eof, to frame their constitution and laws,
and to regulate their domestic and social affairs in their own
mode, subject only to the provisions of the Federal
Constitution, with the privilege of admission into the Union
whenever they have the requisite population for one
Representative in Congress. _Provided always_, that none but
those who are citizens of the United States, under the
constitution and laws thereof, and who have a fixed residence
in any such Territory, ought to participate in the formation of
the constitution, or in the enactment of laws for said
Territory or State.

8th. An enforcement of the principle that no State or Territory
ought to admit others than citizens of the United States to the
right of suffrage, or of holding political office.

9th. A change in the laws of naturalization, making a continued
residence of twenty-one years, of all not hereinbefore provided
for, an indispensable requisite for citizenship hereafter, and
excluding all paupers, and persons convicted of crime, from
landing upon our shores; but no interference with the vested
rights of foreigners.

10th. Opposition to any union between Church and State: no
interference with religious faith or worship, and no test-oaths
for office.

11th. Free and thorough investigation into any and all alleged
abuses of public functionaries, and a strict economy in public
expenditures.

12th. The maintenance and enforcement of all laws
constitutionally enacted, until said laws shall be repealed, or
shall be declared null and void by competent judicial
authority.

13th. Opposition to the reckless and unwise policy of the
present administration in the general management of our
national affairs, and more especially as shown in removing
"Americans" (by designation) and conservatives in principle,
from office, and placing foreigners and ultraists in their
places: as shown in a truckling subserviency to the stronger,
and an insolent and cowardly bravado toward the weaker powers:
as shown in reoepening sectional agitation, by the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise: as shown in granting to unnaturalized
foreigners the right of suffrage in Kansas and Nebraska: as
shown in its vacillating course on the Kansas and Nebraska
question: as shown in the