charter a
National Bank that we believe such an lnstl-
tuition one Of deadly hostility 10 the best inter
ests Of the country, dangerous to our republican
institutions and the liberties of the people, and
calculated TO place the business OF the country
within the control of concentrated money
power, and above the laws and the will oil the
people; and that the results of Democratic legis-
lation, in this and all other financial measures
upon which issues have been made between
the two political parties of the country, have
demonstrated, 10 candid and practical men OF
all parties, their soundnsss, safety, and utility
in all business pursuits.
7. That the separation of the moneys OF the
Government from banking institutions is indis-
pensable for the safety of the funds of the Gov
eminent and the rights Of the people.
8. That the liberal principles embodied by
Jefferson in the Declaration Of independence
and sanctioned in the Constitution, which
makes ours the land of liberty and the asylum
of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been
cardinal principles in the Democratic faith
and every attempt to abridge the privilege OF
becoming citizens and the owners of soil among
us ought to be resisted with the same spirit
which swept the alien and sedition laws from
our statute books.
Q. That Congress has no power under the
Constitution to interfere with or control the do
mestic institutions Of the several States, and
that such States are the sole and proper Judges
OF everything appertaining TO their own affairs
not prohibited by the Constitution that all eff
forts of the Abolitionists or others, made TO in
duce Congress to interfere with questions Of
slavery, or TO take incipient steps in relation
thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarm
ing and dangerous consequences; and that all
such efforts have an inevitable tendency TO d.
minish the happiness Of the people and endan-
ger the stability and permanency Of the Union
and ought not to be countenanced by any friend
of our political institutions.
w. Resoired, That the foregoing PROPOSE
ton covers and was intended 10 embrace the
whole subject of slavery agitation in Congress
and therefore the Democratic party of the
Union, standing on this national platform, will
abide by and adhere TO faithful execution Of
the acts known as the Compromise measures
settled by the last Congress, "the act for re-
claiming fugitives from service or labor in
cluded which act, being designed to carry out
an express provision of the Constitution, can
not with fidelity thereto be repealed or so chang
ed as to destroy or impair its efficiency
V. ResOiped, That the Democratic party will
resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress OF
out of it, the agitation of the slavery question,
under whatever shape or color the attempt may
be made
VI Resolved, That the proceeds of the pub
lie lands ought to be sacredly applied to the
national objects specified in the Constitution
and that we are opposed TO any law for the dis
trbutlon of such proceeds among the States,
as alike nexpedent in policy and repugnant to
the Constitution.
VII. Resolred, That we are decidedly oppos-
ed to taking from the President the qualified
veto power, by which he is enabled, under re-
strictions and responsibilities amply sufficient
to guard the public interest, to suspend the
passage of a bill whose merits cannot secure
the approval Of two-thirds of the Senate and
House of Representatives until the judgment
of the people can be obtained thereon, and
which has saved the American people from the
corrupt and tyrannical domination of the Bank
of the United States, and from corrupting
system of general internal Improvements.
VIII. RESOLVED, That the Democratic party
will faithfully abide by and uphold the princi
plies laid down in the Kentucky and Virginia
resolutions of 1898, and in the report of Mr.
| Madison to the Virginia Legislature in 1899
that it adopts those princip piles as constituting
one of the main foundations ofits political creed
and is resolved to carry them out in their OBJ
vious meaning and import.
| TX. Resolved That the war with Mexico
upon all the principles Of patriotism and TIT
laws of nations, was just and necessary wa
on our part, in which every American citizel
should have shown himself on the side of hi
country, and neither morally nor physically, By
word or deed, have given i" aid and comfort t
the enemy"
Y. Resolved, That we rejoice at the restora
ton of friendly relations with our sister Repub
| lie of Mexico, and earnestly desire for her al
the blessings and prosperity which we enjoy
under republican institutions; and we congrat
ulate the American people upon the results o.
| that war, which have so manlfestly JustlheC
the policy and conduct of the Democratic par
ty, and insured to the United States " indemni
~ for the past, and security for the future"
| XI. Resolred, That, in view of the condition
of popular institutions in the Old World, a high
and sacred duty is devolved, with increased re-
sponsibility, upon the Democratic party of this
country, as the party of the people, to uphold
and maintain the rights of every State. anC
thereby the Union OF the States, and TO sustain
and advance among us constitutional liberty by
| continuing to resist all monopolies and exclu
sive Legislation for the benefit of the few at the
expense Of the many, and by vigant and
constant adherence TO those principles and com
promises of the Constitution which are broad
enough and strong enough to embrace and up
hold the Union as it was, the Union as it is
and the Union as il shall be, in the full expan
sion Of the energies and capacity of this great
and progressive people.