onscience the question: What true American head can disapprove--what
pure American heart can revolt? Can men taking their stand on this
Platform be the enemies of civil and religious liberties? Can either
civil or religious liberties rest secure on any other grounds? And must
not those "Bogus" Democrats and Anti-Americans, therefore, who wage war
against this citadel of American birthrights, act as enemies to the
Federal Constitution, enemies to the Union, to the mental independence
of American citizens--enemies to the Protestant religion, and enemies,
consequently, "to civil and religious liberty?"

PLATFORM OF THE AMERICAN PARTY.

1st. An humble acknowledgment to the Supreme Being for his
protecting care vouchsafed to our fathers in their successful
Revolutionary struggle, and hitherto manifested to us, their
descendants, in the preservation of the liberties, the
independence, and the union of these States.

2d. The perpetuation of the Federal Union, as the palladium of
our civil and religious liberties, and the only sure bulwark of
American Independence.

3d. _Americans must rule America_, and to this end,
_native_-born citizens should be selected for all State,
Federal, and municipal offices, or government employment, in
preference to all others: nevertheless,

4th. Persons born of American parents residing temporarily
abroad, should be entitled to all the rights of native-born
citizens; but,

5th. No person should be selected for political station,
(whether of native or foreign birth,) who recognizes any
allegiance or obligation of any description, to any foreign
prince, potentate, or power, or who refuses to recognize the
Federal and State constitutions (each within its sphere) as
paramount to all other laws, as rules of political action.

6th. The unqualified recognition and maintenance of the
reserved rights of the several States, and the cultivation of
harmony and fraternal good-will between the citizens of the
several States; and to this end, non-interference by Congress
with questions appertaining solely to the individual States,
and non-intervention by each State with the affairs of any
other State.

7th. The recognition of the right of the native-born and
naturalized citizens of the United States, permanently residing
in any Territory ther