Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-06-28

PLATFORM OF THE AMERICAN PARTY.
We publish this week an official copy
Of the platform of the Philadelphia
American conventions:
PLATFORM AND PRINCIPLES.
1.-The acknowledgment of that
Almighty Being, who rules over the
Universe-who presides over the coun-
ellis of nations-who conducts the af-
fairs of men, and who, in every step by
which we have advanced to the charac-
ter of an independent nation, has dis
tinguished us by some token of Provi-
dental agency.
u.-The cultivation and develop
ment of sentiment of profoundly in
tense American feeling; of passionate
attachment to our country, its history,
and its institutions; of admiration for
the purer days of our national existence;
of veneration for the heroism that pre-
cipitated our revolution; and of emuIa-
tion of the virtue, wisdom, and patriot
ism that framed our Constitution and
first successfully applied its provisions.
III.-The maintenance of the union
of these United States as the paramount
political good; or, to use the language
of Washington. "the primary object of
patriotic desire" And hence
1st. Opposition to all attempts to
weaken or subvert it.
I'd. Uncompromising antagonism to
every principle of policy that endangers
it.
Sd. The advocacy of an equitable
adjustment of all political differences
which threaten its integrity or perpetHi
ty.
4th. The suppression of all tenden-
cies to political division, founded on
geographical Determinations or on the
belief that there is real difference of
interests and views" between the various
sections of the Union.
9th. The full recognition Of the
rights of the several States, as express
ed and reserved in the Constitution
and careful avoidance, by the General
Government, of all interference with
their rights by Legislative or executive
action.
IV.-Obedience to the Constitution
of these United States, as the supreme
law of the land, sacredly obligatory
upon all its parts and members; and
steadfast resistance to the spirit of in
novation upon its principles, however
specious the pretexts. Avowing that
in all doubtful or disputed points it may
only be legally ascertained and expound-
ed by the judicial power of the United
States.
And, as a corollary to the above
/. A habit of reVerential obedience
to the laws, whether National, State, or
Municipal, until they are either repealed
or declared unconstitutional by the pro-
per authority.
2. A tender aud sacred regard for
those acts of craftsmanship, which are
to be contradistinguished from acts of
ordinary legislation, by the fact of their
being the nature of compacts and agree
ments; and so, to be considered a fixed
and settled national policy.
VA radical revision and modif-
cation of the laws regulating immigra-
ton, and the settlement of immigrants.
Offering to the honest immigrant, who,
from love of liberty or hatred of oppres.
= sion, seeks an asylum in the United
States, a friendly reception and protec-
ton. But unquali6edly condemning
, the transmission to our shores of felons
and paupers.
VI.-The essential modification Of
the Naturalization Laws.
The repeal by the Legislatures of
the respective States of all State laws
allowing foreigners not naturalized to
vote.
The repeal, without retroactive oper-
alton, of-all acts of Congress making
grants of land to unnaturalized foreign
ers, and allowing them to vote in the
Territories.
VH-Hostility to the corrupt means
by which the leaders of the party have
hitherto forced upon us our rulers and
our political creeds.
Impiacable enmity against the pre-.
yalent demeralizing system Of rewards
for political subserviency, and of punish
ments for political independence.
Disgust for he-wild hunt after office
which characserizes the age.
These on the one hand. On the 9th.
err
Imitation Of the practice Of pure,