more to nominate candidates for President and result was the triumphant election of Har Vice-President. The Hon. Andrew Stevenson, and Tyler, Van Buren receiving the elec

vote of only seven States; viz:

New-Hampshire, 7; Virginia, 23; South Carolin Illinois, 5; Alabama, 7; Missouri, 4; and Arkansa Total, 60.

of Virginia, was chosen president, with half a dozen vice-presidents and four secretaries. A rule was adopted that two-thirds of the whole number of votes should be necessary to make a nomination or to decide any question connected therewith. On the first ballot for President, Mr. Van Buren was nominated unanimously, re- 11 votes on Littleton W. Tazewell, of Virg

ceiving 265 votes. For Vice-President, Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, received 178, and William C. Rives, of Virginia, 87: Mr. Johnson, having received more than two-thirds of all the votes cast, was declared duly nominated as the candidate for Vice-President. This Convention adopted no platform.

THE OPPOSITION IN 1836.

In 1835, Gen. Wm. H. Harrison, of Ohio, was

South Carolina refused to vote for Richar Johnson for Vice-President, throwing away

Harrison and Tyler received the votes of following States:

Maine, 10; Massachusetts, 14; Rhode Island, 4; necticut, 8; Vermont, 7; New-York. 42; New-Jerse Pennsylvania, 30; Delaware, 8; Maryland, 10; Carolina, 15; Georgia, 11; Kentucky, 15; Tennessee Ohio, 21; Louisiana, 5; Mississippi, 4; Indiana, 9; M gan, 8-Total, 234.

ABOLITION CONVENTION,-1839. A Convention of Abolitionists was hele

nominated for President, with Francis Granger, Warsaw, N. Y., on the 13th of November, 1

for Vice-President, by a Whig State Convention at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and also by a Democratic Anti-Masonic Convention held at the same place. A Whig State Convention in Maryland also nominated Gen. Harrison for President, with John Tyler, of Virginia, for Vice. Gen. H. also received nominations in New York, Ohio and other States.

which adopted the following:

Resolved, That, in our judgment, every considera of duty and expediency which ought to control action of Christian freemen, requires of the Abolition of the U. S. to organize a distinct and independent tical party, embracing all the necessary means for n nating candidates for office and sustaining then

public suffrage.

The Convention then nominated for Pr

Hugh L. White, of Tennessee was nominated by the Legislatures of Tennessee and Alabama, dent James G. Birney, of New York, and as the Opposition or Anti-Jackson candidate; Vice-President Francis J. Lemoyne, of Pe while Mr. Webster was the favorite of the Oppo- sylvania. These gentlemen subsequently sition in Massachusetts, and Willie P. Mangum, clined the nomination. Nevertheless th of N. C. received the vote of S. C., 11. The received a total of 7,609 votes in various F result of the contest of 1836 was the election States.

of Mr. Van Buren, who received the electoral votes of the States of

Maine, 10; New-Hampshire, 7; Rhode Island, 4; Connecticut, 8; New York, 42; Pennsylvania, 30; Virginia, 28; North Carolina, 15; Louisiana, 5; Mississippi, 4; Illinois, 5; Alabama, 7; Missouri, 4; Arkansas, 8; Michigan, 3-Total 170.

Gen. Harrison received the votes of

Vermont, 7; New-Jersey, 8; Delaware, 8; Maryland, 10; Kentucky, 15; Ohio, 21; and Indiana, 9-Total, 78. Hugh L. White received the vote of Georgia, 11, and Tennessee, 15: total, 26. Mr. Webster received the vote of Massachusetts, 14.

WHIG NATIONAL CONVENTION,--1839. A Whig National Convention representing twenty-one States met at Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 4, 1839. James Barbour, of Virginia, presided, and the result of the first ballot was the nomination of Gen. William H. Harrison, of Ohio, who received 148 * votes to 90 for Henry Clay, and 16 for Gen. Winfield Scott. John Tyler, of Virginia, was unanimously nominated as the Whig candidate for Vice-President. The Convention adopted no platform of principles; but the party in conducting the memorable campaign of 1840, assailed the Administration of Mr. Van Buren for its general mismanagement of public affairs and its profligacy, and the

*Ballots were repeatedly taken in committee throughout two or three days; but as no candidate received a majority, it was only reported to the convention that the committee had not been able to agree on a candidate to be presented to the convention. Finally, the delegates from New-York York and other States which had supported Gen. Scott, generally went over to Gen. Harrison, who thus received a majority, when the result was declared, as above.

