Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government/1844 Whig Party Platform

by Walter Raleigh Houghton

Whig Platform, Baltimore, May 1.

1. Resolved, That these principles may be summed as comprising a well-regulated national currency: a tariff for revenue to defray the necessary expenses of the government, and discriminating with special reference to the protection of the domestic labor of the country; the distribution of the proceeds from the sales of the public lands; a single term for the presidency; a reform of executive usurpations; and generally such an administration of the affairs of the country as shall impart to every branch of the public service the greatest practical efficiency, controlled by a well-regulated and wise economy.