The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-03-11
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND DIsUNIoN.

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interest and welfare Of his country mex
his heart, can entertain the slightest oh
lection. This platform embodies senti
ments, and is constructed upon such 3
National basis as will give it deserved
popularity and cause thousands of pa
triots to flock to its standard. The name
American is destined to again become Q
terror to satellites of the misnamed Ma.
tional Democratic party and make them
shrink in covering confusion from a con.
test with such an opponent, and the dis.
membered and despairing state of this
National Democratic party, will receive
such blow as to number it among the
things that were. But read the platform,
ponder over, mentally digest each word,
treasure up each principle, be influenced
by their truth, and you will deserve the
name of an American citizen.
|. The Federal Union must be main
tanned.
9. The rights of the States must be re-
speeted.
8. The rights of conscience must be
guaranteed, and the Union Of Church and
State must be prevented.
A. American interests must be promo
ted
8. An American nationality must be
6. Sectional agitation must be termi-
mated. .,...
T. The true interests of the country,
present and prospective, demand that
foreign paupers and criminals should be
excluded, and that the naturalization laws
should be amended to guard against for
eign influence in the administration of the
Government.
8. The right of suffrage in the States
and Territories should be restricted to
citizens of the United States, and the pro-
position of the Democracy to enable aliens
to participate in the formation of State
Constitutions, is a gross pcrversion of
principle, and the best evidence that time
and events have added to the reasons that
first induced the organization of the Ameri-
can party.
8. The abuses of power and ultra ten
denotes of the so-calIed Democratic party,
call for the earnest opposition of every
friend of the Union and the Constitution.
10. All the States of the Union are en-
titled to participate in the public bounty,
and the policy of the party in power, by
which the public lands are appropriated
n large quantities to particular States,
S unjust, unequal, and ought not to be
II. We hold it as a cardinal priciple,
hat divisions growing out of questions of
Constitutional construction must, under
our form of government, be ultimately
determined by the Supreme Court of the
United States, whenever it can be applied
to the decision of suit; and it is the
duty of all loyal citizens to acquieSce in
such decisions.
We have noticed, in several papers, a
few impotent attempts to make "hit"
at some of the above principles, but they
prove to be the lamest and most futile
efforts ever put forth for the extinction
Of anything, large or small. Some speak
Of the Federal Union as if it was a league
established expressly to tyrannize over
one portion of the country and pet and
favor the other. Now, the Federal Union,
or the Constitution of the Federal Union,
as we understand it, was the form of Go
vernment instituted by Washington, and
does any one but fool or Judas sup
pose he ever favored, or intended any
partially should be shown to one section
over the other! (Again, in comparing the
first principle" The Federal Union must
be maintained," with the second, The
rights Of the States must be respected"
some opposition and dsunion demagogues
rail about the incompatibility of there
being any such principles in an American
platform, and say they are antagonistic
and contend that the Union cannot be
maintained, and the rights of the States
at the same time. We say
such can be done-such will be done, not
withstanding the impression few are
trying to enforce upon the minds of the
many of the certainty of dissolution of
the Union, in case of the non -admittance
of Kansas under the Lecompton Consti-
tuition, avowing an irremedial wrong will
be inflicted on the South, and fiat con-
tradiction given to principle first by prin-
ciple second, if that instrument is reject
ed. But if they willrefect for moment,
they will see how utterly vain are all
hopes of Kansas becoming, or at any rate,
remaining slave State. There is ma
jority of abolitionists and free-soilers in
the territory, and if this Constitution is