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTIO 1840.

A Democratic National Convention met Baltimore, May 5th, 1840, to nominate can dates for President and Vice-President. De gates were present from the States of Mai New-Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhe Island, New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvan Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Kentuck Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisian Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, and Arkans Gov. William Carroll, of Tennessee, preside and the Convention, before proceeding to t nomination of candidates, adopted the follo ing platform-viz.:

1. Resolved, That the Federal Government is one limited powers, derived solely from the Constitution, a the grants of power shown therein ought to be stric construed by all the departments and agents of t government, and that it is inexpedient and dangerous

exercise doubtful constitutional powers.

2. Resolved, That the Constitution does not cont upon the General Government the power to commen or carry on a general system of internal improvement 3. Resolved, That the Constitution does not conf authority upon the Federal Government, directly or directly, to assume the debts of the several States, co tracted for local internal improvements or other Sta purposes; nor would such assumption be just or e pedient.

4. Resolved, That justice and sound policy forbid th Federal Government to foster one branch of industry the detriment of another, or to cherish the interest C one portion to the injury of another portion of our con mon country-that every citizen and every section c the country has a right to demand and insist upon a equality of rights and privileges, and to complete ar ample protection of persons and property from domest violence or foreign aggression.

9. Resolved, That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sane- at Baltimore on the 27th May, 1844, adopted the tioned in the Constitution, which makes ours the land two-third rule and, after a stormy session of three of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the Demo- days, James K. Polk, of Tennessee, was nomicratic faith; and every attempt to abridge the present nated for President, and Silas Wright, of New

The platform adopted by the Convention was the same as that of 1840, with the following additions:

Resolved, That the proceeds of the Public Lands ought to be sacredly applied to the national objects specified in the Constitution, and that we are opposed to the laws lately adopted, and to any law for the Distribution of such proceeds among the States, as alike inexpedient in policy and repugnant to the Constitution.

Resolved, That we are decidedly opposed to taking

from the President the qualified veto power by which he is enabled, under restrictions and responsibilities amply sufficient to guard the public interest, to suspend the passage of a bill, whose merits cannot secure the approval of two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, until the judgment of the people can be obtained thereon, and which has thrice saved the Ameri

can People from the corrupt and tyrannical domination of the Bank of the United States.

Resolved, That our title to the whole of the Territory of 3rd. Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power; 79 and that the reoccupation of Oregon and the reannex40 ation of Texas at the earliest practicable period are great American measures, which this Convention recommends to the cordial support of the Democracy of the

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summed up in the following resolve, which was LIBERTY PARTY NATIONAL CONVEN

Resolved, That these principles may be summed as comprising a well regulated National currency-a Tariff for revenue to defray the necessary expenses of the at Buffalo, on the 30th of August. Leicester King, of Ohio, presided, and James G. Birney, of Michigan, was unanimously nominated for President, with Thomas Morris, of Ohio, for VicePresident. Among the resolves adopted were the following:

Resolved, That human brotherhood is a cardinal principle of true Democracy, as well as of pure Christianity, which spurns all inconsistent limitations; and neither the political party which repudiates it, nor the political system which is not based upon it, can be truly Democratic or permanent.

Resolved, That the Liberty Party, placing itself upon

Florida, or on the high seas, are unconstitutional, attempts to hold men as property within the limits clusive national jurisdiction, ought to be prohibited Resolved, That the provision of the Constitution United States, which confers extraordinary p powers on the owners of slaves, and thereby cor ing the two hundred and fifty thousand slavehold the Slave States a privileged aristocracy; and th vision for the reclamation of fugitive slaves from s are Anti-Republican in their character, dangerous liberties of the people, and ought to be abrogated. Resolved, That the practical operation of the s of Congress respecting persons escaping from thei of these provisions, is seen in the enactment of t Supreme Court of the United States in the case of vs. Pennsylvania be correct, nullifies the habeasc acts of all the States, takes away the whole legal se of personal freedom, and ought therefore to be im ately repealed.

this broad principle, will demand the absolute and un-ters, which act, if the construction given to it b

qualified divorce of the General Government from slavery, and also the restoration of equality of rights, among men, in every State where the party exists, or may exist.

