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manency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend 
of our political institutions. 
(8) Resolved, That the separation of the moneys of the government 
from banking institutions is indispensable for the safety of the funds of 
the government and the rights of the people. 
(9) Resolved, That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in 
the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the Constitution, 
which makes ours the land of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed 
of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the Democratic 
faith; and every attempt to abridge the present privilege of becoming 
citizens and the owners of soil among us ought to be resisted with the 
same spirit which swept the Alien and Sedition Laws from our Statute- 
book.®^ 
The vote was taken separately on each of these resolutions, 
and every one of them was adopted by a unanimous vote. 
Another committee appointed to prepare an address to the 
people presented its report next. The address was listened 
to impatiently, for the convention was anxious to get to the 
question of nominations. Senator Clay of Alabama, chair- 
man of the committee to which this subject had been referred 
on the previous day, reported two resolutions, to each of 
which a preamble was affixed. The first, having set forth 
that Mr. Van Buren had received many nominations for the 
position he already filled to the satisfaction of the party and 
the country, and that he was the unanimous choice of the 
Democrats, formally presented him for re-election. The pre- 
amble of the second resolution recited that several gentlemen 
had been put in nomination for the vice-presidency; that 
the states presenting some of these gentlemen had no repre- 
sentatives in the convention; and that all the candidates, by 
their discharge of public trusts, had shown themselves worthy 
to be elected to the office. The text of the resolution itself 
was as follows: 
Resolved, That the convention deem it expedient at the present time 
not to choose between the individuals in nomination, but to leave the 
decision to their Republican fellow-citizens in the several states, trusting 
that, before the election shall take place, their opinions shall become 
so concentrated as to secure the choice of a vice-president by the electoral 
colleges.®* 
The first resolution was adopted unanimously without de- 
bate. The second was opposed and was warmly discussed. 
The friends of Colonel Johnson were not satisfied that he 
Niles’ Register, LVIII, 149, 150. 
LVIII, 150-152. 
