The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-06-30
2. The State government should he held

2. The State government should be held
secure IN the reserved rights, and the Gener-
al Government sustained it Its constitution
al powers, and the Union should be revered
and watched over as the palladium Of our
liberties"
3. That while struggling freedom, every
where, enlists the warmest sympathy of the
Wing party, we still adhere to the doctrines
OF the Father of his country, ms announced
in his Farewell Address, Of keeping o ourselves
free from all entangling alliances with for
eign countries, and of never quitting our
own to stand upon foreign ground. That
our mission as Republic is not to propa-
gate our opinions, or impose on other coun-
tries our form of government, by artifce or
force, but to teach by example, and show by
our success, moderation and justice, the bles-
sings Of selfgovernment, and the advantages
of free institutions.
4. That where the people make and con-
troll 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.
b. Government should be conducted on
principles of strictest economy, and revenue,
sufficient for the expenses thereof, in time of
peace, ought to be derived from duty on
imposts, and not from direct taxes and in
laying such duties sound policy requires a
Just discrimination, whereby suitable en-
couragement may be afforded to Ameri-
can industry, equally to all classes and to
all portions of the country.
3. The Constitution vests in Congress
the power to open and repair harbors, and it
is expedient that Congress should exercise
its power to remove distractions from navi-
gable rivers, tohenerer such improvements
are necessary for the common defence and for
the protection and facility of commerce with
foreign nations or among the States; said
improvements being, in every instance, ma
honal and general in their character.
Z. The Federal and State Governments
are parts of one system, alike, necessary, for
the common prosperity, peace and security
and onght to be regarded alike, with cor
dial habitual and immovablc attachment
Respect for the authority Of each, and acqui-
escence in the constitutional measures of
each, are duties required by the plainest con-
sideration of national, of State, and of indi-
vidual welfare.
3. That the series of acts of the 3lst
Congress, the act known as the fugitive
slave law included, are received acouiesced
in by the Wing party of the United States,
rs settlement, in principle and substance,
OF the dangerous and exciting questions
which they embrace and so far as they are
concerned, we will maintain them, and insist
upon their strict enforcement, until time and
experience shall demonstrate the necessity
OF further legislation 10 guard against the
evasion of the laws on the one hand, and the
abuse of their powers on the other-not i'm
pairing their present efficiency; and we de-
precate all further agitation Of the questions
thus settled, rs dangerous to our peace, and
will discountenance all efforts TO continue or
renew such agitation tohenercr, phererer, or
hoicerer the attempt may be made ; and we
will maintain this system as essential 10 the
nationality Of the Wing party, and The integri-
ty The Union.
The following is the vote by which the
above platform was adopted.
fEAs.--Maipe, 4; New Hampshire, 8; Yer
mont, b; Massachusetts, IL; Rhode Island,
4; Connecticut 4, One not voting; New York,
IL; New Jersey, Z; Pennsylvania, 81: Della
ware, 3; Maryland, 8; Virginia, IA; North
Carolina, 10; South Carolina. 8; Georgia, TO-
Alabama, 9; Mississippi, 7; louisiana, g.
Ohio, 8; Kentucky, ~ Tennessee, l2; Indi-
ana, z; Illinois, 6; Missouri, 8; Arkansas, 4;
Florida, 3; Texas, 4 Iowa, 4; Wisconsin, 4 /;
California, 4. Total, 22l.
NAYs.-Connecticut, |; New York, % I:
Pennsylvania, 6; Ohio Is; Indiana, 6 (; Illinois.
B, Michigan, 5; Wisconsin, i'll.