Resolved, That the Liberty Party has not been organized for any temporary purpose by interested politicians, but has arisen from among the people in consequence of a conviction, hourly gaining ground, that no other party in the country represents the true principles of American liberty, or the true spirit of the Constitution of the United States.

Resolved, That the Liberty Party has not been organized merely for the overthrow of slavery; its first decided effort must, indeed, be directed against slaveholding as the grossest and most revolting manifestation of despotism, but it will also carry out the principle of equal rights into all its practical consequences and applications, and support every just measure conducive to Individual and social freedom.

Resolved, That the Liberty Party is not a sectional party but a national party; was not originated in a desire to accomplish a single object, but in a comprehensive regard to the great interests of the whole country; is not a new party, nor a third party, but is the party of 1776, reviving the principles of that memorable era, and striving to carry them into practical application.

Resolved, That it was understood in the times of the Declaration and the Constitution, that the existence of slavery in some of the States, was in derogation of the principles of American Liberty, and a deep stain upon the character of the country, and the implied faith of the States and the Nation was pledged, that slavery should never be extended beyond its then existing limits, but should be gradually, and yet, at no distant day, wholly abolished by State authority.

Resolved, That the faith of the States and the Nation thus pledged, was most nobly redeemed by the voluntary Abolition of Slavery in several of the States, and by the adoption of the Ordinance of 1787, for the government of the Territory northwest of the river Ohio, then the only Territory in the United States, and consequently the only territory subject in this respect to the control of Congress by which Ordinance Slavery was forever excluded from the vast regions which now compose the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and the Territory of Wisconsin, and an incapacity to bear up any other than freemen, was impressed on the soil itself.

Resolved, That the peculiar patronage and su hitherto extended to Slavery and Slaveholding, General Government, ought to be immediately drawn, and the example and influence of Na authority ought to be arrayed on the side of Libert

Free Labor.

Resolved, That the practice of the General Go ment, which prevails in the Slave States, of empl Slaves upon the public works, instead of free laband paying aristocratic masters, with a view to secu reward political services, is utterly indefensible ought to be abandoned.

Resolved, That freedom of speech, and of the and the right of petition, and the right of trial by are sacred and inviolable; and that all rules, re tions and laws, in derogation of either are oppressiv constitutional, and not to be endured by free peop Resolved, That we regard voting in an eminen gree, as a moral and religious duty, which, when cised, should be by voting for those who will do = their power for Immediate Emancipation.

Resolved, That this Convention recommend to friends of Liberty in all those Free States where an equality of rights and privileges exists on accoun color, to employ their utmost energies to remove all remnants and effects of the Slave system.

Whereas, The Constitution of these United Stat a series of agreements, covenants, or contracts bet the people of the United States, each with all an with each; and

Whereas, It is a principle of universal morality, the moral laws of the Creator are paramount to human laws; or, in the language of an Apostle, "we ought to obey God rather than men;" and,

Whereas, The principle of common law-that contract, covenant, or agreement, to do an act der tory to natural right, is vitiated and annulled by it herent immorality-has been recognized by one of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, in a recent case expressly holds that "any cont that rests upon such a basis is void;" and, Whereas, The third clause of the second section

Resolved, That the faith of the States and Nation, the fourth article of the Constitution of the Un thus pledged, has been shamefully violated by the omis- States, when construed as providing for the surrende sion on the part of many of the States, to take any a Fugitive Slave, does "rest upon such a basis," in measures whatever for the Abolition of Slavery within it is a contract to rob a man of a natural right-nam their respective limits; by the continuance of Slavery this natural right to his own liberty; and is, theref

in the District of Columbia, and in the Territories of

Louisiana and Florida; by the Legislation of Congress; by the protection afforded by national legislation and negotiation to slaveholding in American vessels, on the high seas, employed in the coastwise Slave Traffic; and by the extension of slavery far beyond its original limits, by acts of Congress, admitting new Slave States into the Union.

