We have entire confidence in the capacity of the people of the United States for self-government.

Resolved, That the recent defeat of Mr. Van Buren, by a majority of more than one hundred and fifty thousand freemen, aided as he was by the immense patronage of the Government, affords an unerring indication of their desire to abandon the monarchical financial experiments of Martin Van Buren, with all their rich fruits of low prices and low wages, and to return to the good old republican usages adopted by Washington and the other patriots of the revolution, and continued and approved by all the Republican Presidents.

Resolved, That in a Republican Government the people are sovereign and have the right to decide all great political questions, and that to call in question to correctness of their decision, when so solemnly expressed at the polls, or to impugn the purity of their motives, is an insult to the intelligence and virtue of the people, and a virtual denial of the fundamental principles of Republics.

Resolved, That as Republicans, believing in the ability of the people to govern themselves, we acquiesce in the sentence of condemnation passed by the people at the late election of President, upon Mr. Van Buren, with his Sub-Treasury and standing army projects.

Resolved, That the active and untiring efforts of Mr. Van Buren’s trained band of Federal officers, to defeat the will of the people at the late Presi-

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dential election, has inscribed upon the list of President Harrison’s Executive duties, in characters too legible to be misunderstood, the task of reform, particularly of those a[b]uses which have recently brought the patronage of the Government into conflict with the elective franchise.