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ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED


STATES.


l. Because he is pledged to serve, if elect
ed, but ONE TERN


2. Every prominent act Of his life proves
him to be friend and servant of his country,
and a sterling Democratic Republican, in
theory and practice


3. lie would con6ne the action OF the Fe-
deral Government to its own appropriate
sphere. check its monarchcal tendencies,
and maintain the balance Of the Constitution.


4. He would be the President Of the MANY,
and not the agent Of the FEW.


5. He is one of the People, and for the
People. He sympathises with their wants,
and understands their interests. He agrees
that acquiescence in the decisions of the
majority is the vital principle of Republics"
He would exercise "a jealous care of the
right Of election by the people" and impart
equal and exact Justice 10 all men" and all
sections II is regarded as an evidence of
his belonging 10 III, people, that their ene-
mics call him, in derision, +" The Log Cabin
Candidate" and "the Poor Mans President"


g. He would have the public purse, not
united with the sword, but kept in safety un-
der the control OF Congress, as intended by
the Constitution.


7. He agrees that Executive power has in
creased, is increasing, and ought to be dimi-
nished, and will give his disinterested efforts
to remedy the evil.


8. He would preserve or apply, the public
lands, as a common fund in accordance with
the compact, for the benefit Of all, aud not
part Of the States.


8. He would restore the constitutional and
republican course Of legislation, act as the
executor, not the originator of laws, and limit
the veto power generally to cases Of constitu-
tional doubt


10. He would, to use the language of Jef1er-
son, Support the State governments in all their
rights, as the most competent administrations
for our domestic concerns and the surest bull
warks against an,i-republiean tendencies"


IL. He would not seek an Executive Bank,
nor renew the exploded system of Govern
ment paper money


H. He is the friend Of labor, Of commerce,
and of trade, and the advocate Of a sound and
uniform constitutional currency.


l3 He has spent forty years of faithful
toll in the Peoples service, which he begun
in youth and alfiuence, and ended in poverty
without reproach.


IA. He would bring to the administration
of the Government an enlightened mind,
comprehensive views, magnanimous policy
and an honest heart, and rests the merits of
his administration upon the degree Of good
accomplished for the greatest number.
| l5 He is the father of the benehcent land
system of the West, and the author of nume-
rous laws and treaties worthy of an eminent
statesman and diplomatist.


l6 His life is a history of the West-and
for his pre-eminent and self-sacrifcing servi-
ces as soldier, as Territorial Secretary, as
Delegate, Representative and Senator in
Congress- as 4 Governor, as General, he
ro, a diplomalist, statesman, scholar, an
honest man and patriot, he deserves the graft
tude of his countrymen.
II. He would reform and purify the de-
partments Of government, appoint honest and
capable men TO office, and stop The leaks in
the Treasury.


IS. In view of the great importance Of the
crisis. Gen. Harrison is THE MAN, reserved
and qualified, as it would seem, by Providence,
for the occason, to fulfil the biglr>> hope and
destiny of the country.


We might add more. But here are rea-
sons enough to justify every man in the Re-
nublic, who desires TO see the Constitution
preserved, the Union perpetuated, and the
public liberties transmitted, unimpaired, to
posteriry, in rallying for the patriot farmer
and statesman Of North Bend.