Resolved, That the fundamental truths of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, was made the fundamental law of our National Government, by that amendment of the Constitution which declares that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.

Resolved, That we recognize as sound, the doctrine maintained by slaveholding jurists, that slavery is against natural rights, and strictly local, and that its existence and continuance rests on no other support than State Legislation, and not on any authority of Congress. Resolved, That the General Government has, under the Constitution, no power to establish or continue Slavery anywhere, and therefore that all treaties and acts of Congress establishing, continuing or favoring Slavery in the District of Columbia, in the Territory of

absolutely void. Therefore,

Resolved, That we hereby give it to be distine understood by this nation and the world, that, as ab tionists, considering that the strength of our cause in its righteousness, and our hope for it in our conform to the laws of God, and our respect for the RIGHTS MAN, we owe it to the Sovereign Ruler of the universe a proof of our allegiance to Him, in all our civil relatiand offices, whether as private citizens or as pub functionaries sworn to support the Constitution of United States, to regard and to treat the third clause the fourth article of that instrument, whenever appl to the case of a fugitive slave, as utterly null and vo and consequently as forming no part of the Constituti of the United States, whenever we are called upon sworn to support it.

Resolved, That the power given to Congress by t Constitution, to provide for calling out the militia suppress insurrection, does not make it the duty of t Government to maintain Slavery by military force, mu less does it make it the duty of the citizens to forn part of such military force. When freemen unsheath t sword it should be to strike for Liberty, not for Despe ism.

Resolved, That to preserve the peace of the citizens, an secure the blessings of freedom, the Legislature of each

the Free States ought to keep in force suitable statutes proposition. This appeal was also laid on the rendering it penal for any of its inhabitants to transport, table. or aid in transporting from such State, any person sought, to be thus transported, merely because subject to the slave laws of any other State; this remnant of independence being accorded to the Free States, by the decision of the Supreme Court, in the case of Prigg vs. the State of Pennsyivania.

Of the scattering vote cast on the first ballot, George Evans, of Maine, received 6; T. M. T. McKennen, of Pa., 13; Andrew Stewart, of Pa., 14; and John Sergeant, of Pa., 6.

The Convention adopted no Platform of Principles. After it had been organized, and a resolution offered to go into a ballot for candidates for President and Vice-President, Mr. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, moved to amend as follows:

Resolved, That no candidate shall be entitled to receive the nomination of this Convention for President or Vice-President, unless he has given assurances that he will abide by and support the nomination; that if nominated he will accept the nomination; that he will consider himself the candidate of the Whigs, and use all proper influence to bring into practical operation the principles and measures of the Whig Party.

After Gen. Taylor had been nominated, Mr. Charles Allen, of Massachusetts, offered the following:

Resolved, That the Whig Party, through its representatives here, agrees to abide by the nomination of Gen. Zachary Taylor, on condition that he will accept the nomination as the candidate of the Whig Party, and adhere to its great fundamental principles-no extension of slave territory-no acquisition of foreign territory by conquest-protection to American industry, and

opposition to Executive usurpation.

The president immediately decided the resolution out of order, and no further notice was

taken of it

Resolved, That Gen. Zachary Taylor, of Louisiana, and Millard Fillmore, of New-York, be, and they are hereby unanimously nominated as the Whig candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States.

Mr. D. R. Tilden, of Ohio, proposed the following, expressing the opinion that some such declaration by the Convention would be neces. sary, in order to secure the vote of Ohio for the nominee:

Resolved, That while all power is denied to Congress, under the Constitution, to control, or in any way interfere with the institution of Slavery within the several States of this Union, it nevertheless has the power and it is the duty of Congress to prohibit the introduction or existence of Slavery in any territory now possessed, or which may hereafter be acquired, by the United States.

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This resolution, like all others affirming Whig or Anti-Slavery principles, was ruled out of order, and laid on the table. A motion was made to divide Mr. McCullough's resolve, so. that the vote could be taken separately on President and on Vice-President, when, after. discussion, the resolve was withdrawn.

