The Nevada journal., 1855-07-20

l. A habit of reverential obedience to the
laws, whether National, State. or Munic;nal
until they are either repealed or declared un-
constitutional by the proper authority.
z. A tender and sacred regard for those acts
Oh craftsmanship which are to be contra-distip-
gulshed from acts of ordinary legislation. by
tne lact OF their being of the nature of compacts
ana agreements and 80 to be considered .
nxed and settled national policy.
v. A radical revision and modification q,
the laws regulating immigration and the settle
ment OF immigrants. Offering to the honest
immigrant, who from love of liberty or hatred
OF oppression seeks an asylum in the United
otates, a friendly reception and protection. But
unqualified condemning the transmission to our
shores OF felons and paupers
vi. The essential modification of the Natu.
ralization Laws. The repeal by the Lerisla-
lures of the respective States of all State laws
allowing foreigners not naturalized to vote
The repeal, without retroactive operation. of
all acts of Congress making grants of land to
unnaturalized foreigners, and allowing them to
vote in the Territories
VII. Hostility to the corrupt means bv
which the leaders Of party have hitherto forced
upon us our rulers and our political creeds. I'M
placable enmity against the prevalent demoral.
lzlng system OF rewards for political subservi.
ency, and of punishment for political indepen.
dence Disgust for the wild hunt after Office
which characterizes the age. These on the
one hand. On the other-Imitation of the
practice OF the purer days of the Republic /;
and admiration OF the maxim that "office should
seek the man, and not man the Office" and of
the rule that the just mode of ascertaining fit
ness for Office is the capabilty, the faithfulness
and the honesty of the incumbent or candidate.
| Vl1l.--Resistance to the aggressive policy
and corrupting tendencies of the Roman Cath
elic Church in our country by the advancement
10 all political statlonS-eXecutive legislative
Judicial or diplomatic---of those only who do
not hold civil allegiance, directly or indirectly.
to any foreign power whether civil or ecclesi-
astlcal, and who are Americans by birth. edu-
cation and training thus fulfilling the maxim,
AMERICANS ONLY SHALL GOVERN AMERICA. !"
The protection OF all citizens in the legal and
proper exercise of their civil and religious rights
and privileges; the maintenance of the right of
every man to the full, unrestrained and peace
fui enjoyment OF his own religious opinions and
worship, and jealous resistance of all attempts
by any sect, denomination or church to obtain
an ascendancy over any other in the State, by
means OF any special privileges or exemptio on,
Dy any political ombination of its members, or
by "a division OF their civil allegiance with any
foreign power, potentate or eccesiastic.
TX. The reformation of the character of our
National Legislature, by elevating to that dig.
nifed and responsible position men of higher
qualifications, purer morals and more unset
fish patriotism,
A.-The restriction of executive patronage;
especially in the matter of appointments to
oihce--so far as it may be permitted by the
Constitution, and consistent with the public
good.
! Al The education OF the youth of our coun-
try In schools provided by the State; which
schools shall be common to all, without dis
tlnctlon OF creed or party, and free from any
influence or direction of q denominations or
partisan character. And inasmuch as Chris.
tianity by the Constitutions of nearly all the
States, by the decisions of the most eminent
Judicial authorities, and by the consent of the
people OF America, is considered an element
OF our political system, and as the Holy Bible
is at once the source of Christianity and the
depository and fountain of all civil and relig.
ious freedom, we oppose every attempt to
exclude it from the schools thus established in
the States.
/ XII.-The American party having arisen
upon the ruins and in spite of the opposition
OF the Whig and Democratic parties, cannot
be held In any manner responsible for the OBJ
noxious acts or violated pledges of either
And the systematic agitation of the Slavery
question by these parties having elevated
sectional hostility into positive element of
, political power, and brought our institutions
into peril it has therefore become the i'm
perative duty of the American party to inter
pose for the purpose of giving peace to the
country and perpetuity to the Union. And
as experience has shown it impossible to
reconcile opinions so extreme as those which
separate the disputants, and as there can be
dishonor in submitting to the laws, the National
Council has deemed it the best guarantee of
common justice and of future peace to abide by
and maintain the existing laws upon the sub
ject of Slavery, as final and conclusive set.
? tlement of that subject in spirit and in sub.
stance:
: And regarding it the highest duty to avow
} their opinions upon a subject so important in
r distinct and unequivocal terms, it is hereby
) declared as the sense of this National Council
that Congress possesses no power under the
Constitution to legislate upon the subject OF
Z; slavery in the States where it does or may
S exist, or to exclude any State from admission
: into the Union because its Constitution does
OF does not recognize the institution Of Slavery
as part of its social system; and expressly
!, pretermitting any expression of opinion upon
: the power of Congress to establish or prohibit
slavery in any Territory, it is the sense of the
National Council that Congress ought not to
e legislate upon the subject of Slavery within the
!; Territory of the United States, and that any
e interference by Congress with slavery as it
exists in the District of Columbia would be a
violation of the spirit and intention ofthe COM
r pact by which the state Of Maryland ceded
the District to the United States and breach
of the National faith.
XIII.-The policy Of the Government OF
I the United States in its relations with foreign
Governments, is to exact justice from the
strongest, and to do justice to the weakest
restraining by all the power of the Govern
ment all its citizens from interference with the
internal concerns of nations of whom we are
3 at peace.
XIV.-This National Council declares that
E all the principles Of the Order shall be hence
forth pvprvwharp oponlu avorad and fhat