Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliance with none.

3. The support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrators of our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-Republican tendencies.

4. The preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home, and safety abroad.

5. A jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses, which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable means are unprovided.

6. Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principles of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force the vital principle, and immediate parent of depostism.—(This, of course, subject to constitutional limitations.)

7. A well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them.

8. The supremacy of the civil over the military authority.

9. Economy in the public expenses, that labor may be lightly burthened.

IO. The honest payment of our debts, and the sacred preservation of the public faith.

II. Encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid.

12. The diffusion of information, and arraigment of all abuses at the bar of public reason.

13. Freedom of religion.

14. Freedom of the press.

15. Freedom of the person, under the protection of the habeas corpus.

16. Trial by juries, impartially selected.

These principles, said Jefferson, "form the bright constellation, which has gone before us, and guided our steps through the age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages, and the blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety."

Democrats believe those fundamental principles to be true, and therefore hold them in high esteem.

MADISONIAN PRINCIPLES.

DEMOCRATS believe in a full, unequivocal, and hearty support of the Constitution, in a strict construction of it, and in the spirit and the purpose for for which it was formed, and in Madison, also, who took such a deep interest in its formation, as to be called "the Father of the Constitution," they have another exponent of sound Democratic principles.

He knew well the principles on which that constitution was founded. He had studied the rise, progress, decay and fall of every free government which had gone before, and profiting by the very misfortunes of other nations, he had secured in the adoption of our Constitution, such principles as he fondly believed would prevent us as a people from falling into similar errors. Standing upon the threshold of his great office, as President of the United States, succeeding Jefferson, he announced the following