Mr. Hilliard, of Alabama, offered a resolve indorsing Gen. Taylor's letter to Captain Allison, which, meeting opposition, was withdrawn; so the Convention adjourned without passing any resolves having reference to Whig principles, the issues before the country, or of concurrence in the nominations.

RATIFICATION MEETING AT PHILA-
DELPHIA.

On the evening of the last day of the session (9th June), a ratification meeting was held at

This resolution met with decided opposition, Philadelphia, at which Gov. Wm. F. Johnston,

and the president ruled it out of order, from which decision Mr. Campbell appealed, and in a speech contended that it was strictly in order to define what sort of candidate should be voted

for, and to declare that none but sound Whigs should receive important nominations at the hands of a Whig National Convention. The appeal was tabled.

Mr. Fuller, of New York, offered the following:

Resolved, That as the first duty of the representatives of the Whig Party is to preserve the principles and integrity of the party, the claims of no candidate can be

considered by this Convention unless such candidate stands pledged to support, in good faith, the nominees, and to be the exponent of Whig Principles.

The president ruled this resolution out of order, and Mr. Fuller appealed, insisting that no true Whig could reasonably object to his

of Pa., presided, and at which speeches were delivered by Governor Morehead, Gen. Leslie Coombs, of Ky., and several others, and at which the following resolves, reported by W. S. Price, of Pennsylvania, were adopted :

1. Resolved, That the Whigs of the United States, here assembled by their Representatives, heartily ratify the nominations of Gen. Zachary Taylor as President, and Millard Fillmore as Vice-President of the United States, and pledge themselves to their support.

2. Resolved, That in the choice of Gen. Taylor as the whig Candidate for President, we are glad to discover sympathy with a great popular sentiment throughout the nation-a sentiment which, having its origin in admiration of great military success, has been strengthened by the development, in every action and every word, of sound conservative opinions, and of true fidelity to the great example of former days, and to the principles of the Constitution as administered by its founders.

8. Resolved, That Gen. Taylor, in saying that, had he voted in 1844, he would have voted the Whig ticket,

gives us the assurance-and no better is needed from a May. Andrew Stevenson of Va., I consistent and truth-speaking man-that his heart was with us at the crisis of our political destiny, when Henry New-York had sent a double delegation: Clay was our candidate and when not only Whig prin- burners" for Van Buren and Hunkers f ciples were well defined and clearly asserted, but Whig inson). The Convention decided to adı measures depended on success. The heart with us then is with us now, and we have a soldier's word delegations, which satisfied neither, ar

of honor, and a life of public and private virtue, as the

security.

declined to take part in the proceeding two-third rule was adopted, and Gen. Le was nominated for President on the 4th

as follows: [170 votes necessary to a c

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Woodbury of N. H... 58

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4. Resolved, That we look on Gen. Taylor's administration of the Government as one conducive of Peace, Prosperity and Union. Of Peace-because no one better knows, or has greater reason to deplore, what he has seen sadly on the field of victory, the horrors of war, and especially of a foreign and aggressive war. Of Prosperity-now more than ever needed to relieve the Buchanan....... nation from a burden of debt, and restore industry- Calhoun......::: agricultural, manufacturing and commercial - to its Dallas.... accustomed and peaceful functions and influences. Of Union-because we have a candidate whose very position as a Southwestern man, reared on the banks of the great stream whose tributaries, natural and artificial, embrace the whole Union, renders the protection of the interests of the whole country his first trust, and whose varied duties in past life have been rendered, not on the soil, or under the flag of any State or section, but over the wide frontier, and under the broad banner of the Nation.

5. Resolved, That standing, as the Whig Party does, on the broad and firm platform of the Constitution, braced up by all its inviolable and sacred guarantees and compromises, and cherished in the affections because protective of the interests of the people, we are proud to have, as the exponent of our opinions, one who is pledged to construe it by the wise and generous rules which Washington applied to it, and who has said, (and no Whig desires any other assurance) that he will make Washington's Administration the model of his own.

