Whig Party Platform of 1856

[Ronnie]

September 17, 1856
Resolved, That the Whigs of the United States are assembled here by reverence for the Constitution, and unalterable attachment to the National Union, and a fixed determination to do all in their power to preserve it for themselves and posterity. They have no new principles to announce—no new platform to establish, but are content broadly to rest where their fathers have rested upon the Constitution of the United States, wishing no safer guide, no higher law.

Whig Party Platform of 1856 | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu

 

[Ronnie]

The Whigs Political Platform of June 17, 1852
The Whigs of the United States, in Convention assembled, firmly adhering to the great conservative principles by which they are controlled and governed, and now as ever relying upon the intelligence of the American people, with an abiding confidence in their capacity for self-government, and their devotion to the Constitution and the Union, do proclaim the following as the political sentiments and determination for the establishment and maintenance of which their national organization as a party was effected:

Whig Party Platform of 1852 | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu

 

[mattfivefour]

With the exception of the eighth plank in their platform (which was a pusillanimous effort to avoid the internal conflict that led to the Civil War) America would have been a lot better off had she followed these.

 

[Ronnie]

Having read and loved the two declarations of platform I declare myself to be a Whig.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Having read and loved the two declarations of platform I declare myself to be a Whig.

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I think Whigs are supposed to wear those wigs for males that were popular back then.

Amazon.com

Fortunately they don't cost too much. I think I want to join the Whig Party too.

 

[Ronnie]

The Whig Party has nothing to do with powdered wigs.

 

[Ronnie]

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[mattfivefour]

I'm picturing TT in a wig like that!