Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-03
DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

sentiments and determinations, Ior tue
establishment and maintenance OF which
their national organization as party is
effected
|. The Government Of the United States
is Of limited character, and II is confined
to the exercise of powers expressly granted
by the Constitution, and such as may be
necessary and proper for carrying the
granted bowers into full execution, and
that all powers not thus granted or neces-
sarily implied are expressly reserved TO
the States respectively and to the people.
III. The State Governments should be
held secure in their reserved rights, and
the General Government sustained in its
constitutional powers, and the Union
should be revered aud watched over as
q the palladium of our liberties"
III. 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 countries, and OF
never quitting our own to stand upon for
eign ground. That our mission as Re-
public is not to propagate our opinions,
or impose on other countries our form OF
| government, by artifce or force, but to
teach by example, and show by our sue
cess, moderation, and Justice, the bless
| ings Of selfgovernment and the advan-
| tages Of free institutions
w. 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 re-
spect which they claim and will enforce
| from foreign powers.
v. Government should be conducted
upon principles Of the strictest economy,
and revenue sufficient for the expenses
| thereof in time of peace, ought to be
mainly derived from a duty on imports,
! and not from direct taxes; and, in lcyying
such duties, sound policy requires a just
discrimination and protection from fraud
BY specific duties, when practicable,
whereby suitable encouragement may be
| assured to American industry, equally to
| all classes and to all portions of the coun-
| try.
vi. The Constitution vests in Congress
| The power to open and repair harbors, and
remove distractions from navigable rivers !;
and it is cxpedient that Congress shall ex-
ercise that power wheneuer such Improve
ments are necessary for the common defence
or for the protection and .taciity Of com
merce with foreign nations or among the
States such improvements being, in every
instance, national and general in their
character.
VII. The Federal and State Govern
ments are parts of one system, alike ne
cessary for the common prosperity, peace,
and security, and ought to be regarded
alike with cordial, habitual, and immova-
BILE attachment. Respect for the authority
Of each, and acquicscence in the constitu-
| tional measures of each, are duties re-
quired by The plainest considerations Of
| National, Of State, and individual welfare.
VIII. The series of acts of the 31st
Congress, commonly known as the Com
promise or Adjustment, (the act for the
recovery or fugitiyes from labor included,
are received and acquiesced in by the
Wings Of the United States as final set
Element, in principle and substance, of the
subjects TO which they relate and so far
as these acts are concerned, we will MAIN
tain them, and insist on their strict en-
forcement, until time and experience shall
demonstrate the necessity of further legis-
lation to guard against the evasion Of the
laws on the one hand, and the abuse of
their powers on the other, not impairing
their present efficiency to carry out the
requirements Of the Constitution and we
deprecate all further agitation of the ques-
tons thus settled, as dangerous to our
peace, and will discountenance all efforts
to continue or renew such agitation, when
ever, wherever, or however made; and we
will maintain this settlement as essential
to the nationality of the Wing party and
the integrity Of the Union.
JOHN G. CHAPMAN, of Nd,
President of the Wing National Convention
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