6. Resolved, That as Whigs and Americans, we are proud to acknowledge our gratitude for the great military services which, beginning at Palo Alto, and ending at Buena Vista, first awakened the American people to a just estimate of him who is now our Whig Candidate. In the discharge of a painful duty-for his march into the enemy's country was a reluctant one; in the command of regulars at one time, and volunteers at another, and of both combined; in the decisive though punctual discipline of his camp, where all respected and beloved him; in the negotiation of terms for a dejected and desperate enemy; in the exigency of actual conflict, when the balance was perilously doubtful-we have found him the same-brave, distinguished and considerate, no heartless spectator of bloodshed, no trifler with human life or human happiness; and we do not know which to admire most, his heroism in withstanding the assaults of the enemy in the most hopeless fields of Buena Vista-mourning in generous sorrow over the graves of Ringgold, of Clay, or of Hardin-or in giving heat of battle terms of merciful capitulation to a vanquished foe at Monterey, and not being ashamed to avow that he did it to spare women and children, helpless infancy, and more helpless age, against whom no American soldier ever wars. Such a military man, whose triumphs are neither remote nor doubtful, whose virtues these trials have tested, we are proud to make

our Candidate.

7. Resolved, That in support of such a nomination we ask our Whig friends throughout the nation to unite, to co-operate zealously, resolutely, with earnestness in behalf of our Candidate, whom calumny cannot reach, and with respectful demeanor to our adversaries, whose Candidates have yet to prove their claims on the grati

tude of the nation.

This election resulted in the choice of the Whig Candidates, as follows:

Taylor and Fillmore-Vermont, 6; Massachusetts, 12; Rhode Island, 4; Connecticut, 6; New-York, 36; NewJersey, 7; Pennsylvania, 26; Delaware, 8; Maryland, 8; North Carolina, 11; Georgia, 10; Lousiana, 6; Tennessee, 18; Kentucky, 12; Florida, 8-163.

Cass and Butler-Maine, 9; New-Hampshire, 6; Virginia, 17; South Carolina, 9; Alabama, 9; Mississippi, 6; Ohio, 28; Indiana, 12; Illinois, 9; Missouri, 7; Arkansas, 8; Michigan, 5; Texas, 4; Iowa, 4: Wisconsin,

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DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION, 1848. The Democratic National Convention for 1848, assembled in Baltimore on the 22d of

1. Resolved, That the American Democracy their trust in the intelligence, the patriotism, discriminating justice of the American people.

2. Resolved, That we regard this as a distincti ture of our political creed, which we are proud to tain before the world, as the great moral eleme form of government springing from and upheld popular will: and we contrast it with the cree practice of federalism, under whatever name or which seeks to palsy the will of the constituen which conceives no imposture too monstrous 1 popular credulity.

3. Resolved, Therefore, that, entertaining these the Democratic party of this Union, through the del assembled in general convention of the States, c together in a spirit of concord, of devotion to th trines and faith of a free representative governmen appealing to their fellow-citizens for the rectitu their intentions, renew and reassert before the Am people, the declaration of principles avowed by on a former occasion, when in general convention presented their candidates for the popular suffrage

Then follow resolutions 1, 2, 3, 4, of Platf of 1840 and '44. The 5th resolution is the 1840 with an addition about providing for debts, and as amended, reads as follows:

Resolved, That it is the duty of every branch o government to enforce and practice the most rigid omy in conducting our public affairs, and that no revenue ought to be raised than is required to de the necessary expenses of the government, and for gradual but certain extinction of the debt create the prosecution of a just and necessary war, after pe ful relations shall have been restored.

The next (Anti-National Bank and pro-S Treasury) was amended by the addition of following:

And that the results of Democratic Legislation, in and all other financial measures upon which issues h been made between the two political parties of the co try, have demonstrated to candid and practical mer all parties, their soundness, safety and utility in business pursuits.

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Here follow resolutions 7 78, 9, of the p form of 1840, which we omit.

Resolved, That the proceeds of the Public Lands ou to be sacredly applied to the National objects speci in the Constitution; and that we are opposed to a law for the distribution of such proceeds among States as alike inexpedient in policy and repugnant the Constitution.

Resolved, That we are decidedly opposed to tak from the President the qualified veto power, by which is enabled, under restrictions and responsibilities amp sufficient to guard the public interests, to suspend passage of a bill whose merits cannot secure the